flâneur

coming full circle - by nancy - general zuo's chicken

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it was for a multitude of reasons – i felt like i was not learning in my classes, i was unsatisfied with the people i was surrounding myself with, i was drowning in the course load that felt pointless and irrelevant to my interests, but unsure what my interests even were. looking back, my year off was pretty crazy... i was sometimes working, sometimes actively avoiding work, and sometimes doing absolutely nothing. but in the midst of doing nothing is when the things most valuable to me emerged: <3 friends, and that i need to spend more time reflecting. some of the miscellaneous things I did: got a large number of student on leave to band together against the current school system lived in a bunch of houses i found on twitter before burning out as a digital nomad took care of wack logistics and put out so many fires while hosting 3 co-living houses in denver and 1 in sf tried my hand at being a cog in the machine before realizing quickly that wasn't what i wanted embraced the feeling of

this last year, i took a year off school. it was for a multitude of reasons – i felt like i was not learning in my classes, i was unsatisfied with the people i was surrounding myself with, i was drowning in the course load that felt pointless and irrelevant to my interests, but unsure what my interests even were. looking back, my year off was pretty crazy... i was sometimes working, sometimes actively avoiding work, and sometimes doing absolutely nothing. but in the midst of doing nothing is when the things most valuable to me emerged: <3 friends, and that i need to spend more time…

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