Front row seats to the best show on Earth. However, this show is the Coney Island Cyclone, and it’s about to begin. For some, peace is lounging by a pond, reading a good book. For others, it is a meditative shrine, or perhaps a light nap. For me, peace is no less than the front row car on a death-defying roller coaster. In a time and place when it’s all too easy to worry about the future, I...

Described passion for game development and how I hoped to pursue it at Michigan

I stood upon a low sand dune under the golden desert sun, the frills of my tribal robe swaying in the breeze. A sea of sand stretched for miles around me, the horizon featureless save for a single, colossal mountain far in the distance emitting a radiant light from its uppermost point. There were no instructions, no indication of where I was supposed to go. Thus began my first play-through of Journey, a downloadable video game on the Playstation Marketplace. ...

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