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How to Spend a Weekend in Highlands, or, An Adventure in Slow Time
When I complained about being bored as a child, my endlessly wise and often contrary mother would always tell me the same thing: “You’re...
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The Sky Island Project
Over this semester, each of the Highlands IE students has had the distinct pleasure of working on an individual project in addition to...
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Salamander Tales
Personally, I am a big salamander enthusiast. Luckily for me I am currently living in the salamander biodiversity hotspot of the world....
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On staircases and switchbacks
When hiking trails along steep terrain, one thing is certain: staircases and switchbacks. Over the course of my life, and especially this...
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Facebook Marketplace
There are arguably few better ways to summarize our semester in Highlands than as a crash course in human connection. As a group of 15...
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Words about birds: in my life & this semester
🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦 A special thank you to Erin Flanagan for providing literally all but a small...
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Valentine, my sweet Valentine
The big house on the hill. The love of my life. Valentine House on the HBS campus. I have never lived in a house I love this much, and in...
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Leap of Faith: Cliff Jumping into New Adventures
The Fall The drop is fast. Air fills my lungs one second, and is knocked out by water the next. I have just successfully taken the...
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Coming Together to Complete Our Final Science Communication Assignment
This week was our final week of classes and we have been really busy wrapping up all of our final assignments. We have all been working...
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Fish on Fish on Fish
Fish on fish on fish This semester I finally had the opportunity to capitalize on my desire to fish. Now I have been able to do so in a...
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Finding the Silver Lining
Hurricane Helene uprooted (no pun intended) our whole program almost exactly one month ago. While I don’t want to belittle the...
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Connection
Each year, I choose at least one thing to really focus on developing and appreciating. Last year, 2023, I chose healing and strength....
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August
An August ago, I was a freshman moving into my jail cell of a dorm on south campus. I didn't know where anything was (I still probably...
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Labor Day Weekend
Time flies when you're at HBS apparently, cuz somehow it's already September and the leaves are gonna start turning soon! As someone who...
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Santeelah Memories, Cheoah Tragedies
There are some 30,000 lakes present in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, and not one of them is naturally occurring. Every single one...
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I can't wait to leave, and then come back.
This semester has been my most rewarding since coming to UNC Chapel Hill, and I haven't even been on UNC campus since the spring. It will...
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Family Christmas
We (Highlands IE students) started this semester as a group of near strangers. A few of us knew one another through classes or had mutual...
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The epic highs and lows of the Highlands tailgate
“BACK IN BLACK!” Connor and I screamed along to the quintessential AC/DC song blaring from my car speakers as we crept up Little Scaly...
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Monarch Therapy
Midway through September, a new visitor graces the Western North Carolina mountains. And no, I’m not referring to Bigfoot. It’s the...
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Stargazing
I’ve never paid much attention to the night skies until recently. I grew up in the middle of suburbia, about 15 miles outside of a major...
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