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Your Typical Blue Jay
HOMECOMING! Last week while working at our second admitted student open house, SOHOP, I was asked by an admitted student to describe the “typical Hopkins student.” Between giving campus tours and...
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Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in high school anymore
While skimming my blog archive the other day, I realized that I have failed to cover a significant aspect of my Hopkins existence in my blogs. I have discussed my amazing friends, the incredible...
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Write Here at Homewood
APhi Sophomores ♥ With the end of the semester in sight (only 10 days and 8 hours until Winter Break – but who’s counting??), I think it’s time to take a look back on my fall classes. My course load...
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Propaganda for your parents
TEAM USA - more on the Olympics next time! I have learned the hard way that the news that I am majoring in history often does not elicit the kind of response one would hope for. There are those, such...
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Sometimes when I reflect upon my interests, I wonder how it is possible I have any friends at all. I’ve read Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter so frequently, that the Shire and Hogwarts feel like...
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Learning from my learning disorder
Third grade reading. When I was diagnosed at the age of five with a form of dyslexia, auditory processing and visual memory disorder, it would have seemed like a cruel joke to tell me sixteen years...
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Major Bliss
Yankee game with my little brother Paddy. Ever since I decided to pursue a degree in history, I have suffered my fair share of insults from narrow-minded friends and acquaintances who don’t understand...
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My hypothetical thesis
I went to the New York Public Library last weekend to access some of their archives. I’ve titled this blog “My hypothetical thesis” because there is still some doubt in my mind that I, JHU_Tess, will...
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My blogging deadline was this Thursday, but for the first time in my Hopkins Interactive career, I missed that deadline. The truth is I haven’t really felt like writing since I handed in my thesis...
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Insider Q&A
Gilman at night! I’ve been giving a couple tours of campus this semester to family friends who have visited and wanted an “insider’s look” at Hopkins. I found that a couple questions keep coming up on...
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