These are four last days of school: third grade, high school, my bachelor’s degree, and my master’s degree one week ago. As Sarah pointed out, forks are in the road and I’m traveling down them.The kind of anti-climactic moment of receiving my diploma in a confusing ceremony was finally grounded when I had to organize all…
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5: Men on the streets
While not the most light-hearted topic, there has something that has been weighing me down lately. And I have hemmed and hawed about writing about this because I feel like it’s not the most enjoyable subject to write about and because it’s such a prickly issue to read about. Something that people already have opinions…
The good you do
“We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know” — WH Auden, poet People my age believe they can do good in the world. They seek it out. They hope that they can spend their lives making a difference in the world. Heck, just…
Wear your beret
This is the first paper we had to write my for my Narrative & Argument class. I felt like I could share it here because it’s the sort of thing I would talk about anyway. But I also recorded myself reading it above because I thought it might be slightly more enjoyable since it is…
Closing the gap
This only gets more relevant as time passes. I’m trying to close the gap between what I know I want to do and what I actually produce. I can recognize that the things I design are missing That Special Something to make them remarkable. It will take time, risk, and courage. I am afraid that…
5: Letters to inanimate objects
Dear Ukulele, How do I play you better? Do you ever get sad that I am so terrible? You make me happy though, I hope that is some compensation. And I also thing you’re very pretty. Never change. Most sincerely, Jacklynn Phone – I really dislike you. Why do you have to make me angry…
Neat things: it’s been a while
01 | My favorite This American Life episode, “Origin Stories.” So good. It’s about…you know the origins of different stories. My favorite is Act One, about Julian Koenig, a copywriter and how his ideas were stolen for him. [57:27] [Source] 02 | My love of containers cannot be contained. I found this on a procrastination…
Drive-through etiquette
I don’t get fast food on regular basis and so I use the drive-through even less. Ordering with me in the drivers seat?— Almost never. I was driving my a car full of friends to order Limeades at Sonic’s and it naturally fell to me to do the talking. For some reason, I totally forgot…