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Things I've written down, and things I stopped to look at.

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The Field Journal

“The field journal of a children's hospital human with adult homework.”

Numbered by days, these are dispatches from public health school and early adulthood: healthcare, humanitarian work, morality, friendship, and trying to stay hopeful in a world that doesn't always make it easy.

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Start with these entries

Day 81 Humanitarian Aid and the Mind F*ck It IsHumanitarian aid at a scale that feels impossible, and reminding myself that anything is better than nothing as a Gen Z-er navigating early adulthood in an increasingly bleak world.March 2026 Read ↗ Day 184 The Moral Gray Area (and What I Have Learned About It)Why so many people only think in black and white, and why someone's worst ten seconds aren't enough to play judge, jury and executioner.August 2026 Read ↗ Day 16 Adjustments, Friendships, and the Abhorrent Nature of the Current Healthcare SystemMy first week of my master's: settling in, making friends, and why people from different backgrounds and disciplines matter so much in public health.October 2025 Read ↗

Pictures

Faces & Places

Maddie, a graduate with purple hair, laughing as blue confetti bursts overhead

Lower Manhattan skyline across the harbor at sunset, a ferry and a sailboat on the water

Kavya resting her face in her hands behind a stone wall, wildflowers and pine trees around her

Hot air balloons drifting over the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan at dawn

Kavya in a yellow dress smiling on the grass, her head resting on her arms, holding a bouquet

Sun shining over a hazy mountain valley with a reservoir far below a rocky ledge

A graduation cap crowned with a bouquet, a gold 25 charm hanging from the tassel

Black-and-white sandy path winding through the dunes at Cooper's Beach

Golden hills and a small village in the distance, with stacked paving bricks in the foreground and mountains beyond

Black-and-white salt marsh stretching to the water beside a weathered boardwalk rail