We're just a few days away from midterms, and I feel like the semester is flying by. One of the highlights of the semester just passed, though, on Valentine's Day. And no, Valentine's Day is not one of the highlights of my semester, although any holiday that involves candy isn't too bad. What happened on Valentine's Day was more exciting. […]
A few blog pieces ago, I was talking about a senior Valentine's Day banquet being put on here on campus: Well, turns out I'm a senior and was 100% eligible to go and enjoy an extremely classy evening that Saturday with a lot of classy people. If you're looking at the picture of my plate, you're probably thinking the same […]
Some days, homesickness creeps into all of our lives. Nothing is wrong, but you just feel the overwhelming urge to walk up the steps to your back porch, swing open the door, and step into a warm kitchen that smells like homemade food and YOUR house. When I daydream about this particular scenario, I always see the familiar faces of […]
There are few meals I favor so much as that of lunch on Fridays at the Four Winds dining hall. Normally, my tastes draw me to the Varsity dining hall instead, where fifteen different varieties of cereal remain on stand-by during all three meals. It is on Fridays, however, that Four Winds provides the ingredients necessary to make my favorite […]
I once had someone tell me the secret to happiness: "All you have to do is never expect anything. It's that simple. I learned a long time ago that if I never expect anything, everything is more exciting and I appreciate it more, because I never expected anything to begin with." Well, that seemed reasonable, so I tried it. I […]