An incomplete series of lists detailing what I wrote, built, read, and watched in 2015. I also wrote a more ~real~ reflection of my year on Medium.

Projects Completed:

• 52 Books in 52 Weeks 2014-15: read 52 books in 52 weeks from February 2014 to February 2015
• The 100 Day Project: wrote 750 words every day for 100 days
• write your sibling: wrote and mailed 30 letters over the course of 30 days to Katie, cross-posted to Medium

Things Written:

Medium posts

• A Shoutout to Parents
• Do not brush it off
• 6 Thoughts On Impostor Syndrome
• What we learned building a student media startup
• Day 100: what I learned writing 750 words every day for 100 days
• Day 1: female role models/solidarity in tech
• Day 93: things I learned in college that I didn’t earn a degree for (also published on Thought Catalog)

Medium publications

• write your sibling
• #100daysof750words
• just for shiggles

Blog posts

• console me
• This Audio Hackathon
• Storytelling tools, collaboration, and open source in a student newsroom
• Building my first Chrome extension
• 52 Books in 52 Weeks
• Thoughts on “Fresh Off the Boat”

Knight Lab

• No soft focus: behind the design and launch of Broadly
• Combatting imposter syndrome with community
• Andrew Golis on launching This.cm and creating a social “magazine experience” on the web
• NICAR 2015: on the necessity of interactivity

Other

• More Than 20 Women Attend 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (Northwestern EECS)
• Solving complex problems (Vox Product)
• 5 Podcasts with Female Hosts You Need to Listen To (In No Particular Order) (Hunny Mag)

Things Built:

Hackathons

• Filmstrip (SNDMakes)
• Soundbits (Audio Hackathon)
• Timetable (WildHacks)

North by Northwestern

• Year in Media 2015
• NBN Web Tools
• The many faces of the Rock
• Year in Media 2014

Other

• DTR Website
• ‘You Guys to You Babies’ Chrome Extension
• Tellascope
• Vox things in private repos

Books Read:

52 total

1. Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In The Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
2. Beyond News: The Future of Journalism by Mitchell Stephens
3. These Days by Jack Cheng
4. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
6. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
7. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
8. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
9. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
10. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
11. You Are One of Them by Elliott Holt
12. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
13. Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
14. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
15. Every Day Is for the Thief by Teju Cole
16. Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
17. Naked by David Sedaris
18. Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
19. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
20. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon
21. The Night of the Gun by David Carr
22. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
23. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
24. Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
25. The Martian by Andy Weir
26. Emotional Design by Donald A. Norman
27. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
28. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
29. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
30. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
31. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
32. Pastoralia by George Saunders
33. The Remains of the Day by Kazoo Ishiguro
34. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
35. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
36. Light in August by William Faulkner
37. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
38. Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia’s City of Steel by John Scott
39. The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion by Elle Luna
40. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
41. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
42. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
43. Designing for Emotion by Aaron Walter
44. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
45. The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White
46. The Information Diet by Clay Johnson
47. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
48. Cadence & Slang by Nick Disabato
49. Design Is a Job by Mike Monteiro
50. Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
51. The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
52. HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith

TV Shows Watched (aired in 2015):

• Master of None (season 1)
• Jessica Jones (season 1)
• Jane the Virgin (seasons 1-2)
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine (seasons 2-3)
• Arrow (season 3-4)
• Parks and Recreation (season 7)
• The Flash (seasons 1-2)
• Daredevil (season 1)
• Orange is the New Black (season 3)
• Broad City (seasons 1-2)
• Bob’s Burgers (seasons 5-6)
• Empire (season 1)
• How to Get Away with Murder (seasons 1-2)
• Scandal (half of season 4)
• Fresh Off the Boat (half of season 1)
• Archer (seasons 1-6)
• Community (half of season 6)
• Mad Men (seasons 1-7)
• Silicon Valley (season 1-2)
• Mr. Robot (season 1)
• Game of Thrones (almost all of season 5)
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (season 1)