Enrollment? Check. Health Insurance? Check. Passport? Check. Student Visa? Check. Luggage? Well, that’s what’s left for me to do, but no worries - I still have about two weeks to pack my stuff before departing the country. My only problem now is to figure… More
As it happens, the stereotype that Americans are the most gun-happy people in the world is false. In fact, the people at the University of Aberdeen Rifle Club were surprised to hear that American Universities generally don’t allow any kind of guns or… More
Bottleneck: A term for a place where the size of some sort of vessel reduces drastically, only letting through a few small particles, rather than the full system of floating debris that occupied the larger previous space. Beginning a journey in another… More
The air was crisp and thin as I joined my friends sixty-seven meters above ground at the top of the William Wallace monument—though after hiking a steep incline to get to the monument and then climbing more than 250 stairs, I may have just been out of… More
The morning I left for Edinburgh, I woke up trying to savor my last few moments of total peace and quiet in my bed at home. I expected that air travel, orientation, and moving into my new flat were going to be exhausting for this introvert (Spoiler alert:… More