A different Christmas

Christmas feels different this year. Not because I’ve lost the “Christmas spirit.” Not because it’s hot and us Texans can probably swim in a pool. It’s because one year ago today …

Compromising

As I stare at my computer screen with a CatDog rerun playing on TeenNick with multiple jobs tabs opened, I am immensely aware that I am still unemployed. Now I have had …

Post-grad life

Post-grad life is weird. It’s weird and I hope I’m not the only one feeling this way. It’s like I can’t put my finger on it, but something’s off. So …

Taking risks & letting go

We all want to believe we’re risk-takers. Adrenaline junkies. Spontaneous beings that are able to let things go at the drop of the hat. But it seems that as creatures …

It’s not luck–It’s Waka

Every college graduate dreams of a cool trip after they finish school and before they start the “real world.” Mine was a backpacking trip through Europe with friends of mine …

“The march lives on…”

I’ve been known to not have what you would call “normal” college breaks. Freshman year of college, I did an alternative break in Alabama helping those affected by the hurricane …

Today, I imagined.

Today, I imagined. Sobibor Death Camp wiped out a quarter of a million people in less than one year. The area today has grown from nothing except a chimney monument …

Today, I saw a gas chamber

It’s bitterly cold here in Poland, but it’s not the wind or weather that leaves you chilled to the bone, it’s the feeling you get when you step out of …

Another semester

Another semester has come and gone. It seems like this semester flew by, like I blinked and it was over. Maybe it’s because when you’re young you don’t really have …

Potential

I’ve always been an overachiever and a perfectionist. I walked earlier than most kids, started reading earlier, and I was placed in the Gifted and Talented program in Kindergarten. I …