winter break | Marginalia

Happy 2015 everyone! This February, I begin the last semester of the Interdisciplinary Arts & Media, MFA program. Woohoo! It has been ..

So the semester ended. That came and went really fast for me this time around. Finals week was a little on the strange side for me thi..

If you’ve followed my past posts, you know that last semester I took the Composition Theory and Praxis course. Basically it is a gradu..

Sure, it looks magical, enchanting even, as the snow glides through the streetlights and dances past your window. Snow isn’t all that ..

Before JTerm starts this week, (January Term at Columbia College Chicago) and I get back into the swing of being a full time student, ..

Since my last post, things have calmed down considerably. The semester has ended, Christmas has come and gone, and I’ve taken some wel..

Okay, by the time you read this, classes will have just started back up. But for now, I am still in the throes of the longest break of..

This week marked the coldest few days in Chicago this winter. Folks, it was 1 degree—no need for plural. That’s really frosty. I bro..

It’s been a long break. We finished classes about ten days before Christmas, and if you aren’t doing J-Term classes, it’s almost Febru..

One of the best things about winter break and living by the academic calendar is having the time in between semesters to work on perso..