Written Works

Crafting compelling narratives and engaging content. Sometimes these are really insightful and well put together research projects, and, sometimes, it's just a place for me to throw up words to make sense of the world around me. I think both are quite okay.

Research

Examines the connections between qualification times, driver points, and constructor points in Formula 1, seeking to determine whether and to what extent the differences in these performance metrics influence the global season average viewership of the sport.

Formula 1: Outcome Uncertainty & Global Viewership

Cross-Racial Solidarity on Twitter

Co-author of a social semantic network analysis of influencers’ discourse with the co-hashtags #BLM & #SAH. Collected a total of 68,964 Tweets as the sample and cleaned the data using Excel, R, and Gephi to visualize the saliency of the discussion over time by influencer type.

We’re coming up on six years since the monumental Supreme Court decision that paved the way for widespread legalized sports gambling in the United States. Yet despite billions of dollars of investment, there’s still so much we don’t know about the major players and participants across this emerging landscape.

Sports gambling: Insights from college students on a still-emerging landscape

NFL WR & RB Evaluations

Fantasy football, a virtual game tied to real players’ performance, has become a significant influence in modern sports culture. It not only shapes fan engagement with the NFL but also affects league marketing strategies and media-related player evaluations.

Academic writing

Papers completed as course work at Elon University and the University of Otago.

Sporting

What is the best sound in the world? Is it a baseball cracking off of RAJ's bat at a billion miles per hour? A crowd of 85,000 rising to their feet on a missed field goal returned for a touchdown? Maybe it's that NBA 3-point "Jingle Bells" commercial? While I don't answer that one specific question, I have done a lot of work with sports as the primary focus. I am captivated by such iconic moments like Vin Scully's Kirk Gibson home run call. *chills*

Art & Literature

Indiana Jones was my childhood hero, so a passion for learning about old terracotta pots and marble buildings was curated at a young age. Get excited for one essay where I compare Ancient Greek symposia to modern frat parties, which one TA called "an abomination to academia." I also love books and English courses.

Film & Music

I accidentally signed up for an Italian cinema class while studying abroad thinking it was Italian culture (the Roman Empire is my Roman Empire). Well, it ended up being one of the greatest courses I've ever taken, and I wrote some phenomenal essays exploring perceptions and memory and the gaze and voyeurism. I also listened to 58,316 minutes of Spotify this past year, so I know a thing or two about the La La Land soundtrack.

Media Law

Freedom is messy. 330 million individuals of varying racial, religious, socioeconomic, and generational statuses are handed a rule book to follow. It can’t be surprising when those same rules are questioned as society develops further complexities between groups. What is “speech”? Should we care about people’s feelings? Does the truth matter if there’s freedom to say anything?

Creative Writing

Most of these poems and stories are sad ones, so be aware of that, but please don't think of me as some sort of mopey person. I'm just someone who has to sneeze sometimes, and this is the gross stuff that gets piled up inside me.

POETRY

I'm sorry if you don't like poetry. I don't care for it a lot of the time either, but I'm happy the times that I do. And maybe happy is not the word for it, but I'm something the times that I do. So I'm sorry if you don't feel the same. I'm also sorry if maybe you do like poetry. Because then I've probably botched it all up. I just kinda sneezed these up and put them in here. I suppose I haven't sold them well.

SHORT STORIES

I read a lot, and, ultimately, that makes me feel like I'm Owen Wilson in Midnight in Paris or Ethan Hawke in Before Sunrise. These are some bawdy fables of disreputable avoiders of work, benign bums, failing families, and social-outcast philosophers doing their best to survive with the common bonds of humanity and love.