As a university community, we are accustomed to the rapid changes of university life. Immersing ourselves in academia, we come out as people with new character, values and ideas. This winter, we asked contributors to think about these changes, and what we found was that there is no good way to define metamorphosis.
In the pages ahead, members of our university campus — undergraduate students, graduate students, staff and alumni — explore metamorphosis in ways we never could have imagined.
Using fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual art, our contributors demonstrate the ebbs and flows of our ever-changing lives across two issues, “Metamorphosis” no. 2.1 and 2.2. We encourage you to read both for a diverse exploration into metamorphosis.
This is the last issue of in medias res with the 2021-2022 editorial board, and we can truly say that we — and our magazine — have gone through a metamorphosis in putting together this issue. Learning from our mistakes and growing from the challenges we have faced, we are proud to present the “Metamorphosis” issue as evidence that we, too, have changed.
“Metamorphosis” asks you to contemplate processes of change — the good, the bad, the beautiful, the ugly and everything in-between.
With that in mind, we hope that this issue brings metamorphosis to your life, if only for a brief minute.
Read: The “Metamorphosis” Issue (no. 2.1)
