Listen up—2025 is going to be our year. In this cozy PhD vlog, I’m doing a realistic “glow up with me” in under 24 hours, but not in a perfect-routine, buy-a-million-products kind of way. It’s more like: I tried to start the year waking up at 6 a.m., immediately failed (because New Year’s + doomscrolling), and then I reframed the goal into something that actually makes sense for a Physics PhD life—being well-rested. I’m learning to work with my schedule, not against it, and to stop pretending grad school is predictable. I take you with me from the lab (cooking samples, running laser experiments, and accepting that my timeline is basically up to the system) to the gym (beginner workouts that were not beginner at all), plus a little grocery stop where I’m trying to cut down sugar and fat. I also make savory oats because I’m not a sweet-breakfast person, and I do my makeup because it’s genuinely therapeutic for me—I want to look good for myself and get better at it. Throughout the day, the real “glow up” is mindset: optimizing time, appreciating little moments (like heavy snow), embracing my body, and mastering the art of not giving an F about things that don’t matter—like my bangs.