Graduate Student | Marginalia

A crack in the pavement and a sticker face found on a walk.

There have been so many times over the past year that I’ve had the opportu..

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I am back from a bit of an extended hiatus after attending Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine ..

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Summer has officially arrived, which is something I can finally say now that all of those lingering post-semester loo..

I just completed my fourth semester at Columbia. It could be considered my final semester, since the Fall will just be me working on my th..

What is the name for the energy that permeates a campus a week before Spring semester gives way to summer? I’m almost certain I don’t know..

Burn Out: The half redacted/half misspelled moments of life.

It’s a blue sky day here in Chicago. It’s sunny with a high of 80. Everyo..

If you had to pick out a single theme from my writing on graduate life thus far, I think the thing you’d see repeating most often througho..

The following excerpts were written one afternoon as I rushed to accomplish a day’s work-life-school balance. I hope that they offer you s..

Just this past Tuesday I headed north on the Red Line, exiting where the neighborhoods of The Gold Coast and Old Town meet. It was 5:10pm ..

Hello again, reader. As I noted in my last entry, the passage of time feels inexplicably accelerated in the Spring semester, so the mere w..