Life
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The word I want to lead me through 2019
February 25, 2019
todo
30 before 30
January 21, 2018
I made a 30 before 30 list. It's kind of like a short-term bucket list that contains the 30 things I most want to do or make or experience before I turn 30 on January 25, 2021.
250 days later
August 07, 2017
This past weekend I hit day 250 of my daily writing habit! It feels really good to know that if I try, I can commit to something for 250 straight days. It’s a good confidence booster. It makes me feel like I can commit to anything now.
New advice to new grads
June 07, 2017
Don’t be late. There will always be enough time. Never stop asking questions. You’re allowed to change your mind. You will fall in love with strangers. Everything normalizes. Freedom costs money. You have to be brave.
I wouldn’t call any of these lessons learned. That kind of talk implies mastery. They’re more like lessons I’m learning. A little bit every day.
They let me speak at my college graduation
May 11, 2017
I graduated college four years ago, and this is the speech I gave at my graduation ceremony. After rereading it to prepare this post, I’m pretty sure it's not great. Or even very good really. But maybe this relic of my past will resonate with someone today.
SpaceX is doing a thing!
March 28, 2017
SpaceX is attempting to re-launch the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket they launched into orbit last year and recovered via controlled landing. This is a big deal. It’s the first time anything like this has ever been attempted. If they’re successful, it’s an event our children’s children’s children might one day study in science class.
If you’re looking for reasons to feel inspired this week, this is a good one.
My favorite films of 2016
March 22, 2017
A countdown of my top ten from 2016. Finally. Only one of the following four films made the cut: Arrival, Kubo, La La Land, and Moonlight. Guess which one?
I wrote 35,280 words in December
January 25, 2017
Life is good, which means I can’t keep making excuses. If writing really is important to me, then it’s time for me to prove it.
Life in an echo chamber
November 22, 2016
Different “facts” target different groups of people online, which means offline, we can’t even agree what the facts are anymore. If we can’t agree on something as basic as the facts, how can we ever hope to understand each other’s perspectives?
Constraints breed focus
May 15, 2016
Here's a peak at the books I most want to read and the movies I most want to watch. It's a snapshot of things that interest me right now. A Polaroid of future influence and inspiration.
My life in weeks
April 10, 2016
I turned 25 in January, and I’m starting to feel old for the first time ever. In life we only get one story to tell, and honestly, it's not a very long one. The weeks we have left to live are countable, and I don't want to take any of them for granted.
Hello world… again!
February 8, 2015
I haven't posted anything in over a year! What the hell happened? Short answer: Life got busy.
She’s the man in the reflection on the bus
November 26, 2013
That time on that bus I tried to make sense of a silent viewing of that soccer movie where Amanda Bynes pretends to be a boy.
I’m not in Nebraska anymore
November 5, 2013
Seven big and small ways Philadelphia is different from Omaha.
I have less lecture, and I must scream
October 29, 2013
I have a finite amount of time in grad school to learn as much as I can, and I don’t want to waste even six minutes of it.
If advice could time travel
October 26, 2013
Cheesy advice to my 17-year-old self written by my 18-year-old self about college.
Leaving home
August 24, 2013
I've already said my final goodbyes. It feels strange to be in a place where I literally don’t know a single person. I don’t have any friends here. Not yet, at least. Everyone's a stranger until you introduce yourself.
Expectations
August 19, 2013
The stranger, the tourist, the hiker, the socialite, the scholar, the friend, the encyclopedia, the soloist--just a few of the many hats I expect to wear while living in Philadelphia. It’s a difficult thing to surrender familiarity, but I finally feel ready to go out on my own.
I was not awarded the J.P. Eckert Fellowship
July 29, 2013
Grad school is crazy expensive, and it looks like I'll be paying for it all out of pocket now. I'm bummed, but I'll get over it.
A brief yet triumphant introduction
July 26, 2013
The inaugural post. The one where I explain who I am, what I'm doing on the internet, and what I hope to accomplish through blogging.