About Me
I was born in Seattle, and lived there until starting at Evergreen last September. I came to Evergreen in a somewhat unconventional manner. I dropped out of high school just two weeks into my freshman year, having decided it wasn’t quite my thing. I got my GED a year later, and started taking classes at Seattle Central College in April 2014. I opted to transfer without a degree, and came to Evergreen as a sophomore shortly before my eighteenth birthday.
I have a passion for humanities and social science. At Seattle Central, I mostly took classes in sociology, history, and political science; my focus at Evergreen has been the same. I don’t know exactly what I want to pursue after Evergreen, but it will likely be political in some regard. I’ve been a card-carrying socialist since I was fourteen, and would love to involve my political leanings in my professional life.
I love the outdoors; whenever I can, I go hiking and camping in the Cascades. I enjoy swimming outdoors as well; my house back in Seattle is near several swimming spots on Lake Washington, and I frequent them in the summer months. I also love learning in my spare time. Right now I’m reading The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, by Paul Kennedy.
I’m also a writer. When I was at Seattle Central, I briefly wrote for that school’s student paper, the Central Circuit. I’m now a staff writer at Evergreen’s Cooper Point Journal, where I primarily cover political issues.
Other miscellany: The painting on the front page of this blog is a cropped version of Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow (1836). Cole was a transcendentalist; he, like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, romanticized nature and was generally critical of Manifest Destiny and Western notions of civilization. The Oxbow reflects this view, as it depicts the spread of agriculture in the early nineteenth century in contrast with the natural beauty of undisturbed land.
Also, I have an adorable Bernese Mountain Dog named Maggie.
