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Accepting the Past as Past

By Jasmine White April 17, 2015

It is hard to believe that my freshman year of college is almost over. It feels like just yesterday I was back in Alabama packing up my things, excited to be going out and living on my own for the first...

Learning to Love Yourself

By Jasmine White March 20, 2015

Recently, my father has been overly interested in my dating life. Nowadays, it seems not even one conversation can go by without him asking if I’m seeing anyone. I can always hear the disappointment...

Leaving the Past to Create a Future

By Jasmine White March 6, 2015

As much as I looked forward to graduation back when I was a senior in high school, there was one thing I dreaded so much that sometimes I wished I could go back in time and cling to my days as an awkward...

Comfort Beyond the Table

By Jasmine White February 20, 2015

One of the things I miss most from home is comfort food. I’ve known since I was a little kid that food is important and that it has power; that power is, perhaps, why it plays such a large role in Southern...

It Takes a Village

By Jasmine White February 6, 2015

The first thing people say to me when I tell them my mother is deceased is “I’m sorry.” I get why. Although it’s polite to seem sympathetic, for some reason, I always find it just a little...

Leaving Childhood Behind

By Jasmine White January 23, 2015

I’ve never been the type to adjust to change well. After my eighth-grade graduation, I went through a sort of mid-life crisis or whatever you might call a 14-year-old’s equivalent of that. I didn’t...

Criticism Prompts Reflection

By Jasmine White November 21, 2014

My last piece in this column, “Why I Won't Ever Change My Last Name” caused a bit of a stir. While I knew the topic might be seen as controversial, I never expected the response that I got. Some felt...

Why I Won’t Ever Change My Last Name

By Jasmine White November 7, 2014

At a very young age, before I had even heard of words like “feminism,” I had already decided that if I were to ever get married, I wouldn’t take my husband’s last name. My family, being the southern...

Trials of Adult Life

By Jasmine White October 24, 2014

I wasn’t lucky enough to be one of those kids who was raised in one house her whole life. But because I have grown up changing residences every couple of years, it has never really bothered me. However,...

Valuing Personal Identity

By Jasmine White September 26, 2014

I’ve never had much of a problem being the minority, having attended predominately white schools for most of my education. Therefore, I expected that my experience at Georgetown would be no different...

Finding Good in Goodbyes

By Jasmine White August 29, 2014

Raised by a single father in Birmingham, Ala., Jasmine’s choice to attend a university outside her home state was a difficult and surprising decision. As she breaks tradition, leaving behind her family,...

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