The last time I wrote an article, I was sitting at my dining room table in Metairie, LA tapping away at my new laptop, eagerly and nervously anticipating the start of my year in Israel. Now, a little less than a month later, I find myself in my dorm room at Beit Riklis on Mount Scopus, a room occupied by generations of Year Coursers for the very last time (the program plans to relocate buildings at the end of my trimester in the city).