Tuesday, September 20, 2011

A Guide to Your Twenties

1. Spend 25 years in NYC.
2. Fall in love.
3. Spend 3 years in San Francisco.
4. Fall out of love.
5. Get waitlisted and turned down by Wharton and LBS.
6. Actually meet someone you like.
7. Leave San Francisco anyway. (See #2 and #4).
8. See everyone you ever loved in NYC. Stay up until 8am. Go to MoMA. Get a waffle in Central Park on a Wednesday in September.
9. Go to Georgia. Drop $1,300 at Walmart. Admit you've never been to Walmart.
10. Cut your hair to mid-ear.
11. Pack the next year of your life into two suitcases and two barrels.
12. Somehow wind up at Delta check-in with 14 pieces of luggage.
13. Land in Monrovia 15 hours later to English that isn't English and rain that lasts two days.
14. Realize your mom is a local celebrity. Immediately get weirded out.
15. Interview. Grin through jetlag.
16. Live the dream (or your version thereof) from age 29 to 30.

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