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Campus Brat: on graduation

The first realization of my own age hit me in the months before I started college. I was helping my dad clean the small office he’d occupied in Rush Rhees longer than I’d been alive. The walls of which boasted childhood drawings that my sister and I had crayoned. Even though I was looking at my distant past, I realized I would soon be starting a new page of my future. Read More

Campus Brat: Choosing Rochester (The shame of settling)

I had decided at a very young age that I would go to URochester (although it’s always been “the U of R” to me). I would get free tuition and I could hang out with my dad all the time. Read More

Campus Brat: Halloweirdos

We Jarvises, especially my dad and I, take Halloween seriously. Read More

Campus Brat: Care and keeping of faculty kids

The faculty child is no ordinary child-stranger. I would know. I once stood in their tiny light-up Sketchers. Read More