Halfway there!

6/20-6/26

This week I finally started running subjects, but something was wrong with the data where they are not learning as much as they should, so I’m not sure what to do. Besides that, I had a slice of $1 pizza at the pizza truck. The crust was sooo crispy, it was delicious and very cheap too!

After the lab meeting today (and eating two huge slices of pizza), I hung out with Yichen, Frances, and Susan around St. Marks area. We went to Sushi Park where there is 50% off rolls (even though it’s always 50%) and dollar menu. It was good food for really cheap. There was also a really sweet sake we had there. We then went to Bon Chon chicken for their wings, strawberry soju, and watermelon soju. Ah, so much drinking and eating on a Wednesday night lol. 

Saturday I went kayaking AGAIN with some Rochester people and Jane. This time the waves weren’t as strong, but it was still very fun. We stopped by H&H bagels beforehand, apparently it’s really good. However, the cashier lady was SO RUDE to us and the bagels were just ok…I’ve definitely had better, no wonder they’re going out of business. Afterwards we went to Katz deli and Jane and I split a pastrami sandwich on rye. With half a sandwich, we were stuffed, which is great. The pastrami is so juicy and tender while the bread was very soft, I loved it! The only thing is that it was very expensive…$15 for a whole sandwich lol. I then went to dinner/drink with Bruno at Oh Taisho, then BonChon. It was nice getting to know him because I haven’t really seen him since Korea Night.

Sunday I went to the Harry Potter Discovery Exhibition with some SURP people. There were a lot of props from the movie and it was AMAZING. I just bought my midnight showing for the last movie and am so excited, but sad it will all be ending. I feel like a piece of my childhood will be gone. Later, I met up with Jane and Peter. We went to B&H where I got a lot of good advice for alternatives to the Nikon 35mm and SB-700. Now I need to think about it even more, but I honestly just need to splurge and get it before I run out of time in NYC. We then shopped at Macy’s until it closed and ate zha jiang mian haha. 

Living Life

6/13 - 6/19 

Being in SURP, a lot of my friends need subjects to experiment from. I was in a study for my friend that in the end pays you an iPod. However, I did not believe that a mere ‘hour’ you can earn $50 and an iPod, so I did not do the study as well as they planned. In the end, I spent 10 minutes and got $24 and an iPod shuffle. I feel really bad because it might have skewed their data, but then I asked some friends what they would have done and their bidding style is almost the same. I want to describe it on here but I’m not sure how much I can say.

Anyway, on Tuesday I went to watch another Broadway show called Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Jane and Charley. At first, I thought it was a cool magician and Bengal tiger act. Wow, was I mistaken…the story was not a typical Broadway, no songs, just acting. It was very deep to a point where I only understood the surface. Something about war, corruption, America, etc. but I lost it there. I wish I understood it more because I probably would’ve found it very interesting.

Wednesday I met up with Joewin and NJ. We went to this place called Tori Shin for their charcoal bamboo ‘special’ oyako don haha, sounds fancy right? It is supposed to be a yakitori place, however, their food is soooo expensive (each person $55 if you wanna get what most people eat). Thankfully the oyako don was not that bad, and probably the best flavored one I’ve ever had. We then walked from 65^th street to 10^th (didn’t feel like a long walk though!), got Kung Fu bubble tea, and then 8^th to go to a hookah place at St. Marks with some other Pi brothers and two girls from some sorority. I feel really weird hanging around with Greeks sometime, all they talk about is the Greek system and I never have much to say. Nonetheless, it was the first time I tried hookah, but it wasn’t good or bad. I couldn’t taste or feel anything lol.

Thursday I went bar hopping with Ellen and some SURP + roommates for her 21^st birthday. We went to Keybar first for a free round of delicious birthday shots and then went to a karaoke bar called SingSing. Unfortunately, at this hour, they don’t let under 21 go in so 3 of them left when we could not find a place. We walked a bit to West 4^th street, where we played some foosball (lost) and then a pirate bar with lots of rum. Later, we just chilled and went to a pizza place. It was a fun night, I’m finally starting to feel like a New Yorkan.

