Welcome home. Whether you cyber-tripped over our doormat unintentionally or had always planned on stopping by, we hope that you kick your feet up by the fire and bask in the warmth of ideas that are generated here. And please, stay as long as you like.

Here at “The Place You’re In,” we recognize that “home” can often be an ironically foreign concept. After all, Thomas Wolfe warned the modern world that “you can’t go home again.” More recently, Zach Braff in Garden State proposed that home was simply “a group of people searching for the same imaginary place.” Our contributors know this feeling all too well. We are recent college graduates, all of whom are in that “in between” stage of life, caught within the pull of “here” and “here goes.” Society tells us that these moments are merely stepping stones to a greater destination; real life tells us differently. It can be easy to get lost, because for the first time we’re looking at our own individual roads. And, somehow, during all those years of building them, we forgot to bring the map.

“The Place You’re In” is a refuge for all wanderers and a santuary for which ideas, random thoughts, and feelings can be explored. Whether one wants to trade “real world” information, such as how to file your taxes, apply to graduate school, or look for a job, or if you just want to share your latest philosophical epiphany, this spot is for you. Here, we rebuke the societal pressures of conforming one’s life to the typical “career/family” pattern. Instead, we embrace the notion of, as John Mayer puts it, “don’t for a minute change the place you’re in.” Cherish the present moment and consider it for what it is.

Maybe through the supportive exchange of ideas and advices, we can come one step closer to finding “home,” wherever or whomever that may be. After all, there really is no place like home. And even more, there’s no place like the place you’re in.