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Alumni Spotlight: Amelia Madrigal & Terry Tempest Williams

I’m Amelia Madrigal, an alum of Semester 54. I live in Western Massachusetts.  Right before third exped, all the expedition groups were sitting in the Academic Building, packing our food rations into specific food bags. I was sitting on the floor in the library, carefully sectioning off our M&M’s into three equal parts. Right then, Lia, our History Apprentice and an HMI alum herself, came bursting in with a couple books. Look at what I brought back from spring break! I was excited to see, and while I checked them out, she ran back to the App house to bring the rest of the stack. Lia came back with a

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Semester 56 3rd Exped: Desert Blooms, Belonging, & Confidence

Third Expedition | Jasset Millhiser I still can’t believe it’s over. Third exped felt so far away the entire semester – the exped where we are left to our own devices. On the first exped we always talked about who we wanted our student expedition leaders (SELs) to be, and on second we kept dreaming about how warm it would be, but then all of a sudden we were on the bus down to the desert again, and I couldn’t have been more excited. The best part about my final expedition group was that it was mostly people I hadn’t been able to go on exped with, which at this point

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