My Morning Walk
Every morning, this is my view as I walk to class: That’s the canyon. As I walk across the bridge, over it, at 8 a.m. every day, I hear birds chattering and see the occasional squirrel. I can also hear...
View ArticleSpotlight on the Student Activities Office
The other day, I was dispatched to make a banner congratulating two staff members on their 50-mile run (seriously, 50 miles). So I took a jog over to the haven of on-campus communal craft supplies, the...
View Article“They Who See the Unknown”
That’s the title of the shadow puppet show I saw a few weekends ago on campus. Reed’s theater department recently added courses in shadow puppetry, and their final show this year was a five-act...
View ArticleSummer To-Do
So, I’m gonna go ahead and jump on the bandwagon here: This is my summer to-do list. All of it is stuff I have not done before, and my ultimate goal is to check it all off by the time fall classes...
View ArticleReunions: ReedFayre
Just a short while ago, Reed hosted Reunions– it’s a little unlike a reunion at any other college, if only because any and every Reedie is invited. Alumni from classes ranging from the 2010’s to the...
View ArticleRain? What Rain?
Today, I had my lunch outside in the sun. While the drizzle and damp of the late fall and early spring is ever-so-conducive to studying and paper-writing, all of that dissipates in the summer. Portland...
View ArticleHome Sweet (Reed) Home
Reed is in many ways, a school of tradition (Doyle Owl, Renn Fayre, Hum Play…) and that extends even to where Reedies live. In the neighborhood around the campus, there is many a “Reed House;” homes...
View ArticleChemistry and a Show?
#ThrowbackThursday! I wrote this blog post eons ago, but in case any readers are wondering what lectures on an average Wednesday are like, quench your curiosity: Exceptional professors aren’t so...
View ArticleLunchtime Musings
One thing about transitioning to adulthood that they never tell you: you gotta cook all your own food. I’m beginning to build that skill now, as I’ve moved off campus and into a house with a kitchen–...
View ArticleSummer Checklist Edition: Multnomah Falls
At 620 feet, Multnomah Falls, in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area is the second-highest year-round waterfall in the United States. Luckily for me, it’s also only thirty miles from...
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