Blogs
06/28/09
I think it was the middle of March when I saw a General Announcement offering money for an unpaid internship to South East Asia (For those non-familiar with what General Announcements are: It is an online Colby community message board to post notices and discussions). I looked into the Freeman Internship Award for South East Asia (SEA) and learned that I could do an internship anywhere in SEA. I was in the middle of studying in New Zealand at the time and I figured that SEA would not be that far away from where I was, and I was having such a good time abroad...Read Entire Post
06/27/09
I was unnaturally happy to find new blog posts by Annelise and Blair on Thursday night, and then I decided to see, yet again, how long I can exploit my post-grad blogger access.
Actually, I’d thought about doing it last Sunday/Monday, since that marked three weeks after graduation. You see, in four years as a Colby student, three weeks was the longest I was ever away from campus. I spent all my summers there, working in various clerical positions. In hindsight I wish I’d saved more money during these...Read Entire Post
06/26/09
A few weeks ago I arrived in Aspen, where I’m working at ACES, the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, as a summer naturalist. I’m living in a forest service bunkhouse with a bunch of forest rangers and a few other naturalists, a big brown building with seven refrigerators in the main room downstairs (when I first arrived I couldn’t find even one, because, all lined up together, the fridges look like a wall). Aspen is the kind of town where the houses have modern art on their perfect lawns, and there’s even one house nearby that has a suit of...Read Entire Post
06/26/09
“So, what are your majors?”
“Communication studies.”
“Public relations and communications double-major.”
“Cool! I’m business administration.”
Three heads swiveled towards me expectantly. I cleared my throat, smiled, and said, “I’m an international studies and anthropology double-major.”
Silence. They nodded, smiling back a little hesitantly. I sighed. It was only five...Read Entire Post
06/04/09
In my desire to entertain, I’d been waiting for something momentously exciting to happen in my summer routine before I posted again, something that would warrant a nice long blog entry with a touch of pizzazz. Considering that I live in a sleepy suburb of Massachusetts whose town center consists of a supermarket and a Bruegger’s Bagels, perhaps this was overreaching a bit.
Or maybe I’m being too hard on poor old Weston. Maybe I have passed the past three weeks in truly scintillating ways:
You...Read Entire Post
05/25/09
Hey, look, it's my first full day as a Colby alumnus and I still have access to my blog. Let's see how long they let me milk this.
Before I go any further: I swear we don't coordinate these things, though I could understand why someone might suspect that, the way some of us seem to trip over ourselves and each other to exchange praises and congratulations. My association with Blair did strike up because of iC, but before I was a blogger, and in any case Annelise and I met and got to know each other through a whole different variety of circumstances (yay,...Read Entire Post
05/24/09
Philosophy has always seemed exotic to me—I imagine people sitting in an empty room, arguing about whether they exist enough to be arguing at all—and so when a friend of mine, a philosophy major, gave me a ride to the airport, I decided to take advantage of the situation. Once we were on the highway I turned to Eddie and said, “So, tell me about this whole Free Will thing.” I’d heard it was sort of a big deal.
He...Read Entire Post
05/24/09
There are two things I must endure when May rolls around. One is easily cured by the allergy suppressant magic of Zyrtec, which teaches that pesky pollen who’s boss. The other I must sentimentally trudge through with nostalgic blog entry after entry (I promise, they’ll taper off eventually). It’s May, which means goodbyes and change, neither of which I cope with particularly well and for which there sadly exist no over-the-counter remedies.
The senior class graduates today. There’s Kris, with all his insightful, witty reflections...Read Entire Post
05/19/09
Time has really gone by fast. I have been here in New Zealand now for nearly four months. I have almost a full month left before school here is out, but I know that on the Hill the semester will be over within days. I recently went on a weekend road trip/adventure with one of my flatmates and a few other Americans and an Italian guy. The last few weeks here in Dunedin, the city I live in, has been quite miserable. It is getting cold down here on the South Island and has been raining or wet for the last two weeks. So when this trip to go further north for a few days came I was...Read Entire Post
05/18/09
When I travel from Colby to my parents’ house I have a reversible itinerary—Portland, New York, Portland—which means I routinely get confused and hand over the wrong boarding pass. The most exciting thing that ever happened on this trip was when I flew out of Maine with a tank of live lobsters belted into the seat beside me, clawing over each other; someone had actually bought a plane ticket for their dinner in order to keep it fresh. Maybe it’s the recession, but there were no lobsters on the flight...Read Entire Post
