Archive for Andrew Howard
I'm here to write. Obviously. This is something I'll be doing in between life. Short rundown of life.
Major: Classics
Sports: Cross-country & diving
Activities: I Am We Are, Queers & Allies, Diversity Leadership Council, et al.
On the topic of J-Term
It has been some time since I last wrote here. My apologies. This has been an untypically busy J-Term1 and there is nothing better than that. The one thing that I hear from people are complaints that they can’t get major requirements or other “needed” classes in and I also hear in whispers that the […]
Ennui
Finals time. I have my only two tests tomorrow but, instead of studying, I’m writing a blog post. Yeah, that’s just so studious of me. It’s been something of a case of ennui with me though (yes, I’m making excuses and rationalizing my behavior). It’s just been hard to get that motivation going after peaking […]
Things to do in college
There is something of an unwritten list of items that one must do while in college. I’m not talking about “Graduate” “Make Dean’s List” “Make Friends”–those are the nice rather tame things that people will easily cop to. What I’m referring to is the need to do fun, rather non-academic things (I shan’t list them […]
Olaf Week
There are two entities for which I can claim a rather thorough distaste for: the AS Roma soccer club and St. Olaf. More specifically with that MIAC school, it’s the swimming and diving squad that I cannot stand. Which is all rather ironic to me; I’m a diver and divers are not supposed to get […]
Catching up
When we last left our intrepid hero, he was bewailing the image of Gustavus. Now the nice thing about cold winds is that everyone bundles up and pretty really becomes secondary to warmth (at least it should be). As for me, I feel like I’m in a Sisyphian cycle. Whenever I accomplish one thing, another […]
The Image of Gustavus
If your head has not been in the sand for the last few weeks, you’d know that Gustavus was ranked as the sixth-fittest campus in the United States by Men’s Fitness. Well no wonder. The campus here is beset with a quasi-narcissistic demeanor that would lead to such a happening. No matter what time of […]
Change Comes
Much has happened in the few days since I last wrote. Perhaps the most significant of which was finding that my door name-announcer thing had been vandalized with a homophobic slur at some point early Sunday morning. This was on the day before I was to give a homily for Coming Out Week in Chapel […]
Piles of Stuff
The theme of the last week or so has been “if I can survive until next Wednesday, I’ll be alright.” Right now everything in life is on a collision course that will reach its height from tomorrow through Wednesday. In a few hours I leave with the cross-country team for a meet hosted by Wartburg […]