H is for How Awesome is Kenyon?
This Monday, as members of the Kenyon community trooped into Rosse Hall to attend an introduction to the 19th President of the College, Sean Decatur, I was filled with anticipation, and some amount of fear.
This Monday, as members of the Kenyon community trooped into Rosse Hall to attend an introduction to the 19th President of the College, Sean Decatur, I was filled with anticipation, and some amount of fear.
"As you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you."
- C. P. Cavafy's Ithaka
This is the tale of how I ended up not posting for the entire month of February. It was a bright sunny Thursday, right after my first basketball game where the Kenyon Lords beat Hiram College by 8 points. I was still reeling from the excitement (more like adrenaline rush) of the game and I had the bright idea to do something new on this blog. I figured that everyone was getting tired of reading about my boring – and sometimes almost tragic (Calculus II, why??) – life at Kenyon. So, I decided to interview the Basketball team...
Today has just been one of those long no good very bad days and I almost threw a tantrum just now because I accidentally deleted my "Applications" folder so here's a cat.
We crossed into Canada a little before midnight under torrential rains and the stony gaze of the Customs official. Our car was carrying three Kenyon students, a Scrabble board, and a collection of alcohol, which we had to quickly convert to rough metric measurements. We were headed for Toronto, in the exact opposite direction of where more reasonable college seniors on their last spring break should be driving, but I had someone special to visit up north.
