Dec

18

The End?

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Ten minutes ago, I handed in my final exam. My choice of two out of six possible essays, covering two different themes that both spanned from 8 BCE to 5 CE: complete. How does a semester of travel, learning, claustrophobia, bonding, loneliness, friendship, loving and hating everything, turbulence, loss, stress, deadlines, failures, and growth end […]

Dec

13

Nearing the End

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I’m in the middle of my Thucydides essay right now. It’s the fourth essay I’ve written in a week, so naturally the quality isn’t what it could be. I never made it to Venice because the Art History midterm got moved up to Monday. There’s supposed to be major flooding there right now. I might […]

Dec

6

The world is wide, the time goes by; the tour is over, I’d survived

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Although I have two essays to finish today, I need to take a break right now. This week, it began. As I was walking down the road out of Ostia, I realized that it was the last time I would be there. Since that moment, the realization that there are only two weeks left has […]