It honestly feels good to be back. Me 3 weeks ago would disagree though. Before I came back to campus, I was so comfortable bring home. I had no responsibilities besides working a couple of short shifts at Old Navy and taking care of myself. I spent some much-needed time with my family and especially my mom. I knew she was so happy to have me back in the house. Now that Noah was at bootcamp I had to find a way to get the time to pass. Thus, my mom and I created this mini bonding time of making Thai fried bananas together! If you were to ask me how I felt about going back to Boston I’d tell you I wasn’t excited at all. But I knew I needed to come back, and I’m glad I did!
Once I moved back, I knew I wanted to make this semester better than first semester. Back in the fall, I tended to go home every other weekend, didn’t follow through with plans with friends, and didn’t go to many club meetings to meet new people. Once it was safe for me to go out and do so, I reached out to a few old and new friends and planned to hang out and grab food with them. Over the break I realized that I live off of socializing and that being with friends and making new ones (safely of course) helped my mental health a lot. It’s kept me busy and I haven’t had too much time to get lonely about Noah or being away from home.
Over the break I started meditating and various mindfulness practices to ease my anxiousness about life. It’s helped me appreciate my life for what it is and has kept me grounded when I felt like my life was spinning out of control. I push myself to go on a run almost every day to take a break from my responsibilities and take care of my mental and physical health. As for outreach, I’ve joined the ASU, started going to NU Student Nurses Association, and will be going to LIBRE Collective workshops starting February! Hopefully all of these will keep me busy for the rest of the semester.
As for classes, I really enjoy them right now. All my professors and TAs are super cool, and the material is interesting. Obviously, I’ll probably start complaining about the workload very soon but as of now I’m liking them! I feel like if I put myself in a positive mindset where I force myself to look forward to class, I can trick my brain into thoroughly enjoying them.
Now that I’m finally back in Boston, I can say for the first time in a while that I’m really happy here. I’m excited for the weather to eventually warm up and for spring to finally come. I’m super exciting to start writing these blogs again, I missed having to come up with weird topics to randomly blog about. Here’s to a great semester!
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