Eleanor Roosevelt said, “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience[s].” During my time in D.C. I’ve been trying to follow Eleanor’s advice and grab new experiences with both hands, and I have to say: I haven’t done half bad.
You know that feeling like a calm before the storm, when you know some really big life change is about to happen, but everything seems strangely normal and you’re just sitting around waiting for the world to shake up? I feel like that these days. All the time.
Summer school is over (thank goodness; grad school is HARD) and I have a total of 15 days and 37 minutes left in the States. I was so relieved to leave the West Coast, it just feels different to me, and that LA earthquake freaked me out! I have never experienced an earthquake before, and I hope never to again.
In between checking up on the Olympics and desperately trying to get last-minute projects out of the way before the semester starts, I found a very interesting article online.
Apparently scientists are coming close to developing a way to make three-dimensional objects (and people!) invisible. Think this is something out of “Harry Potter” or “Star Trek”? Think again.
And I’m addicted to the Olympics.
The Olympics started this week and in no uncertain terms, I’m hooked. Morning and night, at the gym and in the living room, when I go to sleep and when I wake up. I’ve got Olympic fever.
From Staff | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Flagler College has finally received the news it was looking for throughout this three-year process – welcome to NCAA Div. II. During a teleconference last month with the NCAA and with recommendation from the Div. II membership committee, Flagler’s last year of provisional status has been waived and all of its 13 teams are eligible for post-season play starting this fall.
By Danielle Marsh | dmarsh1@flagler.edu
One of my favorite moments this summer has to be when my dad and I went to Busch Gardens. I know, you’re probably thinking, “How could she have possibly enjoyed a theme park with her father?” But seriously, it was amazing. There was so much that Busch Gardens had to offer to two very different people. The theme through out the park is consistent in its effort to bring a taste of Africa to Florida.
If you aren’t into roller coasters, like me, you will not be bored. There are so many other things the park has to offer that doesn’t require you to feel like your stomach is about to come out of your mouth.
The Child Development Society (CDS) is an organization interested in working for the cause of children. Over 60 percent of the population in Nepal is under the poverty line. One of the many things CDS does is provide free non-formal education for those children suffering from poverty. After hearing about the school, my mother, sister, brother and I decided to take a trip.
This weekend was my last weekend in D.C. With summer internships coming to an end, the girls and I wanted to relax and celebrate our last few days as true D.C. citizens. We’ve spent the majority of our time here exploring every tourist destination we could and wandering around the city from Embassy Row to Adam’s Morgan and Chinatown. This weekend we wanted to continue our exploration of D.C. in a different way.
The first few days in Nepal, my family and I were visiting family and friends non stop! Even after seven years, everything felt so familiar to me. The language, the places, the people, the culture. I didn’t realize how good it would feel to be with my relatives after so long.
Since my first weekend in D.C. when Kate, Lindsay, and I went to the top of the George Washington Monument, we have wanted to do the paddle boats in the tidal basin. We could see people paddling around while we were in the top of the monument and we wanted to do it, too, but something always seemed to come up—it was raining, people in our group couldn’t come, we were too tired, etc. This weekend we were finally able to do it!