Senior Year – 2003-2004. Ah, the homestretch. By now I’d had enough of living on Cornerstone’s campus, and this final roommate hunting experience turned out to be the more wonderful turn of events of my entire social life. Gloria, roommate from my Junior year, had two friends from the HonorsContinue Reading
Junior Year – 2002-2003. My roommate situation Junior Year at Cornerstone proved to be a phenomenal turning point. Mita (from the year before, you remember, who made excellent dumplings) and I needed a place to live now that Elise had decided to brave the life of a commuter. So inContinue Reading
Sophomore Year — 2001-2002. 8-8-2001 So I think I’ve figured out that I have no happiness in my life. I was listening to the song that says, “I don’t know where my soul is. I don’t know where my home is. I’m like a bird, I wanna fly away.” BecauseContinue Reading
It’s safe to say that I knew I was a mess when I entered college. I hadn’t sorted it all out yet, but I at least knew that making other people happy could not be my focus anymore. So, I basically entered Cornerstone University with the single goal to goContinue Reading
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. It will forever be – knock on wood – as close to hell as I’ll ever come. But it was really only the white, middle-class, angst-y poetry, Fiona Apple kind of hell, which I guess proves it wasn’tContinue Reading
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