Every webpage requires a repository for random junk, and you've stumbled upon mine. For one thing, I needed somewhere to display this water-skiing squirrel (photograph courtesy of the Washington Post). This is also where I can wax incredibly solipsistic—that's right, I'm posting my own writing!

Class essays | Herald articles | Resume | Musings (to come)

Class essays

Wow, some of these are really embarrassing in retrospect... but still fun to look through in moments of extraordinary masochism.

Fall 1999 (Freshman year)

• English 129a (The European Literary Tradition, Dramas), Professor Diana Paulin

  • The Role of the Gods in The Iliad (9/15/99) | 4 pgs

  • Greek Drama (10/10/99) | 6 pgs

  • Reason and Inaction in Shakespeare's Hamlet (11/5/99)

Spring 2000

• English 129b (The European Literary Tradition, Novels), Professor Alexander Welsh

  • The Odyssey (1/22/00) | 6 pgs

  • The Aeneid (2/6/00) | 8 pgs

  • Don Quixote Essay (3/4/00) | 8 pgs

  • Ulysses (4/21/00) | 8 pgs

Fall 2000 (Sophomore year)

• Intro Ethics (Phil 120), Professor Shelly Kagan, TA Jake Boswell

  • If the Glove Don't Fit (10/8/00) | 6 pgs

  • The Victimless Crime | (11/4/00) | 6 pgs

  • On the Utility of Man (12/8/00) | 7 pgs

• Goethe's Faust in its European Context, Professor Cyrus Hamlin

  • Faust Essay #1 (Faust's conflicting impulses) (10/2/00) | 6 pgs

  • The Symbol and the Sublime: The Dilemma of Perception (Final Paper) | 14 pgs

Spring 2001

• English 125b (Major English Poets), Professor Blair Hoxby

  • Heroism in Milton's Paradise Lost (2/10/01) | 9 pgs

  • The Power of Imagination in Wordsworth's The Prelude (4/3/01) | 8 pgs

  • Implications of Mortality in Yeats' "A Dialogue of Self and Soul" (4/21/01) | 8 pgs

• Intro to Literary Theory (Lit 300), Professor Pericles Lewis, TA Patricio Boyer

  • The Intentional Necessity? (2/9/01) | 7 pgs

  • Post-Structuralism's Hermeneutical Bent (3/21/01) | 7 pgs

  • Daisy Miller and the Discourse of Innocence (4/24/01) | 7 pgs

• German Literature, Thought, and Culture in the Age of Goethe, Professor Cyrus Hamlin

  • Alienation from nature in The Sorrows of Young Werther (2/12/01) | 6 pgs

  • The Necessity of Faith in Art in Hoffmann's The Golden Pot and Mozart's The Magic Flute (Final Paper) | 15 pgs

Fall 2001 (Junior year)

• German Literature I (161), Professor Jeffrey Sammons

  • Schillers Wilhelm Tell als Christusfigur (11/19/01) | 5 pgs (auf Deutsch)

• Literature and Science (MB&B 421/Lit. 375), Professors Michael Holquist, Robert Shulman, and Ed Lintz

  • The Role of the Subjective in the Search for the Human Mind (11/19/01) | 13 pgs

• Fiction and the Forms of Narrative (Lit 120), Professor David Quint

  • The Construction of Knowledge in Alfred Hitchcock�s Vertigo (10/4/01) | 6 pgs

  • Loyalty and the Construction of Moral Agency in Great Expectations | 6 pgs

  • Literary Creation as Transcendent Illumination in Nabokov�s Pale Fire (12/10/01) | 10 pgs

• Medicine and Society (EP&E 458), Professor Kenneth Baum

  • Thought Paper #1: Debate over stem cells misses the mark (10/7/01) | 4 pgs

  • Thought Paper #2: Pharmacists must be allowed to practice conscientious objection | 4 pgs

  • Freedom to Die: The Medical Ethics of Overriding Patient Directives (12/12/01) | 10 pgs

Spring 2002

• German Literature II (162), Professor Eric Schwab

  • Aufsatz #1 (Eine �bung in Close Reading) (2/4/02) | 6 pgs (auf Deutsch)

  • Paper 3: Redemption through �Wahrheit� in Was bleibt and Sommerhaus, sp�ter (4/29/02) | 10 pgs

