Writing

• Cracks in the Floor April 26, 2025
  
  What lives within the cracks in the floor?
• Popcorn April 22, 2025
  
  What changes turn a popcorn kernel into popcorn?
• Umbra April 12, 2025
  
  How to prepare and cook for the soul.
• How to Crash and Burn April 11, 2025
  
  Wee-ooo-wee-ooo
• Woke Up April 10, 2025
  
  Went to class. Walked to the next class. Sat through for an hour and fifteen minutes. Walked to the dining hall. Ate a jackfruit sandwich. Walked to the library.
• Breakdown April 4, 2025
  
  After a few days have gone by with everything perfect--a little too perfect--no work, no meetings, no exams, no trouble--you set on with a jig of motivation...
• Hangnail April 3, 2025
  
  It could be a meme, it could be a relatable injury, but it could not be any serious ailment...
• Screentime April 2, 2025
  
  The screentime epidemic is not an epidemic.
• Room of a House March 6, 2025
  
  Dried-up ketchup and grains of rice rotted on the tower of dishes in the sink. Dish soap, barely used; dishwasher, stacked with cleaned, yet haphazardly arranged bowls and silverware.
• Battles of the Carillon March 5, 2025
  
  You are the admiral of the tower, the commander of the 43-ton battalion of heavy metal. Fifty-four bells of the memorial carillon at your amateur disposal...
• Sleeping on the Train February 27, 2025
  
  Getting lost in Belgium.
• Family Heirloom February 19, 2025
  
  Jane broke the plate. She didn’t mean to. It was the fanciest plate she had ever laid her hands on, ever.
• Milk February 18, 2025
  
  Milk begins the sustainment of all mammals on Earth...
• Shel Silverstein February 13, 2025
  
  Descriptions of a favorite author.
• The Bicentennial Buildings February 11, 2025
  
  Yale's Good Life Center, Commons, Woolsey Hall, and more.
• Tuesday February 7, 2025
  
  It was a Tuesday. Objectively, the most hateable day of the week.
• Sugar January 31, 2025
  
  Ever since I grew tall enough to reach the kitchen drawers, my favorite pastime was to kidnap the bag of rock sugar used for Chinese cuisine and lock myself in my room.
• Airplane Coughs January 29, 2025
  
  Daily Themes Week 3: Sound
• Hot Plate January 25, 2025
  
  The hot plate. I’d bought it in Chicago over Thanksgiving break. I hauled it over in the extra-large suitcase that weighed exactly 49 pounds at the airport, almost toppling over with it on the escalator.
• Concentrate January 14, 2025
  
  1630s, 'to bring or come to a common center,' from concenter (1590s), from Italian concentrare, from assimilated form of Latin com 'with, together' (see con-) + centrum 'center' (see center (n.)).
• Sexism in STEM January 26, 2024
  
  Variability Hypothesis and more.
• What's on the Telephone Pole? November 27, 2023
  
  Yale ENGL 120: Write an essay about a cultural artifact that interests you. A cultural artifact could be an album, a restaurant, an event, a product, an object, a trend, and so on.
• Desk October 11, 2023
  
  Yale ENGL 120: Write an essay that portrays a single, specific place. The idea of what constitutes a place is open to your interpretation.
• Eyebrows July 24, 2023
  
  Eyebrows, eyebrows, eyebrows.
• Traffic Lights June 3, 2023
  
  A night of sleep-driving. Creative nonfiction? Noncreative fiction.
• Searching for a Cure June 3, 2023
  
  A man walked into a bar...
• Questions June 3, 2023
  
  Time-traveling fiction, with a side of Gorilla Sealant.
• ME June 3, 2023
  
  Pyramid poem.
• Hot Cheetos June 3, 2023
  
  Gluttony v2.0.
• Flamework June 3, 2023
  
  Stanzas of haikus.
• 3AM cleansing August 12, 2022
  
  Washing my face.
• Dancing Benzene Rings August 6, 2022
  
  Neurotransmitters, amino acids, and love <3
• Monkeys and Scribbles July 25, 2022
  
  A long recap of the 2021-22 crew season.
• Crew 21-22 July 11, 2022
  
  A long recap of the 2021-22 crew season.
• Pierce: The Crying of Lot 49 June 9, 2022
  
  Final english creative writing project on The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon.
• Buttered Pancakes May 11, 2022
  
  I was having buttered toast today.
• Getting Lost on East Rock May 1, 2022
  
  After USNCO, I came home, half-dead after surviving on minimal sleep and Dunkin Donuts coffee.
• Midas Mystery April 10, 2022
  
  Murder mystery fiction. If you’re expecting sophisticated or well-written writing, this one may not be for you.
• Dried Mangoes March 17, 2022
  
  Lesson of the day? Organic bad, artificial good. Eat dried mangoes, everyone.
• 30 minutes March 14, 2022
  
  30 minutes of steady state, broken down into minute-chunk thought processes that overwhelm my mind. SS usually shouldn’t/isn’t this rough, but it was especially hard today mentally for whatever reason.
• Interstellar (2014) February 27, 2022
  
  Movie review.
• Off-Season February 21, 2022
  
  A detailed essay on the experience of a 8x500m workout.
• Gluttony January 5, 2022
  
  A short paragraph on the experience of eating hot cheetos.