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an amherst college retrospective
i wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. My fairly constant refrain during my time in undergrad was “I just work here,” uttered with wry smile and a shrug. The sentiment was part fact and part commentary. Through my scholarship, the school was paying me to be there, and I worked first at odd-jobs my […]
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DELvE: my new game about feelings and d&d
I’ve just published my new game! DELvE is a short text-adventure that moves between first and second person perspective, a reflection on a dungeons and dragons game I’ve been running for my friends since the beginning of college.
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talkin’ the talk (and presenting the poster)
In which I give a handful of talks and present some research at an exoplanet conference UMass Astronomy Club, 4/20/2021 I was recently invited to stand in for my advisor, Dr. Kate Follette, and give a talk about our lab’s research to the UMass Astronomy Club at their meeting on 4/20 (nice). I spoke for […]
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before the next steps, looking back on my grad school application experience
prologue: This past weekend I announced my acceptance of an offer of admission to a Ph.D. program in astronomy. I got a lot of attention, and that makes me anxious, but it was nice to receive so much support from my family, friends, and mentors about my decision. In light of all that, I wanted […]
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turnover: 2021
a lovely someone recently shared with me an 104 year old article, written by political theorist Antonio Gramsci, titled “I Hate New Year’s Day.” I hate these fixed-term New Years that end up turning life and the human spirit into a sort of business with a final statement and a balance sheet and a budget […]
astro will
short for astronomy william o balmer ;~)