The anxiety of picking the perfect outfit for the first day. Packing your bag multiple times to be sure you have everything you need. Those night-before jitters, and the excitement of seeing old friends and meeting new ones. The anticipation of a new year of learning. For almost my entire life, I’ve celebrated back-to-school… Continue reading Autumn Without Academics
A new year is like the first page of a new book: full of promise, optimism, and grand hopes for a happy ending. With that in mind and the depressing 2016 over, I’m glad for a new year and one where my entire life is in a state of upheaval and change. I’ve graduated from… Continue reading 2017: A New Beginning
War memoirs hold a special place in American literature. They tell a story about an important aspect of our culture, give perspective on significant historical events, and allow those who have never seen war in person to get a glimpse of what it’s like for our soldiers and veterans. There have been a lot of… Continue reading “I Was a Good Witness”: A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
This is not an easy book to read. And I don’t say that as if it’s written by an obscure nineteenth-century scholar or as if it’s written entirely in Latin—I say that because it is hard to hear the truth, and that is what this book is. Between the World and Me is a poignant… Continue reading “This Terrible and Beautiful World”: Between the World & Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Let’s face it—it’s super expensive to be a college student in this day and age. Not only do you pay tuition and fees just to attend the classes, but then you have to buy textbooks to even understand the course. Usually, this isn’t too much of a problem for me since the number of books… Continue reading How I Saved $150 on Textbooks This Semester
*Should I Go to Grad School? is edited by Jessica Loudis, Boško Blagojević, John Arthur Peetz, and Allison Rodman. I’ll begin this review by summing up what is essentially the thesis of this book and the only solid answer to the unanswerable question of whether or not to go to grad school if your work… Continue reading “Academia Eats Its Young”: Should I Go to Grad School?
I’ll be honest and say that I was one of those kids who barely had to try in school. Technically, I was “gifted” and able to absorb the material faster, better, stronger, etc. So I spent a lot of my early academic career day dreaming, reading, and writing, but not really learning. I understood the… Continue reading How to Beat the Best Semester Ever
Yesterday was officially the start of the penultimate chapter of my undergraduate career. And I feel it, because at one point I reminded my mother that I had been here for eight semesters now and the number surprised me. The last four years have all kind of blended into one blobby, English-driven experience. I still… Continue reading Spring It On
I’m big on resolutions—always have been—and nothing makes me feel more optimistic and hopeful for the future than sitting down to write them out. This year I composed a rough draft based on old resolutions I either didn’t succeed at or really liked and then added some new ones in. I feel like if I… Continue reading 2016: Ready, Set, Go!
I love resolutions. I love goals. I love New Year’s Eve when I can say goodbye to another year and look forward with wide-eyed hope to change and success in the future. Does that always happen? Not really. This year I made a long list of resolutions because I figured if I had more than… Continue reading I Find My Lack of Resolve Disturbing
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