{"id":273,"date":"2017-05-29T12:40:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T19:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/?p=273"},"modified":"2017-05-29T12:40:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T19:40:58","slug":"a-year-after-my-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/2017\/05\/29\/a-year-after-my-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year After My Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Me,<\/a><\/p>\n

It is officially a year since I wore this graduation grown.\u00a0I still remember the heat and the excitement from the commencement on May 26, 2016. I know my parents were so proud of me. I know my husband was busy taking pictures of us in a 75 degree weather. \u00a0I was showered by greeting cards and congrats messages.<\/p>\n

Some people might have anticipated for what’s in the store for me after graduation. \u00a0I know a few people have constantly checked my Linkedin profile for new ‘job title’. I got messages from mentors and colleagues asking about my ‘career updates’. I have recruiters pitching me a few job postings.<\/p>\n

I don’t think anyone would have expected that I literally took the whole fxxking year trying to conceive.<\/p>\n

Yes. I gave up career and turned my head into ‘planned parenthood’. In just a few days, I am 1 year closer to the big ‘four zero’. While my colleagues are traveling for business meetings and\/or getting a promotion, my husband and I visit the fertility clinic once or twice a month in preparation for a in vitro fertilization. \u00a0I stopped going to professional networking. Instead, I joined 3 IVF support groups to receive advice and to lend my shoulder to other struggling women.<\/p>\n

We retrieved 23 eggs, fertilized 12. We created 7 embabies.<\/p>\n

This is me. This is what I have been doing since I graduated.<\/p>\n

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It is officially a year since I wore this graduation grown.\u00a0I still remember the heat and the excitement from the commencement on May 26, 2016. I know my parents were so proud of me. I know my husband was busy taking pictures of us in a 75 degree weather. \u00a0I was showered by greeting cards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fullcircle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}