College can paradoxically feel like the best (four) years of your life, a breezy excursion before the onset of "real-life," a rat-race, and a muddy marathon through unknown terrain. As easy as it may be to say that we feel alright going through this process, it's perhaps more difficult—and more important—to admit that when the going gets tough, we feel at a loss as to what we can do to feel at ease with ourselves.  So here we are, breaking the oft-normalized but glaringly imperfect notion that college is meant to zip through our fingertips.

 

This blog is a running collection of personal stories from students who have taken time off in any capacity during their time at Brown.  We, as your humble leavetaking coordinators, are committed to making available these stories to you when they are ready/able to be shared by those so generously ready to share them in modes of self-reflection, musing, all that good stuff.

 

Hope you enjoy.