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May 2, 20201 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: MAKING BESTIES FOR LIFE
Being in a new place can be terrifying — especially when that new place is the college where you’ll be for the next four years. I drove...
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May 1, 20202 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE STAGE
One experience that stood out to me in my first semester at Allegheny was the S.E.T (Student Experimental Theater) production I...
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Apr 30, 20204 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: GATOR INTERNATIONAL
I came to Allegheny College from an international school in Germany. With a Canadian mother and Swedish father, I grew up as a third...
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Apr 30, 20202 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: LOOKING BACK TO SEE AHEAD
On Sunday, March 8th, only five days before we left campus for the rest of the semester, my friends Shereen, Maureen Ashlynn and I all...
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Gator Quad
Apr 10, 20202 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: MAN IN THE SUIT
║I want to make my own decisions and I want to have something for myself║ “I want to be the person in the suit, I don't want to be like...
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Gator Quad
Apr 10, 20202 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: WE ARE WHAT WE KNIT
My half grandmother taught me how to crochet. It’s funny because I vividly remember one Christmas when my mom bought me a knitting kit,...
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Gator Quad
Apr 7, 20202 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: SOUL FOOD
“Do you ever feel like you could be a kid again? That is exactly how I feel whenever I go home for school breaks and I smell my mom’s...
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Gator Quad
Apr 6, 20201 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: SICK RIDE BRO!
“Growing up, my school was 6 miles away. I lived in midtown Manhattan and went to school in the Bronx, New York. Every morning, at 7:20,...
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Gator Quad
Apr 3, 20202 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: SIDE OF HOMESICKNESS WITH RICE
"This is literally the most South Asian story ever, where a bowl of rice caused an existential dilemma but also produced an 'Aha!'...
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Gator Quad
Apr 2, 20202 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: LET'S QUOKKA ABOUT THIS
"My friends keep laughing when I freeze, or throw caution to the wind and sprint at the sight of a squirrel. They think I’m crazy when I...
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Gator Quad
Apr 2, 20201 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: GROWING UP WHITE
"I was adopted when I was still a baby. I am Chinese and my foster parents are American. I never felt different from my parents growing...
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Gator Quad
Apr 2, 20201 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: BLANKETS VILLE
“Being away from my family can be difficult, I learned this when I came all the way to Allegheny College in northwest Pennsylvania, from...
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Gator Quad
Apr 2, 20201 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: JOURNEY TO AMERICA
"My brother and I grew up waiting for a family in Guatemala. As his older sister, even though we were both little, I was like a mother to...
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Gator Quad
Apr 2, 20202 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: CARE ABOUT CHICKENS?
“I didn't really care about chickens until I had to take over my mom's chicken project. We had no experience with chickens but she...
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Gator Quad
Apr 1, 20202 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: TAKING FLIGHT
I was three when my mom put me in ballet. I remember not really wanting to do it. I had never imagined myself as someone who would put...
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Gator Quad
Apr 1, 20201 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: POT OF GOLD
"Pumpkin Head! Leprechaun! these are the names kids like me are called for having stand-apart-from-the-crowd red hair. God has a sense of...
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Gator Quad
Apr 1, 20202 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: LIVING LA VIDA LOCA!
"I sprinted, I mean sprinted, in the pouring rain, to the Wise Center for our very first tennis match of the spring season. Not to...
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Gator Quad
Apr 1, 20202 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: *INSERT PREPPY QUOTE*
"I felt really lucky. I remember sitting in this big circle of people and being like ‘I just met you all and I love you so much’! This...
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Gator Quad
Mar 20, 20202 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: STRONGER TOGETHER
With help from Allegheny College, I’ve had the amazing opportunity to study abroad at Lancaster University in Lancaster, England. This...
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Gator Quad
Mar 18, 20201 min read
GATOR SNAPSHORT: WRITING OFF TOXICITY
Writing has helped me get through some really hard times. In my junior year of high school, my “so called best friend” would lash out at...
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