An introduction

A massive Turkish bazaar

Hi. My name’s Neel. I’m nineteen and I go to Harvard. I like technology and baseball and skateboarding and talking to people.

I just finished my freshman year and agreed with my friend Sara that I’ll write something every week this summer. I took a freshman-only seminar where I wrote an 18-page-long short story (it was supposed to be 4 pages), and through that I discovered that writing is an incredible way to discover something about yourself and start conversations with people about what you’re feeling, things that are really hard to do otherwise. So I thought it’d be great to write some essays and reflections and short stories and publish them here.
I’m interested in exploring these concepts:

  • Identity: what determines who we are, and how much should we let things define us?
  • Ethnicity: how does it shape your identity, your interactions with others, and your mindset?
  • Relationships: how do they work, especially in the context of college?
  • America: what does it mean to be American, and what’s unique about this American life?
  • People: what makes people tick, and how do they grow over time?

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