Jan 17, 2013 | Shelly Kim PC '15

Every time it's time to leave New Haven to go back to LA or leave LA to go to New Haven, I become extremely emotional and filled with anxiety. When I come home, I feel as if I am putting the past several months of my life on hold, unable to control or carry out my Yale life from home. When I go back to school, I am nervous for the new semester: how will I grow? what will I learn? who will I love?

The last question always fills me with a sense of dread (because love takes time, effort, and risk, and people too often disappoint). Yet it's the only question truly worth asking.