Just Another Week

Spring break the coveted week of the college experience.  For me, it was just another week.  I ended up going home for spring break back to NYC…hadn’t made any friends since I’d moved there…still didn’t feel much like home.  At the very least though, I had...

The Power to Choose

Swamped. That’s how I feel right now.  My first late blog post… I was hoping it wouldn’t have to come to this.  Basically for the past two weeks I’ve been trying to climb out of a self-burying grave. Even as I type, I can’t stop thinking...

Rest for the Weary

Let me start with this.  Break was amazing; granted Brown University has one of the longer winter breaks (mine is from December 13th to January 20th) but I feel like anything around a month is great.  Some people wish they could go back after the first week, that was...

And Thus Ends Round 1

As I’m typing this, I’ve been home for about three days.  My finals started the first day (last friday) and I had three in a row to end on Sunday.  All my friends said I was lucky; they were all quite jealous.  At the time, it seemed like the worst thing...

Living In the Present

It often seems to be the case that everything we do is geared in thinking about our future (well maybe not “everything” but a lot of the important things).  We try to get good grades so we can get into college; we try to craft perfect applications so we can enter...