Freshman Year: I was coaxed to the edge of the pool Everyone, including myself, told me to jump or get left behind Apprehensive, insecure, and unsure, I jumped in Sophomore Year: I plunged deep under the water and sank to the very bottom I was unable to breathe and just trying to survive Lost, alone, and …
“Tay, did you know you said something profound this 4th of July?” “Uh….” “Remember when you had the option of hanging out with Allison and all the cousins, or me and the old farts? Obviously, I’m not an old fart, but you know what I mean. You chose us. And do you know why?” “Tell …
Mom and I went camping in Kenya! We exchanged stories with Maasai warriors around a blazing campfire, learned how women are providing for their family by collaborating on micro-finance initiatives (yay!), and watched lions drag a flailing buffalo to its death. 15 Thoughts on the Last Day: Nature won’t pose for you – stop asking …
“Tay, what if I died next year?” I closed my eyes and gripped my blanket, wrapping it even tighter around me. Don’t say that. My mom had just revealed that in less than 24 hours we were going to be seeing Hamilton, the musical. As in, the musical that I had lived, breathed, and dreamed …
For two weeks in May 2016, 13 students including myself took part in the first ever Engineers Without Borders (EWB) study abroad experience at EARTH University in Costa Rica. The course description painted a broad, but enticing picture to “Act Global, Think Local” in the context of understanding sustainable community development and the food, energy, …
Once Upon a Time, the city of Detroit was considered to be the Paris of the Midwest. Today, a more fitting name – The Forgotten City of America. At Detroit’s peak, there were 2 million residents in the city. Today, there are only 700,000. On this day, 12 NJ college students who were on a service trip during …
Today we visited the ancient Ongi monastery that sits on the East and West side of the Ongi River. In Mongolia, the majority (85%) of the population is Buddhist. However our tour guide, Mr. Oghi, is an athiest. Before the 1930s, it used to have over 1,000 monks. Communists destroyed the majority of the monastery. …