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The Scientist Remembers Poetry
I do not know how I ended up here, clicking on document after document in an old abandoned computer folder called “Old Writing.” I guess after months of trying to figure out the statistics for my master’s thesis (i.e., trying to run up a very long, very fast down-escalator), I needed to engage with whatever…
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Top 3 Culture Shocks Experienced by an American in Korea: What they don’t tell you
I’m in the basement. Tanks of nitrogen, scuffed floors, and the printer-like sounds of a machine running. I direct the infrared laser through a piece of plastic I’ve collected from a bird nest (all with proper permitting and training!). With a Fourier transform equation, I can determine which compounds make up my material by gauging…
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An Introverted Owner, Good Waffles, and Language: Crepeccino
French music plays over the speaker. A chocolate drenched waffle sits on the plastic table that’s painted like black marble. My table faces the door and I have a good view of the parking lot through all the glass windows. Crepeccino. Originally a creperie, now pictures of sandwiches and pasta slideshow their way across the…
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The Ne’er See Again Friends: How Going to a Concert Introduced me to a New Kind of Friendship
The life of an introvert is a mysterious and whimsical thing. It’s a life of imagination and deep musings. I quite enjoy being an introvert. It’s a fact I’ve enjoyed by myself my whole life. So, perhaps it’s not surprising that it wasn’t until now, my 25th year of age, that I discovered a whole…
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Surviving as a Real Adult and My Thoughts on Language
Without a doubt, my parents’ bed is the best in the house. The mattress is not too soft, not too hard. The sheets are silky and cool. And currently the various multi-sized pillows are perfectly cushioning my sore back muscles–the aftermaths of throwing myself into a twirling handstand during capoeira (or trying to). My entire…
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3 Reasons the live-action Little Mermaid Exceeded My Expectations (and 1 Reason it did not)
The new Little Mermaid is absolutely incredible. From Halle Bailey embodying the role perfectly to the new depth to the Eric-Ariel relationship, it was beautiful.
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