Karol Koszorz

Starting off, I'm first and foremost Polish (even though I'm the only in my family to have an Irish accent when speaking in English). I moved to Dublin when I was 3, right before the financial crisis (add to that the fact my dad worked in construction back then, it happens that we still live here after 17 years).
I'm a 2nd-year study Global Business (France) student, which is a dual-degree programme and will be moving to Reims, France next year.
My main passions include poetry (I published a poetry collection last year, though by the time this episode comes out, my second will have been published too), rowing (even though I'm way too short for the sport, though that just makes me work harder), and entrepreneurship.
I caught the entrepreneurship bug in 2021, when I took over the tuck shop in my Polish weekend school. Those Saturdays during that 3-year period are when some of my best memories were created. After that, I tried (and semi-failed) with setting up an academic coaching business and a creative entrepreneurship newsletter (called The Entrepreneurial Artist), but ultimately pivoted to listening to my own advice and focusing on promoting my poetry.
My main struggles in life happened between 2020 and 2023. When the pandemic began, I decided to lose weight (I was very unhealthy at that age). However, I developed anorexia and struggled with it until I started lifting weights in late 2022. On that note, I don't think I completely recovered from having an ED, and I guess my brain has chosen binge-eating as my problem of choice.
The other challenge in my life was in relation to friendship. While I was never the most confident child, this only really got bad after lockdown ended. I thought I was part of a friend group in secondary school, but in April 2022, I asked them whether this was really the case (it wasn't). Having no friends, I fell into deep depression for a few months and had suicidal ideation thoughts. Happy to say I went through it, it taught me a lot and I found a best friend (who I'd say saved my life) and then my university friend group. Ever since I became who I actually am, me and that old friend group, we're on very good terms now. They told me they knew what I was going through at the time, but knew if they reached out, it wouldn't help.
That's probably a lot, but I'd say that's about the main things you should know about me :)