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lessons learned
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to get used to men, or not?
I don’t think I realized that my seven years of all-girls school had impacted me in any formative or traumatic way until I stepped...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to know when to quit
I’m a master at the art of quitting. From baseball to Mandarin to fruitarianism, I’ve dedicated myself to every activity imaginable, only to quit...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to find peace in the unknown
College has unsurprisingly been the best experience of my life — but not in the clichéd partying-five-nights-a-week and regret-filled reckless whirlwind many get to experience....
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to write frantically and uncover joy in every corner of the collegiate newsroom
On one sun-drenched, jasmine-perfumed April day four years ago, I picked up my first copy of The Occidental from a campus newsstand on Admitted...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to learn from yourself
I often look back on my 18-year-old self as being a child. She was one in a lot of ways — naive, nervous, open-minded and idealistic. But...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to say ‘yes’ when you want to say ‘no’
My eye color and eye for photography are not the only things my father passed down to me. He also instilled in my growing...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to hold on when you want to let go
Nobody wants to go to college with their older brother. No younger sibling wants to continue enduring the constant comparisons to him, risk running...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to engage again, after all this time
Last year, during the very beginning of the plague, The Occidental published a series called “Letters From,” in which dispersed Occidental students wrote about...
