This time last year, I had different plans and expectations for the future.

When I got back to Scotland the summer after my second year, I was eager to make up for lost time.

I missed the application deadline for the following autumn, but I was so enamoured with St Andrews that I decided to wait a year to apply.

Throughout high school, I was obsessed with finding a way to live abroad.

It's February 5th, which means we've officially been living in Edinburgh for over a month. It was less emotional leaving St Andrews than...

I'm waking up today to a new year and on Wednesday I will wake up in a new city.

That elusive period between Christmas and New Year's Eve is here again, and I'm reflecting on what has certainly been a memorable 2023.

Last month I turned twenty-five, an age that seems impossibly old because I only recently fully comprehended that I am no longer a teenager.