Graduate Student | Marginalia

Behind the scenes of my To-Do list

It’s 2017 and I’m currently enjoying what could be described as the mini-hibernation phase of MFA l..

I write to you from the last stress-filled weeks of the semester. I know end-of-semester chaos isn’t a new thing, but I always find myself..

It’s finals time and I’ve been busy writing papers and working on final proj..

As you may have read in my previous entries, this semester I am putting together an exhibition of Columbia College student work for the sp..

I suppose if there’s been a theme for my last couple of weeks, it’s one of simplification. That is to say, over the course of the last sev..

Detail of subjective mapping project from my Conceptual Strategies course.

So here I am, in the second year of my MFA program and stil..

As writers, we’re always told the best work goes through multiple drafts and revision processes before it’s the best it can be. And ev..

Part of my responsibility as the Graduate Nonfiction Ambassador here at Columbia College Chicago is to respond to emails from potential st..

Let me introduce myself!

Hello, reader!

I know that things can seem a bit confusing as you navigate the archives and backmost reces..

Quote from Julia Cameron

We are now heading into the concluding weeks of the Spring semester. Time has been measured by the number of ..