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Posted May 1, 2012 by Spencer Smith
Last night the senior class had an off-campus beer luck. I’ve had a tough semester motivation-wise and I’ve not been able to figure out why, but I reached an epiphany when surrounded by the same group of people who came straggling into freshman year with me, confused, awkward and unsure of themselves. There wasn’t a soul in the room I was afraid to go up to; the trepidation I felt as an adolescent four years earlier was out the window. Don’t get me wrong, I recognize that much of our growth is...
Posted April 6, 2012 by Spencer Smith
I may have mentioned it before, but this semester I took a plunge into the deep end and signed up for an Advanced Writing Workshop, one focused on poetry. Since freshman year, I have planned to take Introduction to Creative Writing, but something more necessary for graduating always popped up, and I had to drop it before classes began. Again, this semester, a course I needed to fulfill my major meets at the same time, but I desperately wanted to have this experience. Coming to Earlham I...
Posted March 30, 2012 by Spencer Smith
Since the last time I posted a blog (“Let the Madness Ensue,” March 6th), I have been in quite a funk. Not to say that I have not had an enjoyable second half to the month, but there has been something a little off as well. Maybe in some previous life I was a huge Julius Caesar supporter and I have been mourning the Ides of March and his brutal assassination. Maybe, and much more likely, it is because the Missouri Tigers men’s basketball team I was ranting and raving about, although they...
Posted March 6, 2012 by Spencer Smith
The calendar month has flipped to March and you all know what that means: the NCAA Basketball Tourney. I love March Madness. The NCAA Basketball Tournament is perhaps the finest sporting event played on U.S. soil. Sure, I love the NBA Playoffs just as much, and the talent level in the pros is off the charts, and I can always get down with the World Series, the Super Bowl, or, heck, I’ve even been following the Stanley Cup in recent years. No matter how exciting and talent-laden professional...
Posted February 24, 2012 by Spencer Smith
It’s been just over a week since I attended Dr. Cornel West’s Convocation titled, “Manning Marable’s Malcolm X and the Vision of Democracy.” There has been ample time to reflect and collect myself. Had I written this a week ago my thoughts would likely fly out incoherently because of the energy and adrenaline West evoked with his visit to our humble campus. Now, I can say, in all earnest, that it was the best lecture I have ever attended, let alone the best Convocation in my time at Earlham.
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