by Marie Laursen Canter
The revamped Dolphin’s first theme is “Spring Fever”, a topic we, the
editors, chose on a sunny day a couple weeks ago. It was one of those
abnormal March afternoons where the sun blazed and the only wind was a
ticklish breeze that kept tossing bits of my hair in my face. As I was
walking home, I became what I like to call sun-drunk: the giddy and
unreasonably sappy state of mind where everything is in sync and
accompanied by a soundtrack. On this day, it seemed like every tree was
blossoming, every duck in the University Park was quacking joyously, and
every passing car happily stopped to let me cross the street. With a
bounce in my step and Hall and Oates’ “You Make My Dreams” on my mind, I
made my way home, my head teeming with ideas and plans for the spring.
Now, as I’m writing this, I have a spring-hangover: it’s raining,
cold, gray, and no one is humming a wonderful musical number. The
“breeze” picked up and shot right through my jacket when I ventured
outside and the only thing blossoming is the procrastination zit on my
face as I realized how much homework I managed to put off over the
Easter Break (and how many cakes I still managed to eat). But then,
that’s spring fever: one minute you’re running hot and the next your
teeth are chattering. The weather forecast looks like a children’s
sketch of a mountain range: the temperature shoots up to a measly 8
degrees and then plummets down to the minus ranges. My heater is unhappy
to cooperate with this mere mortal ginger and has decided to hibernate
for the season (or until temperatures rise again, in which case it will
be unnecessary). With the stacks of textbooks still needing to be read
surrounding me, I’ve decided to go on the offensive. To combat this
chilly atmosphere, I’ve armed myself with a pot of coffee and endless
amounts of banana cake with shredded coconut and chocolate pieces:
nothing can stop me now.
And that’s exactly what we hope to accomplish with the Dolphin. With
just a couple weeks of school remaining and final exam monsters rising
behind the homework horizon, it’s sometimes difficult to see the end of
this final stretch. We at the Dolphin find it is essential for our
survival (and success?) to have small distractions. Bake a cake, take a
sun-drunk walk through the park (remember to have a peppy song ready),
or read a couple submissions of the Dolphin! We’re here to give you a
little break from your intense studying and achy writing fingers. Scroll
through the submissions and give yourself a well-deserved break once in
a while. We won’t distract you completely (everything is still written
in English, after all) but we might give you some ideas as to what you
can spend your eventual summer freedom on. We have movie reviews and
book reviews. We’ll give you a little bite of insight from other
students; students you’ve never met and students from other countries.
We’ll try our best to give you some reprieve from the homework headache
that’s bogging down your brain; consider us your Advil!
If you can feel your mind running hot with DPs, literary –isms,
and/or German philosophers, take a moment to cool off and look through
our first ever (revamped) edition of The Dolphin. We’re looking forward
to being your sweet diversion and hope you’ll send us any of your
creative tid-bits when something funny, peculiar, or exciting strikes
your fancy.
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