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Chihiro Ogino, a superhero

As a girl growing up surrounded by superhero movies full of strong male leads and role models, it was hard to find someone that I could look up to.

Book review — Mark Levin’s Unfreedom of the Press

Last year, around the beginning of the pandemic, I started reading for pleasure. I began with some classic novels, like Frankenstein, The Bell Jar, and the 900-page Anna Karenina which all made me hooked on the world of fiction.

TechFest to be Split into Five Smaller, Sadder Events

Students were shocked to discover this week that the school was planning to still host the absolute rager known as TechFest, but were less surprised to find out that, much like literally everything else, the pandemic had ruined it beyond recognition.

Better than yesterday

I’ve always done my best to live by this idea. To be better today than I was yesterday. It’s a fairly simple concept and falls directly in line with the idea that we must not compare ourselves to others, as hard as that can be.

The world’s greatest inventions

“World’s greatest inventions” as a Google search produces hundreds of millions of results in a split second. There are a dozen websites on the first page alone (because everyone knows you just don’t go to the second page of Google), all of which have their own list on what exactly the world’s greatest inventions are.

Representation in cartoons

I like to make a practice of forming opinions on as many socio-economic/socio-political issues around me as possible. Firstly, for the reason that having an educated opinion on a matter can serve as an easy benchmark to measure one’s own awareness of the topic, and secondly, for the reason that it allows me to have more conversations with people well-versed on the subject.

On doodling and postmodernism

I would call myself a doodler. Too consistent in drawing and painting efforts over the years to truly be called a beginner — but not skilled, nor even interested in my artistic ventures enough to call myself an artist.