“It may sound crazy at first, but it’s not so. I was initially thinking I would go to college somewhere near San Antonio, Texas, which is home. I was going to settle down with going to the University of Texas at Austin (UT we call it back at home) and be one student among more [...]
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“I felt like a kid given free-reign in a candy store, running all over the building trying to take in as much as I possibly could. I left feeling amazed (and a bit tired). The Mt. David Summit could have lasted for a week and I wouldn’t have been able to enjoy everything it had [...]
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“I finally figured out what short term I will be participating in this spring. As you may remember from my ’signing up for classes’ blog, I didn’t get into my first choice for short term but I just signed up for a course called ‘In the Presence of the Ancestor’. It is a course in the English Department [...]
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