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Aspiring writer, poet.
I am a freshman at Bowdoin College who has a passion for writing. I will periodically post my works in this blog.

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Being Right and Being Kind

“When given the choice of being right and being kind”, the advice goes, “choose kind.” The self-proclaimed principle by itself may earn...

Let me learn the art of man

Originally, the following was written around new year yet I did not publish it until now. The fragility of the human heart is one of...

I may not be as mature as I once thought.

I once thought, perhaps prematurely, that I was mature. Every night afforded me an opportunity to think and philosophize — the day before...

The Unexamined Life May Be Worth Living

“The unexamined life is not worth living”, Socrates proclaims in front of the jurors who were to convict him to death, convicted against...

The Art of Nature and the Art of Man

Mathematics and science are the art of nature, the governor of the universe — with merely a formula of several letters written with a...

Three Sonnets, Three Steps of Growth

The solitude quarantine ordains makes self-reflection inevitable; be it day or night, each of my hours in recent months are spent in...

Crime and Punishment and Me

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment remains one of the most philosophically resonating pieces of literature in my heart. The novel...

Let Me Be the Trees

I ambled through a park on a Wednesday afternoon; the place was sparsely populated, with each encounter with a stranger requiring at...

Some Beauties I Neglected

My previous optimism towards humanity met its greatest challenge when I came to learn that many whom I used to admire may not deserve...

Another Excerpt from My Story

In this excerpt, Amelia Finley is coming back to her dorm room after dating a charismatic and handsome cult leader, Sidney Reynolds....

Original Sin and Forgiveness

One of my favorite things about Christianity, which I, as a lifelong skeptic, appreciate and distrust at the same time, is its doctrine...

Excerpt from a short story I'm working on

At this point in her life, when the New Advent has permeated her heart as much as mere drops of ink may pollute a bottle of water, she no...

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