Let me take you on a tour. Close your eyes and imagine we’re in an airport. Actually, imagine that you’re closing your eyes so that you can keep reading. We’re in an airport, heading toward the check-in desks. Not the fancy new check-in computers that always need that confirmation code you didn’t bring with you. No, we’re going to the […]
Although we are advancing in science by leaps and bounds in recent years, there are some things that science simply cannot prove. I’ll give you an example: the eating habits of your clothes dryer. Without exception, for every load of wet clothes you put in to dry, exactly one sock will disappear from every match, and without exception, it will […]
While doing laundry might not necessarily be exciting, it is the perfect place to do small, kind, anonymous gestures for those around you. I discovered this the other day while checking to see if any of the washing machines were open. All were in use, but atop of one sat a note which read, "Felt bad about taking your clothes […]
In the weeks before coming to college, a series of thoughts kept creeping up in my mind: “What would my roommates be like?” “Will my roommates be nice?” “I hope we get along.” “Will they like me?” Time and again, these thoughts would cross my mind as my heart would fill with anxiety. I knew worrying about roommates was pointless […]
Two things I have always regarded as fearsomely uncomfortable: 1) small, claustrophobic rooms and 2) complete strangers. Not in my wildest dreams would I have combined the two. But someone, perhaps someone with wilder dreams than mine, thought to, and called it “the elevator.” I avoided these in my younger years by taking the stairs, but when I came to […]