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THINGS: Pictures with Santa Are (kind of) Like Meetings with the Dean

Well, folks, the Christmas season is here! Now that we’ve all tolerated those fake made-up, commercialized holidays like Halloween and Thanksgiving, we can get to the real holiday we all look forward to: Christmas. Confe… Continue reading

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THINGS: Pictures with Santa Are (kind of) Like Meetings with the Dean

Well, folks, the Christmas season is here! Now that we’ve all tolerated those fake made-up, commercialized holidays like Halloween and Thanksgiving, we can get to the real holiday we all look forward to: Christmas. Confe… Continue reading

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PEOPLE: “How Are You?” Is (kind of) Like the Penny

Vanderbilt’s campus is more than four times the size of Belmont’s campus. I learned this from personal experience before I looked up the numbers today.  I also did a little mapping and found out that in my daily trudge back and forth and… Continue reading

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PEOPLE: “How Are You?” Is (kind of) Like the Penny

Vanderbilt’s campus is more than four times the size of Belmont’s campus. I learned this from personal experience before I looked up the numbers today.  I also did a little mapping and found out that in my daily trudge back and forth and… Continue reading

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THINGS: College Exams Are (kind of) Like Valentine’s Day

If either part of this analogy stresses you out, you’re in good company. I am currently preparing to take my first midterms of my fall semester and I got around to wondering why exams stress us out so much. It’s like going on a really import… Continue reading

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THINGS: College Exams Are (kind of) Like Valentine’s Day

If either part of this analogy stresses you out, you’re in good company. I am currently preparing to take my first midterms of my fall semester and I got around to wondering why exams stress us out so much. It’s like going on a really import… Continue reading

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If It’s the Right Kind of Small

I unearthed the following post, long buried and forgotten, in the deep recesses of my computer. The post arrives here today from a few years back, when I had just started a short-lived blog called “Love in the Time of … Continue reading Continue reading

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