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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By amymarie | Views [234] | Scholarship Entry
After a week of basement-flooding, subway-car-stranding summer rain, the air is heavy, the heat is oppressive, and I need a break from my questionable room-painting project—fumes and fruit flies drive me to seek the air-conditioned comfort of Jimmy’s ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By emmainawe | Views [221] | Scholarship Entry
“Fine! You wear them!” a shoe hurtled past my head. The adage “Never Travel with Couples” came to mind as the another flying shoe narrowly missed me. I surveyed the chaos surrounding me, the tiny East Village room we had been staying in for the last three ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By travelmax | Views [142] | Scholarship Entry
“Is it your first time here?” Asked the hotel clerk. “Yes she’s a repeated offender.” The other one said. And he was right, it might be my 6th time in New York, but my travel companion must be at its 100th visit and each trip to NYC with my mom makes ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By owenmartel | Views [158] | Scholarship Entry
I’m standing on the top of a concrete wall. Ahead of me, the estuary ripples like a counterfeit sea, with only the bridge stretching clear to the horizon to promise an opposite shore. Salt water is drying on my hands. Behind me, my feet have left a ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By requarry | Views [192]
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By jonny_problem | Views [261] | Scholarship Entry
“Jon?” I walked up. We went to the car. “Are you hungry?” I felt like a child. I didn’t know the language and I couldn’t get around on my own. “Yes, I haven’t eaten yet.” “Ikea?” We got on the highway and I felt that same feeling I felt at baggage claim.... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By mbrodden | Views [145] | Scholarship Entry
Black flies swarming all around me, I continued to sweat profusely in the heat of July. I kept my black and blue flannel sleeves rolled down to full length and an extra shirt wrapped around my face to keep from being bit, and I began to wonder how long ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By maddyhollymarie | Views [179] | Scholarship Entry
Loud. Small. Crowded. Sweaty. I stopped in a tiny, congested bar a few blocks outside of Greenwich Village in Manhattan on a hot Saturday in August at 3 o’clock in the morning. For reasons not to do with nurture but more nature, I was making my way through ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By meander | Views [147] | Scholarship Entry
I have a problem with the New England spring and fall. I can’t decide between the kaleidoscopic April colors or the monochromatic, orange hues of October. I have a love affair with them both and I long for our impending trysts every summer and winter.... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By fellow1192 | Views [153] | Scholarship Entry
Salty drops of perspiration beaded my spine and moistened my armpits. Even in the shade of Arctica, the heat pressed in like a blanket. This wasn’t helped by the mass of dusty bodies waiting in line to buy ice. Swimming in a heat-induced miasma I lazily ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By daffalelle | Views [339] | Scholarship Entry
I awoke to the rays of early morning sunlight beaming through the white cotton curtains, setting alight the suspended dust motes. Through the slight part in the curtains, I could see the beginnings of a bright blue, cloudless summer sky. The beside alarm ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By saqi | Views [157] | Scholarship Entry
It was 2009, and I was on an exchange program to a little University town in Western Pennsylvania called Clarion. Now, Clarion is a small place, and even smaller for someone who grew up in a city like Delhi, where you could lose yourself roaming around ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By ifonlytheycouldseeit | Views [565] | Comments [3] | Scholarship Entry
He stole a small white memo pad from his host's house. He was hoping they would not mind. He just needed to write things down. He knew that by writing things down, he would avoid going crazy. That is what they said on the radio. As soon as he found himself ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By rachelmccarthy | Views [209] | Scholarship Entry
I’m wedged into something that resembles a giant black fish. It’s covered in thousands of signatures, it has two wheels, and on it, I’m flying down the sharp mountainous curves of Highway 17 from Santa Cruz to San Francisco. This is a world away from ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By mcbgbarrios | Views [114] | Scholarship Entry
A glass case guards cheese and cold cuts like engagement rings at a jewelry store. Beautifully laid out on paper doilies, logs of soft Vermont chèvre wait next to batons of salami and legs of prosciutto for me to make up my mind. The guy at the counter ... Read more >
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