38 days from now, I should be sitting in William’s Stadium, wearing a cap and gown, listening to the Secretary of State deliver the commencement address for the Class of 2020. Instead, I will be at home, with my family, practicing social distancing. The closing chapters on my college years are certainly not going as …
It was just two weeks ago that I got home from a busy day of class and meetings– to my roommate cancelling a huge conference she had planned for months because of the spreading coronavirus. That was the first big cancellation that made the illness feel like a more immediate threat. It was also what …
Everyone has vices, and if I could name one that’s plagued me during college (of the many), it would be discontentment. Throughout various seasons it has waxed and waned, but when I look back on the last two-and-a-half years, I know it’s always been a struggle. I’ve long thought that parts of my life could …
In the ten months since I wrote Dear College Student, Go to Church, I’ve attended three different churches while living in three different places for school, an internship, and study abroad. I want to emphasize that this is not a list of grievances against any of those churches. In fact, I feel equipped to write …
In high school, Molly and I had a physics teacher who likened God’s love to a vector. A vector is defined by Merriam Webster as “a quantity that has magnitude and direction,” both qualities that can be applied to God’s love to help us understand it better. In that physics class, we represented vectoral forces …
