girls2 - The Monday Morning Memo

“I woke up with one of those hangovers that feels fine until you stand up out of bed and the room spins like a Teacups ride that’s come loose from its tracks. In twenty minutes, I had a meeting on the far side of the campus with an academic advisor to discuss my application for a study abroad program in New Zealand. I ate as many Frosted Flakes as my stomach could handle (seven), drank some water, and journeyed out into a Boston so cold my back muscles seized. From my earliest days at BU, I had dreamed of traveling to New Zealand, where the school had an internship program in partnership with the University of Auckland. Now that the semester was finally approaching, I was giddy. I’d been talking about it for months, researching New Zealand, reading about internships, watching the Lord of the Rings on repeat (has there ever been a better tourism ad?). I arrived at the advisor’s office with a minute to spare, managed a crooked smile through the apocalyptic headache, and was promptly informed that I failed to take a course required for my major and so did not qualify for any study abroad programs – before vomiting on his desk.

Okay, I added the last part for dramatic effect.”

- Evan Puschak (The Nerdwriter,) Escape into Meaning, p. 204-205

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