Valentine’s Day On a College Campus: Hallmark and the Hookup Scene

February 14, 2019.Reading time 9 minutes.

In an environment where caring is usually a weakness, what do you do about a holiday centered on showing that you care?

journal entry: graduation

May 30, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

Graduation day is very slow, waffles, your boyfriend does not want to wake up and cannot find his dress socks, your parents manage to get parking in the Vine lot because they arrive early, there are a lot of pictures, you are flustered. Everyone seems cranky and you bristle and he shakes their hands. More pictures. They go […]

How to Complete a Senior Thesis

April 21, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

On April 11th, 2014, I turned in my senior thesis. The product of months of blood, sweat, and tears, it clocked in at 126 pages and contained eight short stories, a twenty-eight page theoretical introduction, and so many sassy subtitles. After nary a day without editing a description of an orgasm, panicking about over-using the phrase […]