Last year, I watched a friend quit. I never saw the actual moment of quitting–it happened while I was gone. But quitting is more of a process than an event. Like coming out, or breaking up, or emptying a jar of jam. It was difficult to watch my friend slowly detach herself from my organization [...]
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Please see this post explaining why I am posting this here. Question 8 of the Truman Scholarship Application7. Describe one specific example of your leadership. (The writer of your letter of recommendation re: Leadership Abilities and Potential must confirm this experience.) With the sand barely shaken from my shoes, I am back in Pittsburgh with [...] Please see this post explaining why I am posting this here. Question 8 of the Truman Scholarship Application Describe a recent particularly satisfying public service activity (do not repeat experience described in 7). I wince a little inside when a woman pulls her daughter away from me early on a Saturday morning. She is [...] I did not get into MIT. I wanted to. The geeky culture, the high level of excellence in music and the humanities–it looked amazing. I would have been miserable. In a pressure-cooker of empirical culture I would not have been happy as a subjective writer. CMU is so much better for me–not because I was [...] Search Engine Optimization is fun: it is a chance to try and think like my audience. I mostly use my SEO powers for good, funneling people to content I think is topical or helping friends control their online presences, but sometimes I use my skills to take-out destructive people. If not a black-hat passtime, it [...] |
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