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The Lesser Evil and the Greater Hope: What a Fantasy Novel Taught Me During Lent
It’s been a long time since I’ve read fiction, at least beyond rereading. But this Lent I gave up my phone after 10:30 PM and without doom scrolling to take up my time, books have reentered my daily routine. Contrary to my initial assumption, I can’t say that reading has done wonders for my sleep.
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An Introverted Owner, Good Waffles, and Language: Crepeccino
French music plays over the speaker. A chocolate drenched waffle sits on the plastic table that’s painted like black marble. My table faces the door and I have a good view of the parking lot through all the glass windows. Crepeccino. Originally a creperie, now pictures of sandwiches and pasta slideshow their way across the
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5 Takeaways from Attending The American Ornithological Society Conference
Three things happen when you put an introvert in a closed campus with 1,100 colleagues. This past week I presented at the American Ornithological Society Conference, or as my friends know it, at a bird conference. Tucked up in the mountains of Estes Park, the days went like this. 7 AM: Wake up for breakfast…painfully.
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The Very Good Reason an Ecologist is Taking an Anthropology Class: Second Semester of Grad School
I’ll admit, after two weeks of contentment in Korea, my imagination had toyed with the tantalizing idea of dropping grad school and teaching English online from Korea. Well, actually, I toyed with the slightly more terrifying idea that I might end up doing a PhD in a Korean university (of all the things I love
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The Ne’er See Again Friends: How Going to a Concert Introduced me to a New Kind of Friendship
The life of an introvert is a mysterious and whimsical thing. It’s a life of imagination and deep musings. I quite enjoy being an introvert. It’s a fact I’ve enjoyed by myself my whole life. So, perhaps it’s not surprising that it wasn’t until now, my 25th year of age, that I discovered a whole
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Popping the Question: Selling my Soul to Academia
After two years of denial, I have come to accept I am in love…with academia of all things. Leaving behind my comfortable job in science education, I’m diving in into the challenging, often annoying, world of academic research. It was all confirmed the day of my research proposal.
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