It’s the week between the end of my academic career and the beginning of my new job. My prior sense of structure has dissolved; I’m left wandering aimlessly through summer afternoon after summer afternoon, relishing sunlit strolls and afternoon cups of peach tea while also fending off the urgent desire to do something more substantive.… Continue reading
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I’ve just recently cast off the shackles of the fall 2020 semester, and I’m now free to sleep in and hopefully blog a bit more. For me, the process of slogging through finals concluded just a day or two ago when I submitted a project that had been simultaneously tormenting me and enriching my intellect for months: my Senior Essay on the influences of the 1918 flu pandemic on J.R.R.… Continue reading
