Category: Musings
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Introducing my YouTube Channel!
I have been dedicated to keeping this blog since my teen years and my or my am I happy that I did that. However, I’m developing beyond what purely blogging permits me, and I’m less scared of producing content that shows a more personal side to me now that I’ve grown a bit more into…
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Class of COVID19
I didn’t respect this virus, initially. Its symptoms did not scare me. It was supposed to be like the flu, and as a Ghanaian-American who had contracted malaria several times and lived in Ghana during the Ebola* epidemic, I thought the United States institutions would be prepared to deal with a sudden strain in a…
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Financial Literacy Basics for Recent Grads
Every personal finance guru, NerdWallet article, and anything that talks about money well will encourage you to know thy self. I’ve been obsessed with personal finance YouTube since at least 2018 and it’s paid off, even when I flounder a bit. But I always remember this: If you are not aware of where your money…
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All the Ways Student Loans Screw You Over
Can you imagine getting a 99% fail rate? I am antsy to start paying back my loans and be free from a debtor’s pocket. But why do we always dig into the same holes?
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In all the Ways We Break
I am tired. Bone tired. Tired enough that flunking an orgo exam doesn’t faze me. I’m tired and I want to define what success means to mean for future reference, because if I don’t I’m not sure I’ll know when I have gotten there.
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As I always say, this blog is more for me than for the world around me. It’s a record of only my triumphs and understandings. But at times, it should also be about lessons that are hard learned, even at a young age. One of those things is learning to be comfortable, no matter where…
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Fun in College if you don’t Party Like that
Maybe you’ve been in college long enough to realize the only way you can have fun when you go out to a trash party is to be trashed yourself. Depending on your personality, that might not work for you…all the time. But what is an undergraduate to do if they don’t have fun while in…
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Entitlements and Liberties
This semester, I change my minor from being music to being sociology. In addition to me sucking big time in the music department, I fell head over heels in love with my last sociology class so much so that I took another class by the same professor about the basis of liberty and morality in…
Nico Addai 