I’m going to be honest and tell you I wasn’t really planning on writing a post about P-Day but one of the beauties of today (today being Q-Day [or R-Day] [but not QR-Day, #socialmediajoke]) was watching the pictures go up, the celebratory facebook statuses, the lost and found requests. This year, one thing that struck me in particular were the blog posts. One, two, three, four, of those awesome @SMCBlogs tweets informing me that some of my [...]

Sometimes events align themselves in such a way as to create a sense of being able to examine your life under a microscope. These past few days I’ve realized the gravity and change wrought in me by my experiences in Geneva last semester. Even just a few simple conversations, a few written words, and I’m able to reflect on the my time in and being home from Geneva. It started early Thursday night with an [...]

March was an interesting month for me. It was a month filled with activities of more important than the banality of schoolwork. Things like  finding a summer job and switching majors (something I’m in the process of doing) require more fore-thought and planning than other, more mundane tasks. There were those tasks, but also activities that required a much deeper contemplation of oneself. In this latter category goes the two weekends I spent away on [...]

After a flurry of emails with my grandmother a few weeks ago, we had officially laid our plans for Spring Break: the Friday before St. Patrick’s Day we would go into Boston and see Les Miserables. It would be our fifth time seeing it together, but only the second time seeing it professionally done. We decided to make a day of it, and left at 4:30 for dinner. (If you’ve never been to Jacob Wirth’s, [...]

This week for St. Michael’s students is spring break. Even as I commit myself to take all sorts of self-care measures to ensure my mental stability (starting with hot showers and good food), I’m going to be doing more than that. I can’t just idly sit by day after day. I’m committing myself to exploring an issue that could go on to become a watershed moment for our generation. Everything our generation has stood for [...]