A Big Jar Of Mustard

This piece was written in 2015 as an admissions essay for the University of Chicago 2016 fall semester. The essay as well as my application allotted me waitlist status.

Persistence

This was written for a university introductory class. Slight adaptations have been made from the original.

A Conversation With Death

This piece was written under a unique inspiration, and received praise by the National Ametuer Poetry Contest.

Dead Mornings

Yesterday, I woke up ten minutes before the start of class half-way across campus. After arriving precisely one minute late to class, I decided I would begin to embrace the morning, as there was no way to avoid the 8 o’clock class.

I had an interesting conversation with a girl once. It went something like this:

“How would you describe yourself using a picture of something other than yourself?”

She sent back a picture similar to this:

“Untitled”

This is a piece describing the crippling nature of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

An Obsession With Haiku

I was once obsessed
The poetic pattern of
Haiku was my art

In the boredom of high school, I often wrote haiku in the margins of my notebooks. I found it easy to quickly count syllables, often without repeating the word in my head.

Robin Williams

This commemoration of Robin Williams was written in my high school speech class. Williams is a personal hero of mine.

Color My Life With Chaos

Enjoy this terrible “romantic” poetry that I wrote at some point in high school.

The Disease

I was asked to perform a piece of poetry for a male beauty pageant in my residence hall. I refused to perform something I had already written, so I culminated my most recently acquired…