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Avery Danae Williams

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Six apps and extensions I use to manage my reading workload

“I ask myself: What about the text is making me feel this way and why? How does the reading relate to past and present life events? When I finish, I feel a lot better knowing I’m in a calmer headspace to continue reading.”

“I ask myself: What about the text is making me feel this way and why? How does the reading relate to past and present life events? When I finish, I feel a lot better knowing I’m in a calmer headspace to continue reading.”


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Princeton, my once-impossible rainbow connection

When I found a YouTube video of Kermit, Miss Piggy, and Walter singing “The Rainbow Connection” live on Good Morning America, it sounded like Kermit saw me for who I was: an eleven-year-old lover and dreamer, determined to stand out amongst her peers. 

When I found a YouTube video of Kermit, Miss Piggy, and Walter singing “The Rainbow Connection” live on Good Morning America, it sounded like Kermit saw me for who I was: an eleven-year-old lover and dreamer, determined to stand out amongst her peers. 


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Advocating for myself: Navigating allergies at Princeton

“But oh, how I wished I could deny the existence of the dreaded warning label reading, ‘This product was manufactured in a facility that produces nuts.’ Maybe then, food would not have separated me from my friends.”

“But oh, how I wished I could deny the existence of the dreaded warning label reading, ‘This product was manufactured in a facility that produces nuts.’ Maybe then, food would not have separated me from my friends.”


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From hidden to happy: On not fitting in, being myself, and Season 1, Episode 5 of ‘Modern Family’

Avery Danae Williams, contributing writer for The Prospect, frames a self-essay about fitting in with an episode of “Modern Family.”

Avery Danae Williams, contributing writer for The Prospect, frames a self-essay about fitting in with an episode of “Modern Family.”


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