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Life's Moving Too Fast

 It feels like just yesterday I wrote the last post on this blog. This last month has been a blur, which makes sense because almost every week had a consistent rhythm. But I realized that this isn’t the consistent rhythm I want, honestly I don’t even want to carry this over into the next month. How did so much time go by before I realized this? Let’s turn back to trusty song lyrics Life goin’ fast, but we kids and we thinkin' it'll be that way forever, so we waste time Ignoring the perhaps harsh tone of using this lyric as a metaphor, I think people often fall into this form of complacency in life. Falling into a narrow vision of what your future will look like makes you lose the bigger picture and what you’re actually working towards. A good example of this is going into Quant. When a coworker of mine was in college, he told me that almost everyone he knew had the goal of getting a job as a Quant researcher. They made lots of money and actively worked on interesting problems— ...