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SUNY Geneseo students studying and reporting from abroad. Avatar photo credit: Iceland, 1756. Jacques-Nicolas Bellin [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Sam Schacht wrote a new blog post My New Writing Friends in the group Sojournal: 10 years, 1 month ago

Being abroad with twelve other people is amazing. It forces you make friends in way you usually don’t: being trapped together. This trip had an extra twist: we got to write together too. But I don’t want to was […]
Ryan Gulbransen wrote a new blog post in the group Sojournal: 10 years, 1 month ago

I like to consider myself as someone who does not have many fears. Yes there are some things I am genuinely terrified of, but other things that make me uneasy or on edge I like to try and overcome. Horses have […]
Sam Schacht wrote a new blog post The Rock Library: Sam Schacht, Noah Coates, and Elizabeth Pellegrino in the group Sojournal: 10 years, 1 month ago

A warehouse of stone and metal houses a collection of historical value oft overlooked. Filing cabinets extend along the length of the one-room library in fourteen rows, not counting those running along the outer […]
Nicole Logrieco wrote a new blog post Risk, Reward: Hekla By Allison Bargabos, Ryan Gulbransen, Nicole Logrieco and Rachel Renders in the group Sojournal: 10 years, 1 month ago

Rubbing tired eyes, I move though my apartment after a long night’s rest. While sunlight warms my back, I turn to pour cereal into a bowl when I hear an announcement come over the news. “For those just tuning it […]
Noah Zweifel wrote a new blog post The Tuya: By Tim Blomquist, Mark Ling, Emily Hanss and Noah Zweifel in the group Sojournal: 10 years, 1 month ago

Maria drove the Durango across the rocky Icelandic plain toward the mountain in the distance. She inspected it through her windshield as she approached. It wasn’t especially large, but its top was unusually fl […]
Emily Hanss edited the blog post Transformation in the group Sojournal: 10 years, 1 month ago

Over the course of our three weeks in Iceland, we had countless discussions about what makes good writing as we sat in untraditional “classrooms” covered in moss and rock. One of the topics that we touched on frequently is that effective creative writing includes some sort of transformation. In order to engage a reader, there must be a change or…[Read more]
Nicole Logrieco wrote a new blog post Sounds of Writing in the group Sojournal: 10 years, 1 month ago

New Oxford American Dictionary:
Write: (no obj.) have the ability to mark down coherent letter or words.
Writing and words have a strong association, being that writing is made up of words thrown together to […]
Noah Zweifel edited the blog post An Ocean Between Us in the group Sojournal: 10 years, 1 month ago

The Republican National Convention has been underway for four days now.

I had to Google that. I set out to write a fairly BS’d post about the chaos of American politics and how it relates to the chaos of other countries’ politics and then tie it all together in some really deep and meaningful way and thought that would have been a decent…[Read more]
Timothy Blomquist wrote a new blog post Get Out There in the group Sojournal: 10 years, 1 month ago

Sometimes you just need to get out there.

Especially when you’ve spent the last four months in a writer’s block-induced fury. You wrestle with the typical writer’s struggle–the need to constantly improve–and […]
Nicole Logrieco wrote a new blog post From Hot to Cold and All the In-Between in the group Sojournal: 10 years, 1 month ago

In twenty-four hours I went from swimming in a pool, to walking on a glacier. In twenty-four hours I went from wearing a tank top and thin sweater shirt to three layers and a winter-time beanie. Within two hours […]

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