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First Year of Graduate School; Reflections

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  First, let me say happy new month and welcome to August. Is it just me or this year is moving at a speed I cannot quite understand. I love it though.   To be honest, I have been experiencing writer’s block for a loooooong time (I used to be a good writer and I am trying to revive that part of me that seems gone) and one of the reasons I started this blog was to try to snap out of it, but it has not been easy. I thought to myself, just do it, but I find myself overthinking what to put out there and what not to.Toward the end of July, I said to myself that I must post something on my blog by the first day of August, but alas, procrastination and overthinking got the best of me. So, here I am on the second day of August, writing about the first thing that pops up in my mind and putting it out there without overthinking it. Progress, right?   Now, back to the matter. Some people might ...
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  God Told Me Something Scary! 😱 Has God ever given you a word that scared you so much because you either felt you were not ready, or you felt incompetent to perform? Yeah, me too! You are definitely not alone, so keep reading….   God told me something scary in 2021. I remember that Sunday morning vividly, I was seated inside the beautiful auditorium of Celebration Church International, Abuja, Nigeria (my home church as at that time) when I heard that word. On impulse, I picked up my phone, opened my notepad and typed the words exactly as I heard them which is my usual practice.   Habakkuk 2:2 NKJV  “Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it,”   Then comes my reaction, “What? Me? Nah! How can?! I must have heard wrong” and all the other fear and doubt lingua that the enemy puts in our mind when God is about to do something great in our lives. Anyways, it’s been almost 2 years since God told ...
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2022 was that YEAR!!! 😄

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From starting off with grad school interviews in January, to receiving my first grad school acceptance in February, to receiving three more offers in March, to accepting an offer in April, to getting my visa in May, to spending time with family and friends in June, to saying goodbyes in July, to moving across continents to start grad school in August, to having my first exam in grad school in September, to officially joining a lab in October, to celebrating my first birthday outside Nigeria in November, to writing my first finals and acing all my fall 2022 courses in December....2022 was definitely that YEAR!!! I have gone through the entire spectrum of feelings in 2022. I have had a lot of moments of joy and great happiness, and I have had several sad moments sprinkled with a huge amount of imposter syndrome moments as well. I will not say that I am over it though, one moment I feel like the baddass that I am and then the next moment, I feel like a fraud that would be exposed very soo...
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