I have just concluded my first week of college. Whew. I will do my best to recall my first taste of higher academia.

An "Archival Revival" of a formative trip I took while attending college in rural Minnesota...

"Bright and early at the Drury Inn in Indianapolis, I walked in to the breakfast area and squeezed past an older white man. He was taller than me and I have grown accustomed to not bother to strain my neck to see people taller than my 5 foot self as principle. This gentleman, however, was notable in that he wore a bright-red “Make America Great Again” hat. To breakfast at 7am. Bigotry and white supremacy is always on the clock, I suppose. I had not even noticed until my fellow travelers reeled from the audacity of the hat and its wearer. That was my first time seeing the symbol of white supremacy in-person. I was perplexed but not quite enraged yet. The same day we made it to Washington, D.C. We spent most of the day in the heart of the capital. We visited the very spot Martin Luther King Jr. galvanized hearts with his “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial. I walked cooly past the memorial for George “I owned other human beings” Washington, and..."

Just as I had done with my luggage, I needed to decide what I would bring with me on this journey and what I would not.