Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.   Time   You can call it an idiom or you can call it a cliché, but I like to call “Time flies” a pithy adage. The two words, for me, is a truth in transience.   Inception   Four years ago in the summer of 2011, after graduating Valedictorian, Student Council President, and one of the two student speakers at commencement, from Michigan City High School in the spring, and before coming to Valparaiso University as a freshman in the fall, my mother, father, and I took a trip to Washington, D.C.     We stayed at the L’Enfant Plaza Hotel, “A family and pet friendly hotel.” The name of the hotel, comes from a man named Pierre, or “Peter,” L’Enfant, who was an architect and mastermind behind the design of Washington, D.C. It felt fitting, my first time in the District, to stay […]