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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 earn admission to Harvard in 2014. I wrote this when I was 17, on the bus back from...

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...

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