Since yours truly has recently come down with a bad case of senioritis and sits through class pondering existence most of the time, I thought I would tell you, the beautiful young generation, a few of the things that college has taught me. 

When a girl from a tour group asked me if she should come to Hopkins, I hesitated and she acted as if it was proof that she shouldn’t, but no question worth asking has an answer that doesn’t require at least a moment’s hesitation. It has been a bildungsroman, a becoming, through it all. And this is what I learnt.

Table of Contents

1. Don’t aspire to be what you don’t want to be. 

I’m a big fan of making lists of what I want to be and a lot of the times my lists included a point about “Have a clean and tidy room.” That was, until one day I realized that I don’t really want to be a person with a really clean and tidy room. All I actually want is for it not to be disgusting. Don’t take your aspirations to the extreme out of dumb perfectionism!