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This Can Be Our Home Too

Marvellous Ogudoro
Corona Chronicles
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April 22, 2020

When I hugged my parents goodbye and boarded a plane from Lagos, Nigeria to Chicago, USA, I couldn’t have imagined the freshman year that was ahead of me. In fact, if you had asked me 10 months ago what I thought my greatest challenge would be studying abroad, I would have probably said adjusting to…

Importance is not numerical: Finding delight in the ordinary

Caitlin Babcock
Corona Chronicles
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April 22, 2020

As I write this, I can hear muffled chords floating through the wall from where my sister practices her trumpet in her room upstairs. The fire is on in our living room, despite the fact that it’s mid-April—in Colorado we’re still recovering from a blizzard two days ago. Piles of homework, sketches and half-completed puzzles…