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Letter to the Foundation, May 2009
If there is one thing I’ve learned from the sleepless, over-caffeinated whirlwind of a life that I put myself through last semester, it is that I simply can’t let the little things fall by the wayside.
Coker Arboretum UNC-Chapel Hill
The things that ground me in life—like writing and running and lying in the arboretum with friends—are frighteningly easy to put off “until the weekend,” or to neglect entirely.
But I am perhaps most myself when I am wasting time. In the summer, when I can luxuriate in unscheduled time, I find that I write better, think more deeply about what I read, and enjoy the company of friends and family in a more pure way, because no part of me thinks that I “should” be inside working problems.
I hope I can apply these realizations to my college life.
