Last week it was raining and we could see grass all over campus, it snowed 5 inches yesterday and a couple more overnight, winter is back with a fight. great news. I'm feeling a lack of creative inertia this morning - for a couple reasons I will detail in the following.

It seems that now is the season of applications - abroad applications, summer job applications, theme house living applications for the fall, real life job applications for seniors! It's happening, people are applying and that also means someone somewhere on the decision committee has to decide whether this person gets in or doesn't get in to the thing they are applying to. I live in the greenhouse theme cottage, a low-impact living house on campus and we just had to accept a bunch of new people for the fall semester. we spent 4 hours yesterday talking back and forth about 17 different applicants. They are all qualified, they are all great people - how do you differentiate? After long debate and reasoning we came to a consensus, but I feel bad for those who weren't accepted to live with us. Is it a fair process? Is it the right process? Is anything in life?

I'm beginning to look on the other side of things and past SLU. I mean I've been applying to things here and there and getting ready to graduate and move on from SLU, but it's just beginning to actualize in my mind that I'm graduating, leaving SLU, leaping into the world and trying to make it work. I couldn't be more excited, though there is always that daunting aspect of it when it is just hanging over my head on a daily basis. I wrote an e-mail to someone yesterday about how I want to live after college and it inspired me to do everything I want to do and not think about too much else. I want to happy next year, doing what I love and that is what I will do. I don't need extraneous things, I want to make a paradigm shift in this consumerist world. What about committing a year to only having the things that can fit in my backpack, wherever I go? What about not using a car, biking everywhere - you just need to plan more time to get there? What about eating foods produced only within a 500 miles radius? Why not, it's my life. And that, I believe, is a beautiful thing. 

 maybe I'll have more of a vision for my life come May and I can write you a beautifully written, inspirational farewell blog. until then, I have to do schoolwork so I can get there.

Kwaherini,

Katie