Under the willow shade
The Rose Garden in June with all of its glory, taken when the author was pretending that she had finished her 23 pages of problem sets The long-awaited ending of the 3-week break between the last day of first year and my summer classes ended, meaning that the cycle repeated: waking up 3 hours before the first lecture, consuming too much Dalgona coffee, and feeling my brain fried after finishing problem sets at the end of each day. Thankfully, I only took one summer term, so I could manage to sit for 3 hours a day in the chasm of IKB, getting lost in the Golgi apparatus with the dimming lights, the professor's soothing voice, and the blasting AC with an occasional creak of a chair nearby. After struggling to stay awake in BIOL 200, I was more than grateful to take a walk around campus, starting from the grassy hill outside the Nest. Under the balmy June air, every building was brimming with life, with the Chemistry building covered with a dazzling rainbow carpet of azalea bushes a...