from a faltering christianI think I do more reflecting than the average 24 year old, so doing a “year in review” feels gratuitous, but I can be as creative as a...
cassieI bought a car-- my first real adult purchase, with my own car insurance (that I pay an arm and a leg for, because I am a young...
“a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light”When the Sierra Nevadas are to the right and the ocean to my left, I know I am headed north. A few months into my PhD, what I have to my...
22 + 1Realizing I’m turning 23 this year feels like waking up from an evening nap, when the sun has already gone down, and you’re not sure what...
stanford stupid, part 1I used to work under the VP for this big bio-pharmaceutical company to develop a small-molecule GSK-3B inhibitor for the treatment of...
bruhThe following post is in response to this amazing article. It's on the longer side, but definitely worth every minute:...
uninformed and underrepresented at stanford university**Disclaimer: I am not Native American. I am not part of the most underrepresented and disproportionately traumatized people groups. I...
marked safeNot even a week after I wrote this, the headlines read that there was another mass shooting, this time at a shopping center in El Paso,...
walking betweenMy room is a time capsule. Everything that happens here seems to stay here, seems to exist in a neat vacuum I call mine. Inside my room,...
on letters to incarcerated peopleDo something with lasting importance. Not something that will blow like chaff in the wind. But something meaningful. And important....