Joshua HowardUW student, probably spends too much time playing and talking about eSports.
Archive | Issue 2: 2016
Romani Markets in Rome
The CHID Legacies of Empires program connects with Romani communities in Rome. Italian Romani (commonly and pejoratively known as Gypsies) are dependent on informal markets to sell the recycled objects they collect from the garbage. The last informal market available to them in Rome—the Don Carlo Gnocchi Market—was recently closed, exacerbating the impoverishment of these […]
Connecting a Dream to Real Life: Expectations and Realities Upon Returning to the U.S.
Expectations on Returning to Seattle You will quickly have to fall back into ‘real life’ as you’ve only allotted a one-week interim between returning home and the start of winter quarter. It won’t be easy to return to a grey and rainy Seattle winter, your weeks packed with classes, work, assignments, and obligations. Unfortunately for […]
Romanticizing and Reality: Expectations and Realities of Studying Abroad in Australia
Expectations of life in Australia You will effortlessly fit into Australian life and culture, assimilating almost immediately into life as a student in Sydney. Finding a place to live will take a week max (perfect, since you arrive exactly a week before classes start). In the meantime, you will just train in from Auntie’s, doing […]
Why Study Abroad Sucks
It’s 2:34am. Your listening session of Yeezus by Kanye West reaches its 5th or 6th cycle. It’s 6am. Wake up. Pop Anti-Malarial Meds. Lie down. It’s 6:30am, you should not have lain down. Commence nausea and gagging repeatedly over your toilet bowl. It’s 4pm, mom and dad drive you to the airport and the pit […]
Waiting for a Train
Joshua HowardUW student, probably spends too much time playing and talking about eSports.
Part 1: fore·sights
As we look ahead, our expectations can fall short, be exceeded, and influence future events. This section articulates moments of anticipation, arrival, and speculation. Waiting for a Train by Josh Howard Why Study Abroad Sucks by Stefanie Gonzales Romanticizing and Reality: Expectations and Realities of Studying Abroad in Australia by Sydney Baker Connecting a Dream […]
2016 Issue: Editors’ Note
Temporal (adj.) Of or relating to time Pertaining to or concerned with the present life or this world; worldly Glimpse(s) (n.) a momentary or partial view Geographer Yi-Fu Tuan’s philosophy of space and place develops the concept of humanistic geography: an approach to the meanings that a space, place, or an environment possesses, as a […]