- When it comes down to it, I am a very resourceful individual.
- What an IRA is. How credit works. Why you should start saving for retirement early. How SCREWED UP predatory lending is . What a subprime mortgage actually is.
- Poverty is so much more complex than you think it is.
- There are people in this world who really really care about making it better and I am so happy they exist.
- Celebrating your birthday without your parents is weird.
- Accepting that you miss home doesn’t make you any less mature.
- There is no enlightened plane of having all of your shit together, 100% of the time, all of us are working on something.
- Professors and teachers are some of the most under appreciated, under-paid people can we please give them more money and thank yous and less money to administration and disciplinarians.
- YES, college has made more liberal, but I like to think I’ve gotten less dogmatic and more open to different perspectives (however if you are a Trump supporter, sorry but I’m not going to “hear you out”)
- I am more traditional than I think.
- Paris is straight up the most magical place I’ve ever been I know I’m a cliche and I don’t care.
- You will end up where you’re supposed to be.
- It’s harder to be friends when your lives are in different places, you have to make the effort to understand each other and I will always put in this effort for the people I love.
- My culture is a bigger part of me than I thought and growing up with nearly all white peers and mainly white friends shaped the way I valued things and the way I wanted my life to look like. I’m working on undoing all of that.
- Anti-blackness within the South Asian community is so so real
- I am actually a morning person (who knew???)
- Everyone who has been in my life and has taught me a lesson. (yes, even you)
- I don’t know what my religion is.
- Brown boys are better than I thought.
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