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By Tamika Whitenack Ohhhh boyyy has life been busy here! I won't be writing too much in this blog post, but I wanted to share an article that I recently wrote for our school newspaper. It is about baking, and family, and you can find it here: http://miscellanynews.org/2019/02/20/features/celebratory-baking-yields-tangible-tasty-reminder-of-home/ In other newspaper news, the girl I help babysit and I ended up in the local paper! Hehe. Try to find me here: https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/life/2019/01/31/brush-up-skills-take-class-hudson-valley-libraries/2688050002/ In other, totally unexpected news, art modeling for figure drawing classes off campus has recently become a small part of my life, and has actually been a really profound experience for me! I want to write more in depth about this at some point, but the biggest impressions are that it has been a very empowering experience that is very healthy for my relationship with my body, and it also helped get m...

By Tamika Whitenack Some snapshots from life back at Vassar: the new sensation of labored breathing that only comes from a brave long run in 4˚ weather a packed Asian Student's Alliance meeting with 40 people making peanut noodles and veg-tofu stir fry in the adventurous place that is the Raymond kitchen a climbing wall at some remote camp in upstate NY a bearded professor with a fiddle. Some college students in fun dresses. Some college students in jeans. A contra dance! copious amounts of tea, every day all day 200 pages of reading Silent Spring 40 pages of reading about the Scottish kilt 100 pages of reading about white bread, and it's role in Cold War politics, American consumerism, counterculture and feminism, and oh so much more 100 pages of reading how old white men conceptualized the American wilderness more reading some reading on the treadmill some Spanish poems some maps some reading about genetic climate systems the polar vortex ...