Hello hello Welcome to my place! I am glad you are here. Here I will just be posting my personal thoughts, share my experiences, and talk about what I learn/am thinking in each new season of my life. I plan on making this site a safe-place for me to write whatever is on my mind, so here are my uncensored thoughts!
Warm regards,
Jonathan Lee
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The right choices are often obvious. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Eat a fruit instead of an unhealthy snack. Study an extra hour. Go to bed early. I think something I’ve noticed is that people tend to overcomplicate life too much. We debate how we should spend our time or overthink what restaurants…
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“I probably wouldn’t be at Princeton without them…” I remember explaining to two of my friends during lunch after our SML 201 lecture. We were talking about someone I used to be close to, a high school friend who I unfortunately no longer spoke with. It was a stupid way to lose a friendship. Misunderstanding,…
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We’ve heard these Bible stories countless times before. Daniel continues to pray even after it becomes illegal, and is thrown into the lions’ den. Yet miraculously, Daniel walks out unharmed. King Nebuchadnezzar commands everyone to bow before an idol, but three Jewish men refuse since they worship the one true God. They are thrown into…
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I’ve recently been watching the show Young Sheldon, and I’ve found myself really contemplating the life of the father in the show, George Cooper. If you’ve only watched the Big Bang Theory, you’ll probably remember that George is described as a fairly unimpressive man. He was the guy who drank too much, cared more about…
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One of my favorite pieces of advice goes like this: “Bite off more than you can chew, and then figure out how to chew it.” I love it so much because it runs against almost everything we’re usually told. “Don’t bite off more than you can chew, be realistic, know your limits, don’t ego lift.”…
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Those were the three rules of life that one of my professors (shoutout Prof. Vreeland) gave to the seniors as he was sending us off into the real world. He said that the rules were in order too: don’t have fun if you’re not being kind, don’t keep on being kind if it’s getting you…
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If you’ve ever watched the movie “Saving Private Ryan,” you probably remember the ending scene where Captain Miller pulls Private Ryan aside before dying and tells him two words “Earn this.” It kind of flew past me upon my first few watches, but I’ve been reflecting on it more recently. Throughout the film, eight men…
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There are two kinds of mindsets and two kinds of work ethics. Most people live somewhere within these four combinations. You think it’s deep and you work hard. You think it’s deep and you don’t work hard. You think it’s not that deep and you work hard. You think it’s not that deep and you…
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A common question that I’ve been asked a few times this summer is “How are you going to approach your last year at Princeton?” It’s a simple question, but it carries such finality in its words. This is it, the last lap. The last September I’ll step onto campus as a student, the last chance…
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In 1722, Theologian Jonathan Edwards wrote 70 Resolutions for him to accomplish throughout his life. I’ll write a few of them here. It’s interesting how people nowadays make resolutions compared to Mr. Edwards in 1722. While Jonathan’s resolutions are quite broad and hard to tangibly apply to everyday life, people today make their resolutions concrete:…
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