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I Should Be Excited for Summer; Instead, I Need a Nap 

Christie Cary  Ah, summer.   The natural break from everything when you’re in school. From kindergarten through college, we’re told that we just have to make it until that magical date on the calendar. You know the one: it stares at us like a neon sign, blinking unwaveringly in our hopeful faces, as we count down the months, weeks, and then days until we can relax and melt as one into our respective couches or computer chairs. Even as I sit here in … Continue reading I Should Be Excited for Summer; Instead, I Need a Nap 

Summer College Athlete

Patrick O’Grady   Staff Writer     Orchestral cicadas greet the rhythmic footfalls of skeletal twenty-somethings on a muggy July dawn. Out here, there are no lectures, no wolfed-down meals between classes, nor is there, in fact, any notion of obligation outside of placing one colorfully shod foot in front of the other. This symphonic moment of training is just one small piece of what … Continue reading Summer College Athlete