Category: Articles
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Four Years in the Real World
The dramatic graduate driving home wasn’t wrong about having more to learn, but there would be no shortages of opportunities to do so.
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Keywords and Questions Lead to Twitter Engagement
How hitting the right Twitter keywords can go wrong. Meyers Leonard Tweets me back and the Sacramento Kings acknowledge my existence.
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Finding a Home Through Craigslist
Craigslist is mostly normal people looking to offload a couch or something, but its depths know no boundaries.
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To Be All Its Name Implies
A section of this essay ran as a guest column in the Paradise Post. I’ve never been to hell and I base the choices in my life with hopes that I don’t end up there. For many, the November 8th morning drive from Paradise to Chico was a trip through literal hell, as flames from…
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Stop Avoiding Dope Opportunities
If you know my family personally and have spent time on Instagram, you’ll understand how near and dear to my sister’s heart hiking is. Which is why, during the entire six months that I’ve lived in this country, she’s often asked me why I haven’t been going off on nature treks of my own.…
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Running With Bulls Under the Fair Lights
Throughout the cantons of Guanacaste, Costa Rica, the end of the year brings parties across the northernmost province. Semi-trucks, carrying parts to rides and booths, make their way into the small towns where surfboards are carried on the sides of motorcycles and it’s not uncommon for horses grazing on the roadside to stop traffic. Drawing…
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Resurrecting Super Smash Bros. 64
Across the state of Oregon, groups are making their way to Salem on a rainy morning. Some are from universities and greater metropolitan areas around the state. One group even makes the four hour drive with five people in a sedan, loaded down with energy drinks and controllers. Through Facebook these individuals have connected and…
Eli Stillman 