Currently, no. I have around two weeks left in the final semester of my Master’s program. Up until this point, I haven’t thought about adding those two letters after my name. I’ve been so blinded by the workload that time to think about what happens after all of this is […]
Personal
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Feeling Like the Tortoise Crawling to the Finish Line
This isn’t a normal blog post. Most days I don’t come to this space to air out my grievances. However, it’ll have to do this once. The finish line is in sight. So little work left for me to do in school and yet the tasks in front of me […]
Book Reviews
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Mistborn: Secret History by Brandon Sanderson: A Solid Entry
Warning: This review will contain some spoilers Mistborn: Secret History is a novella written by Brandon Sanderson. It details the story of Kelsier (post-death) up until the ‘catacendre’. Again this book review will contain some spoilers. Also, if you haven’t read all of the Mistborn books (The Final Empire to […]
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Coming Toward the End of a Masters
This post is kind of an update. To keep it short I’ve been extremely swamped. Which means that writing has taken a back seat for a little bit. For two books that I’ve already finished reading, I haven’t been able to write reviews. Both books were finished last week. Of […]
Health
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The Wim Hof Method: A Year Later
A year ago I went through a bit of an existential crisis. During that eye-opening experience, I came across Wim Hof’s book titled: The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential. Without reading this book my life would still be on a steady decline. At the time I was […]
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Just Listen by Mark Goulston: Finding Ways for Better Communication
Currently, I’m a graduate student at Montclair State University. One of the classes that I’m in had a group project assignment that was due last week. For the Assignment we had to pick a book out of a provided list, read that book, make an outline (including: introduction, summary, evaluation, […]
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Finding Purpose in Life
How do you know if something is truly worth it? Is it a feeling? A presence? A sense of clarity? You put all of your efforts into achieving a goal just to question whether it was worth your time. If that time spent working on a goal is determined to […]
Health
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Meditation: How to View Consciousness
Recently, at least for the past 15 days (consecutively), I’ve been using Sam Harris’ “Waking Up” app. Specifically, I’ve been going through his introductory course on meditation. In this introductory course, he discusses our view of consciousness. Most people (including myself) view consciousness as behind our eyes, but it’s more […]
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All Systems Red by Martha Wells: Murderbots Are People Too
All Systems Red is a sci-fi novella written by Martha Wells. This novella is the first entry in the highly renowned Murderbot Diaries (series). Summary: Murderbot finds himself in an unprecedented situation. Fauna begins attacking the humans that Murderbot is contracted to. Everything begins to spiral out of control from […]