Summer is finally here! I’ve actually been home for two weeks now, but it’s starting to feel like summer because all of my Cleveland friends are coming home. I don’t have any big plans for the summer; I’m working at the breakfast diner I’ve worked at for five years and I’m hopefully volunteering at some [...]
I finally made it! Final exams are over and I am headed home for the summer. This summer I will be working as a receptionist at a fitness center and as a counselor at a day camp. My hours will be gruesome (5:15 am – 10:00 am) but it will be well worth it when [...]
Sorrryyyyy. I just couldn’t help making that the title of this blog, especially considering that within 48 hours (when my professors have promised my grades will be finalized in LOCUS), I will no longer be a college sophomore. That’s right, ladies and gents…I’m halfway done with my undergrad college career! This year was not what [...]
Lines of cars were backed up along Sheridan Avenue. Traffic in the area reflected more than your typical commute to work during April —end of school year or not. People were scattered outside of campus selling merchandise that proclaimed “Free Tibet.” IDs were checked. Conversations about peace and petitions for peace were plentiful. His Holiness [...]
There seems to be an overwhelming shortage of new blog posts this week, and I can pretty much guess why: it’s finals week! The excitement! The adrenaline! The weariness.. the fatigue… For me, this is also my final week! One week from now I will be running… I mean walking across the stage at graduation! [...]
As a celebration of our last week in Rome, the John Felice Rome Center staff threw us a huge party at a beautiful restaurant. It was right in the middle of downtown Rome. It was a formal affair, so everyone was dressed to impress. The restaurant was really cool. There was an upstairs and a [...]