Voting is important but it is hard. We live in a complicated political system that even many scholars do not fully understand. It has been crafted as intentionally ambiguous to protect those who made it from day one. We live in a primarily elitist democracy and the only way to fix this is to participate.…
Lifestyle
How To: Pass As an Adult
It's summertime. Which means you might be sleeping till noon, watching 3 seasons of The Office in one day and generally furthering your transformation into a sloth day by day. Meanwhile, you should (probably) be getting at least a few things done while you have actual free time during these hazy months. Or maybe you…
Here Comes the Sun
I have always prided myself on my inherant love for winter. The fact that I embrace the cold and ice because I like sweaters and coffee and fluffy snow and boots and scarves and fireplaces and also I immediately burn if the sun looks at me. And for someone who is thrown into a state…
Living in a 10×5 box
I've been showering in flip-flops for 2 weeks and have eaten too much pizza too late at night. I moved my entire life into an approximately 5x10 space and have fallen off my half-lofted twinXL bed twice. Only got lost 48574 times though! Hi college. Living in a dorm is nice because you can literally…
Packing
'Tis the season for piling as much as you can in 3 different small bags pretending that you're not overpacking since you're not taking a giant suitcase. Packing for a two week vacation with limited room can be a challenge (especially when you're typically that girl with 8 different types of chapstick in one bag…
Road Tripping (continued)
30 hours on the road, 8000 feet above sea level, too many drive-through stops; we have arrived in Dolores, CO. I woke up this morning between two mountains-- I've never said that before. The view here is definitely worth the altitude sickness. From a distance the mountains may look blue but up close they are…
Road Tripping (continued)
Another 600 miles today & I retract everything I said about Kansas looking too much like Ohio. Kansas is flat flat flat & the sky here somehow seems larger than it is at home. No twisters sighted. We finally crossed the Colorado border & passed a couple hundred more miles of grassy plains sprinkled with…
Road Tripping
Today we embarked on a two week long road trip and I remembered how much I hate rest stops filled with people wearing socks with sandals and public rest rooms. We drove for 11 hours, I took 7 naps & my hair is probably never coming out of this bun. We're currently in a motel…
