B Going to college was not optional: In my family, it was just another step toward the American dream.As soon as I graduated, I enrolled in the English Department of Colorado State University. I went on to earn two scholarships, and membership in the National Honor Society. I truly believ...
Robert Francis Prevost was born on September 14, 1955, at Mercy Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Mildred (née Martínez) Prevost, graduated from DePaul University with a bachelor’s degree in library science in 1947, while his father, Louis Marius Prevost, was a United States Navy ...
Part diary – part self-published academic word vomit- HistoricAL will be a place for conversation, public transparency, and accountability while I begin my tenure as a grad student. I plan on writing about the trivial, the critical, and theapocryphal. The first Sunday of the month is my go...
Emily, and Jules at the end of the hall. But she was surely one of us. She was fun, and she made a priority to hang out with us a lot still, and still find time to be a diligent student.
Everyone knows Brad Paisley’s songLetter to Me. It was definitely a tear jerker for me around this time last year. I still can not believe it has almost been a year since the class of 2013 graduated. We are two months out from being through with our freshmen year ofCOLLEGE. That mean...
(where Locke found himself after he won the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship), was a hotbed of gay male activity – and that this was the same university that the gay legend Oscar Wilde was graduated from in 1878, three decades before Locke arrived. I also learned that Locke faced less racism...
When I left Florida after Dad had graduated to glory, this visit back now is only my third time here in Gatorland in the last 23 years. My heart yearns for reunion. I know I have never been whole since that September. Have you ever had a hard time being in a certain area because ...
“the German stuff” at that point, and they were few and far between — and not necessarily well plugged-into the established Medievalist network at that time. To give you an idea, Geary and Noble had only been teaching for just over a decade when I graduated with my BA. Similarly, ...
I got a gig as an editorial cartoonist for the campus newspaper. That led to opportunities to write for the paper–columns, reviews, and straight reporting. I ended up as an editor, and essentially, had a dual identity: journalist and student of psychology. In my senior year, I won a ...
William and Matthew were almost ready – no one ever thinks he is quite ready -for their final examinations. For six days they answered questions and filled up sheets and sheets of the little books, and then they waited, not in vain for they both graduated as expected from Harvard in June...