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A Different View of Death: Denmark’s Assistens Cemetery

December 4, 2024 ccolleton@amherst.edu Leave a comment

By Kate Becker ’26 Amid towering poplar trees, locals and tourists drink beers, listen to music, and zip by on bikes along a winding path. Mothers push baby strollers. Elementary students join a scavenger hunt. Sunbathers enjoy the last rays on flower-covered fields. Beneath them, thousands of Danes lie buried. Among them is philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels

From Paris with Ahava (Love)

October 8, 2024 ccolleton@amherst.edu Leave a comment

By: Ruth Zuraw ’25 (studied in Paris, France with APA) The sound of muffled conversations filled the theater as I stood just outside the door, heart pounding. I had been in Paris for only a few weeks, but tonight felt like a turning point. I was about to enter a discussion event on Jewish themes in representation and art—my first

Exercises in Thought: I Fell in Love at Oxford

September 5, 2024 ccolleton@amherst.edu Leave a comment

By Tim Carroll ’25 Ah, it’s so good to be back, but it’s even better to see you again. My life recently has been marked by clichés. During my semester abroad, in the winter to summer of 2024, underneath the dreaming spires of Oxford University, I turned over the familiar phrases in my head — “Distance makes the heart grow

Reflecting on Study Away as an Amherst Alum

July 9, 2024 ccolleton@amherst.edu Leave a comment

Over two years have passed since I returned from studying sustainable development in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Since then, I graduated with a degree in environmental studies and took a post-bac job at Amherst College’s Office of Sustainability as the Sustainability Green Dean. All of these experiences are fueled by my lifelong interest in the environment, but they’re also influenced by

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