Friday I went to International Center for Photography with Jane and Sining. I thought this place was going to be huge like MoMa. Unfortunately, it was only two stories and some of photos were interesting, others not so much. However, I understood it much more than MoMa. Thank god for these free museums (although they did make us pay $1 for donation -.-) We then went to Schnitzel and Things for dinner. The fried chicken just tasted like a big chicken tender haha. This place was ok, good for cart food though. I’m sad it turned into a restaurant, but good for them. At night I went to chill with some SURP people and celebrate Ellen’s birthday again. I made these cool orange peel jello shots with sake and Chaia made a chocolate cake. We were having fun, playing kings, talking and what not when this RA knocked on our door and told us to quiet down. And we did…however, 10 minutes later this other RA came and wrote us all up. We weren’t even doing anything and it was 11pm! Wow NYU people are so strict and the girl had a very bad attitude about it. But yeah, interesting experience.

Saturday I went kayaking with Jane, Stephen x2, and Joewin at Hudson River. It was free and SO MUCH FUN!! I’m going again next weekend haha. Being in NY has made me miss the outdoors so much and this was definitely a good break from the city life. There was also this small wave that a far away steam boat made, I rode it and even got a little air! We then went to Empanada Mama and ate good, greasy Latin American food. At night, Jane, Stephen, Peter, and I headed to Flushing and ate beef noodle at a noodle shop (originally it was going to be Picnic Garden, but it didn’t work out). The soup was ok, the noodle was great, but one of my friends and my mom actually makes it better haha. There is this other new place for bubble tea called “CoCo” and I really love the black tea, haven’t tried the rest (well, I technically just tried a sip) We were then going to a rooftop party, but that failed since they moved it. We ended up chilling on Jane’s apartment rooftop which was super cool with an awesome view! I guess this is the “NY experience”?

Sunday was the most I’ve ever worked my whole time here, which is really sad. I got lunch at Xian Famous Foods (they ran out of the famous buns, but the noodles were good), then stayed at the lab, had two hours of computer problems, and tested myself for three hours which ended up useless because the data sucked, and then analyzed and was lazy for another two hours haha. I finally feel productive with 7 hours of work. I then had dinner at Otafuku where I got okonomiyaki (it was just ok because I don’t like ginger that much, I should’ve gotten the takoyaki).

Another weekend gone!

Food Adventures

Monday there was an event called ‘Taste of Times Square’. Basically, a lot of restaurants around the area bring their food and you can have a sample for $1-$5. The food was just okay, but the environment was amazing. After that we watched the new Xmen movie about Magneto and Professor X. Despite what my friends said, I really really liked it!

I had dinner with Sarah Han Thursday, haven’t seen that girl in forever! We went to eat Japanese ramen. I think I’m obsessed with this, for some reason I always crave it. Hopefully it’s not TOO unhealthy!

The next day, I had dinner with Sarah Waseem and Susana. Sarah and I both went to Brighton, so it was so nice to see her! We went to a nice Thai place and then a Asian fusion dessert bar called Spot Dessert Bar. I had a lychee matcha bubble tea and pineapple tiramisu. I then somehow bumped into Jane’s friend from college, Peter, who was going to karaoke. Even though it’s kind of weird, but I wanted to karaoke sooo bad so I tagged along haha. We (his high school friends and I) then ended up at the bar that had the amazing sliders called “Mark”. It was cool to meeting new people. It started pouring when I was walking on the way back and my sandals kept falling off because it was slippery. I never liked meeting random people on the street, but this guy started talking to me and accompanied me all the way back to the building. He wasn’t creepy or anything. Gestures like that make my day.

Saturday, I went to a Ukranian restaurant called Streecha’s. It has got to be the best Ukrainian food I’ve had! Well…uh it’s the only Ukrainian food but I’m pretty sure my taste buds don’t lie. Sarah, a grad student at my lab suggested it to me as she’s heard of it numerous times. The place is at the bottom story of this random building and set up like a home kitchen. An old lady operates it and everything is very cheap. There is beet soup ($1.50), potato dumplings ($.50) , stuffed cabbage ($2), etc, which is pretty typical in their cuisine. I can’t really explain it, but it definitely tasted like a home cooked meal.  Another restaurant I went again was S’Mac because Jane was showing her friends around. As good as this place is, I think I prefer other types of food haha. If you are a big fan of mac and cheese, definitely go here though.

