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  • Link Party: 10/20-10/24

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. Rei Kawakubo is fascinating. 2. Apparently, the oceans could lose $1 trillion in value because of acidification. I don’t really understand how they quantified that, but maybe if we attach a financial cost to something like this, people will pay more attention to what we’re doing to something we can’t…

  • Culture Connoisseur: Joan Didion

    As an English major, I’ve read a lot of books. There have been books I thoroughly enjoyed (Infinite Jest or Absalom, Absalom! for example), books I thought were just okay (Animal Farm and Of Mice and Men) and books I really really really really disliked (Huckleberry Finn and The Fault in Our Stars). And although I can…

  • Undergraduate Adventures: Style Guide

    For the academic year, I’m the student newspaper’s copy editor. It’s actually quite a bit of work: after the editors take a look at submitted stories, I comb them over for inaccuracies and grammar errors. When the editors lay out the pages, I look at proofs to catch any last errors before the paper goes to print.…

  • Link Party: 10/13-10/17

    Here are some of the things I read this week: 1. This personal essay by Kiese Laymon on Kanye West and being a male feminist is old but incredible. 2. Maybe my undergraduate thesis will be as forward-thinking as George Gallup’s. 3. There’s this thing called Whiteness Project that you should probably be aware of.…

  • Think Tank: Halloween Necklaces and Life Minutiae

    Every year for Halloween, the kids at the children’s center at school come around to offices and go trick-or-treating. Candy isn’t allowed, so we try to get them other goodies like stickers, pretzels or activity packs. This year, my office bought stickers, pretzels and plastic necklaces on a thin string. Because they came in a…

  • Gold Star for the Internet: Skillshare

    Back in the summer (when I had more time to pursue my hobbies), I found this great website that is chock full of creative tutorials. At my art journaling class, I was telling my coworker about how I learned calligraphy and mentioned the class. Up until then, I had completely forgotten about it. And the more…

  • Undergrad Adventures: Structure of Language

    As an English major, I’m required to take two linguistics courses. I took language acquisition last winter, and now I’m taking structure of language. Because language is a system, a linguistics class is essentially a math class that uses words instead of numbers. In just a few short weeks, I’ve learned a lot about language and…

  • Link Party: 10/6-10/10

    The past few days have been a little crazy, but I did have some time to read a few really great articles. Here’s what I read: 1. Stevie Nicks and Haim in one interview. Life is beautiful. 2. Some scientists found some ancient cave paintings in Indonesia, and they predate the European ones. And because these paintings are so much…

  • Think Tank: Creative Extracurriculars

    I’m taking an art journaling class, and it is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. For two hours on Monday and Wednesday afternoons after work, I get to work on my journal, eat really good food and zone out. I’ve only been to one class so far, but when I got in my car to…

  • Gold Star for the Internet: Fly Art

    Every once in awhile, someone on the Internet gets a really genius idea and deserves a giant gold star. Today, I’m giving it to Fly Art. There are a couple of similar projects, but the jist is that the people behind Fly Art take rap lyrics and layer them over pieces of classical art. It started off…