• A.M. Recipe: Cabbage Kielbasa Soup

    My undergrad bestie, Krystal, is an amazing cook and blogger at DC Brown Sugar Bakery.  She has agreed to curate a few quick, healthy and student-friendly recipes to “fit” (pun intended) the Academic Muscle audience.  Enjoy! It’s halfway through February 2019, which means that by now, resolutions  made a month ago unfortunately might be broken […]

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  • Marathon Mindset

    I have exactly 19 days before I sit for my exam and   7 days until I’m supposed to turn in my finished bibliographies.  I definitely feel like I’m losing steam.  I’ve been preparing for  the last three months, and quite frankly, I’m just tired. In part, maybe I’m starting to feel this way because I […]

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  • A des(s)erted library

    It’s officially 32 days until my qualifying exam, and this has been a week of completely eating my feelings. It’s not that I’m feeling particularly sweet, rather salty. The fact is that when I’m stressed, I crave carbs and especially sugary baked goods. I wouldn’t call myself an emotional eater, but I don’t believe in […]

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  • Grocery Haul: January 2019

    Grand Total: $80.77 Quite honestly, with finals, grading and vacation, my grocery shopping got all out of wack.  I did a lot of eating out, snacking, making multiple random trips to the grocery story but not coming out with anything I could turn into a meal etc…… Somehow, I managed to make it to Winter […]

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