Korean Kapers, Part 1
That's right, no matter where I go on the globe, I keep the fires of alliteration burning bright.In other words, please don't hate me. It's OCD, I promise.So where to start, where to start...Korea's...
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So here I am again, ready to bare my experiences in this fair (and muggy) land, and how they've changed me. It's only been around a couple of weeks, so my worldview's more or less unchanged. I have a...
View ArticleKorean Kapers, Part 3
Another week goes by, another loose assortment of experiences and vignettes. Rather than try and run a single cohesive thread through this one, I think I'm just gonna bullet-point the various things...
View ArticleKorean Kapers, Part 4
The Top Ten Worst Things About Being In A Country Where You Don't Speak the Language:10. To achieve anything outside your frustratingly diminutive command of the tongue, you need someone else to go...
View ArticleKorean Kapers Kome To A Klose
Here I stand once more on American soil, more specifically, Pennsylvanian soil. I have returned to the land where the bagpipes croon, to the house that Andrew built.That's right, I have returned from...
View ArticleEncounters With The Freshmen Kind
The Creative Writing Open House transpired the other day. The Gladys Schmitt Creative Writing Center was engorged with students, and a cursory review of my blog entries will reveal that I've never...
View ArticleFrom the Ashes
I'm talking about the blog site, of course, although whatever alternate definition you may have mapped across that title is probably much cooler. Stick with it. No one's entirely sure what happened,...
View ArticleNytethorn Excerpt -- Senior Thesis Project
Miles rolled over on what he thought was his bed, pulled up what he thought was his blanket, and pushed his face into what he thought was his pillow. He quickly noticed that what he thought...
View Article'Burghing it Up
The past week or so, I've been availing myself of the various Pittsburgh amenities I've managed to skirt every other year of my stay here. What follows is a record of the proceedings.Kennywood Fright...
View ArticleFatal Finals Fracas
How goes it, oh faithful blogwatchers? Okay, a quick confession I've been meaning to make: every time I've ever said that on this blog, or something akin to that (like "oh blogophiles" or something),...
View ArticleNytethorn, Senior Thesis Project Excerpt #2
Figure you guys are about due for some more Nytethorn, right? Don't pretend like you didn't miss it or anything. If you do, I can tell.---The actual Games took place within a massive arena, shaped like...
View ArticleThe Final Lineup
Hey again, everybody. I know how much you all enjoy my semesterly breakdowns of my class schedules, so I figured I'd entertain you once more with tales of my exploits and experiences from across the...
View ArticleCool Things About My Residence
Something I realized, as I skimmed my archives of blogdom, is that you guys have absolutely no idea where I am in case I need to be alerted of imminent attacks. So without further adieu, welcome to my...
View ArticleRead Like A Whirlwind Of...Reading
While you might assume that we writing majors here do quite a bit of writing (and we DO, trust me), you may not have realized that we also do a proportionate amount of reading as well. I'm a firm...
View ArticleThe Last of the Spring Breaks
You know, it's weird. This whole semester has been one long litany of lasts, and as my Carnegie Mellon career winds down its denouement, I've spent a lot of time reflecting.Gotcha! I don't think I...
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