The following is a blog post unapologetically detailing my experience as a black man living in Bloomington, Indiana during the 2020 pandemic and civil unrest. Writer’s Note: I am just going to warn you right now that this post is not like my other posts. It touches some pretty heavy…

This post details my short-lived experience as a digitization operator for Memnon Archiving Services, and the beginning of my time as a graduate student worker for IU’s Information and Library Science Department from October 2019 right up before the start of the pandemic in 2020. It also serves as the…

This is a blog post detailing my time as a security receptionist at Allied Universal and Micron Technology during 2019 in Boise, Idaho. The two-year gap between blog posts is real. I’m starting to get the feeling that everyone’s life consists of long story arcs, and that two years is…

This blog post was originally written and published on September 26, 2019. It details my experiences as a community tree planter with the Student Conservation Association in 2018. My next job was going to be as a tree planter. What? Me? The guy who went on and on about artificial intelligence this and cognitive science that? Me? A perpetually scrawny skeleton…

This post was originally written and published on September 25, 2019. It details events, experiences, and reflections of the first quarter of 2018 during my time as a volunteer information associate with the Field Musuem of Natural History. I would like to start this post off by saying that my…

This post was originally written and published on September 24th, 2019. It details events, experiences, and reflections as an unemployed person taking place between mid 2016 and early 2017. It appears that having a 2-year time gap between blog posts is an inevitable reality for me. Hopefully, I can write…

This blog post was originally written and published on December 17, 2017. It details my experience as a PBS television production assistant and audiovisual technician between the years of 2016 and 2017. It's been around two years since I’ve last posted. I suppose that consistency isn’t my strong suit. However, over the course of these past two years, I’ve…

This post was originally written and published on August 3, 2015. I was a freshly-minted, 22-year-old college graduate. Above is a picture of my family’s backyard, taken with a Samsung S4 cell phone from the immaculate vantage point of my first-floor bedroom window. If I were to show this…

Larry Ailes, referred to as “LP” by colleagues, is the Assistant Director of Luddy Career Services. LP started off as a Biochemistry major during his undergrad, but after working a few years as a resident assistant, he realized that he preferred working with people more than with molecules and switched…