While I’m EXTREMELY grateful that my school is P/NP, the whole narrative of do what you need to do to just pass does not resonate with me. Honestly, it probably never will. When I reflect on my entire educational journey it’s always been interrupted with trauma.

Now that I’m in a stable period in my life, my main goal above EVERYTHING, is to figure out how to maximize my student experience when it pertains to academics. This is something I never have been afforded to do, and something that excites me.

I feel like this is conflated with being intense or imbalanced — and neither is such. Everyone gets to define their own educational experience and this is how I’m defining mine.