GIESELMANN: Expectations
This February, I will begin the single scariest experience of my life: a semester studying abroad in Shanghai. I choose the word “scary” to describe my feelings toward this experience because of the intense culture shock I expect to go through during the first couple of weeks. I feel as if I’ve been preparing for […]
MARASCO: A Letter to the Black Sheep
I switched schools entering the sixth grade. My parents were unhappy with my prior one. It was strange being the new kid in a crowd who had known each other their entire cognitive lives. “Are you fitting in?” was a question I always got from adults who were curious about how I was handling the […]
SHEA: Leviathan
In my spare time, I give tours at a museum downtown. I’d rather not name the actual location, but I basically work (volunteer, actually) in a three-story glass globe that lights up and talks. Seriously. I spend several hours each week in this massive stained-glass sphere talking about architecture, art and how the world has […]
RUTH: The happiest garbage pit on Earth
Flowers and Fantasmic: Two words that describe my whirlwind vacation to Walt Disney World this past summer. Imagine a cheesy family posing in front of Cinderella’s Castle with matching hats, neon shirts and bags illuminating Main Street, USA as their flashy smiles and identical outfits lured the attention of fellow tourists. This is perfect snapshot […]
DEPIES: T’is the season
Being approached on street corners tends to bring out the worst in people. I tried to keep this in mind at the beginning of the school year when I found myself trying — and mostly failing — to collect signatures for a bill protecting transgendered people in the workplace with my First-Year Student Outreach Project […]