For lunch on Sunday, I went to get Murray’s Bagel, one of the best bagel places in nyc. This place was packed and long lines formed around the area. The bagel was pretty good, very chewy! Now I want to try the other famous bagel shops. Then later on, for dinner, I went to Num Pang, a really famous place I’ve been wanting to try forever. This place serves Cambodian sandwiches, the most famous one is the five spice pork belly sandwich (kind of like dong po rou). Unfortunately, they ran out of that one, so I had to get the pulled pork instead. But let me tell you, it was one of the best sandwiches I’ve had, so flavourful and delicious!!!

A Wicked Week

May 30 – June 5

These couple of days have been pretty uneventful, I’m finally settling into the regular work + study + gym schedule. The only thing is that I am really frustrated with my internship, mostly because I can never find my mentor. I just want to get my project started, but to get it started requires a lot of questions and that is why I need him. The only other person in my lab is a graduate student, she’s really cool and nice, but has no expertise in this area of study, so I’m kind of by myself. I hope this will get resolved soon because I really just want to develop the methods ASAP.

It feels weird turning 21, like I’ve done so already. In Europe and China (basically the past half a year), I’ve been able to do stuff like drink, party, casino, etc. Now 21 does not feel so special, just like any other birthday. However, to take advantage of it, Jane and I went to Crepeaway for lunch because it’s free on your birthday haha, the place was so good! We got a savory and a sweet crepe. After work I headed to Adorama Rentals to pick up a tripod and flash unit, but they only accepted credit cards, so I was kind of sad because I only have a debit. I don’t know what to do now, maybe I should just buy a cheap tripod? The rentals (head + foot) costs about $17 and that’s how much a cheap one is anyway…hmmm…

Meng tao ayi and Leo bought me a taro flavored cake from China Town, it’s so yummy! At night, SURP treated me to a cupcake shop called Crumbs and then I bought my first alcohol in America mwahaha, I got sake in a cute bottle haha. I’m so glad these people are in my program, they are all very fun to hang out with.

After another short day of work, I went with Jane to MoMa. The place was interesting but I don’t understand 95% of it. I feel like I can come up with those things but not consider it art. I definitely prefer regular art or photography. After that, we met up with Rena, Yichen, Susana, and Nita, to go to St. Marks for my ‘birthday’. I never realized how Asian we were until I’m writing this, but here’s what we ate/drank: First, we went to a Japanese ramen place and I finally had oyako don! It was not as good as the place in England but very cheap regardless. After that, we went to a dessert place and got some bubble tea (I got a red bean milk tea) and then a bar for free birthday shots, lychee flavored. Last, we came back to my dorm for the leftover taro cake. So basically…rice bowl, red bean, lychee, taro…haha SO Asian…

Saturday has got to be the best day ever. I went to Jane’s place to prep for photoshooting and dresses. We went to a small Mexican place for lunch and it was delicious! (finally something other than Chipotle.) We then looked at a lot of dresses and thought of what we wanted to sew, however, we were in a food coma so ended up napping instead. We only got up to try for the student rush tickets for Wicked since it was close by. There were about 150-ish people who signed up and 15-ish spots with 2 tickets each spot. We were looking at the weather and it seemed like it was going to rain so we were a bit upset at how we might not be able to take pictures later tonight. Anyway, I WON TWO TICKETS!!! That was definitely the highlight of my time here. I never thought I could win anything like this and it was the first try too! So basically I realized that bad things always happen for a reason: I couldn’t rent a tripod and it was going to rain = wouldn’t shoot anyway because I won tickets ;) This is my very first Broadway show for only $26.25 and we were in the second row. Watching it from there was so intimate, you could see every little detail with the stage and actors. The show was amazing and visually overwhelming. I now want to watch every show on Broadway. The acting was great, the singing was even better, the lighting put you in a daze, the orchestra was so pro, the plot was clever, ahhh everything about it was sooo good!! At the end, we waited for the actors to come out and even got some of their signatures! Etai BenShlomo is really cute.

Sunday was the most tiring day ever and I have no idea why. I am passing out as I am typing this. I went to Chinatown today but I was so stupid halfway there I realized I forgot my phone so I went back to get it but the train didn’t go the other way, so I took another train thinking I can transfer to the L to 3^rd street. However, the L wasn’t running so I walked from 8^th to 3^rd, got my phone, and headed back to Chinatown (this took an hour). Haha, Asianably/fashionably late? We went to Prosperity dumplings where they had 5 dumplings (chive or bai cai + pork) for only $1, can you believe it? I also had a Sesame pancake + duck for $1.75. Let’s just say I was in a food coma afterwards for several hours. After that we went to Chinatown ice cream factory to get some lychee ice cream (yummy!!!) and Quickly bubble tea (ehh it was ok). We then shopped at Elizabeth mall and other street places until about 7pm where we could walk no further.

