Author: Jason D. Rowley
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On Breaking Radio Silence
After a long hiatus from writing on my blog, I feel this surprising emptiness. One would think that taking almost two months off from writing anything personal would leave one bursting with ideas and stories and hundreds of observations gathered while doing something other than sitting behind a computer screen, tapping away on a keyboard.…
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Soaker
Standing in the garden, quenching young tomatoes’ roots, I shot a bee out of the air. I followed it, in jet mode, full bore. Death in the mud by waterfall, not drowned but bludgeoned and crushed.
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On The Importance of Losing Oneself
A friend of mine who is currently devoting all her time into getting in a reputed university in Australia, as the Australian gamsat needs prep sent me and a couple other friends an email. Attached was a link to a David Brooks piece in the New York Times, which articulated quite well one of the…
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What I Learned in College, in 372 Words
In college I majored in Victorian novels and travel writing and cold unfeeling minimal house. I dated and fell in love with delicate abstractions of my own thoughts, many of them. I learned that structures based on recounting the tales of old truths is what academia is. That in spite of the putatively groundbreaking research…
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
My one beef with the All American Road Trip is that, at its core, it’s built upon seeing things. Over the past 40 hours, I was on a road trip for the annual University of Chicago scavenger hunt, affectionately known as “scav”. [blackbirdpie id=”66137266803847168 “] Our route was to take us from Chicago, through the…
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JDR Gets Down to Business, & HD Takes a Week Off
I will be taking a week off from writing effective today. I’m in the midst of tidying up a business plan for a venture I’m launching with two friends; between finishing that and getting in touch with lawyers and finding developers, a decent marketing/design guy/girl, and getting content for a website together, I’m kind of…