Preliminaries

It's far past time for me to start a blog. A friend of mine has been nudging me toward it for the past few weeks, so here I am.

At the point of writing this, I am an undergraduate in my second year of studying English literature at a university in England. I'm American by birth and spirit, but I think travelling and living in different cultures is essential for strong intellectual and emotional development. I want to be an academic and I'd like to change the world, but at the moment I'm learning to fulfill exam and assignment requirements while struggling with my own big ideas of how education should function.

My aim is to blog a bit about said cultures and primarily about things that I learn, daily injustices that I encounter, philosophical concepts, politics, activism, people, and, best of all, books.