Category: Open Letters

To all who are GLACE, I’ve always been practical, perhaps to a fault. I center myself in logic, calmness, and dare I say, emotional stability. Upon my arrival to the biological station, these personal predispositions were flipped onto their heads and the idea of “place” served as the catalyst for an extreme rearranging of both…

To my lovely GLACiERs- As odd as this may seem it’s strange to be writing something to you all knowing that I won’t be reading it aloud moments later. Instead, I must rely on the voice inside your head’s impression of me… weird. What’s worse is that I won’t experience all of you reading yours…

Dear GLACiErs, Missing the Biostation is something odd to me. I don’t often miss places except for home, which makes me come to terms with the fact that the Biostation is the closest place I’ve had to home besides my actual home. At first, I thought this sense of well-being, the lack of a sick…

Dearest GLACiERS, Where do I begin? I feel entirely outmatched trying to put the GLACE experience into words, especially after reading your letters. There simply would be no such thing as GLACE without you. And so, I can’t talk about this like I can talk about a visit to France or San Diego or even…

July 5, 2019 After I studied abroad in 2014, I came home and had nothing to say. But by having nothing to say, I really had everything to say, I just didn’t know how to say it. Or maybe I was too tired to say it. I dodged every question about “how it was” with…

An open letter from a Glacier I’d forgotten how short a day really is until I left the Biostation. It’s not just that here at home I can sleep an extra two or three hours of the day away, enjoying a relaxing start of the day at 11:30 am instead of the struggle to crawl…

7/1/19 To be perfectly honest, I’ve been depressed the last few days, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to someone with depression. Maybe I’m still catching up on sleep. Maybe I’m stressed about these final projects. Maybe my brain just decided to poop its pants again, as it is wont to do from time to…

Dear GLACiErs, I guess this is as good a place as any to thank you all. I found GLACE to be such an incredible experience, and it wouldn’t have been possible without all of you and each of you. I don’t think of GLACE as a program, I think of it as a group of…

Dear GLACE, To be honest I have been avoiding this letter. I have tried to draft a few versions of why it was sad to leave, how I felt after leaving, or what you guys mean to me and none of them seemed genuine. I am typing this new draft on the morning it is…