Guest Blog on Summer Break 2010
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Posted by: Hopkins Insider | 
May 7 2010 | 
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School’s out for summer and while the students are away, the guest blog will be, too! We’ve had a great semester and some fantastic blog entries (including our Best of the Guest Blog series in April), so until our return in August, keep busy rereading them all.
1.18.10: Chris Reis – Winter Break
“You might have heard it before, I definitely did, but Hopkins really does get better every year.”
1.26.10 – The Guest Blog Map
“To showcase just how tremendous this blog has become, we have built the Guest Blog Map, dotted with each author’s hometown (and our regular bloggers’ hometowns, for good measure).”
2.1.10: Martin Kelly – From a New Freshman
“Luckily, like most freshmen, this new world of Hopkins is turning out to be much more exhilarating than terrifying.”
2.4.10: Natalie Berkman – Something for Everyone
“Aside from schoolwork, being at Hopkins has other benefits that make it a dream college for the indecisive people like me.”
2.16.10: Victor Ekanem – NASA Space Elevator
“Last year as an eager freshman, freshly exposed to the world of Hopkins with a semester under my belt, I looked for the coolest project that I could get involved in.”
2.18.10: Rebka Tekeste – HOPE
“As part of HOPE’s aim to encourage pre-health students, it provides community service activities, clinic volunteering and tutoring opportunities.”
2.22.10: Alexandra Byer – Hopkins Home
“Though there’s something to be said for being away from campus, there’s a liveliness, intensity, and camaraderie to Hopkins and its brick walkways and Georgian architecture. It’s a comfort to know a place so well and I’m happy that most things have remained the same.”
2.2510: Evelyn Clark – My Top 5 Favorite Classes at Hopkins
“It was the first time I really felt like I knew what I wanted to do, and I was actually doing it—with other people who wanted to do it too! It took me away from being an undergraduate and helped me see what my life may be like in the future—and that was absolutely invaluable.”
3.1.10: Kristen Gendron – Senior Reflections and the Aitchison Fellowship
“Like many of the seniors on campus, I am caught in a middle ground where my Hopkins experience is quickly coming to a close, and little about my future in the real world is concrete.”
3.4.10: Laurin Wolf – Snow Week ‘10
“The streets were piled high with drifts, cars were completely buried, and the miniature snowplows that Baltimore appeared to have on hand, while very cute, didn’t seem to be making much progress in controlling the mess.”
3.8.10: Heather Ehrlich – PAWS
“I met many like-minded people, both freshmen and upper classmen, and I found an outlet for the severe missing of my dogs back home. Yes, I was in heaven.”
3.29.10 – Best of the Guest Blog
“Starting on Thursday and continuing for the entire month of April, we’ll be re-publishing some of our favorite entries from the past few years.” (Note: the following entries are all re-published versions of earlier entries).
4.1.10: Evelyn Clark – Best of the Guest Blog I: From Pre-Med to PhD
“I was somewhat dreading the call to my parents to inform them that their precious daughter was deviating from the set plan, and held it off for a few more classes until I was absolutely sure it was what I wanted to do.”
4.5.10: Hannah Reade Joo – Best of the Guest Blog II: Toward the Saving of Sweatshirts
“As I told my academic advisor a month ago, I feel that by ending up at Hopkins and not Stanford, I dodged a very large, very attractive bullet. That is not to say it would be for everyone, but for me it was, because I would have been missing out on Hopkins.”
4.8.10: Sarah Capponi – Best of the Guest Blog III: Balancing Act
“Someone in my group whistles in appreciation, and then a worried prospective stammers out, ‘How do you do all that and still have time for schoolwork?’ That is the million-dollar question. Sometimes, I don’t even know how I manage to pass Organic Chemistry and stay involved with six outside activities in college.”
4.12.10: Clare Richardson – Best of the Guest Blog V: When Worlds Combine
“As I begin to write my reviews of the docs, dramas, comedies, and genre-benders I saw, it’s fun to view the films with a new, critical eye and begin to apply what I’d learned last semester. And the best part of the whole experience is that I’ve already been able to connect these two parts of my life together after just one semester here.”
4.16.10: Rena Barch – Best of the Guest Blog V: Life Behind the Bar
“Cafe Q filled all of these purposes for me, but in the second semester of my sophomore year Cafe Q took on a much greater role in my Hopkins experience when I applied to work as a “Barista”.”
4.19.10: Neha Deshpande – Best of the Guest Blog VI: Intersession in India
“During my month in Pune, I had the privilege of working at King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEMH), a non-government organization (NGO) whose primary purpose is to serve the lowest income bracket (poverty-line population) of the urban and rural areas of Pune.”
4.22.10: Liny John – Best of the Guest Blog VII: Spring Fair: The Hottest Event on Campus
“By being on staff I got the inside scoop on everything it takes to put together the largest event on campus. Our meetings for spring fair started all the way back in September!”
4.26.10: Carolyn Purington – Best of the Guest Blog VIII: Experiencing Ecuador through Engineers Without Borders
“After meeting so many people in Santa Rosa de Ayora, I definitely feel a greater sense of urgency to complete this project as soon as possible. They are waiting for us, and as engineers this is our opportunity to make a difference.”
4.29.10: Anne Mumford – Best of the Guest Blog IX: My Path to Kappa: Greek Rush at Hopkins
“Like many freshmen, I had heard about sororities but knew little about what actually went on. Most of what I had heard was through the media and was largely negative – horror stories about girls being branded by their “sisters” or drowning during bizarre hazing events.”
5.3.10: Aaron Jen – The Goodman Award: Hopkins and the Arts
“The Goodman Award was established by the late Dr. Goodman to encourage prospective doctors to pursue their interests in the arts by providing a monetary award toward a project of the student’s choosing. For my project I chose to create a miniature fashion magazine, comprised of photographs and interviews with clothing-store owners located in Baltimore.”
