Hi! Happy belated fall equinox! Its only going to get darker from here on out, kids, so buck up and brace yourselves for the coming winter. Nothing solidifies summer’s end quite as vividly as the sun set approaching five pm.

I’m being cheeky but the truth is, I love fall. I love the crisp air nipping at my fingertips which were cold to begin with, the price of end-of-season peaches as everyone’s attention diverts to apples, being able to wear sweaters without anyone asking snarkily, “Aren’t you hot?” (I’m not! Fuck off!), and wearing a coat with pockets so that I don’t have to carry a bag! What’s not to love? I know, I know, pumpkin spice lattes, but besides those bad boys, fall is pretty great.

I ate my first “fall apple” today, and I had a bit of a Proustian moment. I was brought back to a time so, so many autumns ago. My mom had insisted we go apple picking and of course, massively over-calculated the apple demand in our house. We came home with pounds upon pounds of apples and little clue of what to do with them. I was eating so many apples a day that I actually cancelled my health insurance plan. Just kidding, but it was enough apples to make an apple unappealing, which is kind of hard to do, so we needed a solution and we needed it fast. Pie is seriously daunting to the home cook that’s never made it, so my mom opted to tackle crumble instead. I can’t remember now if we used a recipe or if we just did our best, but I remember there being an air of invention in the whole matter. I remember with a rare acuteness my mom putting the pan in the oven, looking at me, and shrugging, a small smile playing on her lips. “We’ll see!” was the mantra, and forty-five minutes later, we pulled out a piping hot apple crumble. It looked exactly like what I imagine a crumble should. Jammy pockets of apple haphazardly burst from arbitrary spaces in a speckled brown sugar desert. I suppose we must have let it cool – I suppose we must have done something to distract ourselves from the deeply alluring aroma and the temptation to rip right into the fruits of our labor. We must have done something together, though I can’t remember for the life of me what. When we eventually ate it, we were immensely satisfied with ourselves, and concluded that apple crisp was clearly our calling. I don’t think we ever made one again, and I can’t bring myself to order one when I see it on any menu for fear of shattering the arrant perfection which was that first crumble affair. Give me cobbler, pie, tart, whatever…but not the crumble. Not unless you can give me that evening with it.

Anyway, a lot of things are different now, and it is likely I’ll never make a crumble again, and if I did, it is likely I would be dissatisfied with it anyway, and so for this early fall day, I’ll just dream my crumble dream and eat an overripe peach instead and I will be satisfied with that because really, somedays, that’s just how it is.

So here are some very adult things you can do at school this week! Because adulthood is more than just nostalgia and peaches, or at least thats what they’re paying me to say anyway.* If you want more details on the things I’m about to share with you, they can be found here.

• Tuesday there will be a Resume 101 workshop in James Hall starting at 12:30 pm.
• At 1:00 pm in Boylan Hall, there will be a Study Abroad Information Session.
• Oh you’re not attending the Study Abroad Information Session? Then you must be going to the Chamber Music at the Lily Pond, which also starts at 1:00! Honestly, this one seems cool.
• Wednesday, there will be a Benefits and Wellness Fair in the Bedford Lounge of SUBO. Its possible there will be free food? I’m totally guessing.
• At 5:30 pm, there is a workshop called “Finding the Hidden Job Market with BC Alumna and Career Coach Amy Geffen.” It’s like a really intense game of hide and seek, only instead of looking for your dumb friend who keeps getting himself locked in the same closet (every damn time, Stanley!), you’re seeking your career! Fun! I love adulthood.
• On Thursday, hopefully you’ve found your career by now, but if not, you can attend the workshop “Landing an IT Internship: Recruiters’ Secrets” at 12:15 in SUBO.
• There is also a “First Year Thursday” Event with focus on “Studying Strategically.” Interesting.
• If none of this is interesting to you, you can always come to Writers’ Circle which meets at 12:30 every Thursday in 2307 Boylan! We are actually just a triangle right now because of attendance, but we are dreamers and so we’ll continue to call ourselves Writers’ “Circle” with the hopes that everyone reading this will attend and we can live out our geometric dreams! Bring your friends! Bring your family! Whatever!

Whatever you do, or don’t do, or halfway do, take care of yourselves this week.

NG

*The deeper into “adulthood” I get, the less true I think that is.