Statement of Purpose

I mostly write for myself. A lot of what I write is of a pretty personal nature, and as such is written more for my own benefit, so most of it goes unread by anyone else. When I was in junior high, though, I used to send out a big group email to all of my friends on a somewhat regular basis. The first in the series was just a diversion born of late night delirium while I was trying to get some homework done, but everyone loved it, so I continued with them. They were pretty poorly written, and they exist now only in my friends' inboxes (if they haven't been deleted already), but I enjoyed doing them- it gave me an opportunity to express myself. I wrote them for about two years, then stopped a little ways into my Sophomore year of High School. They enjoyed a brief resurrection in the summer before my Freshman year of college, but I haven't really written anything else like them since.

My friend Nate recently started a blog of his own, the purpose of which is to 1) get him writing about things he wants to write about (rather than papers and research projects), and 2) make public his thoughts on politics and the state of the world as a whole. It got me thinking about the old emails I used to send, and so I've decided to start doing them again, this time on a blog. I don't think the direction this blog is going to take will be nearly as precise as Nate's- I'm just looking to put my thoughts out there. Implicit in this goal is an assumption that I both write well and that people are interested in what I write, so I'll do my best to meet both of those challenges.

Thanks for reading,
Andy