coming full circle
learnings from my gap year
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 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 was…