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Welcome to Colorful Colorado!
It’s the first weekend of my spring break! I flew out to Denver for a few days to visit my uncle Thad just because. The last time I was out here was almost four years ago for a family vacation to the Rockies. A year before that I came out here with my dad to see Thad and visit CU…
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Denver in a Backpack
Over the last couple years I’ve become pretty obsessed with travel blogs, especially ones about how to pack for traveling. I love how you can carry your whole life on your back while exploring new places. I’ve gotten pretty good at packing lightly and efficiently, so I want to share some of my experiences here, too! For my Friday-Tuesday (3 full-day,…
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Happy International Women’s Day!
Today during class I thought about how lucky I am to go to college everyday to learn and prepare for a better future. This week, I got to use that voice to fight for other women that may not have those opportunities by campaigning with my club, Advocates for Women of the World, about human rights abuses through sex trafficking.…
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Favorite Spots in Columbus
When I started college last year, Columbus sometimes felt like a sister city to Cincinnati. In Columbus’s Short North arts district, just down the street from Ohio State’s campus, many of the shops and restaurants were first or second locations to the establishments in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine. (Homage, Bakersfield, and The Eagle, anyone?) In some ways, I liked it: I could still…
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First Post of 2017!
I’m not off to a good start with this blog, I know. I made the mistake of starting this right before finals week last semester, then Christmas season happened, then the deadness of January started. I didn’t know what to write about for a while, since I’m still trying to process the inauguration and the executive orders and things that…
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Thoughts on the OSU Attack: Where Do We Go from Here?
My future posts probably won’t be this heavy, but some stuff went down on campus that I feel the need to unpack. Yesterday morning around 10am, I woke up to two of my suitemates barging into my room and telling me and my roommate to look out the window. We opened the curtain to see this: I got a text…
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Introductions
Hey! I’m Madeline. At age twelve, I bound my first novel with nothing but glue and cardboard. I always knew I wanted to be a writer: I spent most of my childhood making up stories and attempting to write novels. I write to make sense of everything around me. However, I am so much more: I am introspective, an advocate,…
