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Hi everyone—it’s Thomas! If you’ve been following our posts, you might remember that Craig and I just started our freshman year at WashU in the last post. We shared our first impressions back then, but this time, I want to give you a snapshot of what it actually feels like to live it day by day. 🌟 The Pace Shock I knew college would be challenging, but I didn’t expect the pace to be this fast.I’m taking five classes this semester—most students take four—and since my focus area…

Hi everyone! If you’re new here, welcome—and if you’ve been following us, welcome back! These days, we’re buried in exams almost every other week—it’s non-stop. But this crazy schedule actually reminded us of what we were doing a year ago: college applications! This post is a little different. Around this time last year, we interviewed one of our senior friends, who had just started his freshman year at the University of Michigan. We asked him about college life, homesickness, and his first impressions. Now that we’re freshmen at…

Hello! If this is your first visit, welcome! And if you’ve been here before, welcome back! This post is a little different from our usual updates. We had the rare chance to sit down with our father, a physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) who specializes in a very rare disease called Wolfram syndrome. We’ve grown up watching him work, but we’ve never really had a one-on-one talk about his career path, why he made certain choices, and what he’s learned along the way. So we…