We Like Grass

By Tamika Whitenack I think my life is like a waterfall, perhaps. I'm trying to think of something that is in constant motion but also idyllic and beautiful. I'm feeling very content in this moment. I feel like I just talk about how happy I am a lot of the time, but I genuinely feel great right now, and moreso than I have the past two weekends. I shall attempt to explain various factors contributing to my peace of mind and blissful existence. After a couple of super busy weekends, I finally had a weekend to myself! This was the first weekend where I really had extended periods of time to just sit and do work, and I really like doing work in big sessions like this. It enhances my productivity and allows me to get in a good flow and feel comfortable that I have my life under control. I had two papers and a lab report to write this weekend, and I felt really good while I was writing them, it was definitely a productivity flow as opposed to a forced "let's get words ...

Hello! It’s been quite a while. I’ll say that I’ve tried blogging over the summer and before that as well, but it never seems to get done. I think that it’s because I’m so nitpicky about what I want to say and don’t want to say that it takes multiple days to get done, and by then it feels like the mindset I had at the beginning of the post is no longer relevant. Hopefully that makes sense… Basically, from now on, I’ll be experimenting with just writing everything in one sitting, or trying to finish by the end of the day or something. Also this is a really long, rather plain post, so...yeah. Just a heads up. I guess I’ll mostly give up on going through spring quarter in detail, partly because it’s already a little hazy in my mind. Basically, I kind of floated through classes for about nine weeks and then barely pulled myself together in time to cram for finals and do final projects and such. I guess I got a bit burned out, so maybe this year I’ll try to pay more attention to rec...

By Cameron Hi friends! First of all, apologies that I’m almost a month into school and I still have not blogged. I started a summer update a while ago then got overwhelmed so promptly stopped. At this point I’m giving up on a summer update, so if you wanna hear about my wild summer text me! Call me! Send a pigeon! So yeah. School has started! I’m just gonna haphazardly cover a bunch of stuff. Camp: So for cross country I had to go to “camp” before preseason, so like a pre preseason for just upperclassmen. This was an experience for sure, as it wasn’t the kind of camping I got used to this summer, but living in a senior’s third (3rd!) house (read: estate) in the countryside of New York, kinda near Vassar! This was fun and also a nice start to the school year as we ran once a day then spent the rest of our hours just chilling, eating lots of ice cream, otterpops, and popcorn. Preseason: Honestly don’t have any memories of preseason, but basically we had practice and got to ...

By Tamika Whitenack Three fun facts: 1) I managed to get approximately 10 bug bites in the 10 minutes I spent planting 1 tree 2) Walking into my room greets me with a smell vaguely reminiscent of swamp detritus 3) One of the stalls in the bathroom has a constant puddle on the floor, and most of the other stalls require holding the handle for 20+ seconds in order to flush So those are the bad things going on in life... But overall, I'm so happy to be back! I've been thinking a lot about how different it feels to be a sophomore. I feel much more comfortable and normal to be on campus. I'm more self confident, I feel like I belong, and I'm not questioning the purpose of college every night before I fall asleep (instead, I'm questioning the mechanisms of higher education that perpetuate capitalist soceity for my Education class! much more fun hehehe) The reason I've waited so long (it's been a full week and a half since I returned to campus!) to blog ...