Food, friends, fun, and SURP!

I am going to attempt to write every day and post every week just like Europe because this summer should be fun. Note, this will probably turn into a food blog.

May 22- 29

Move-in day was crazy. At the Palladium, there were 300 people moving in, lots more checking-out, and only one person on reception. After Susana’s parents dropped me off I waited for two hours in line before checking in. The rooms are pretty nice, there’s a living room, kitchen, bathroom, shared with 2 double bedrooms. My roommate was already here and she is in the same program as me, so it should be cool. I walked around the street a bit after getting settled in and it’s such a nice location. There are fruit markets, random food carts, Walgreens, Trader Joe’s etc. right downstairs! I keep forgetting the convenience of living in a big city.

Living Rooms

Bathroom

Bedroom

Walk-in closet! 

I went with Meng Tao ayi, her family, and two other people my age for dinner at a Turkish place after they came to drop off some stuff. A city like NYC makes people want to dress up; everyone looked nice but me because I was wearing jeans. The two people, one was studying photography and the other fashion, so I was left out with science haha. All my life I’ve been surrounded by science, I have actually never hung out with the type of people that were in art, so different than Rochester people. The table conversations were interesting, but I wish I was understood more art/design/etc!

First day of ‘internship’ was long, but interesting. I got to meet everyone else in the program, there’s 12 and apparently 600 applied. Haha, I’m really surprised I got in. We just talked a lot in general, got fed like crazy, and got our IDs. I tried finding my mentor at the end, but he wasn’t around, so I just left. Jane and I then went shopping at SoHo, we found so many cute dresses but decided it wasn’t worth it until we really liked it and would wear it haha. We’re such cheap college students. We then went to a Kung Fu Tea, it was so good! I just got a plane black tea bubble tea, but the bubbles were sweet and the black tea + milk was awesome. We also went to Sarita’s Macaroni & Cheese for dinner, it was so good as well! It’s just basically different styles of baked mac and cheese, I got Cajun and Jane got curry. I definitely recommend those places.

Cajun mac n cheese

Place with best bubble tea ever

My mentor is an interesting character to say the least lol. His is such a night owl that he starts work at noon and ends whenever he feels like it, then goes to bars or something like that. He treated me to lunch at this nice café and talked about the various projects going on. However, I feel like he doesn’t have much for me to do this summer, which really sucks. I was planning to learn a lot, but we’ll see how it goes. I read his publications for five hours in the lab and it all dealt with crowding. After that I went to SoHo again and then I met up with Jane to go eat at the NYU dining center, the food wasn’t that bad! They even had a waffle maker haha. We then headed to Times Square to write some postcards, be tourists, and go shopping. The last time I came to Times Square was probably when I was nine, the place is so lively!

I went to Maoz for lunch today and had a huge falafel loaded with all the toppings I wanted. It was this little shop with a line that went into the streets. However, the falafel were a bit dry, but together with the toppings it tasted great. I went to work at 4pm today because that’s when our group meetings were. It was really interesting because there are four high school students working there this summer and I think only 2 PhD students, so I was up there in terms of knowledge. From the discussions, it was very clear that college course helped a lot, obviously. However, there are not a lot of projects going on and I am having a hard time thinking of starting a project. I feel like there’s so much covered in the visual area that I do not know what to research. Anyway, I met with some SURP people for dinner and we walked around a bit. After that, we went to the famous waffle cart because I’ve been tracking it and I finally got to eat the speculoos spread mmmmmm! Also, the gym here is super nice, it even has a rock climbing wall. I wanted to take a picture of it, but it would be a bit weird haha.

