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Semester 56 3rd Academic Block: Take the Leap, Trust the Process

3rd AB | Violet Wilson Going into the Fun Run, I felt a growing sense of trepidation. The people around me that morning could probably tell from the number of times I changed my outfit, how I agonized over what to have for breakfast, and my worry about my shoelaces being too short. I had run ten miles before coming to HMI, but never at altitude, and I had been injured. As we were leaving, someone wrote on the board “the next time you see this, you will have done it”. When I saw that message, I thought about how I could trip and fall, or start feeling sick, or get

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Alumni Spotlight: Amelia Madrigal & Terry Tempest Williams

I’m Amelia Madrigal, an alum of Semester 54. I live in Western Massachusetts.  Right before third exped, all the expedition groups were sitting in the Academic Building, packing our food rations into specific food bags. I was sitting on the floor in the library, carefully sectioning off our M&M’s into three equal parts. Right then, Lia, our History Apprentice and an HMI alum herself, came bursting in with a couple books. Look at what I brought back from spring break! I was excited to see, and while I checked them out, she ran back to the App house to bring the rest of the stack. Lia came back with a

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