This time last year I was an apprehensive senior well on her way to graduating. I was scared of leaving behind the life that I had spent the past four years creating, I was worried that when I moved away my friends would forget about me, and I was absolutely terrified that walking across the graduation stage would mean that…
Author: Courtney Carr
Found: A Career, Adventures, and a River Otter
It has been about five months since I walked across stage in the Times Union Center, five months since I packed up my life and moved to Texas, and five months since I have seen my friends. Although reading that sentence may make it seem like I am setting this blog up to be sob story about being alone in The…
Out With the Old, in With the New?
Hey freshmen, freshies, new blood, etc, You don’t know me but I know you. At face value that sounds a little creepy but in actuality I know more about you than knowing your name or random fun facts. You’re the newly minted adults that are about to start the next chapter of your lives in an unfamiliar place. Right now if…
An Open Letter
Dear Saint Rose, When I showed up on campus four years ago I was afraid, shy, and alone. I came to a school where I knew one person and never knew that I would leave knowing hundreds. I never imagined that I would fall into comforts so soon or prefer being on campus rather than being home. I never saw this…
Hallway Sports and 3AM Lock Outs: They’re Worth It
Before I wanted to enter the public relations or journalism world I wanted to be a teacher. Specifically, I wanted to teach elementary school because that is when I started to actually enjoy learning and remember reading books by flashlight after I was supposed to be asleep. Up until high school I would picture myself standing at an overhead projector…