Roughly one year ago, I graduated Summa Cum Laude from Elmhurst College with a degree in English. What have I accomplished this year? Well, it's not exactly the stuff the office of alumni relations wants to see on the alum updates surveys. A proper guide to life after college would tell you that I attempted [...]
We all have days where we look at our work and want to vomit. Sure, the piece isn't actually wafting off revolting stenches like a Whole Foods giving out samples of durian, but it looks rotten to the core. Words slouch in the the wrong places, lackluster sentences populate paragraphs like capri'd retirees wondering what's [...]
Green moss. Rushing waters. Towering trees robed in pelts of lichen. Silver Falls State Park in Silverton, Oregon has it all, and this morning, all included emptiness. At 8 am, I has most chunks of the canyon trail to myself, and it was the perfect place for much-needed reflection. This lush state park was a [...]
At twenty-two years old and after four years devoted to studying, I am finally graduating from college with a bachelor's degree in English and a minor in history. Still, my college experience, while not wild in any way, was not one every student pursues, especially students who graduated from the high school I went to. [...]
The Honors Student's Guide to Life After College 