• Interpretation of Lyric (Lit 400), Professor Ed Lintz

  • Revision of Values in Yeats� Poetry (3/7/02) | 6 pgs

  • Transcending the Labor of Existence (5/4/02) | 9 pgs

Fall 2002 (Senior year)

• Literature in Translation (Lit 351), Professor John Felstiner

  • Deutsche Gefangenschaft der Todesfuge (10/10/02) | 3 pgs

  • Heine: Uebersetzungen (12/13/02) | 13 pgs

• Milton (English 220), Professor Blair Hoxby, TA Joseph Fouse

  • Paper 1 � �Sonnet XVI: An Exercise in Patience� (9/25/02) | 7 pgs

  • Some Matters of Form: Changes in Structure and Balance Between the First and Second Editions of Paradise Lost (12/9/02) | 10 pgs

• Philosophy of Modern Art (Phil 325, Lit 235), Professor Karsten Harries,TA Des Hogan

  • Brillo Box vs. Brillo box: Rethinking the Art/Reality Divide (10/2/02) | 7 pgs

  • Whose Shoes? The Place of Reality and Truth in Heidegger (11/11/02) | 7 pgs

  • Kitschy Kitschy Ya Ya: Evil, or Just Poor Taste? | 7 pgs

Spring 2003

• Bioethics (PoliSci 309), Professor Arthur Galston et al, TA Ken West

  • Paper 1: Debunking the Histrionics over Human Cloning (2/21/03) | 8 pgs

  • Augmenting Altruism in America�s Organ Shortage Crisis (11/11/02) | 9 pgs

  • Putting a Price on Nature? A Defense of Quantifying Biophilia | 8 pgs

• World Literatures (Lit 143), Professors Vilashini Cooppan and Katie Trumpener

  • �Lowliness Majestic�: The Examples of Eurycleia and Penelope in Homer�s The Odyssey (2/7/03) | 7 pgs

  • The Consuming Narrative Flame in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | 7 pgs

  • Displacement and Union in Fumiko Enchi�s Masks | 10 pgs

• Fictional Worlds (Lit 429), Professor Benjamin Harshav

  • Smiling Before Death: The Fictional World of Joyce�s The Sisters (2/7/03) | 14 pgs

  • Der Prozess eines Berichtes: An Exploration of the Kafkaesque in �Ein Bericht an Eine Akademie� | 13 pgs

• The Literature Senior Essay (Lit 491), Professor Pericles Lewis

  • Tales of Wonder and Tales of Terror: An Examination of Folk Ballad�s Influence on The Development and Expression of English and German Romanticism | 50 pgs

Herald articles

• Getting play the cyber way | 10/01/99 | Online Exclusive

• Artistic virutal-osity | 11/5/99 | Online Exclusive

• .Com Down: A survey of sites for students | 12/3/99 | Online Exclusive

• The digital future of Yale's art media | 1/21/00 | Online Exclusive

• Versity Blues | 3/2/00 | Online Exclusive

• Versity Blues (News version)

• The hot sites this summer | 4/7/00 | Online Exclusive

• You're finally at Yale! Now what do you do? | Frosh Issue 2000 | Head of the Class

• Of the pre-frosh, by the pre-frosh, and for the pre-frosh (yalies2004.com) | 9/8/00 | Online Exclusive

• Yale makes cyber-strides for visually impaired Elis (Online Exclusive) | 9/29/00 | Online Exclusive

• Yale makes cyber-strides for visually impaired Elis (News article)

• Voteauction.com | 10/13/00 | Tech Brief

• Yale trounces Harvard, 34-24: Cantabs left wondering "Who let the dogs out?" | The Game 2000 | Online feature

• Admit it Yale: Britney Spears has done it again | 12/8/00 | Opinion

• University's silence outplays music | 3/1/01 | Cover story

• Reaching out to victims of eating disorders | 3/1/01 | News

• Open forum or open fire? Levin draws heat | 4/6/01 | News p. 3 (contributed)

• Sticking together: Is there self-segregation at Yale? | Frosh Issue 2001 | Unity in Diversity

• Smack Zone | 4/26/02 | For some reason the #7 hit on a Google-search of "Justin Chen"

• Under scrutiny: privacy on campus | 9/6/02 | Cover story

• Beyond New Haven: Yalies are outward bound | 11/1/02 | News p. 3

• Gilmore controversy reaches new heights | 12/6/02 | News p. 3

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