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Essays, observations, and occasional investigations into the strange business of being twenty-something.

Essentially, I’m in my twenties. This is how I think. This is how I write.

  • Pass the Aux

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    To keep on the theme of admitting embarrassing things about myself, I am here to admit that it is constantly on my mind what my Spotify Wrapped will look like at the end of the year. And by Spotify Wrapped, I do mean the music app Spotify’s annual end of the year insights. And by constantly on my mind, I don’t mean because I’m excited to see what my listening patterns were this year and what Glee Cast version song inevitability makes it to my top five most listened to songs.  By constantly on my mind I mean I am…

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  • Do You Think I’m Cool?

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    I am going to make a statement that some of you might find very hard to believe: I was not cool in high school. I didn’t have my first sip of alcohol until I was a freshman in college, my first kiss wasn’t until I was nineteen, and my first soul-crushing situationship happened only in my sophomore year of college. (Yet still haunts me to this day) Now, that’s not to say that those are the things that make you cool, but I hope it helps paint the picture of the widely insecure, academic-success obsessed, stick up my ass, and…

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  • Pokémon Go to the Polls

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    Not to be political, but things are going to get political in this next entry. I became active in politics in 2019 ahead of the 2020 presidential election and developed a love and passion for politics, wanting to possibly major in Political Science, but more notably becoming obsessed with shows like Veep and The Politician.  I got involved by volunteering for presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, you all remember the guy, right? The guy from El Paso, Texas, who said “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47?” and who for some reason answered a question in Spanish on…

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