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Why Senior-“itis”?

When we first hear of senioritis, it’s intended to provide relief: “You’ve worked this hard for so long – you’ve earned a break!”

My failed attempt at being a vegetarian

Around a year ago I decided to be a vegetarian for a week. It seemed easy and would make good content for my sustainability Instagram account (@waste.free.katie).

Get Out

When I first saw the trailer for Get Out back in 2016, I thought it was a good premise, but I figured I would likely wait until it was released on DVD to see it.

Getting back into the swing of things

I had my first internship over this past summer making it very different from those prior. Which, in turn, made the transition moving back to Hoboken and getting prepared for school also very different than in the past.

Breaking Down: using music to help when breaking down

When coming back from visiting my family this summer, we had a 9 hour flight ahead

of us. I was not too worried about anything as I had borrowed a pair of pretty good headphones and did not care for any of the other factors.

The first rainfall

It’s raining tonight. Just the slightest sprinkles that started around 6:30 p.m. It’s forecasted that we are going to have some thunderstorms in the area for the next few days.

Cliches on cliches

Graduating from college can feel very definitive. It’s the end of this beautiful and strange era of pseudo-adulthood in which you think you’ve learned everything there is to be learned and know about almost everything there is to know.

So, goodbye yellow brick road

“So, Lauren, how was your freshman year?” my friends from home and distant family members ask. Well, I’m nearly positive that it is the most expected and cliché subject for a first-year student to write about in her final Mind of a Freshman column, but I’m coming clean in plain terms this time, instead of writing in metaphor as per usual.