Waffle Cart

Maoz

I talked with my mentor for two hours today at a coffee shop about my project and I finally have a topic! I will be collaborating with Jordan, a PhD student at Harvard, doing a separate part of a big study. To keep it short, Jordan already started a study on how we learn and read letters, both by component and as a whole. People were much faster at learning novel letters as a whole. They submitted the paper, but it got sent back because something was missing. What I am doing is adding onto this study, and conducting experiments on objects, so it will sort of be how we recognize objects, not letters. This will hopefully add another dimension onto the paper for it to be published! I’m so excited to get started! Anyway, Jane and I went to a bhangra dance part at Brooklyn Bridge Park. It was so much fun, but at the end I still couldn’t bhangra L The park was really pretty at night with a view of the river and Manhattan. We basically danced for 3 hours straight. What a workout!

Finally Friday! I woke up 9am to go to a safety orientation then we had a SURP lunch with Dr. Chiye Aoki giving a talk about how GABA causes moody teenagers. It was really interesting. For dinner, I ate at Biryani cart and had kati rolls. I had two different kinds, one was SO GOOD, and the other was okay. Highly suggested!! I made macarons with Jane, but it failed for some unknown reason. She has made them before and they were perfectly fine, maybe it has to do with the oven, not us haha. We then went with her housemate to get Kung Fu bubble tea again, mmmm. I always end the day with food.

Fail macarons

Awesome Kati Rolls

Central Park

Saturday, I went to eat breakfast at a Polish restaurant called Neptune, it was very similar to American breakfast, but with really yummy bread. I then went to Seinfeld diner and Central Park with the SURP people. Central Park is so big, but it was a really nice walk. It felt nice being out of the city environment (even though it’s pretty much in the center).

Seinfeld Diner

 I then went to Long Island for the weekend. On the way there, we stopped at IKEA, which I kept hearing about, but it’s pretty cool and very cheap! For dinner, we went to this Chinese buffet, but it was so expensive $27 a person wtf, however the food was delicious.

Sunday, after breakfast I played tennis with Leo. It felt so refreshing to play again after all these years! After about half an hour, I started enjoying it more and more. I guess I was really tennis deprived in college haha. Unfortunately, it was way too hot, so we called it a day and went back to the house. Leo’s dad made dumplings, spinach/shrimp/pork filling, yum! I then headed to an outlet with Meng Tao a yi. That outlet has to be the biggest and most awesome/cheap/coolest one I’ve been to all my life. Everything was SO CHEAP. What a yi told me was that New York has the biggest discounts in America because of the thousands of people going to the outlets every day. I bought nice clothes that are usually $100 for $10, I mean seriously…lol, screw the random stores like Forever 21….haha. Anyway, at night we had a barbeque, cause it’s Memorial Day, and then walked along a pier. What an awesome day! I can’t believe it’s ONLY been a week since I moved in. 

Start of Summer

Ah, the start of summer. After reading the itinerary of my internship, I know I will learn so much this summer. There are lectures every week and something is always due every Friday. I am so glad I applied for this program and am very excited to see where it will lead me.

Currently it’s 3am and I’m sitting on the couch at Susana’s house. I’m staying with her family because my move-in day for NYU is after they kicked me out of GLC. Her family definitely reflects how she acts in real life, which is not a bad thing at all! They are all very fun and I think I’m slowly getting better at Cantonese. On a side note, it’s very cool that Sining and Jane will be here as well. It’s actually a nice feeling that we’ve all grown up so much and are all in a big city. It makes me feel very proud of us and gives a sense of accomplishment. We have definitely come very far, literally too.

Even though I’m in the city that never sleeps (wait…is that Vegas?). Uh…even though I’m in the Big Apple, I really have to try and focus on GRE and graduate school applications. These couple of days has been a good schedule and hopefully I’ll follow it after later with work added in. It goes: wake up, eat good food (including dimsum), go to library and study, Chinese pastry, go back to chill, eat more good food (Indian, home cooked meal, etc), watch TV, sleep. Obviously, you can tell that eating is very important in my life.

This is my first time actually ‘living’ in NYC and the first thing I have to mention is that the libraries here are so different than back home! They have many stories with security guards. You are not allowed to sleep or take your shoes off. They get mad at you over the slightest things and are pretty annoying. I also saw my first live protest. It was about how the city is cutting down on library funds by 25 million and that would result in the library opening only 3-4 days a week. People of all ages and ethnicities were there, waving signs in all different languages. It was really nice to see a community come together like that, despite all the cultural barriers in everyday life.

