October 2011
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October 5th
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
I keep hearing this in my head. Like everyone else, I reviewed his commencement speech the day he died. He had a way with words, a way of putting things. Steve Jobs could speak and it would really hit and reverberate in your head for a while. In a way, he was as good at...
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I keep having quick flashbacks to that moment where I fell on my face and lost my tooth. I cracked it off and buried half of it deep into my lower lip. I didn’t realize the damage I’d done until I was confronted with the bad news two mornings later by a doctor named Sokol. I planned on going to class that morning, but I was getting surgery instead.
My nose was brown and dark purple....
July 2011
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The train ride was going to take a good two hours, but I didn’t care. I had nothing better to do that morning, and a weekend in the Hampton’s in the middle of June seemed appropriate at the time. Arriving at Penn Station, we had three minutes to purchase our tickets. This was no easy task at noon on a weekend in New York. The hall was crowded with tourists and groups of children wearing the...