Now that it’s 2011, and I’m back from a nice trip home to India, it’s time to begin the new quarter and the challenges of longer-form writing. Feature writing, profiles and essays all sound somewhat intimidating, but I’m heartened by the fact that so many of my program’s alumni seem to have made a living from these forms.

Speaking of longer articles, a newspaper article that I wrote on a study that shows people in love feel less pain, was published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and on the website of the San Jose Mercury News.

I really enjoyed writing that article, given it’s subject matter. I hope people will enjoy reading it, I was just excited to have a longer article published in a newspaper 🙂