{"id":12,"date":"2008-11-19T11:14:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T15:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/bruse\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-12-10T10:11:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T14:11:44","slug":"the-economy-my-future-and-woes-of-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bruse\/2008\/11\/19\/the-economy-my-future-and-woes-of-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economy, my future, and woes of the heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The economy is bad. I&#8217;m tattering on the brink of depression. I strive to walk the line of excellence. I have to gain back my mmph. I feel ever since I received those bad grades well, I&#8217;ve just lost the stamina I once had. I&#8217;ve fell into a pit and it&#8217;s hard to get out of and I wish I could scream and just let go of the eery feeling inside that&#8217;s stalking my heart. I miss my grandfather&#8217;s ear where I could just express my thoughts and he would listen. Sometimes, I feel like no one would understand the gravity of challenge I face but I always come back to remembering: it could always be worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 I have people who are older who criticize me and tell me oh &#8220;you&#8217;re not going to make it big&#8221; or &#8220;you may not have what it takes&#8221; just because I&#8217;m not from some royal family with tons of money or because I don&#8217;t know people but&#8230; I have risen and I will still survive. I cry because I fail at Chemistry but hey, this is Harvard not some podunk school which is used to lowering the level expected. I&#8217;m fighting to fulfill a dream which many have failed at before me and which some never may have the chance to achieve or attempt to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m now the ALB liaison and I find that I have to be a beacon and work for other&#8217;s needs and wherein I have t clearly define my own. What do <em>I <\/em>want or need in life? What is the importance of <em>my<\/em> life? I starkly look into the mirror only to feel the tears softly falling down my cheek. I remember coming here three long years ago with an eye towards becoming someone great. Sure, I&#8217;ve grown. But to put things into perspective I&#8217;ve also wasted a ot of time and resouces. I&#8217;ve blown through some money&#8230; but I mean I am almost done with my degree at Harvard so I guess it has taught me a lot.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 I wish i could ramble on and on the feelings I&#8217;m feeling but somehow I have this feeling to just keep trying and keep knocking at the door, someone will notice. Sometimes, I just wish I could get\u00a0 alittle bit of an easier plate. I guess, though, that I should be thankful for the many things i do have&#8230; sometimes i just wish I didn&#8217;t expect so much out of myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economy is bad. I&#8217;m tattering on the brink of depression. I strive to walk the line of excellence. I have to gain back my mmph. I feel ever since I received those bad grades well, I&#8217;ve just lost the stamina I once had. I&#8217;ve fell into a pit and it&#8217;s hard to get out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1780,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bruse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bruse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bruse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bruse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bruse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bruse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bruse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bruse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bruse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}