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Special
These past few weeks, I’ve read and seen various incarnations of a concept that is best summed up in an article I read in early September from the Huffington Post. The article’s subject – Why Generation Y Yuppies are Unhappy – mainly focuses on our generation’s unhappiness in the workplace, and is delved into throughout […]
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Monday Muse
Suleika Jaouad, writer of the New York Times column Life, Interrupted on the Well blogs, is Prabal Gurung’s first Monday Muse (according to her Facebook page)! Truthfully, she’s such an inspiration to everyone, including me. I started reading her column when it began early last year in the Times, and I truly appreciated the insight […]
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Listening
Writing (for other, non-blogging purposes – mainly, application purposes) always calls for a healthy dose of music for me… the ratio of music to writing when I write is probably 15:1 (if that’s a way to quantify it based on absolutely no data). This is one of the reasons I’ve been listening to so. much. […]
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Another Rainy Day
It’s a beautiful, rainy day to enjoy, perfect for some chai tea, good music (Hillsong’s new Glorious Ruins and of course, some Corinne Bailey Rae), and a healthy dose of writing.
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The Art of Describing Yourself
In the midst of med school apps a couple weeks ago, I ran across these essays in the NY Times last week. They were a part of this main article that discussed a “new” type of college essays that are emerging, ones where the writers take huge risks in relation to what one usually thinks […]