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Finding home

Anyone who has talked to me for more than five minutes knows I am from Iowa. I am proud of my Iowa…

April 5, 2018
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Columns/Opinion/Swat Global

From the heart of a Las Vegas local

I am studying abroad in Cape Town right now, but my heart is in Las Vegas. My mind can’t decide whether to…

October 5, 2017
Op-Eds/Opinion

On going home and coming back

From the moment I first visited campus during my junior year of high school, Swarthmore felt like home. Standing on Magill Walk,…

October 20, 2016
Campus Journal

I’m just dirt in the wind, without a home

Thinking about home is my greatest source of anxiety. I crossed the border when I was 3 years old and grew up…

September 26, 2016
Campus Journal/To Serve

Making a home, despite institutional directives

Part of the challenge of college, in my experience, is how to conceptualize school as home and not as a giant machine…

September 17, 2015
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Only a month gone, but plenty to reflect upon

Fall break has come and gone, meaning many of us have headed home, left the bubble and settled back into cozy beds,…

October 23, 2014
Asian Persuasion/Columns/Opinion

Growing Up As a Permanent Alien

Growing up as an ethnic minority in many different places meant that I never quite fit in, no matter where I was.…

February 28, 2013

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