As the temperatures begin to drop in the Northeast, we’re transitioning into the yin season, a time for quiet introspection. Next time you’re up all night frantically finishing a paper, think about what it could be doing to your inner cycle. I know this is a lot to ask - we’re not humans, we’re just college students, right? Wrong. College is not a special time of our life where we’re allowed to ignore our natural systems; in fact, we should be paying extra attention to our internal voices now more than ever. We’re at the prime of our lives, the future stretches out long and promising in front of us. How are we supposed to go forth and follow our dreams if we don’t take the time to listen to ourselves? We hold all the answers. (I can see the sarcastic smirks already…)

This weekend, I attended a conference at UMass called, “Beyond Prevention: How to Survive Climate Change.” We can be sure that we will be called upon to face a great many challenges in the near future. Is our generation ready? Or simply stupefied into unconsciousness.

Everything you thought you knew-

In other news, plants!

At home, the banyan trees look like this

In my room, the banyans looks more like this

This is the baby ginseng bonsai (or banyan fig) that I purchased in front of the Campus Center this weekend, along with a Pachira plant, known as a good luck tree in East Asia, and referred to as the “money tree” here in America. Figures.