The Compost Pile

Each year at Gustavus seems to go faster and faster and knowing that this is my final year as a student and that I will be graduating in the spring is scary. I don’t have a job lined up yet, although I’m in the process of finding one, I hate not knowing for sure what I will be doing and… Read More

Is it alright to be bored? Do we always need to have some sort of mental stimulation? When was the last time you sat there and did nothing? I tried it today, just sitting there focusing on something on the wall. I did for maybe three minutes before it got really uncomfortable. Almost like there… Read More

It’s weird how we have eyes but we don’t always see everything. It’s weird how we have hears but we don’t always hear everything. It’s weird how we have hands and emotions but we don’t always feel everything. It’s weird how we have a nose but we don’t always smell everything, even when its fishy.… Read More

I was driving home from manatee at 3 in the morning and I felt so at peace being the only one on the road except for semi trucks.

My brother came to visit me this past weekend and he ended up getting as far as only 5 min away from campus when his car broke down.  I had to end up bringing him all the way back home at the end of the weekend and getting the Volvo towed.

No matter where I am walking on campus I usually see a squirrel and yesterday I was walking and one was sitting in the middle of the walk way. I had to walk around the squirrel or else I would have kicked it.

I went into a girls dorm on my floor and her room was filled with Christmas decorations to the max it must have taken them 3 hours

“The way they leave tells you everything” – Rupi Kaur – How could you write a character who is characterized only by their absence from the story and the way they left it? It’s weird how you feel nervous before seeing an old friend for the first time in awhile. Even if you’ve been communicating… Read More

Band Name: The Modal Model of Memory One of my favorite things about the English language is that “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically correct sentence. German may have a word for every obscure emotion you might have, but Deutsch doesn’t have anything  on eight buffalo’s. I wonder sometimes about what… Read More

When I was at my Grandpa’s funeral a few weeks ago, I heard many stories about his life from other family members and friends. While there were many humorous ones – like the fact he loved to tell jokes despite his frequent forgetting of the punchlines – one of the most common themes was his… Read More