by Katie Gergel | May 3, 2020
An Assortment of PSU Memories: A Tribute to the Past 4 Years It would be immensely difficult to summarize what the past four years have meant to me in a single blog post. It’s as if every day a new memory comes back to me, and I find myself wishing I could turn back...
by Katie Gergel | Apr 19, 2020 |
This past week was probably the busiest one since quarantine began (though that’s probably not saying much) and it felt good to be in a routine with set times for things to do. I hate to wish time away, but I am looking forward to being on the other side of this...
by Katie Gergel | Apr 12, 2020 |
Okay, so I’m definitely stealing the title of this blog post from many things I’ve seen and heard recently – it’s a short story title, a magazine column title, and a rip from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel “Love in the Time of Cholera.” But, I love love and I...
by Katie Gergel | Mar 28, 2020 |
The list of things that COVID-19 has affected is constantly growing and sometimes seems infinite. The days are stretching on longer than I could have imagined, but I am still trying to maintain a positive outlook and recognize that we are literally saving lives by...
by Katie Gergel | Mar 22, 2020 |
As a senior who was supposed to graduate in May, our very unusual circumstances at this point are obviously hitting me very hard. I’ve had many emotional breakdowns thinking about all of the lasts that I won’t be able to experience, and the worst part has been the not...
by Katie Gergel | Mar 1, 2020 |
The article “You Are Either Listening or You’re Not” opens with the line “listening is endangered in America today,” and that caught my attention immediately. It goes on to say that listening, truly listening to what someone says is not something...
by Katie Gergel | Feb 9, 2020 |
I am almost done reading a book called The Moth Presents: All These Wonders. It was given to me this summer by my supervisor at my internship, which meant so much to me because it felt so personal and meaningful. Inside the front cover, she had left me a note, with...
by Katie Gergel | Feb 1, 2020 |
I have to admit, I really enjoy Snapchat’s feature that allows you to see “memories” from a specific day in years past. Each morning I am able to see photos and videos from a year, two years, or three years before, and often times it brings me right back to that...
by Katie Gergel | Jan 19, 2020 |
Spoiler alert: I’m a worrier. And by worrying, I don’t mean the typical college student worries: coursework, exams, clubs, extracurriculars, etc. Of course, I worry about these things too, by my anxieties stem from nearly every aspect of my life. And when I try to...
by Katie Gergel | Dec 8, 2019
I can’t believe that this semester is nearing its end and that before I know it, I will be in my last semester as a student at Penn State. It pains me to even say those words! I am starting to feel the itch, though, to get out into the real world beyond the State...
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