2013

• April 30, 2013Ratios and momentum in Messud
• April 7, 2013Kampala

2012

• December 2, 2012beachcombers in the bulwark
• December 2, 2012The best New Yorker articles, ever
• December 1, 2012My favorite New York Times articles, ever
• January 28, 2012The View From a Hill
• January 2, 2012Tasteless

2011

• November 7, 2011Week 20 and Week 21: Marginalia and The Novel
• November 7, 2011The end of Peter Writes
• November 6, 2011Epic Poem #1: The Sex Bear
• November 5, 2011Non-profits in the Philippines: Overview of development work
• October 25, 2011The curse of having 1,000 unique visitors in one day
• October 25, 2011Spring Cleaning at the Lu residence
• October 25, 2011Lips too tight
• October 25, 2011Aboard the Greyhound Express: Accident and an Audi
• October 24, 2011the paisley dirt hole
• October 24, 2011Week 19: Bookstore magic and Quora inflation
• October 24, 2011Tidbits from Yale
• October 23, 2011Sunshine of the spotted mind: Notes on my phone
• October 23, 2011How to reverse myopia
• October 23, 2011Astounding words, phrases, and sentences
• October 22, 2011Yale and its humanities
• October 22, 2011The pilgrimage from the dessert desert
• October 22, 2011My hometown in Tonggu, China
• October 22, 2011My first (and last) colonoscopy running journal
• October 22, 2011Anton Chekhov in the Philippines
• October 20, 2011Gone: A poem inspired by Anne Carson
• October 17, 2011Week 18: Hangin' out with Siri
• October 13, 2011Life is Friends, by Jeanne Martinet (Miss Mingle)
• October 13, 2011Day 11: First tournament experience: 8th place
• October 11, 2011Running Diary: Michael Jordan scores 64 points against young Shaq
• October 11, 2011Day 9: The Simple System
• October 10, 2011Week 17: Online time is inversely proportional to offline purpose
• October 7, 2011Day 5: The unbearable lightness of being
• October 6, 2011Day 3: Re-centering
• October 5, 201190-Day Poker Challenge: Day 1. Rotten teeth and mental beats
• October 4, 2011The 90-day Poker Challenge
• October 3, 2011Yale's Argentinian Pears
• October 3, 2011Links, Week 16: One McIntosh apple, puffing hard
• October 3, 20119-9-99: My autobiography
• September 30, 2011Off campus, online
• September 29, 2011Leaving Yale, Part 3: I must pee.
• September 29, 2011Knit and Tonic
• September 28, 2011Harvard Business School and Kennedy Science Club: the joys of experiential learning
• September 25, 2011Links, Week 15: 77 hours and a top-ten list
• September 24, 2011Red-light district conversations: Old, fat white men in Manila
• September 22, 2011Yes, and: Enablers and the people who love them
• September 21, 2011Peter Lu in lists
• September 19, 2011Links, Week 13: 88 hours online, for one essay
• September 18, 2011The red-light district in Manila
• September 16, 2011Life Rhapsodies: What I learned when I learned to play guitar
• September 16, 2011400-pound beauty: Part 1 & 2
• September 15, 2011How do you overcome the fear of failure?
• September 13, 2011100th post: MLK, pushups, and a push for breadth and height
• September 12, 2011Tribute to Philip Levine: Eggs and Bread
• September 12, 2011My first Friday night in Manila
• September 12, 2011Links, Week 12: Full week in Manila
• September 12, 20119/11 Reflection: Peter Lu
• September 7, 2011Alcohol and Peter: the 4-year relationship.
• September 7, 20116 years in journal entries: my life in high school and college, unfiltered
• September 5, 2011The sap dries quickly enough
• September 4, 2011The 2007 - 2011 Yale class rankings
• September 4, 2011Maroon City
• September 4, 2011Links, Week 11: In transit
• September 3, 2011Intermission: First impressions from the Philippines
• August 30, 2011Public transportation in Los Angeles
• August 30, 2011My class schedule for this semester
