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Bartending school dropouts

Carmen’s 22nd birthday called for something more sophisticated than beer pong, so Sarah volunteered her apartment and I volunteered to he...

Elena Sarah Chen
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Saturn has rings

Walking past the physics building after my shift tonight, I noticed this weird dome thing on the roof with a warm glow coming from inside...

Elena
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Learning the ropes

Week one of actually being responsible for keeping this place running and I’m discovering there’s a lot more to the campus rec center tha...

Elena
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Pink happens

Apparently there’s a reason people separate their laundry.

Elena
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Customer service comedy

Two weeks of solo shifts and I’m discovering that working at the rec center is less “inspiring people to fitness” and more “explaining th...

Elena
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Official business

Reserved study room 306 for three hours today and sent actual email invitations. Not just the usual “hey want to study?” text, but proper...

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Cranial nerves and crisis mode

Carmen showed up at my door with a family-size bag of Cheez-Its and the declaration that we were going to “conquer the nervous system or ...

Elena Carmen
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Five minutes of courage

The sign-up sheet had three names on it when I walked into Brew & Bean tonight. I was just there to grab an iced coffee before headin...

Elena
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Office hours by accident

Third time this week someone’s slid into the chair across from me at Caribou and asked if I could help them with skeletal muscle insertio...

Elena
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Long distance everything

Dad called right when I was starting to feel sorry for myself about being here all summer instead of home. Something about hearing his vo...

Elena Jake Morrison
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