College Magazines

For my own future reference I decided to post the college magazines here for inspiration.

BYU: Inscape
Caltech: Totem
Cornell: Rainy Day
Harvard: The Harvard Advocate
MIT: Rune
Stanford: Leland Quarterly
Georgia Tech: Erato
Yale: Yale Literary Magazine

Final 5

It has been a great term and while I initially attempted 10 different pieces, only 5 were actually finished on time to be handwritten and used in the group's final publication project. The project is to be an old journal, pages aged with tea bags and hand written. Each member gets their own section to simplify the ordering.

As for my section here are my five pieces in no particular order:

It

Super Van City

Lost Boys

Tres Doges

Dialogue with a Dictionary: Hominid

Special thanks goes to Professor Jim Cocola and all my fellow classmates who helped make this class an enjoyable fun opportunity to revisit the world of literature, poetry, and other forms of written expression you don't normally get to encounter in engineering classes.

It's been fun,

Yoshitaka Shiotsu

OED Human

One of the paintings that showed up when I google imaged soul

I looked up the word human in the Oxford English Dictionary and this is what I found:

1. a. Of the nature of the human race; that is a human, or consists of human beings; belonging to the species Homo sapiens or other (extinct) species of the genus Homo.

With this basis I wrote the poem Dialogue with a Dictionary: Hominid as an attempt to address the somewhat lacking definition of what a human is. It should be read as someone reading the definition out of the OED and filling in all the blanks in their head. I used the longest word in the English dictionary to accomplish this: Osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary, an adjective that means to be of bone, flesh, blood, organs, gristle, nerve, and marrow. I filled in the resulting symbols that come to mind when one thinks of each. Symbols that resonate with what it means to be human. I decided to include this piece which I had started at the beginning of the year because it seemed to fitting to use as a summation of the life experiences I used in the other pieces for the publication project.