It’s been really hard to find my voice since I arrived at college. School is so difficult and the culture shock has been so insane that I haven’t felt like I can really write about it. The leaves were gorgeous, but they’re all gone and the trees just look naked and cold. Classes are interesting, [...]
I got here on Saturday and I’m having a blast this weekend with Ava. She is a smart, liberal, feminist activist teenager and we get a long great. Ava’s a year older than I am and she’s studing film at NYU. We’ve been going to street fairs and watching unicycle riders and walking and [...]
I fly to NJ tomorrow morning. I said goodbye to the rest of my friends tonight — most are already off to college themselves. I have a few days with a good friend in NYC before I actually go to school myself, and I’m so sad about leaving Texas. Excited. Scared. Clinging to a teddy [...]
Here I am trying to come up with material for a post about transitioning toward college, but I haven’t done much yet. I know who my suite-mates are, but I don’t know them well enough to write about them here without worrying that someone will spray-paint my walls on my first day. I have a [...]