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How Words Shape Our World Shapes Our Words
So, if even love can be altered by our ability to communicate it, or rather our language’s inherent structures for it, what nerdy linguistic fun fact can I surprise you with? Have you considered the
Mar 16


Ellsworth Kelly's 'Austin'
At the edge of the University of Texas at Austin campus, sits a small white building, filling in the landscape between brutalist educational infrastructure and the Blanton Museum. From the outside, it resembles a temple, stripped down to its bare form. Its curved ceilings and crisp white limestone, mirror a house taken off the Santorini coast and placed under religious aesthetics. Above its entrance, is a grid of nine colored windows. Each side of the building showcases a spe
Mar 31


Bookmark: Anxious People by Frederik Backman
should you go back to admire a sentence you've finished reading, or rush to experience the next...
Jul 28, 2025


In the Name of the Pygmalion Effect
From the wise words of our professor Mr. Michael Bennett, “Grading is a bit of a social construct. It's a way for society to judge or credit something. Evaluation is something we do naturally. We evaluate on a daily basis. When we first meet someone, when we enter a new place, when we taste a new food- we are evaluating. So what purpose does grading serve?” After being hit with a philosophical question towards the very nature of our academic system, you’d think the idea would
Jul 5, 2025


Bookmark: My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
You come to learn how the stories we tell hold power, and sometimes in finding yourself others find themselves too.
Jul 4, 2025


Seven+ Years
"There's this study that once you have been friends with someone for seven years you are most likely to...
Jun 14, 2025


Bookmark: Greek Lessons by Han Kang
I put down this book several times...I'll admit this book was not one I found easily read.
Mar 1, 2025


Bookmark: The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
There is so much mundanity in not achieving your dreams. Wolitzer manages the unique magic of making this mundanity, vulnerably human.
Feb 4, 2024


3 Lessons: Living Through & Graduating During a Global Pandemic
When the virus reached U.S. soil everything normal in my life disappeared so abruptly that the reality replacing it felt...
Jun 30, 2022


A Mother's Life and Advice on College
how often I forget that my mom was not always a mother. She too was once young with siblings and parents of her own...
May 11, 2021


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