Archive for May, 2012

The Best Is Yet To Come

Springtime at Gustavus is unbearably beautiful. There is nothing like constant sunshine to draw your focus away from the homework still to do and looming final exams. Luckily, I’ve had some time to sit outside and get a good sunburn amidst the final stretch, and I can’t help think that the hours spent worrying about […]

Education Outside The Library

Since I was a little kid, I have always been an Indiana Jones fan. Academic meets adventurer—not that they are mutually exclusive. In the latest installment of the Indiana Jones series, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the best line comes when Dr. Jones is cruising through the library on a motorcycle with his side-kick […]

Getting Through A “Red Light”

I was on a plane flying somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean when I had a minor breakdown. I’ve never had flight anxiety, but at that moment I wanted off of that plane, and I wanted to go straight back home, to Bloomington, where life was predictable. I was traveling with a number of close friends […]