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By Cameron Rusin Hi friends! Apologies for how long it’s been. For a bit there I could attribute my lack of posting to my stress over midterms, but those are mostly over now (my last is on monday!!! Ahhhh rip my grade!) so I guess the issue now is that I don’t have much to write about. So this is going to be a retelling of my eventful, and somewhat odd, morning. 6:30 wake up and walk to practice, wearing running shorts (pants #1). This wasn’ very eventful, but I recall a pretty sunrise? 7:05 leave on run! Yay! 7:12 run into a pole on said run and RIP A HUGE HOLE IN MY SHORTS. I don’t have any pictures, but the entire right side from my hip to the bottom of the shorts was gone. I was bummed. I liked these shorts. 7:13-7:50 complete rest of run with gaping hole in my shorts.... 8:00 Today was twin lift! Which is just picking someone on the team to twin with for morning lift. I last minute twinned with a junior who just happened to have some old Tufts crew uniforms ...

By Tamika Whitenack I'm going attempt to tell you what I've been up to using pictures, but they aren't all great quality and they aren't totally in chronological order so it might not be effective. Also I took way more pictures than this but didn't want this post to be forever so there are some gaps. I might add more pics later. Apologies! lovely tree of fall colors the morning that I left flowers at Jean-Talon, an awesome market in Montreal more flowers, there's also lots of food and produce montreal bakery #1: kouign amman and apple turnover Montreal botanical garden lantern exhibit chinese garden courtyard more chinese garden, it was so crowded at this place! a dragon at the garden more lanterns: lots of cranes and dragons! cute muffin mix at bakery #2 montreal bagels, fresh from the oven! me at the top of hill on the Vermont farm that Mom and I stopped at today blurry pic of my...

By Tamika Whitenack I guess I'm back on the blog train and am a complete liar, because here I am posting and I am not even officially on break yet (or am I? I'm not sure what the official time is). As per usual, I am not doing college the right way and have only watched TV/movies, twice since I've been here. The first time was Great British Baking Show, and the second was Winnie the Pooh's Heffalump movie, which really made my night, so I will offer a brief review in the hopes I can entice some of you all to watch it. The Heffalump movie features our favorite friends from the Hundred-Acre Wood, plus some lovely British elephant/heffalumps who are absolutely amazing. Roo is prominently featured, as is the young heffalump Lumpy, who is adorable and charming and absolutely wonderful. If I could have any pet in the world, it would be a heffalump like Lumpy. It is a coming of age tale for both Roo and Lumpy, and the other characters –Rabbit, Tigger, Pooh, and Piglet– ar...

By Tamika Whitenack Wow, it has really been a week since I last posted! I must be busy. Or sick and in a bad mood because I have gross bumps on my hands and feet. But let's not talk too much about my unfortunate health adventures, I already spent most of last weekend throwing a pity party in my room and you don't need to be part of that. This will probably be my last post before October Break, so I guess I better make it good! The most notable aspect of my weekend was probably volunteering with the Poughkeepsie Farm Project on Saturday. I picked tomatoes from one of their greenhouses and also helped weed some strawberry plant rows. I was working with some members of the PFP CSA who were doing workshare in order to subsidize their weekly vegetables. I really like the farm, as well as the work that PFP does, and I hope to get involved more with them. They do some educational outreach (including cooking classes, I think) and food justice stuff and all of it is lots of things t...

By Cameron Rusin Hi friends! I don’t really have much to update you on this week, so this will be more of just my general thoughts on some things, specifically school work. I’m writing this while sitting at a table in the library with some XC runners. This is also library shift number two! I spent a solid 5 hours here this afternoon and am in hour 2 this evening, with a break for dinner and sundaes in between. This blog post is serving as a convenient break from work, but just barely because this too is checking something off of the to do list because I haven’t blogged since last sunday… But anyways, I don’t want this to be too boring or complainy about how many hours I spend in this library, but I think that there are some interesting things to say about the college workload. I think I’m going to make this a list because my brain is a little fried. I spend a lot more time doing work here than in high school, but somehow it doesn’t feel that different, and I’m not r...

By Jae-An Wang I woke up this morning at 8 from a terrible night’s sleep, featuring a nightmare in which a neomorph (think eyeless albino humanoid with spidery limbs and terrifyingly sharp teeth) from the Alien film franchise jump-scared me and bit off my arm over and over again in quite a painful manner. Also, for reasons unknown I was a young boy with no legs. My dreams sure are weird. After reassuring myself that I was not in fact a young boy with no legs who kept on having his arm bitten off, I got up, stumbled around in the dark for a bit, and then left to go to try out the gym for the first time, only to find that all the gyms had special hours today that hadn’t been updated on their website. Rats. Stuff+dad at move-in I guess the reason I start with these rather negative events is that these are really the only “bad” things that have happened to me so far (other than the whole room key thing). I’ve had a surprisingly easy time settling in, partially due to my s...

By Tamika Whitenack Perhaps reading this title, you thought this was going to be a big confession. I'm actually just going to talk about something you already knew about me, but in the context of addiction. You think I'm being interesting, but really I'm just using the practice of reinforcement to better understand what we talked about in Psych on Tuesday. Also, please note that I do not intend to offend or make light of addiction by using it to refer to my own "addiction", and if anybody feels that the nature of this post is inappropriate or disrespectful, please let me know! So, what is my strange addiction? Many of you probably guessed already: running. I actually don't think I am addicted any more, which I will explain later. When I "diagnose" myself with addiction to running, I am really diagnosing my past self, probably my high school self from sophomore through senior year. I believe I am in a different place with running now, and will exp...