Two days ago, August 21, I moved back to campus to begin my sophomore year. 365 days earlier on August 21, 2011, I moved to campus for the first time to begin my freshman year. As I began to set up my room two nights ago, I compared my move-in experience to the year before. Have I changed? Has my life changed? How is my August 21st different this year than last year?
For st...
Read More
voices
On My Way
After hours spent planning and packing, dozens of lists scrawled on scraps of paper, and piles that took over my room in an attempt at organisation, I was finally on my way. Sitting on the tarmac of Sydney’s Kingsford-Smith Airport, I pulled out my iPod only to discover a slight oversight; in the early hours of that morning, I had decided I should update my iPod’s software befo...
Read More
47 Reasons I’m Excited to Go Back to School
At the end of a long and stressful finals week 4 months ago, I could think of nothing but how much I wanted to be at home with my dog, lounging on the couch, watching a trashy television show and letting everything I learned in my freshman year of college slowly seep out of my brain. However, now that my summer is virtually over, I can't wait to get back to school. Take my wo...
Read More
A Sagehen Abroad
So, summer ended suddenly (stop the presses) and the departure of my inaugural-study-abroad flight mysteriously aligned itself with tomorrow’s date. My multi-month repose quietly dissolved into a thousand dirty shirts strewn across my bedroom floor plus a million unnamed files on my desktop and a thick summer reading assignment with what is perhaps a trillion unread-but-hopefu...
Read More