Summer doesn’t give us all a break
Off the Beat
Say what you will about the United States being a place to reinvent yourself as a multimillion-dollar business CEO; we all know that’s just a cruel myth.
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Invoke the Vocative
I’m an immigrant, and Malayalam is my mother tongue. I’m an immigrant, and Malayalam is my second language. Both are true, but the latter I’ve always hated.
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Living in a Silicon Valley hacker house made me examine startup culture
Off the Beat
And when I looked closer at our little Silicon Valley bubble, I realized friendship wasn’t the only promise that was a shallow front, it became obvious missions of “making the world a better place” were as well.
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The life-changing quality of main character moments
Off the Beat
The concept of “main character moments” has surfaced as the new fantasy that people yearn for. These are the moments that make you feel like you own the world for even just a second, and that all the eyes of surrounding outsiders are on you.
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Patient and kind
Cal in Color
I’ve realized that, as a writer, I can’t completely bridge this gap between you and me, no matter how much I may try or how similar we are. I can only represent myself: weaknesses, strengths and all.
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Into the wild
Human Nature
Realizing that nature will always be there, at least to some extent no matter where I go, is deeply comforting.
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Writing is living
Create to Connect
But now, I know that what is more important than being a good writer is to just be real. This is my mind and life: choppy, raw, inundated with detours and frolics, laughter and tears.
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Get that dick
Sex on Tuesday
I remember smiling a lot, not necessarily because of the hookup, but because I was proud that I was allowing myself to finally live and to experience simple pleasures instead of being stuck in constant rigidity.
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Happy endings
Embracing Disability
In less than two weeks, I begin the end of my undergraduate career: the end of an era. The end of my life as a student, the precipice before I have to figure it all out somehow.
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Oh, to be a woman!
Cal in Color
This is the American media’s concept of a perfect woman. In some ways, even today, it gives me hope. More than that though, it frustrates me.
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