Writing

A narrative essay tracing how two immigrants — an Italian pastry chef and a Dominican girl who came to New York in winter — met, built a life, and couldn't keep it, told through the eyes of the child they made.

An argument that wrongful convictions are the predictable outcome of evaluating prosecutors on conviction rates rather than accuracy, with a two-part structural remedy.

A close reading of Adichie's "The Shivering" arguing that Ukamaka's grief curdles into self-absorption until she stops looking for herself in Chinedu — that empathy lives in honoring difference rather than collapsing it into parallel.

A Spanish-language profile of a Burmese-Canadian historian and hockey coach who switched from pre-med to history, cannot return to Myanmar, and calls this the best chapter of her life.

A close-reading of Trethewey's poem arguing that anaphora, assonance, and enjambment do what institutions cannot: hold the pain of domestic abuse victims with precision.

An examination of how a narrow group of AI-heavy firms is inflating the S&P 500 while consumer financial health erodes, and why that gap is unsustainable.

A podcast-style economics paper, co-authored with seven classmates, unpacking why concert tickets cost what they do — superstar markets, dynamic pricing, the Live Nation–Ticketmaster monopoly, and the resale economy after Olivia Dean's open letter.

A dictionary-entry-format personal essay defining what it means to be a sophomore at Andover — in all its scheduling chaos, color-coded calendars, and careful becoming.

A scholarly essay tracing how Machiavelli's separation of politics from ethics shaped rulers, sparked intellectual movements, and reached ordinary people from Henry VIII to the American founders.

A satirical course proposal for an advanced seminar in friendship, complete with grading rubrics for overthinking, fieldwork in group hangs, and a final exam no one passes.

Pulling a childhood folder from a cabinet and finding the earliest evidence of a friendship — comic books made with a best friend, a grade-school read-aloud that felt like fame.