Moving On: What It Means to Leave
I used to be an aspiring chef, once. But now that I’m moving out and entering college, I’m confronted with my old obsession. How do you leave behind something you used to love?
My First Farewell is to Myself: Discovering the Tension Between Who I Want to Be and Who I Am
As I start saying my goodbyes to what I’ve known for the past six years and look towards my future, I can’t help but wonder–is it better to be liked for a version of myself that I am not, or risk being rejected for who I really am?
Entering NS: Where Does That Leave Me?
As National Service draws ever closer, I confront the fear of being left behind while my peers move forward, and the difficult truth that I have not yet made peace with the path ahead.
The Last Assignment I Couldn’t Outsource
It is incredibly easy to outsource success to AI: give it your task and rubric, and voila. But as graduation approaches, we must realise that the real world offers no task sheets and no prompts capable of outsourcing the work of becoming a person. We must say goodbye, therefore, to a system of easy, cheap, success.