Editor's note: Though using fictitious names is not common practice at the Echo, the following story uses pseudonyms (Ian, John and Jessica) for students who agreed to talk with the newspaper for this article. The students wished to remain anonymous because of the stigma and illegality surrounding their actions.
The Camden Falls Art Gallery in the coastal town of Camden, Maine showcases the work of artists from all over the country in its cozy space above the harbor. Its walls are hung with impressive watercolors of summer mornings in Maine and sweeping canvases with stormy nautical scenes.
Leaving home for Mayflower Hill four years ago, Catherine Woodiwiss '09 knew that she was casting aside the comfortable, familiar and nurturing environment that she had taken for granted. She knew that her new life in college would challenge her in every way.
When it comes to navigating her way through life, Jessica Palffy '09 does not miss a turn. Over the course of her four years at Colby she has reached several scintillating destinations and already has more mapped out for the future. Aside from studying Government and International Studies on the Hill, Palffy is a familiar face in the Colby Volunteer Center, at Outing Club meetings, on just about every road within twenty miles of Miller Library (she runs 'em all) and to lifties at Sugarloaf where she is known to carve up the steeps.