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Gymnastics

“I’m home,” I shout into the kitchen, back from school, as the cracked glass breezeway door slams shut behind me. I kicked it out of...

College Essay

I’ve decided to share my college essay that helped me get accepted to Harvard in 2014. I wrote this when I was 17, on the bus back from a...

Sydney Wants Love

Many of you likely read the New York Times article that came out today about Kevin Roose's conversation with Microsoft's new AI chatbot...

death & impermanence

The following is a quotation of an audio clip by American philosopher Sam Harris: “Many of us do most of what we do in spite of the fact...

I Can’t Watch Movies

It’s Sunday night. We’ve been watching football all day and are ready for a change. (Correction: Jack did, I fell asleep within the first...

4 to 16

This isn't a "story" like my other blog posts. Rather, it contains my thoughts surrounding female body image, gaining weight, and mental...

ECT

The below is from an electroconvulsive therapy (“ECT”) treatment I got at McLean Hospital. I got several of these treatments during the...

Dear Jack, Part II

Some of you may have been watching the apartment mess go down on my Instagram story. Yes, it’s been difficult. We are at Jack’s...

Ugly Naked Guy

I have bared my soul to all of New York City—and I mean that quite literally. Bare naked, birthday suit. (Okay, maybe not all of NYC; but...

Dear Jack

This post was written to wish my fiancé, Jack, a very happy birthday. Dear Jack, Before I met you, I was in a really dark place. I was...

Goat Man

This post is about the time I spent with an eccentric billionaire in Maui. I wrote this on my phone on the plane ride home. I pull up to...

Girl Crush

Nicole left for Amsterdam for the night with Jason. We were in Paris for Spring Break—her parents paid for the whole thing, luckily,...

The Artist

It’s 3:30am on Saturday night in the Lower East Side of NYC. March 9th to be exact; I’m walking down Allen St. Daylight savings time put...

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