Coming soon..... something new! (In case you didn't guess from the title of this post, it's a podcast.) The full podcast will be coming soon, but below is a short trailer featuring some particularly notable words of wisdom. Tune in to hear a chat with two of my dear friends, Megan and Charlotte, who spent … Continue reading It’s a Podcast (Almost)!
I tried a few times to write a different post for this week, but I keep getting stuck on this one. I was mostly inspired by this excellent post from another student at my college. Strap in, folks, it's going to be a long one. There is a lot of tension on my campus right … Continue reading Who’s Got the Power? (Not Us.)
This week last year, I was 2300m in the French Alps, skiing with one of my best friends and 2000 other students from Oxford and Cambridge. Crazy, right? (Slightly less appealing: this day last year, I was in the middle of a 23 hour bus trip from Oxford to Val Thorens). Going on Varsity Trip was … Continue reading Where I Was: Varsity Trip
It seems a little counter-intuitive to be longing for a library at a small liberal arts college when you are in Oxford, but I did. I spend a lot of hours in the Waidner-Spahr Library. Some of those are spent working and many of them are spent "working," but I also have a paid job … Continue reading What I Missed: the Lib
So far on this blog, I have shared a lot of my personal stories and tips. But since my main goal is for this to help you, my reader, I decided to find a more professional opinion to back up my personal experience with re-entry. This weekend, I had a conversation with Katie, the Assistant … Continue reading A Professional Opinion on Re-Entry
I come from a huge family. My father is the oldest of 15 kids and I have a few more than 50 first cousins on that side. Every year, both sides of my family throw big Thanksgivings on their respective family farms just down the road from my house. Thursday is for my immediate family … Continue reading What I Missed: Thanksgiving
It's Christ Church season! Not only is Christ Church a college, cathedral, and a park, it is also the name of the first inter-college rowing regatta of the year! This regatta is different from the others for two reasons: it is head-to-head racing instead of bumps, and it is exclusively for rowers who have never raced … Continue reading Where I Was: Christ Church Regatta
Mermaids? Yes, of a sort. Our theater group on campus is called the Mermaid Players, so what I really missed was theater (but that's just as exciting as mermaids!). Not that theater doesn't exist in Oxford; there are dozens of theater groups and I went to see at least one Shakespeare performance every term, not to … Continue reading What I Missed: Mermaids
The Kline is the gym on our campus and was renovated the year that I started college. I'm pretty sure that makes it about 50 years newer than any of the equipment in Oxford's Iffley Gym. As much as I miss my rowing team at Mansfield (which is a lot) and our team ergs at Longbridges … Continue reading What I Missed: the Kline
When I ask people what they miss most about abroad, one of their responses is almost always: the food! It's not surprising that this comes most frequently from people who studied in Italy and Spain, who often cooked their own food or had home-cooked meals from their host families. Another key ingredient in this nostalgia is the … Continue reading Food: More Than Just a Meal
Here & Back Again 