And it can feel like your home, too, Emma writes.
There are a lot of ways one can say it “feels good to be home.”
For some, it’s walking down Court Street and seeing one — no, two — or maybe a dozen friends you haven’t seen for months and immediately comparing tans or tales of summer internships, until you start comparing class schedules and reading lists.
It might be telling that incredible story of “that one time” in Spain or Paris because, you know, you studied there this summer, and realizing that you’re just a smidge more pleased to have a Bobcat friend to tell it to. After all, Paris is lamentably without a Big Mamma’s Burritos.
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For a few thousand of you (looking at you, lanyard-wearing freshmen), this isn’t home yet. You’re just getting started. “Home” takes a few months of shaking hands with strangers and joining far too many student organizations. Then, you go back to wherever you came from for a beautiful, painfully-long winter break and return, relieved, to the campus where your best friends are and where that odd, comforting fluorescent glow of Alden can always find you.
And for a team of about 80 journalists, photographers, designers, copy editors and digital mavens? We say it “feels good to be home” by getting back to work in good ol’ Baker 325.
Though there were certainly some days we slept in, tanned or even traveled the world, it was only natural to keep you updated on Athens while we were doing so. We published content to thepostathens.com on a near-daily basis, whether that was to cover weekly Athens City Council meetings or one OU alumnus’ desire to eat Chipotle for the very first time. Call us homesick.
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We’re back in Baker 325, and we’re ready to start producing content to our typical daily caliber. If you’re looking for a place to make OU feel a bit more home-y, feel free to join our staff or stop by and say “hello” at the Involvement Fair on College Green on Sunday. We’re looking for anybody and everybody that wants to get involved, or just wants to tell us a good story.
If you miss us then, we’ll be in Baker 325 every day.
It feels good to be home.
Emma Ockerman is a junior studying journalism and editor-in-chief of The Post. Want to get involved with The Post or have a story worth sharing? Email her at eo300813@ohio.edu or tweet her @eockerman.
