Tag: Reflection

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‘I feel like I made the right decision’: 5C students look back on their gap years, leaves of absence

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As the semester comes to a close, 5C students compare their expectations going into their gap semesters to the reality.

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

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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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