Sentiments are important to me. I never realized how emotional I was until I spent a few months surrounded by the art of Paris – the beauty of the humanity I met face-to-face. My most vivid memories are the ones that I wouldn’t have expected, and I feel so much coming back to me full circle. I experienced much of the past and the present … Continue reading Community Thinking

I feel like I haven’t spent much time over the past 5 years of my education to really reflect on what I’ve learned or who I was becoming. The close of my Parisian experience is quickly approaching, and I feel like I understand myself better now than I ever have before, and it feels really great to say that. At the beginning of this experience, … Continue reading “To be with those I like is enough” -Walt Whitman

I try to live my life without much expectation.  I do this to avoid disappointment. Most of the time, it works. I came to Paris not expecting too much from it. I’m not disappointed at all right now – far from it actually. I feel like I’m getting a lot out of this experience internally. Most of this experience has been a real push-and-pull for … Continue reading A brief blog about my brief

Two weeks after finding out I was headed to Paris for my internship, I land in the Orly airport – frantic, frustrated, and with only $300 to my name. During this whole internship process, I couldn’t help but to continuously feel like nothing was going to work out; I was watching my peers land internships all around me, watching their excitement grow at the same … Continue reading Mixed Feelings and Lots of Macaroons