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January 15, 2023Happy New Year!! 2022 was an exciting but tiring whirlwind and I am so grateful to make it through another year.This is the first time in a long time that I’m not entering the new year with a curated list of goals and wishes that I hope to force myself to complete before the year ends. For once, I’m committed to easing into this year. I took some time after the first semester of my PhD program ended to try to process all the things I experienced in 2022, and it led me to my word of the year: BALANCE.…
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