Dear readers, Despite my outgoing and goofy personality around close friends and family, I often found myself conforming to societal norms around anyone else, dimming down what made me genuinely me — a classic case of teenage nonsense. Since stepping foot on campus in Boston, I've felt a profound shift. While I'm far from having it all figured out, I've certainly found more of myself than ever before. 

I noticed him perched alongside about fifty doppelgängers on a shelf. Oh, the celebrity and star he was. He was the guy I've been reading about in my kindergarten class, but now he was right in front of my little eyes.

As I began this new semester, I spent some time reflecting on how I launched my column in October with a piece titled: "Obsessions of the week," which, as you can clearly tell by the name, dove into the things that enthralled me at the time. It only seems natural to me that in this first piece of the semester, I share my fixations of the month.