“Gracie, it’s 20 minutes until practice, and I want to be early. So, go ahead and change into your swimsuit”
“Yay! I almost forgot about that!”
As I enter the humid building,...
Getting lost in Leroy Percy Park while walking a trail was not how I expected to spend one Sunday of my life, but it made for a good bonding experience.
Going to the park was not in the original...
It was Thursday afternoon when I received the dreadful phone call. I was in class at the time, so the lady left a voicemail: “Good morning, this is Elaine. I am calling from the Center For Oral and Facial...
The amount of stress I was accumulating from school, work, and bills was wearing on my mental and emotional stability, and this overly optimistic thinking was causing me to ignore that fact.
Sitting on my bed, legs crossed, and a blank comment for a discussion on Canvas staring laughingly at me, I tap the keys half-heartedly in a rhythm that does not match the beat of the music I’m listening...
“I guess it rains down in Africa” blares through your dreams and jars you back into consciousness. At first you look around thinking you are still sleeping, because why on earth would that song be...
I pace around my private room I received after becoming a resident assistant (RA) this semester. Both sides are decorated, but one side is clearly more lived in than the other. My bed is messy...
“Did you hear about what happened to her?”
“No, what?”
“She missed a lot of classes ‘cuz she got pregnant.”
“You’re jokin’!”
“I bet her ‘rents wished it was a joke.”
But,...
The Nerf Gun War had been the topic of conversation for weeks around the Baptist Student Union, or as we call it, BSU. People that didn’t even own Nerf guns and especially didn’t know how to use them...
It is an universally acknowledged truth that a single college student in possession of a limited allowance must be in want of an apartment.
The drive to the apartment complex passed in a flurry...
