About ME

Hi reader,

Welcome to my blog! I’m starting this blog mainly as a way to document my life for myself. I feel like there’s always things to talk about, learn, and share. Me personally, I’m self-centered and love talking about myself, my experiences, and my life. So I want to share my own life experiences and opinions in an organized way, and I feel like this was the way that spoke most to me.

Online, I am able to format more creatively, include images, videos, links, etc. I could create a website, but I feel like a website feels more one-dimensional, like a point on a number line, while a blog feels more like 2D, like the number line itself. I’ll try to find a better way to word that, but I hope you get the picture. I should also add that I saw a girl talk about how she reviews luxury hotels as a job, so I Googled how to do that, and Google said to start by reviewing things period, one thing led to another and here we are.

The beginning:

A “little” bit about where I grew up. I was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and my parents and I lived there until I was about three. My dad was working and/or studying at a university in Louisiana at the time, and my mom was working at the electricity company there, from what I understand (I actually should check with them on that). Hurricane Katrina hit in 2006 and we had to move, so my mom and I then moved to Mississippi for a little bit (?) and then Texas (?). My dad commuted to/from Louisiana, like he would spend a couple days in Louisiana, couple days in Texas, from what I understand. That’s hella far, so my mom and I moved back to Mississippi (my dad was still in Louisiana and would stay home for a couple of days out of the week). I was around preschool at the time? Stayed there until 4th grade, and in the middle of 4th grade, my parents both found jobs in Alabama. My dad in IT, and my mom in electricity still. So we moved to a townhouse in Alabama. Throughout 4th and 5th grade, my parents were looking for an actual house house. They finally found one, and we moved once again the summer after 5th grade.

Middle/High school:

I was in a new school district, but thankfully I would stay there until I went off to college. This is where I would meet my best friend, who I couldn’t have survived high school without. Also, my friends from back home and I still try to see each other when we’re all back in town, so I’m very grateful for where I ended up. I should note that for 11th and 12th grade, I went to a private high school. Looking back, I was depressed and needed a change of pace. But at the time, I just said that it was because I liked the campus and didn’t like online learning at the public school I was at (COVID times). I still lived at home in 11th grade, but the school campus had dorms, so I applied for scholarship, got it, and dormed for free in 12th grade. Even though I was dorming, I still stayed at home a decent amount, so it wasn’t like I was gone or anything. And yeah, that was life before college.

College:

For college, I knew I wanted to go out-of-state. Something about living in a predominantly white neighborhood as an ABC just had me itching for more. I applied only to SoCal schools because I liked the weather (I can’t really deal with the cold, I feel like it makes me depressed), and it would be close to my sister, which I feel like would be nice for me and my sister, but also my parents. I got into UCI; we toured it, and I liked it, so here we are. I started out as a Psychological Sciences, B.A., switched to Psychology, B.S., and now I’m finally in Cognitive Sciences, B.S., I also added a Management minor on the way. I wish I could say that I’ve always wanted to go to UCI, and that it was my dream school, but it’s not. For me, it kind of just fit what I wanted at the time, so I decided to pursue it. We can get more into goals and pursuit in a different post cause I feel like I have so many thoughts and opinions about that. But anyways! That’s college.

After College!

At the time of writing this, I’m a 4th year in college. I don’t have any major plans lined up, but I want to work, and travel, and experience new things (wow super specific, I know). I’m not sure if it’s the fact that I’m older, or the fact that I’m experiencing so many new things, but life feels a lot less daunting than it did in high school. Like, I finally understand life. I don’t really know how to explain it, but jobs, internships, community, motivation, etc. All these terms made no sense to me and, if I’m going to be honest, felt like buzzwords when I was in high school and even most of college. I’m starting to finally understand for the first time the importance of it all, in my 4th year, which feels a bit late. Tbh I do I feel like it’s a bit unfortunate how late I’m understanding these concepts, but I’m glad I finally have an understanding of what these things mean, and the importance of them. I want to work somewhere where I’m able to learn more about these things, and more about life in general, wherever that is. I currently tutor for two 9th graders and one 1st grader. I feel like, looking at their stuff now, it’s so much easier to understand than it was back then. Why is that? I wonder. But yeah, I will probably do that over the summer, travel, and then come back and find a job (goal is to find a job that will let me start working after I come back, but I feel like most places want you working ASAP, so we’ll see).

Hobbies:

Hobbies include coffee, matcha, milk tea, traveling, music, concerts, raving, hanging out, trying new things, and more recently, anime. When I say trying new things, I mostly mean like hobbies that only last for a month or so. So for example this past year: sketching, crocheting, finger gloving, djing, and cooking (not to be that person that’s like “oh I can’t cook,” but there’s an emphasis on try for a reason T.T). For music, I like alternative indie, edm (cause of raving), kpop occasionally, a little bit of folk, but will dabble in almost everything.

I’m not sure what else to write about, so I’ll leave it at that for now. Of course, having a blog like this is only successful and useful if you are consistent with it, so let’s hope this isn’t a one-time thing.

Thanks for reading, and see you guys in the next post!