• August 29, 2011My summer at a publishing company
• August 28, 2011Links, Week 10: Regression to the mean
• August 27, 2011Trio: Poetry in Florida
• August 27, 2011Kafka's Metamorphosis
• August 25, 2011The Happiness Hypothesis
• August 24, 2011Pledge of Allegiance: The story of my first crush
• August 22, 20111-minute read: The Upside of Irrationality, by Dan Ariely
• August 21, 2011Links, Week 9: Generating investment
• August 21, 20114th of July, Investment banking style
• August 18, 2011I'm leaving you, New York. But it's not you. It's me.
• August 18, 2011Almost but Not Quite
• August 17, 2011Stickers of the Bayou
• August 17, 2011Inclination: A little plant story
• August 17, 2011Healing Bells
• August 15, 2011Cleaning Yale: My New Haven janitor, Sherri B.
• August 14, 2011Moving Day
• August 14, 2011Links, Week 8: Back home
• August 12, 2011The real life afterlife: Sleep No More
• August 12, 2011Afterlife, spoiler-alert: Me convincing you to see Sleep No More
• August 11, 2011Entry
• August 9, 2011Reflections on a Tiger Author
• August 7, 2011Links, week 7: Milestones
• August 5, 2011Castle Rock
• August 4, 2011How to write a FOOT co-leader poem
• August 3, 2011How I dress: The rise and fall of faux hipsterdom
• August 2, 2011MLIG: Who am I? What the heck is happening?
• August 2, 2011Bottle Service
• July 31, 2011Links, Week 6: Struggling to maintain focus
• July 30, 2011Jasjit, clean shaven
• July 29, 2011At Columbus Circle, in the sketchpad
• July 28, 2011Guitar for the win: Street performance tomorrow
• July 27, 2011Zack Wheeler for Beltran: Too much?
• July 26, 2011Love and other duds: agency, the chase, and the role of kismet
• July 25, 2011HELP: singing lessons needed
• July 24, 2011Links, Week 5: Return to baseline (free movies, Lego concentration camp)
• July 24, 2011A lesson from street fundraising: How to approach strangers
• July 23, 2011Street fundraising is like baseball: my first week in the majors
• July 23, 2011Love and other drugs: a review, and bonus personal psychoanalysis
• July 23, 2011Indecision: selfish interest versus small sacrifices
• July 21, 2011Looking forward to Cupertino
• July 20, 2011Fruit, flora, rainforest: nature in the Philippines (e.g. re-living Ecuador)
• July 19, 2011What I need from a computer
• July 17, 2011Links, Week 5: The slow death of my computer
• July 14, 2011Street Fundraising: highs, lows, sadness, and excitement
• July 13, 2011Books are not like shoes
• July 12, 2011Loneliness in NY: Washington Square Park + Subway stories
• July 10, 2011Links, Week 4: no time online
• July 8, 2011No more computer: my one-hour rule
• July 7, 2011Why I meet new people: Happy hour at the Yale Club
• July 5, 2011Caterpillar Perfume
• July 4, 2011Links, Week 3: What to do if you've graduated edition
• July 3, 2011Times Square: Strumming on my guitar, with a Snooki sign
• July 2, 2011Why I love Times Square: Pictures with strangers
• June 29, 2011Wendy's poem
• June 29, 2011At the bar, e.g. what happens when I drink, even sip alcohol
• June 27, 2011Jayson and the Giant Beach: First Three Chapters
• June 26, 2011Links, Week 2: Ivy League Pornographer, Influence-Meter, Catcher in the Rye Assassination
• June 25, 2011The horror, the horror: Commuting from New Haven to New York
• June 24, 2011"You're only as good as your last haircut": Rafael's, the best barber in East Village
• June 23, 2011$4 dinners in New York City: Peanut Butter Jelly Time!
• June 20, 2011Links, Week 1: Bro Bible, Guitar, Fairy Tales, Introverts and Adam Morrison
• June 19, 20114 years at Yale
• June 18, 2011So you want to write a short story?
• June 17, 2011Exhaustion writing
• June 17, 2011Eraser Knob
• June 15, 2011Why this blog exists
• June 14, 2011Archive of Previous Work

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