Yesterday was the first day of classes at Columbia, which ushered in the fruitful chaos that is the fall semester here at college. Though I’ve been here for a week to work on Well Woman topics and generally ease myself back into New York-style living, the beginning of classes was wonderful. Sitting down with a […]
Sometimes, when you work on a project for too long, it starts to look like a mass of craziness. You heave an internal sigh whenever you look at the thing and hope to God that it passes for something not hideous. That, my friends, is what happened to me with my negative space note card […]
As promised, here is a sample of the work I have been doing – it is my final project for my Reading Barnard Writing class. It’s a smattering of photography, non-fiction, fiction based off the authors we read in that class, and personal opinion. I really could not decide to do just one, basically. The […]
I have long since given up my maxim “never start a book at night.”There are just so many books to read! Both for class and for pleasure, late into the night we are glued to the pages of text. But that makes me feel great sometimes because it is an accomplishment to finish each little […]
440 pages.That was the amount that I read in three days here. Not that I’m complaining, because it was for really enjoyable classes and I expected this semester to be harder than the last, but still! It feels like an astronomical calculation – amazingly, though I do wonder at it, I do not want to […]
Ta da! I am still alive after a trip to New York (a shockingly smooth and timely flight o_o) and now I’m rockin’ away at my dorm in Barnard [Sulzberger Hall].Strangely, it was a pretty easy transition. Ruby’s house was cozy (and cold because we were in the basement) even though the outside was humid […]