I have a final round this week, was curious if anyone has any experience with the final round and if there is any advice that could be offered + what to expect! Thanks!
I’ve been lurking on this subreddit for months but never really felt like posting. Last night changed that.
My breakup has been, without question, the hardest thing I’ve ever been through. I know everyone says heartbreak hurts, but I genuinely didn’t understand how bad it could get until it happened to me. I cried almost every day for the past 2.5 months. I was prescribed antidepressants because I couldn’t function like I normally did. I stopped seeing my friends almost entirely this summer and spent most of my days alone replaying every conversation, every mistake, every “what if.” I kept thinking that if I just said the right thing or found the perfect text, maybe I could get the person I loved back.
Last night I went to see Spider-Man: Brand New Day by myself at the 11:30 PM showing. The theater was literally empty. Was pretty daunting going to a movie by myself for the first time.
And wow do I not regret it.
*POTENTIAL SPOILER WARNING*
There’s a moment where you realize Peter isn’t fighting to make people remember him anymore. He still loves them. He always will. But he understands that love isn’t forcing your way back into someone’s life because you aren’t ready to let go. Sometimes love is accepting that someone else’s story continues, even if you’re no longer part of it.
For months I’ve been measuring love by how much I remembered, how much I cared, how much I was willing to fight. But that’s not really what love is. You can’t make someone choose you. You can’t love someone into loving you back. And as painful as that is, accepting it is healthier than spending every day trying to rewrite reality.
Another thing that stuck with me was Peter’s isolation throughout the movie. He convinced himself carrying everything alone was the right thing to do, but the movie shows how dangerous that mindset is. Looking back, that’s exactly what I did. I disappeared this summer. I turned down invitations. I isolated myself because I thought being alone somehow matched how I felt inside.
As many of you who have watched this movie, I walked out realizing many things.
My relationship ending doesn’t mean my story ended.
Maybe that’s what “Brand New Day” actually means. Not pretending the past didn’t matter or waking up magically healed (unfortunately not that easy). It means accepting that what happened shaped you, but it doesn’t have to define the rest of your life. You can carry the memories without letting them carry you.
For the first time in a long time, I’m actually optimistic. Not because I think she’ll come back, but because I’m finally starting to believe that maybe I don’t need her to in order to be okay.
School starts again soon. I’ll see my friends again. I’ll go out again. I’ll laugh again. I’ll keep building the life that completely fell apart over the last few months. Life keeps moving.
This breakup will always be part of my story but it doesn’t have to be the final chapter. And that goes for whoever is reading!
Maybe it’s finally time for a brand new day :)
Hi everyone,
About 6 months ago I noticed a new mole on my leg that I don’t remember having before.
Since then, it has become very dark and has slowly gotten a little bigger. It’s now slightly larger than the tip of a pencil. It hasn’t grown rapidly, but it has definitely changed over the past several months.
It doesn’t really hurt, and I don’t think it’s been bleeding or crusting. I’m mainly concerned because it seemed to appear out of nowhere, got much darker, and has continued to slowly increase in size.
Would love to hear some feedback as I am slowly becoming more and more worried and if I waited too long
No matter what I do I cannot ever get a clean shave, it grows back so fast and I have all of these black little dots along with some redness if I really try hard to shave it all off.
I currently use a 5 blade razor, have tried with a single blade as well but ended up with same result + tons of cuts. Not really sure where to go from here and just want a smoother look
Hey everyone,
I’m a rising senior at a T25 school and I’m hoping to get some feedback on my resume + overall recruiting strategy.
For context, I transferred from community college, where I had a 4.0, and now I’m at a T25 university with around a 3.3 GPA. I’ve been trying to break into consulting/strategy related roles, but I struck out on internships this summer and feel pretty terrified going into senior year with nothing.
I’m not really sure where I’m going wrong. I know my GPA is not amazing, but I also don’t think it’s low enough to completely eliminate me everywhere. I’ve applied to a lot of roles, networked repeatedly, and worked on improving my resume, but I still haven’t been able to land anything solid.
At this point, I’m starting to worry about whether I’ll even land a decent job post-grad (or even a job with this heinous job market) I feel like I have a good story with transferring from CC (pretty much a first gen), strong academic performance there, and some real work/project experience, but clearly something is not clicking in the recruiting process.
I’d really appreciate any feedback on:
-Whether my resume is competitive enough for entry-level consulting/business roles
-What types of roles I should realistically be targeting with my background
-Whether my 3.3 GPA is seriously hurting me
-How I should approach full-time recruiting after missing on internships
-Any advice from people who were in a similar position and still landed something solid
I’m open to blunt feedback. I’d rather know what I need to fix now than keep doing the same thing and strike out again.
Resume attached below. Thanks in advance.
I honestly don’t even know how to explain this properly, but I feel trapped in this cycle and it’s starting to affect me heavily.
I’m currently a college student and a rising senior, and for the past year or so I’ve been dealing with what I can only describe as anxiety-induced laziness/paralysis. I don’t even think I’m actually “lazy.” I go to an amazing school where high and over the top work ethic is the standard. It’s more like I overwhelm myself so badly that I completely shut down and avoid doing the thing altogether.
Right now my biggest issue is my language requirement for graduation. Every few weeks I’ll suddenly get motivated and start researching options, trying to learn the language, emailing advisors, looking into classes, trying to make a plan, etc. But then I get SO anxious thinking about how behind I am, how much work it’ll take, and whether I screwed myself over… that I completely stop.
And then I avoid it for days or weeks because even THINKING about it makes my chest tight.
It’s like my brain convinces me the task is impossible, so instead of “just doing it,” I freeze and distract myself with literally anything else. Then the guilt builds because I know I’m wasting time, which makes me even more anxious, which makes me avoid it even more.
I genuinely don’t know how people “just start” things when they’re overwhelmed. I want to fix it so badly because deep down I care A LOT about my future, graduating, career, etc. But anxiety turns every important task into this massive mental mountain.
At this point I’m honestly scared I’m going to sabotage myself and not graduate on time because I keep looping through this same cycle.
Has anyone else experienced this? How do you break out of it when anxiety literally makes you incapable of taking action?