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Best of 2017!
2018 is finally HERE! Last year was pretty crazy — a difficult year for me, for sure, but also a rewarding one. Here’s some lists of the “best of 2017” in movies, tv, books, and music — but I will admit that I’m a bad list-maker because I just thought up all of these last night. My dad keeps a…
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Merry & Bright
Merry Christmas! It’s been a busy few weeks. I finished finals on December 14th and have been mostly working the past week at the alterations shop. My finals went well and overall I really enjoyed my classes of Colonial American Lit, Business Writing, Professional Writing Cultures, Environmental Science, and Philosophy of Logic. I also loved living in a house with…
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Praise for the Silence Breakers
As you’ve probably seen, TIME’s Person of the Year was released last week. I am immensely proud of these “Silence Breakers.” The #MeToo movement has erupted at a pivotal time in my life. I am a female college student living in an environment highly susceptible to sexual assault. Unfortunately, once I graduate, the risk does not and probably will not…
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Funny, Real, and Perfectly Imperfect: a Review of “Lady Bird”
Today is the one year anniversary of starting this blog! I’ve done more writing than I ever thought I would on here, and I’m really proud of that. I’ll happily be continuing this little project for the foreseeable future. Starting early January, this blog will function out of my temporary life in London, where I’ll be discussing profound self-discoveries I’ve…
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The Quality of Gratitude
“Of my own life and writings I estimate the giving thanks part, with what it infers, as essentially the best item. I should say the quality of gratitude rounds the whole emotional nature; I should say love and faith would quite lack vitality without it.” It’s turkey week, people! I’ve been reading Whitman this week and thinking about gratitude from…
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Southern Adventures in Savannah
Greetings from Savannah, Georgia! I’m sitting in the Savannah airport terminal right now, about to head home to (chilly) Columbus. This weekend, I visited my best friend Rebecca. She studies mechanical engineering at UC, but is currently co-oping at Gulfstream Aerospace in Savannah. I left partly-snowy Columbus to glorious sandy beaches and palm trees. Rebecca says she’s sick of the…
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How Firm Thy Friendship
As my friends and I rushed the field on Saturday night after our one point win over Penn State, I was overwhelmed with inexplicable emotion. It felt electric, maybe. I feel that way while I’m at concerts too, but this was a little different. It was similar to our win last year over Michigan, when we also rushed the field.…
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My Sister Peyton
It’s been a while! I took a break from writing for a couple weeks for midterms. Today, despite the constant whirlwind of political calamity I could comment on or whatever, I’d rather diverge and talk about how cool my sister is. My eighteen-year-old sister Peyton visited me this weekend for kind of the first time ever (without the rest of…
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Not Quite a Millennial
I hate the word millennial. “Millennial” is really not a word we 18-34 year olds use to describe ourselves, anyway. It’s usually used as a cop-out for people over 35 to blanket the self-entitlement and liberal narcissism of young people. We young people say the same things about Baby Boomers, of course, and I won’t pretend that we don’t. But…
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This Week in the Trump Administration: University Sexual Assault Policy
“We will not accept this blatant favoritism for the rights of rapists under the guise of fairness,” says Annie E. Clark, executive director of End Rape on Campus. Clark is referring to the proposal from Department of Education secretary Betsy DeVos to end the Obama-era Dear Colleague letter against campus sexual assault. As a college student, I’ve been working to…
