Category: Weekly Reflections
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Weekly Reflection: Growing Pains
“I’m no good at Goodbyes” – Post Malone: philosopher, scholar Hhhhh… This week has been one of the toughest I’ve had in a long, long time. I’ve never really been one for saying goodbye. It’s always hurt me deeply, from breakups to graduations to the ends of friendships, I’ve really never been able to handle…
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Graduation Reflection: Gratitude
It seems that I have graduated. After transferring and dealing with college through a pandemic, at most points it honestly seemed like this day would never come. Now that it has, I cannot believe how quickly it went. Adults always like to tell you it’ll be the fastest four years of your life, and as…
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Weekly Reflection: Old Friends & Old Stresses
I don’t exactly know what to make of this week, to be honest. For one, I had my first good experience at Kelly’s literally ever. I went with a couple friends from the paper, but ran into a lot of other friends too, and had a great time. It was actually nice outside too, so…
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Weekly Reflection: New Horizons
I finally have a job! This week was a bit overwhelmingly busy, but honestly manageable. School generally has gotten to the point where I am so close to the end that I cannot be bothered, so work is just something to get over with. I have one remaining assignment I really care about doing well,…
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Weekly Reflection: Finding… Maybe?
All Final Four losses considered, this week was actually pretty good. I talked to at least my closer friends about the separation I was feeling, and perhaps unsurprisingly it helped quite a bit. I generally maintain the position that the best way of dealing with things is to bring them out in the open, even…
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Weekly Reflection: Changes
For most of this semester, I’ve had a pestering feeling that I had difficulty putting a name on. My relationships to my friends in my core friend group began to feel different, and that has only advanced in recent weeks. Finally, after exclaiming to a couple of my closest friends that “This semester has really…
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Weekly Reflection: Where Am I Going?
First of all, I should begin with the fact that I honestly had a pretty good week. I have a bad habit of over-representing the degree to which the things I think about during the hour it takes me to fall asleep actually represent the experience I had during the week, so I’ll at least…
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