thesis | Marginalia

Shenzhen, China. My future home and job.

I was recently speaking with my thesis advisor, Michael Robins, when he mentioned that it is ..

I’ve been in a thesis haze recently.

Okay, so I started a new job. It’s awesome—I love it. It’s 40 hours a week, it is putting my w..

My experience with thesis has been pretty rough so far. The schedule has been hectic, I’m tired, I have tons left to do, and it seems ..

We had a crowd for the set.

Last Tuesday night I arrived back to the great state of Illinois after traveling for over thirty hours fro..

If you’re wondering what a thesis meeting looks like, here’s a bit of the process.

1) You go to your zen place and you write. I lik..

It’s 2015! All that it’s-a-new-year-and-new-you jazz, but most importantly 2015 means hoverboards and flying cars, right? Well, at lea..

Happy 2015 everyone! This February, I begin the last semester of the Interdisciplinary Arts & Media, MFA program. Woohoo! It has been ..

The last day with my students

I remember watching the poetry cohort before me hit the last semester of their MFA Poetry lives, and I h..

Director of Photography, Ian McAvoy, takes a moment to visualize for the film, At Papa’s.

This semester, I embarked on a huge journey…

Since that last entry was pretty heavy, I wanted to follow up with the aftermath of it. Last time around I filled you all in on the mild..