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personal essay

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Nature

‘A Summer Abroad’: Retrospective apology

Erin Choi
  •  
April 19, 2023
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A man laying in bed, next to a keyboard that he places a single hand on.

Excerpt: Autumn, grief, loss and other things

Kyla Figueroa
  •  
Feb. 1, 2023
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Closeup of an eye

I can’t believe my eyes

Sam Waddoups
  •  
Dec. 7, 2022
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A fountain pen and flowers on paper.

The lost art of letter writing

Susanna Newsom
  •  
Dec. 7, 2022
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Two pictures of the author with their bike.

Cycling through adulthood

Kastella Nguyen
  •  
Nov. 17, 2022
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Someone bikes past a planetary orb in the Engineering Quad.

Observer: Searching for purpose

Benjamin Midler
  •  
Nov. 10, 2022
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It is dark out, and Hindu priest conducting a religious havan. There are two other religious officers in front and behind.

‘Vrata’: A Hindu priest’s lesson on dedication to goals amidst Stanford’s cacophony of opportunity

Diya Sabharwal
  •  
Nov. 6, 2022
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A mirror that stands on a desk in an empty room.

Six variations on a crowded, lonely room

Brandon Kim
  •  
Nov. 1, 2022
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Green Library with Hoover Tower in the background.

What does it mean to call yourself a “Stanford student”?

Audrey Kim
  •  
Oct. 9, 2022
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Image captured by the James Webb telescope. As NASA describes, it is "a landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula."

Transfers of the universe (and other people too)

Nestor Walters
  •  
Oct. 6, 2022
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A picture of Main Quad

Dear Stanford: Letters from a Knyaw Mu

Mu Hsi Hsi
  •  
Oct. 5, 2022
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Art professor crouched while drawing on a brown canvas the sketch of a body.

Tales from teachers: Process over product

Aya Aziz
  •  
Oct. 3, 2022
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The side view of a brain model.

Blame it on the prefrontal cortex

Chloe Mendoza
  •  
Sept. 28, 2022
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Ocean waves crash on a beach.

Waves and the things we leave behind

Thay Graciano
  •  
Sept. 26, 2022
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Panorama of the beach with the ocean and mountains in the backdrop.

The things I’ll keep

Hanmin Lee
  •  
June 1, 2022
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The image shows the exterior of Burbank dorm.

The temporal, the permanent and micro-eras

Kyla Figueroa
  •  
May 22, 2022
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A view of the ocean with a whale fin peaking out.

The pious and the devout (or, why we should write about science)

Danny Ritz
  •  
May 9, 2022
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Empty plaza with dark green fountain structure in the middle, trees on both sides of the image.

It happens here

Lou W.
  •  
March 28, 2022
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Two shots from the Instagram short film; one features the boy at a village and the other is darker, portraying captured Black people.

Imagining and reimagining narratives of slavery

Ecy King
  •  
March 9, 2022
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A close-up of a to-go cup of coffee on a wooden table/

Stanford Love Letters: I’m 19 and bitter — and I’ll be fine.

Kyla Figueroa
  •  
March 6, 2022
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