I'm turning 30 in a month and two days, and I can hardly believe it. It feels like this past decade has flown by. Having spent years working full time, commuting an hour each way to work, taking night classes for two different master's programs (only one of which I completed), and writing countless papers seems to have made it all fly by much faster than I'd anticipated. Plus, the more time that passes by, the more quickly it seems to do so. During that time, I've also learne