Download: Volume 6 (Fall 2012)

Letter from the staff: (Excerpt)
In this issue of Writer’s Bloc we are thrilled to welcome the submissions of Cornellians from the many different parts of our academic community. We asked students from the Ithaca and Qatar campuses, as well as students in the Cornell Prison Education Program at Auburn and Cayuga correctional facilities, to collectively brainstorm a quote from psychologist Viktor E. Frankl about throwing off external constructs and defining one’s own circumstances:

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”

Table of Contents

You Can Try It All – Jenna Galbut (p. 6)
Mostly Children – Jacob Kose (p. 7)
Still Here – E. Paris Whitfield (p. 9)
Six Years from Now – Ayesha Khalid (p. 9)
My Choice – Erin Barlow (p. 10)
The Space Within – Burnell Ashton McLeod (p. 11)
The Inner Tube of Attitude – Shawn Chappelle (p. 12)
The Importance of Free Will – Jake Braly (p. 13)
What Did I Do? – Shane Tate (p. 14)
Wrapped Up – Hanna Deixler (p. 15)
A Successful Man – Landon Chavis (p. 16)
To Call This, Life – Garrett Evenson (p. 17)
Prisons – Katerina Athanasiou (p. 18)
For Want of a Lighter – Lucas Whaley (p. 20)