Hey fellow quarter lifer, I’m glad you’re here :)
I’m Lucy, just a girl in her late 20s from Costa Rica who’s been figuring out her quarter life era for a couple of years now.
I graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a degree in biomedical engineering and a minor in neuroscience in my early 20s. For years I followed the script that we are all given: Go to a good school. Get good grades. Get a prestigious-looking job. Be — or at least look — successful. I did all of it. And the more I did it, the more I questioned the path I was on. Yet, I stayed drifting in that quiet dissatisfaction, unable to make a change — until my US visa expired and I was ejected out of the life I had crafted so carefully.
Feeling even more lost in life than I felt before, I decided to take a gap year to 1) accomplish my dream of solo traveling and 2) figure myself out. During my travels I met so many young adults in their 20s and 30s who were asking the same questions as me: what do I do with my life? how do I create a life that is fulfilling? what do I even want? Everyone seemed to be in a quarter life crisis, yet no one seemed to have the answer.
This newsletter is an attempt to answer those questions. I combine my own experience with universal quarter life struggles and neuroscience to help you make sense of it all, and give you actionable steps so you can get moving in creating a life you love right now — not when you’re older, more ready, more financially stable, or more healed. I don’t have all the answers, and neither do you, but I believe we can figure it out together.
And when I’m not writing, you can catch me building Off-Script Club, a platform + community that helps quarter lifers who feel stuck, lost, and confused unlearn the scripts keeping them small and create lives that feel more true. If this resonated, come find us on IG at offscript.club.
With love,
Your quarter life penpal
