{"id":8076,"date":"2025-07-22T21:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2025-07-22T23:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T04:39:44","slug":"sarge-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/07\/sarge-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the scenic route to Sargent Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fifteen minutes can feel like forever. Starving, sweating and toting laptop bags, we trekked to Sargent Hall mere hours after arriving. While I found the food at Sargent (aka Sarge) better than its reputation, I worried about the distance between me and my meal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As my friend Cara Huang of Los Angeles put it: \u201cBy the time you get back from Sarge, you are more hungry than when you got there.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But as I got to know my fellow cherubs (and grew my stash of supplementary snacks in my dorm), the walk became more of an opportunity than a nuisance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During lectures at Fisk Hall and writing sessions at Jones, mere hours before deadlines, we bonded over shared stress. But every Sarge walk gave us an uninterrupted 15 minutes to share real conversations beyond small talk and assignments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I treasured my time bonding in groups, but my favorite walks were one-on-one chats. At first, when I found myself next to a cherub I didn\u2019t know well yet, I\u2019d exchange pleasantries and awkward moments. Then I\u2019d find myself already nearing Sarge, deep in a discussion with a new close friend about where we see ourselves in five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As I walk to eat my last supper at Sarge, my eyes linger on the ivy lining the walls of Main Library, the squirrels that run along the path and my now best friends walking ahead of me. One sparks up a conversation about how we are going to meet up after the program ends. Suddenly, 15 minutes doesn\u2019t seem long enough.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"1a0880f7-66e1-4c54-ad00-38b4009cef5b\" style=\"z-index: 2147483647;position: relative;height: 0px;min-height: 0px;width: 0px;min-width: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border: 0px\" data-gg-image-block-reason-modal-anchor=\"true\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 15-minute walk to meals, cherubs bonded and burned enough calories to need their favorite snickerdoodle cookies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":8355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[499],"class_list":["post-8076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experiences"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":499,"user_id":235,"is_guest":0,"slug":"fionakiely","display_name":"Fiona Kiely","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/618ed6978eb841466d285145ea7dba3c1f2e5e6730c136b1a119cc522f74fb1b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Kiely","first_name":"Fiona","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10202,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions\/10202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}