Finals week took me under but I’ve just submitted my final one and I’ve never felt so accomplished–and festive, too! I listened to a lot of Nat King Cole these past few weeks, and his cozy voice would make me feel like I was walking through snowy streets of New York. At the library front…
The physics department is probably the most eccentric one at Rhodes. Every Halloween, they hold a Pumpkin Drop—which consists of physics majors dropping various-sized pumpkins from the top of Rhodes Tower and calculating how fast they fall—at least, from what I’ve heard. The other day, the physics major who’s also the president of Astronomy Club…
For my Musical Paris class, the homework last weekend was to watch Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 Moulin Rouge! and honestly it was a hysterical work of art. It fit perfectly into the lectures that week about nineteenth-century café-concerts and cabaret artistiques in Montmartre, a popular little neighborhood in Paris. At night, poverty-stricken writers would come to these cafés…