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End Games, Part II

March 21, 2021 by Joshua Barthel

It was me, not you.

It is a common wish to relive one’s college years. For most people, I imagine this originates in a feeling of nostalgia, a longing for freer times long expired after the career grind fails to provide adequate intellectual and social nourishment. 

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Categories Posts Tags Education, First-gen, First-generation college student, Harvard, High School, Mental Health, Responsibility

End Games

February 8, 2021July 25, 2020 by Joshua Barthel

I think often of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Crack-Up, with its opening salvo of nonchalance and pure haunt. It is a useful reminder of how, no matter one’s levels of self-awareness, revelations will lag: 

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Categories Posts Tags College, Education, F. Scott Fitzgerald, First-gen, Harvard, High School

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