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Achill Island: Land of Midges and Fairies
Since Ireland was going to be my new home for the next year, I arrived earlier this summer, determined to see as many aspects of the country as I could before settling into life as a student. I had a … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2013, University College Cork
Tagged Achill Island, farming in Ireland, ireland, Kelly Kirkpatrick, Mitchell Scholars, Mitchell Scholars Class of 2013, Mitchell Scholars Program, mitchell scholarship, Northwestern University, study abroad, University College Cork (UCC)
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June 2010 Reflection
This is it, I thought as I awoke on my last morning of the final Mitchell retreat. My time in Ireland, with the other Mitchell Scholars: over. My year in Ireland: almost over. All morning long, I quietly mourned the … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2010, National University of Ireland Galway
Tagged Gender Globalization and Development, Lauren Parnell Marino, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, National University of Ireland Galway, Northwestern University
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March 2010 Reflection
What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a question that you are asked a thousand times as a child, and with less frequency as an adult. At various points in my life, I’ve known exactly what … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2010, National University of Ireland Galway
Tagged Gender Globalization and Development, Lauren Parnell Marino, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, National University of Ireland Galway, Northwestern University
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January 2010 Reflection
I expected that making friends … real friends … in Ireland would take time. That it would be a delicate process, and subject to awkward exchanges and uncertain social cues. During my first few weeks in Galway, I fearfully imagined … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2010, National University of Ireland Galway
Tagged Gender Globalization and Development, Lauren Parnell Marino, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, National University of Ireland Galway, Northwestern University
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November 2009 Reflection
I have a thing for birds. Last year, while living in Uganda, I became obsessed with identifying every weaver, hornbill, and crane that crossed my path. And although the birding is a bit less thrilling here in Ireland, I swoon … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2010, National University of Ireland Galway
Tagged Gender Globalization and Development, Lauren Parnell Marino, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, National University of Ireland Galway, Northwestern University
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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
Posted in Class of 2005, Trinity College Dublin
Tagged Drama Studies, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, Nicholas Johnson, Northwestern, Northwestern University, TCD, Trinity College Dublin
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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
Posted in Class of 2005, Trinity College Dublin
Tagged Drama Studies, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, Nicholas Johnson, Northwestern, Northwestern University, TCD, Trinity College Dublin
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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
Posted in Class of 2005, Trinity College Dublin
Tagged Drama Studies, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, Nicholas Johnson, Northwestern, Northwestern University, TCD, Trinity College Dublin
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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
Posted in Class of 2005, Trinity College Dublin
Tagged Drama Studies, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, Nicholas Johnson, Northwestern, Northwestern University, TCD, Trinity College Dublin
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