The last day before my move-in, I went with Susana’s family to a wedding. I believe this is called wedding crashing haha. Anyway, at first it was a bit awkward and boring because I knew no one, so I just sat there while everyone took pictures. Then, the good came. It was such good Chinese food! Anyway, there is a reason that I’m writing this. When it was everyone single’s turn to go up and catch, I went up, thinking I don’t want to catch this, I’m too young! However, somehow they threw it right at me and I had to catch it or it dropped to the ground lol. So, I didn’t know what happened next since the last wedding I went to was a while ago. They threw the garner and this random guy got it. He then had to put it on my leg with his mouth haha, it was so awkward, because he was kinda old. Later, I found out he was 27 and his name is Terry, so I guess it wasn’t too bad. The first thing he asked me was how old I am LOL, cause I guess I look like I’m 13. Anyway, everyone then danced a lot until almost midnight. It was the most interesting and fun experience this week haha, but I don’t wanna get married that soon. 

I have made a list of top 10 things I want to do this summer and hopefully it will be crossed off before I leave. In no particular order:

1.       Watch Broadway

2.       Watch a fashion show (I doubt this is likely…)

3.       Sew a tote bag

4.       Take nice pictures (especially at night: Brooklyn Bridge, Time Square after midnight, long exposure airplane in sky, etc.)

5.       Some museums like MoMA

6.       Six Flags New Jersey

7.       Skydive at Long Island

8.       Shop

9.       Eat: Try most of the famous cart foods and cool/interesting restaurants.

10.   Bake macarons

This is what happens when I actually make money during the summer L

Spring 2011

Besides freshman year and study abroad, this has definitely been one of the most fun semesters in college (which I guess makes it rank…4 out of 6 semesters? Lol). I met new friends, got closer with other friends, hung out more, and it was perfectly drama free.  

School

I think the reason I enjoyed this semester so much was because my classes did not include organic chemistry. Last year, I was so busy studying, I could not handle even the little things like going out to eat because thinking about not studying even stressed me out. This year, I took all the random classes that I needed to fulfill my major and pre-med requirements, linguistics, physics, comp sci, BCS. Although some were 200 level courses, I somehow easily managed to pull off a 3.7 and that is my highest GPA up to date. Hopefully it’ll get better from now on. J

Sigma

After being abroad for a semester, I realized that I was so busy last year I did not have a chance to be that involved. This year I took on three chairs, although they were very easy ones, and went to as many events as possible. I definitely got to know a lot of sisters much better and would like to know some of them more. It has been really nice being with them in and outside of Sigma events. I love all my sisters. They remind me of why I joined in the first place, it’s always nice to have them around and I know I can count on them when college is over and for more years to come.

CSA

I am so glad I was on Eboard for CSA, I have to say that I have learned so much organizing events with them. We definitely know how to have a good time, which includes a lot of food, while being on top of everything we do. These people are amazing and I am glad I got to know them this year. We’re pretty awesome.  I mean…we hung out with Wong Fu for a day! Being on Eboard is so much different than a member and I am very excited put together China Nite next year. I remember I was very indecisive on whether I wanted take the position, even during elections, but now I can say that I have put my mind to it and it will possibly be the highlight of my senior year.    

RICE

I love RICE crew! I have spent so much time with them this semester and learned a lot from everyone. Before I came to college, I always enjoyed dancing, but have never done any choreography. Meeting all these people and forming RICE are one of the highlights of my college thus far. Without them, I would have never found this passion for dancing. They are a group of amazing people that I love hanging out with. I have probably been with them more than anyone because of China Nite/Korea Night/AHM/Graduation performances but I enjoyed every single minute of it. Yes, even the 10 hour a day practices. After college, some of us may not have the opportunity to dance anymore, so I hope that next year we go all out and do some amazing stuff.

Life

Of course, there were some up and downs this semester, but mostly ups. I wish I had more hours in the day; there is so much I want to do before college is over. The only down side was that for a few months I wasn’t sure what to do with my life. Of course, most of my friends hit this stage with me at the same time. I guess I’ll call it…second semester junior crisis. Most of us are taking the GRE or MCAT or GMAT or something this summer and we are all afraid that we will not do well. If we don’t do well, everything we’ve worked for in college will be ruined. We would have to direct ourselves on another route to do something we may or may not want to do. That is the problem. However, I had amazing friends and family talk me through it and I just have to say I’m so grateful for everyone I have in my life.

I am so ready for summer adventures in NYC!