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Mary Cady, age 16, is blogging to you about romance and war straight from 1941.

I like girls.

I also like guys. 

It’s overwhelming to look back on how things have changed since I went to college in 2007. At the time, same-sex marriage was only legal in Massachusetts. And I was in my senior year when Tyler Clementi’s heartbreaking suicide dominated the news.

你好。我是學生。(Nǐ hǎo. Wǒ shì xuéshēng.)

Did you get that? It was a pretty simple declaration: “Hello. I am a student.” It’s one of the few phrases I remember from taking Mandarin Chinese, back in the old days when RPI offered language classes.

Trying to make sense of my family's pain after losing my uncle in March 2010.
 

I applied to colleges in the Northeast because I wanted to get the hell out of the south.

Turns out I was oversimplifying things. My most important education took place before I came here.

An excerpt from my short story The Needy, the co-first place winner for the 2009 McKinney Award in undergraduate fiction/drama.