Working through grief
I never imagined my graduate school experience would be so heavily impacted by a personal crisis. Yet, during the second year of my Ph.D. program, the COVID-19 pandemic marked the beginning of the most difficult chapter of my life. My university shut down, I moved out of my roommate-filled house to protect my immunocompromised partner, and I lost my older brother to suicide. As the dust started to settle, I went through an unexpected breakup: My partner was going to Alaska, where I had planned to join him for the summer, and he ended our relationship days before his departure. Within a span of 2 months, my life had become nearly unrecognizable.
> “For me, goal setting and task completion are forms of self-care.”
I was overwhelmed by heartbreak and the feeling that my world had fallen apart. My sense of time all but disappeared, and my mind went into overdrive to process the rapid succession of losses. To make matters worse, I didn't even have the comfort of friends from closer tha
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