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Clear filtersFebruary 21, 2009
It must have looked pretty odd--all those mini lanterns hanging from tree limbs and about five of us with cans of spray paint looking like members of a graffiti ExCo, but you get my point.
February 17, 2009
Things I didn't expect from college: Moving in with the boyfriend.
January 29, 2009
I learned that there is a certain art to pie-making, kneading from the center out, making sure that the middle isn't too thin, and being careful to leave a slightly raised border along the outside so there's some semblance of crust after it bakes.
January 13, 2009
Last Sunday I moved into my house for this semester. Now I officially live off campus.
January 2, 2009
I am here to take Intensive German in an effort to shove enough grammar and vocabulary into my head to take German 102 in the coming semester.
December 14, 2008
It looked delicious... but we were told we couldn't eat yet. It is an extremely sadistic thing to show us food and tell us we can't partake. I was ready to dive in. But there was a reason.
December 11, 2008
Off-campus status is both a blessing and a curse...but mostly a blessing.
November 28, 2008
As a rule, I try to avoid soaking in sicky-sweet pools of sentimentality (diabetes does, after all, run in my family), but when I talk about Thanksgivings at Fairkid I can't help but get that...
August 5, 2008
The worst part of college is getting there.