By Tamika Whitenack
Last night, I was literally squealing in my room. I finished my last final at 3pm yesterday and had submitted my last paper earlier that morning. I am officially done with classes! And my sophomore year of college, I guess this means that I am halfway through.
The sheer joy and physical energy that I felt after finishing my final were greater than I was expecting, but it feels so good to be done. I knew this semester was a bit more difficult than others, and I truly feel that I have grown in different ways, possibly deeper ways, than normal. I don't even think it was that much more taxing academically, but it was a long and cold winter, an exciting but exhausting spring break, and overall just so, so busy. I also experienced the strongest homesickness I've ever felt at Vassar this semester. I'm still trying to process this year and the fact that it has come to an end, but I have a felt sense of relief, gratitude, and contentment.
When I last blogged, it was after AAAS. Since then, it's mostly just been the end of year shenanigans. In case you are interested about how my classes wrapped up:
Environmental Studies: a group presentation about climate injustice and possible creative solutions, my focus was storytelling. I also wrote a final paper about this.
Sociology: A class project creating a mini campaign on how to eat more sustainably at the dining hall
Geography: A final paper about organic lettuce production in Monterey County
Spanish: a sit down final with a short essay and then information on various latin american literature stuff
And now I am done! I've been cooking a lot lately, because I had to use up my local shopping allowance (its part of the meal plan), so I bought a lot of vegetables. And then today...I went a little insane...to celebrate the end of finals, my friend and I had a baking marathon!! It was great fun. It was very Tamika.
I feel like this is not a suitable end post for the semester, because I have so many more reflections I feel like, but I'm not sure what else to say here. Perhaps I will write again in the airport! I think that is a good idea and usually makes me write good stuff. I'll just share all my food pictures. :)
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| bread and tomatoes |
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| full dinner |
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| oatmeal choc walnut cookies |
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| noodles |
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| granola |
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| mochi and awful lighting |
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| bargain produce? i think yes |
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| veggies veggies <3 |
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| we visited the Culinary Institute of America! but u arent allowed to take pictures of the classrooms/most of the tour |
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| sushi dinner to celebrate food community |
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| paleo banana bread |
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| we love snack parties!! |
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| gotta cook the veggies |
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| using up miso soup |
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| soba from babysitting lol |
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| cardamom palmiers |
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| granola |
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| sesame cookies |
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| garlic rosemary flatbread |
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| chocolate wacky cake |
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| thumbprints, feat. jam from the UK |
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| fruit crisp |
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| more mochi |
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| fun with the lattice |
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| my desk overrun with the days efforts |
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| second batch of granola |
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| oatmeal coconut cookies |
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| blurry pic of a ginger scone |
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