This post was written in my first year at Agnes Scott, as I prepared for a Global Journeys trip to Iceland. We were tasked to write about an aspect of Icelandic culture, and a dish in particular that we were curious about. Iceland is known for many foods, some of which I tried on the […]
Moving from the Netherlands to Georgia
In 2015, I moved to the Netherlands. I had decided to take a second junior year in high school so I would know the place I graduated from before heading to college, and after my senior year, I ended up taking a gap year too. That time was the best investment in myself and preparation […]
What is community organizing?
In some ways, the image above from the Women’s March on Washington is the exact idea and the opposite of community organizing. But what is community organizing?
Globalization’s impact on international migration
In my first year at Agnes Scott College, I was looking for my major and taking any class I found interesting. For this course, I played to my past strengths in high school as an International Baccalaureate student studying American and European history and enrolled in History 207: The Global Middle East. I had never […]
A letter from my first semester
The following is a short ‘about me’ essay assignment for my Leadership 101 course, from my first semester at Agnes Scott. In The Role of Writers as Moral Leadership, we identified our leadership skills and ways to develop our moral role in society as writers and leaders. This essay encapsulates my outlook when I began college: […]
