Considering a gap yah?

"Oh, I thought about doing that! I wish I had." Almost every single person I've told about my gap year has responded this way. They range from college upperclassmen to grad students, recent grads to people who could be my parents, insanely busy consultants to freelance travel writers. It seems like pretty much everyone has entertained the …

Traveling with Lipstick

*For the sake of time, and due to shoddy wi-fi, this post won't be very coherent. I'm sorry! I hope it is informative to any female travelers. Summer plans: DC -> Greece -> Turkey -> Malaysia -> Southeast Asia (Vietnam? Cambodia? Thailand? Who knows.) -> Possibly Western Europe or Boston DC: Finishing up my awesome …

Things I would tell my younger self

Updates: Work: I really love my internship. The work culture is much more traditional than my past internships, which is interesting. I'm working mostly with healthcare, education, and technology, ranging from writing up blurbs on the latest bill that affects these industries to reporting on congressional hearings. It's exposed me to a lot of businesses, …

Unknown Unknowns

Updates on my life: I realize I've spent the past few weeks writing philosophical blog posts, so it probably sounds like I'm spending the spring of my gap year doing yoga on a deserted island or something, but actually I've been pretty busy. Work: Interning at the Carmen Group, a consulting and lobbying firm in DC. I …

Brain Dump

Why there's been no post for a few weeks: Lately, I’ve had so many thoughts swirling inside my head. If I trip and fall, they might spill out. You'll get to see them. They'll be electric blue and worried yellow and delirious pink, but mostly electric blue. They'll remind you of beginning a friendship bracelet, where if you don't hold the …

Happy New Year, WordPress!

Top overheard in DC on New Year's: girl slipping down escalator in Metro station: "Oh no, everyone just saw my butt! [to her friend] Well, at least it's a good butt. You know it's a good butt. [to people around her] Hey, don't I have a great butt?!" Make a resolution: Deafening fireworks, gold glitter, champagne …

Time out, I’m lost.

Current Affairs: Sometimes when I eat really good food, I black out. So here I am, in the world's best coffee shop/restaurant/bookstore/hipster place (Busboys and Poets), inhaling nachos, minding my own business. Surroundings: Guy to my right: shocked expression. He won't make it through winter. Mountain of nachos = my head x 2. As I type, I keep …

This city

Highlights of the week: writing articles on super cool Ashoka Fellows at work spending more time writing, reading, and doing nothing productive to society with friends who are really great handling my stress about applications a teeny bit better How lucky am I: I love this city. I mean, I love this city. I love …

Warm, glorious, nostalgic, gold.

Plans for spring: Where: most likely San Francisco What: still interning, not sure where yet! I'll keep ya updated. Why: more career exploration, although I'm feeling a lot more relaxed about that these days. Verbs: I am a verb. When I applied to Duke, this was the last sentence of my application essay. I am a …

This is not about 天堂

Top work highlight: sitting in on final interviews for Ashoka Fellow candidates - incredible people working on everything from school lunch nutrition to community involvement in de-carceration Good thing it's not about perfection anyway: Pocky was the default. Sometimes I chose shrimp crackers, but they always left the roof of my mouth dry and dusty. So …