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Overthinking

I always struggle getting my thoughts on paper. I am the biggest overthinker you will ever meet. I rethink every statement, word, phrase, punctuation. I just backspaced this 3 times before settling on the one you see now. I wouldn’t say I’m a perfectionist but one thing I would say is I hate making mistakes.   I remember taking exams in high school and thinking about all the answers I could have possibly gotten wrong. Don’t get me started on the group of kids in the corner who want to compare answers. They always nag about how they got this, or they got that, and it would constantly cause my brain to implode on itself. I was already second guessing what I got I didn’t need any more confused thoughts adding on to my paranoid brain. I have tried shedding that trait, but I rather ended up perfecting the art of overthinking when I came to the UofA. A new skill I developed through overthinking is correctly predicting my exam scores by overthinking the questions and resolving them after ...
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Societal standards

Instagram, Snapchat, Tik Tok and any other app I opened this week had me questioning why we have some particular societal standards. How did they become the standards? Who endorsed them? Why do we even follow them? There are several but I tailored this blog towards the standards linked to relationships.   Relationships have evolved so much over the years. Peoples approach and outlook towards them. I recently had a conversation with my friends about this. I found a meme that said, “Relationship goals: to get pass the ‘talking’ stage.” I set out to find the definition of the talking stage, according to one definition on urban dictionary it is “when two people basically flirt and get to know each other before getting into a relationship. However, from the conversation I had with my friends I deduced it was a no-strings-attached-label-free-friends-with-benefits.   Another concept that has taken in a turn when it comes to relationships would be cheating. Why are people normalizing ...
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Keys

I have been racking my brain to think of something to write for the past week and I eventually decided to share my most embarrassing story from my freshmen year. I know by the time you finish reading this you’re going to question whether it actually happened and trust me when I say I wish this was fake too.  During my freshmen year, I had so much junk food that by the end of the week the trash would be full. I usually took it out on the weekends but for some reason I decided to take it out on my way to class. If I could go back in time, I would have done things differently. I held the trash and my keys together as I went to dispose the trash. I woke up late that day (Who am I kidding- I still do) so I was trying to avoid the awkward stares I would receive by being the last person to enter the class late. With that in mind I wasn’t paying attention and swung the trash along with my keys. I didn’t realize what I had done right away, I took a couple steps and noticed my hands fel...
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Financial Independence

Welcome to my college financial independence journey. I decided since I couldn’t breakthrough my writers block; I would share my progress on the tips I have learnt so far in handling my finances. Personal finance is one of my favorite things to talk about and if you were to talk to me I could go on and on and on.     I am a shopaholic by heart, so saving was a struggle for me. My achilles heel would be sales/clearances/promos/discounts, whatever you want to call it. There is just something about the red tag and markdowns that allow me to justify the purchase.  A quote I now try to live by is  ‘little drops of water make the mighty ocean’.  I used to pick several markdown items only to get to the counter and realize how much they all add up. As I said earlier, once they were all marked down, I would give in and purchase them. I realized that whatever I was saving would eventually end up leaving my account one way or another. I solved this problem throug...
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Ma Future Carrière

You are probably wondering, what the heck my title says besides the word future. It’s the French translation of   my future career . It is an assignment I have had to write throughout my entire life in school and a question I am currently asking myself right now. My future career? When I complete my 4 years of college what would I be waking up to do? Who do I want to become?     Data Analyst? Financial Advisor? Data Security Analyst? I am still yet to find an answer.     To understand my dilemma, I will start from the beginning. I applied to the University of Arizona as a physics student. I clicked on physics thinking it was psychology and that should tell you how rushed the decision to apply to the U of A was. I was following my high school sweetheart’s decision in applying to the school, in hopes of us going to school together. Long story short, that never happened, and my parents fell in love with this school so now here I am.    Back to the journey...
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Never Ending Loop

As the days go by, I feel like I am slowly losing my ability to get out of bed. Pre-pandemic, I had the same feeling, but it was only a temporary feeling till I heard the people around and the cars outside my window. Now I have nothing to look forward to- no cars and definitely no people. My alarm is a dreadful reminder of the robotic day ahead.    Don’t even get me started on the first activity of the day- classes. I feel like I am paying for access to YouTube videos. 17-thousand-dollar worth YouTube videos. A professor and black screens which hold what could be a sleeping college student, an absent college student or a daydreaming college student behind them. I admit that I am the sleeping college student. When I try and put in effort to stay awake, my mind wanders to a time where I wasn’t stuck watching YouTube videos.  Currently, my bed has become the new classroom.    I give props to the people who willingly put on their cameras during zoom classes. It...
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Obsession: Beauty Standards

Hourglass, Apple, Pear, Rectangle, Inverted Triangle are the descriptions that pop up on google when I typed body shapes. You have probably heard of the main one, hourglass the most unattainable body shape. If it doesn’t ring a bell let me help you remember think of an hourglass curvy top and bottom with a tiny middle portion. What used to be the most unattainable body type it is now easily accessible if you’re willing to take out a few ribs and add floaters to your chest and bottom. Now let me just add that I have nothing against plastic surgery if that is what makes you feel good do you, but my main focus is the amount of people currently flocking to get it done.  Now let’s take a look at the world as a whole every region has their own beauty standards. If we glance at Asia, we see the pull towards a narrower chin, that changed over time a quick google search shows. A trip down the Asian memory lane would show the ancient practice of foot binding, the practice has faded but durin...
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