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March 28, 2024 10:26 pm

OPINION: Roots and routes: Closing the distance between identity and home

By Grace Kim 11081 Views Asian American Identity, Asian American Mentorship Program, Freshman Year, Homesickness

Feeling homesick and lost, Grace Kim SC ’27 shares finding comfort – and a part of herself – with Scripps’ Asian American Sponsor Program (AASP).

A cartoon family of four embrace in a group hug. The second person to the left side of the image is holding a brown, sleeping dog. Around the embracing family is the outline of a house, and outside the outline are a cyan sky, white puffy cartoon clouds, and green blades of grass on the ground.

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May 5, 2020 9:50 pm

The quarantine chronicles: Ponderings on loss and leaving home for college

By Jessica Shen-Wachter 3575 Views Familial Relationships, family, Homesickness, Loneliness, Mental health, Parental Relationships, Parents, Quarantine, Reflection, Self Reflection, Social Distancing, Solitude, Travel

Jessica Shen-Wachter SC ’23 reflects on her weeks at home since her first year of college life was interrupted by a pandemic. “Though many stressors are very present in my life because of COVID-19, separation from my moms and my sister isn’t one of them. For better or for worse, time feels almost suspended in this moment of almost soothing monotony,” she writes.

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