Category Archives: Trinity College Dublin

November 2005 Reflection

It’s hard to believe that it’s already time to write this first reflection. It seems as though I have only just arrived. My first days in Dublin were largely occupied with sleeping, trying to set up house, and answering all … Continue reading

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May 2005 Reflection

Strange as this may sound, I had a strong desire to write this last Mitchell journal entry as the shout-out section that ends the liner notes on any given rap album. I don’t know, of course, how much cross-readership there … Continue reading

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May 2005 Reflection

My official title as a Mitchell Scholar will be expiring shortly, and with it all those wonderful perks that I have so enjoyed. Yet, as my degree at Trinity will take two years to complete rather than the normal one, … Continue reading

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March 2005 Reflection

If seeing more of Ireland is not a viable pastime, then my efforts these past two months have certainly been in vain. I continue to check off the places I’ve visited on the large map of Ireland I have hanging … Continue reading

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March 2005 Reflection

find that in my own history, March is so often burdened with a need to atone for the sins of February. Though certain poets might disagree, I am convinced that February is the cruellest month. It is not just about … Continue reading

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January 2005 Reflection

Perhaps a place first becomes your home when you return there from afar. I flew into Dublin this week from Chicago. Thanks to the windstorms and the jet stream, it only took six hours; thanks to my excitement and the … Continue reading

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January 2005 Reflection

My flight arrived into Dublin four hours ago. Within ten minutes of collecting my baggage from the turnstile, one of my Irish friends called to say welcome back. Although I wasn’t sure myself that I had been in Ireland long … Continue reading

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November 2004 Reflection

A month and a half in Ireland has passed, and this makes no sense. To one part of me, the part that catalogues the minutiae but lives for the moment, a year has passed already; I live here, in Dublin, … Continue reading

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November 2004 Reflection

“There was green alligators and long necked geese. Some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees. Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you’re born. The loveliest of them all was the Unicorn.” It only seems fitting that I begin … Continue reading

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