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Places | On Campus
As a Teacher in a Pandemic, Where Does Work End and I Begin?

Integrating the personal with the professional was helpful in the chaos of 2020. But by 2021, I often lost track of whether I was a teacher or a therapist.

May 26, 2022
Places | On Campus
Why Are “Good” College-Application Essays So Awful to Read?

For many, our education in first-person writing begins with the college application essay, which rewards uplifting narratives with neat-bow conclusions. This is a bad thing.

Apr 20, 2022
Places | On Campus
The Perils of Academic “Potential”

We don’t need to accept potential as currently defined. We can change the questions we ask, the learning environments we create.

May 26, 2021
Places | On Campus
A Black Physicist Is Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past

I want to live in a world where I can be a physicist without also being asked to speak on or compensate for the persistent racism of institutions.

Nonfiction | On Campus
College and beer pong

And a boy so very appropriately named Dick.

Jul 11, 2018
Places | On Campus
While Teaching in Japan, it Took an Enemy to Make Me Feel at Home

Yuka took my feelings of alienation and monstrousness and turned them into a hilarious joke we shared.

Dec 19, 2017
Places | On Campus
My Mother’s Hope: On Being a First-Generation Latina in College

“We can make a positive impact and pursue our dreams in this country—even when we feel unwelcome in it.”

Oct 17, 2017
Places | On Campus
Teaching Under Threat

“During that class, I did not feel like a teacher; I only felt like a woman, a body in danger.”

Places | On Campus
A Case for Studying the Humanities in a Time of Neo-Fascism

“Trump and his administration are readable. And we must read them carefully.”

Sep 12, 2017
Places | On Campus
Why I Want My Daughter to Be Free at School

“I would rather have a daughter who acts out than one who falls in line.”

Aug 31, 2017