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I Need Serenity
I need just one thing when I’m creating; I need serenity. Thomas W.P. Slatin Before I explain my need for serenity, let’s go back a few years, shall we? I was born and raised in New York City, then for whatever reason, my parents sent me to college in West Virginia. I sought refuge from the very different culture and very backwards thinking of those who also attended the university at the time by spending most of my time outside of class in my dormitory room. Knowing that I need serenity to get work done, to study, and to concentrate, I elected to live in a dormitory with a 24-hour…
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Death Wish
September 2014
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Utility Room Pipe Fittings
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Fourth Iron
September 2014
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Ridiclous Humanities Writing Assignments
If I had a dollar for every one of the ridiculous humanities writing assignments I was given while in college, I’d be fabulously wealthy. Here is a small sampling of the many humanities writing assignments I remember being given while in college. If I had my way, I would have written essays filled with snappy answers to the assignments to mock their ridiculousness. Sentence fragments. Provide proof of five unique examples.This assignment required the students to seek out sentence fragments. We were allowed to find them in advertising, magazines, newspapers, etc. Pretty much anywhere except the Internet. If the assignment allowed us to reference Internet examples, this assignment would be…
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Toad In The Forest
September 2014
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Acataleptic
March 2012
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Ice, Groceries, Beer (Edit)
August 2014
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Ice, Groceries, Beer
August 2014
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It’s Been So Long Since I’ve Seen Something Incredible
Ever since I can remember, I have always been fascinated with abandoned places, as if I am somehow drawn to them by a higher, unseen power. It all began when I was very young, and a friend of mine at the time and I decided to sneak into an abandoned barn down the street from his parents house, and what was inside was a virtual time capsule, a well-organized horde of sorts filled with priceless relics from a much earlier time. Since then, I have been flat-out obsessed with abandonment; its unique history, as well as the exploration and subsequent documentation of these locations. As of yet, I have explored…