There is something surreal about preparing for a journey that has lived in your imagination for months. For me, that preparation looked like endless checklists, doctor appointments, grant paperwork, packing cubes scattered across my bedroom floor, and repeatedly asking myself,…
I think I am finally getting comfortable. Not comfortable in the sense that everything feels familiar, because trust me, I am still learning something new almost every day, but comfortable enough that I am beginning to find a rhythm here.…
Getting Oriented The past week has been one of wild adjustment and wonder. As I embarked on my journey half way across the world, I left behind much of what I know to be familiar, ready to embrace a new…
It is crazy to think I have been home for two months. As the initial excitements and joys of returning home have started to fade and I have settled back into a sense of normalcy in the states, I find…
It’s officially been two months since I returned home from Argentina & I’m still filled with all of the feelings and emotions I shared about when leaving in my last post. But, now more than ever, I am filled with…
Hello, Lumos community! My name is Ella Quincy, and very soon, I will be leaving for Antigua, Guatemala. After graduating from Belmont in May, I finished two additional prerequisite classes for medical school, packed up my apartment in Nashville, and…
Bombs. Bombs. War. Natural disaster. Tear gas. Bombs. Natural disaster. Giant flaming building. Rocket ship. Protests. Luigi Mangione. Celebrities. Celebrities. TikTok. All of this and more is conveyed to me in fourteen seconds of flashbanging, better known as an advertisement,…
On my first official day, I once again bumped into the inner workings of the Māori and Pākehā’s interwoven culture. Upon arriving at my first staff meeting -bright-eyed and bushy-tailed- on Monday morning, I was greeted with a Māori chant…
There is something incredibly strange about watching everyone go back to college when, for the first time in four years, you are not going with them. As August rolled around, my social media slowly became a highlight reel of move-in…
Leaving home always comes with some ounce of anxiety for me. As you get to know me more you will learn about my relationship with fear and anxiety. Relationships that once held me back in all facets of my life,…