Prose
SSP 2000{sniff's 500-word college essay}
How To Fly
{college essay about my involvement in the speech club}
Pourquoi Les Hyènes Rient
{why hyenas laugh, en Français}
Who Shall Rule the Soul?
{3rd place winner in the 15th Annual Essay Contest on Ayn Rand's Novel The Fountainhead}
Science & Technology: Blessing & Bane
{the essay that won me a full scholarship for Close Up Washington, a weeklong study program in D.C.}
Patriotism
{national 8th place winner in the Veterans of Foriegn Wars Youth Essay Contest}
The Well-Beaten Path
{what really happens in fairy tales}
Quality = Equality
{a state winner in the 1999 NCCJ essay contest}
Velluxia
{excerpt from a novella written by me and several students}
TIME feature article
{my application essay to SI in '97}
Show, Don't Tell
descriptive sketches based on simple sentencesPoetry
Play On Words
{written at or inspired by a series of fall 2000 poetry workshops}imagination | Tarantula |
battery | sonnet no. 1 |
Shattered | Reflection |
Sonnet No. 3
{this set was recipient of the Gold Award from the San Francisco Scholastic Art & Writing Awards contest}
Aerial View
{recipient of the President's Award for Literary Excellence from the National Authors Registry}
reminiscence of a classmate
{if you were a Hoover hawk, guess who I'm talking about}
Academics
The Cambrian ExplosionSpeeches
Journey Into the Void{black holes, minus the complex physics}
1997 Valedictory Address
{I took the podium, clad in the red robes of our graduating middle school class...}
Editorials
Self-Protection or Paranoia?Foreign Views on the Clinton Scandal
Movie Reviews
La Femme Nikita/Point of No Return{in French}