today is whatever i want it to be
I have so many stories to share with you – insights, conversations, observations, incidents, interactions, meetings – each playing an important role in my two-week hiatus from this weblog.
I don’t even know where to start.
I could tell you about my sister – whose final exams ended two weeks […]

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[Background: A friend asked me a while back to write up a few sentences summarizing why I choose to be Muslim, so she could then publish it in the Muslim campus paper, along with several other students’ responses. I kept assuring her that I would submit something, but was frustrated at my inability to articulate […]

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the fat cat strikes again!

(Just for Somayya, cuz lord knows we’ve needed the laughs.)
p.s. Yes, this is how we waste time in the library. And I promise I’ll be back soon!

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drowning in a sea of post-it notes

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He’s a graduating senior. He’s very articulate, and passionate about diversity issues on our university campus. His family fled Iran when he was a child, soon after the revolution (Which revolution? cracked my father, when I came home and recounted my day to him. Iran goes through a revolution every few years.) He doesn’t consider […]

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