How to Take Graduate Courses (For Far Too Long)
For all the pious academic talk about deep and careful reading, our fields run on quick glances and hurried skims.
How to Code (For Writing Majors)
His work looks like typing at his desk for hours, glancing between three different screens, and not speaking to anyone. It felt oddly familiar.
How to Make Progress Towards Your Goals: A Check In on My New Productivity Method
Consistency is the number one ingredient to being successful—eventually.
How to Be The Cool Adult
My students would keep me in the loop, right? They wouldn’t just say things and then refuse to explain them to me.
How to Cope With the End of Cinema
Minutes after it concludes, six Letterboxd reviews ranging from half to one-and-a-half stars appear in rapid succession.
How to Start (and End) a Decade
At the outset of my twenties I needed a lot.
How to Pick a Premier League Team
If you like Robin Hood: Nottingham Forest. It sounds like a made-up place, but they are a real team.
How to Love a Thing You Made Your Whole Personality but Now Feel Cringe About in Three Easy Steps and Two You Should Have Done Ten to Fifteen Years Ago
Most normal people just kind of age out of the media they like and stop thinking about it, but you are not a normal person.
First Date Formula from an Armchair Anthropologist
Ann walked him the ten minutes to his apartment in the opposite direction of hers—chivalry isn’t dead, folks.
Like Diamond Chips on Julia’s Ring
I think my brain panics and freezes between political fighting and ephemeral flighting.
