commute

Sometimes I feel like I’m playing dress-up in my hospital scrubs, like I’m pretending to be a fully functioning adult even though I’m still a kid.

In the slurry of information available about bridges, ballots and buses, there is very little mention of people like the local bodega owners who cross into Berkeley to stock their stores with It’s-Its and Turkish delights.

The campus has unveiled plans to further cut academic and administrative expenses because of unforeseen circumstances that caused more budget difficulties.

It's now the midpoint of the semester (our break is next week, thank goodness for that) and I’ve now been here long enough to notice just how different the American and Australian tertiary systems are. While students everywhere share similar stressors about schoolwork, many other bits of university culture differ.