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Sep 21, 2021

Clause

“It all depends on if you’re naughty or nice each year.” “That’s all he cares about?” “What else is there to care about?” “Plenty of things — there’s more than just naughty and nice. There’s handsome and mean and funny and what Chester’s mom always calls me when she picks…

Flash Fiction

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Clause
Clause

Apr 27, 2020

Misery at the Grand Palais

A man sits on the third step of the Grand Palais, in his hands a tattered copy of Brontë’s Villette, having found himself in a position that he has always wanted to never be in. He sits in waiting, in part for a dear friend’s suggested arrival and in part…

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Misery at the Grand Palais
Misery at the Grand Palais

Published in Journal of Journeys

·Jan 8, 2020

Students Will Be Able To (SWBAT)

“Students Will Be Able To” (SWBAT) is a public school lesson plan system that many educators use to highlight course objectives. It is generally a brief statement posted in classrooms for teacher and student reference. Students Will Be Able To: Learn, we claim, but that is in question Become scholarly…

Education

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Students Will Be Able To (SWBAT)
Students Will Be Able To (SWBAT)

Published in Be Yourself

·Jan 1, 2020

Why Writer’s Block is a Lie

Before continuing with this piece, it should be made clear that it isn’t going to be about anything in particular. Just words on paper with no true significance or thematic elements to dissect. …

Writing

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Why Writer’s Block is a Lie
Why Writer’s Block is a Lie

Published in Be Yourself

·Dec 29, 2019

How to Achieve on Medium

Through a handful of digest emails and a sprinkle of investigation, one observation has become increasingly apparent since joining Medium: everyone is trying to tell everyone else how to operate. How to Really Know You’re In Love, How to Become Self-Aware in 20 Minutes, How to Be the Type of…

Be You

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How to Achieve on Medium
How to Achieve on Medium

Published in The Startup

·Nov 25, 2019

They Teach Us Not to Dream: A Process of Elimination

According to Dr. George Land, a pioneering voice behind Transformation Theory (the variation of creativity), we’re screwed. More specifically, we’re screwing ourselves. 72 years ago, Carl Brigham designed the framework for what is formally known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), a subgenre of standardized testing. The evaluation was accepted…

Education

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They Teach Us Not to Dream: A Process of Elimination
They Teach Us Not to Dream: A Process of Elimination

Published in Journal of Journeys

·Nov 17, 2019

My Professor Thinks My Grandma is Dead

I once told a University mathematics professor that “someone close to me passed away” after oversleeping on the morning of an exam. That class had a no make-up policy, regardless of the reasoning, and after kicking myself for the blunder, I quickly crafted the phony email. …

Education

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My Professor Thinks My Grandma is Dead
My Professor Thinks My Grandma is Dead

Published in Journal of Journeys

·Oct 19, 2019

Grade A Incompetence

Over the next several pages, I will detail a process so radically flawed, however, one that I participate in. And don’t let that fact — that sickly ironic fact — slip from your memory, because its existence is more of an argument in itself than I could ever possibly assemble. …

Education

13 min read

Grade A Incompetence
Grade A Incompetence
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