In order of date written. (Better organization ideas? Let me know.)
| November 29, 2007 | My Senior Project Application narratives |
| These are a requirement for graduating Prescott College. Weirdly, they want students to justify their education. Includes a description of the Psychology of Society and Culture and why I am competent in it, a description of my planned senior project in the Psychology of Volunteer Recruitment and Retention, and a Liberal Arts statement. | |
| November 28, 2007 | Sucessful Theatre for Social Change and the Creation of Heroes |
| My answer to the question of how art can be useful. I haven't actually read this since I turned it in. | |
| October 29, 2007 | Reflection on Street Theatre |
| Written for Theatre and Social Change. A little less grammatically correct than I like my essays to be, but hey, it's just a reflection. | |
| May 4, 2007 | When Normal People Do Abnormal Things: The Psychology of Perpetrators, Bystanders and Upstanders (PDF) |
| Written for Human Rights Seminar at Prescott College. Wins the Longest Title Prize of This Page, yay. I'm proud of this paper. | |
| April 25, 2007 | Utopia Is What Happens When You're Busy Making Other Plans |
| Written for Utopia and Dystopia class at Prescott College. The assigment was "write about your utopia" and I got it down to only four pages. Whew. | |
| February 1, 2007 | The Disney Dichotomy: Idealism and Cynicism in the Disney Princess Story (PDF) |
| Written for Image and Power in Mass Culture at Prescott College. An exploration of why my mother should have let me watch Disney movies when I was little. | |
| December 14, 2006 | Cognitive Dissonance: How Reality Harshes Your Mellow (PDF) |
| Written for Introduction to a New Psychology class at Prescott College. I'm fascinated by the many ways cognitive dissonance can be useful. A lot of the things I learned from this paper ended up in When Normal People Do Abnormal Things. | |
| November 27, 2006 | Bread and Counseling Skills: A Review of The Tassajara Bread Book (PDF) |
| Written for Counseling Skills class at Prescott College, partially influenced by Of bread and unschooling. | |
| September 21, 2006 | Soup or Salad: Immigrant Assimilation, Separatism, and Multiculturalism (PDF) |
| Written for Migration in the Americas class at Prescott College. I didn't like this paper right after I wrote it, but my professor loved it. I think it doesn't say quite what I wanted to say, but it's still a good paper. | |
| December 8, 2005 | The Future of Peace Activism |
| Written for Peace Studies class at Prescott College. Grand title, short essay. | |
| Spring, 2004 | An unschooler going to college. |
| This was written as several rambles and edited over the course of most of 2004. | |
| March 25, 2004 | On being shy and preferred communication methods |
| Written out of a slight feeling of guilt for not hangin' out in the kitchen with friends. | |
| March 18, 2004 | White privilege |
| Written partially for English 101 at Portland Community College and partially for a friend who requested an explaination of white privilege. I'm not sure what I think of this essay these days, but the resources listed at the bottom are definitely worth checking out. | |
| March 14, 2004 | About reading poetry |
| Written in response to a good ol' form vs. content argument with Vruba. | |
| August 23, 2003 | Of bread and unschooling |
| Written after being interviewed about homeschooling twice in one week. Quite a bit of it influenced Bread and Counseling Skills. | |
| December 5, 2002 | Why I love eucalyptus trees so much |
| On my informal solo coming-of-age sort-of-ritual just before moving out of my parents' house. |