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Python is accessible. It is inclusive, easy to learn and powerful. It has created more jobs than it has automated. It has a strong place in the modern economy, on campus and in my heart. Thank you, Python.

It took me 20 years to want my culture back. A culture I had so actively sought to lose since middle school. 

Slumber song “sung to infants.” Sing as to lull goodnight. Song spun from “lull” + “good-bye.” From “lull" (verb) as in...

I’m thinking of when you sat on a white blanket with grass peeking through the threads, and you wore a white dress for our special occasion: a conversation.

With every step I’ve taken towards reconciling with my identity, I’ve realized how much there is still to learn — or how much I’ll never be able to learn.

Sometimes, I reach the border of the translatable, where the languages that normally exist happily together in my mind disaffiliate.

It’s been only since arriving in the United States that I’ve subconsciously “Americanized” my name to suit the American English phonetic pronunciation.

I know from school and dictionaries that language has defined meanings, but I learned from my experience of speaking Spanish how words also have tastes, smells, sounds and sights.