What was a typical day like for you?
Morning always kicked off with a daily Starbucks ritual with my friends. I’d take my S’mores Frappuccino with me to class, where we would start by sharing our writing homework from the day before. We also dug into creative nonfiction writers, from Lawrence Millman’s ventures through the North Atlantic to Joan Didion’s portraits of California dwellers in the 1960s. We spent about 3 hours every morning in class but it really flew by because
Professor Gruber
was incredibly interesting and engaging.
The afternoons and evenings were usually a mixture of excursions — from unique, fascinating places like the Civil Rights Museum to just fun, vacation-like destinations such as the Atlanta Aquarium and Six Flags. Sometimes we ate lunch or dinner in the dining hall, and other times we walked to fun restaurants near campus or went to the Farmers Market and then to Piedmont Park to relax. When I got back to my room, I’d usually write all evening, maybe take a trip to the library, listen to music, and just hang out with my roommate from China.
