Thank you for this beautifully-written piece! It reminds me so much of my first years of university: being and feeling lonely, not 'fitting in' and having to read and write about the history of the 'Enlightenment' and the history of the French Revolution, having constant panic attacks and buying more Cookie Dough ice cream and burritos than my body needed. I still haven't made peace with this part of my life but at least I've understood that I don't need to know about the Montagnards and the Jacobins in 18-century France to feel intellectually stimulated.
Thank you for reading, Manuela! I'm so sorry to hear about the recurrent panic attacks. Going to college being the people that we are is wild, and that we internalized so many of these systemic failures as our own is wilder. I don't think I've made peace with it either but hey, baby steps. And oh, was it Häagen-Dazs's cookie dough? Because if yes, the twinning is uncanny!
'Wild' is the accurate word! And it was Ben & Jerry's hahaha but I've recently developed an obsession for Häagen-Dazs's Belgian chocolate and hazelnut ice cream!
Thank you for this beautifully-written piece! It reminds me so much of my first years of university: being and feeling lonely, not 'fitting in' and having to read and write about the history of the 'Enlightenment' and the history of the French Revolution, having constant panic attacks and buying more Cookie Dough ice cream and burritos than my body needed. I still haven't made peace with this part of my life but at least I've understood that I don't need to know about the Montagnards and the Jacobins in 18-century France to feel intellectually stimulated.
Thank you for reading, Manuela! I'm so sorry to hear about the recurrent panic attacks. Going to college being the people that we are is wild, and that we internalized so many of these systemic failures as our own is wilder. I don't think I've made peace with it either but hey, baby steps. And oh, was it Häagen-Dazs's cookie dough? Because if yes, the twinning is uncanny!
'Wild' is the accurate word! And it was Ben & Jerry's hahaha but I've recently developed an obsession for Häagen-Dazs's Belgian chocolate and hazelnut ice cream!