Category: London Living

  • Reflections on 2022

    Reflections on 2022

    Happy New Year! Every year on January 1st, I receive a letter from my past self. Per the recommendation of Safi, I use a service called FutureMe that sends emails to your inbox in the future. This year’s letter naturally came from January 2022 Me—a version of me still waiting to hear back from job…

  • What is Literature?

    Half of my grad school experience, so far, has been about asking better questions. In seminar, we tackled this huge question—what is literature? Maybe if I were to ask you this question verbatim, you would answer something like “literature is a story with a beginning, middle, or end,” or maybe you would start telling me…

  • On Being a City Person

    City living isn’t always as vapid as we make it out to be Tourists. We all gripe about them until it’s our turn to admit that we would actually appreciate a photo of ourselves in front of an attraction. Taking a photo in front of the Statue of Liberty or Big Ben differentiates the experience…