The Importance of Seeking Out Joy

With two years down at Amherst and two to go, I have both a lot of time left and also not really enough. No matter how arduous the spring semester ends up being, after a restful summer I always find myself anticipating coming back to Amherst. I’m eager start fresh, trying to apply the lessons I learned over the course of the past year. I look forward to coming back and hope that this eagerness to thrive in the coming semester is something that I can sustain. But then the days get shorter and col