Month: January 2021

Even though things don’t change when we want them to, after a while, you look around, and everything’s different. We have completed the 2nd week of the 2021 winter term. As is tradition, I am here to recount the events of the previous week in Blog form. We watched the inauguration of President Joe Biden this past week. It feels like we have made it through a transition period in history. One thing that I have noticed that is unique about this new period of history that we have entered, is that I have not heard about the President tweeting a single thing. It’s like when the family at the restaurant with all of kids running around and yelling finally leaves, and everyone in the restaurant just kind of makes eye contact with each other, recognizing together the peace and quiet that they had previously taken for granted.

This week was a momentous week for me for a completely different reason however. I am a Buffalo Bills fan. Since my birth in 1996, I have never witnessed a single Buffalo Bills playoff victory. However, this year, for the first time in over 20 years, we won 2 games in the playoffs. Their victories was one of the little things that helped me to get through the trials of 2020. I think everyone had to have something like that. Some creator or hobby or sports team or activity whose contribution to the world may seem small, but what isn’t recognized is the moral that thing brought to each person who enjoyed it. This week I witnessed my Buffalo Bills lose 1 game before the Super Bowl. I am happy with their success, and excited for them next year, and grateful for the effort they put in, and how on Sundays I could count on them to lift my spirits throughout the year.

In more important news, our Dune Project achieved some success this past week. We finally met with a specialist who we have been waiting months to meet with. On top of that, we have been chugging along with our current sprint. I am grateful to be a part of a team that works so well together. I feel like we are a cohesive group, and I am lucky that the team I was randomly assigned turned out to be so great.

Looking forward to chatting next week,

Luke

2020 has come and gone. It was a long year of trial and tribulation, but I and anyone who manages to see this blog managed to survive it. Maybe you hadn’t been born yet and you stumbled across this blog. My question is, how on earth did you find this. I imagine that this blog will be buried in the hole that is the internet for none to see again once graded. However, I will still write it as a testament to the past year. 2020 was a year that was simultaneously the quickest and slowest of my life. The fact that every single week seemingly had one terrible disaster or another made the year feel like it was taking forever. However I, like many people across the world spent most of 2020 holed away in my house. From this position, the days honestly began to blend together slowly. Due to this sort of blending of the days, 2020 seemed to fly by. Every day not having enough unique features to it to make it memorable. In some ways it feels like a lost year, but for me, it became a year of personal growth and reflection. I can say with certainty that through the events of 2020 and the decisions I made throughout the year, I am a better person.

2021 on the other hand looks largely the same as 2020 did at least from the outset. However, as I type this on January 17 while we are hitting record numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths, it feels like we are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Through these last years of political upheaval, an insurrection has occurred, which seems like the fitting climax for this political saga. I am writing this days before Biden takes office, so there seem to still be a chance of tribulations in that area. Regarding Covid-19 I hope the new administration can bring more national unity of focus, and I am glad that the new vaccine has been created and has begun distribution. While we seem to be coming out of the tunnel, the issues that were uncovered in the past year, and the difficulties that will spring up due to decisions made throughout the past year, are yet to be fully understood.

Despite all of this, I am excited for 2021. I feel as though I am making more personal progress than previously in several areas. I am excited to see what the future holds. I hope everyone will be able to look back in the future and see 2020 as rock bottom, and we don’t have a year as difficult as that ever again.