Labor Day weekend in full swing at Old Orchard Beach
Business owners say the return of Canadian tourists resulted in a bounce-back summer.
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Business owners say the return of Canadian tourists resulted in a bounce-back summer.
As I near the end of college I keep thinking of a quote from one of UC Berkeley’s own, Joan Didion: “I have already lost touch with a couple people I used to be.” It’s also gotten me thinking about what makes a “self.” Are we the products of myriad outside forces pressing down on us until they morph our interiority, or are we made up of something innate within us, elusive and inherited, that shows itself under pressure? And how do we know when we’re done, when we’ve finally arrived at that ever-shifting dot on the horizon of personhood?