It’s the beginning of the end. Okay, let me just be a little less serious about the fact the fourth year starts this upcoming week. I was giving my previous first-day reflections over the last three years, trying to get a sense of where I was at with each of…

Writing about music is bizarre. Especially given how I’ve been approaching the last year in a mindset of recovery and starting things up from scratch again, none of the music I listen to these days feels optimistic. What gets more and more spins for me is music that feels incredibly…

Summertime is finally almost up. I’m coming up with my thesis writing schedule, adding my seminars to my calendar, reaching out to make plans with friends, the whole nine yards (or whatever that means). It’s getting to that point where you’re starting to predict in your head how things are…

It’s sort of weird thinking about where I was just one year ago. There was an unfamiliar sense of optimism and hope coming into third-year that I couldn’t shake. The first summer of really beginning to dive into my thesis research and work, the friends' adventures, and warm evenings of…

“Stay safe and drink H20.” My dorm first year had that phrase written out on a window facing a street corner. Sometimes I think about how much I could just take a bit more of the advice staring at me almost daily, that maybe I’d feel a little bit more…

Developing a routine has just not happened. Maybe it’s because I need to recognize that summer is about the ebbs and flows of whatever is happening. Maybe it’s about how infrequently there are major deadlines or work to get through. Also, a good chunk of it also comes from the…

I’ve been thinking a lot the last week about putting all my eggs in one basket. I couldn’t really shake the convo from my mind. Especially in thinking through how much rumblings of working full-time become a reality that everyone’s starting to face, I see how people my age, at…

Am I putting all of my eggs into one basket? As I’ve been slowly coming to terms with the fact that undergrad is slowly winding down, and I’ve been beginning to start the planning steps for my new future, I wouldn’t be honest if I wasn’t afraid of where I…

I need to get away more. I’ve been away from Chicago on an archive trip this week, and it feels like for the first time in a while, I am finally giving myself the space to reset in what feels like months. Research for me this summer started five days…