by Jaslyn Law
There is another Jaslyn Law out there. She is from Singapore and she has a PhD in nanotechnology. When I first discovered her existence, she was 22 years old—older than I was. That was the greatest insult of all: she had been living with my name for longer than I had.

[x] Write honors theses
[x] Apply for jobs
[x] Order cap & gown
[x] Apply to graduate
[x] Figure out mail forwarding
[ ] Write Editor’s Note

by Jaslyn Law and the editors of Leland Quarterly
The technology of remote sensing—the imaging of the Earth’s surface from space—is at the cutting edge, producing data so vast and detailed as to regularly crash computers used for analysis. In this study, we compared (1) the evolution of remote sensing technology and (2) the proliferation of the nebulous, impossible to categorize prose poem/short fiction/flash fiction/prosetry/postcard fiction/short short.

This summer, I spent four weeks on an archaeological dig in northern England, uncovering the ruins of a Roman civilian settlement. Departments of archaeology, I soon learned, give their undergraduate minions some of academia’s most Sisyphean tasks—including, but not limited to, moving pounds of dirt from the bottoms of large pits to the tops of large mounds, and drawing hundreds of small rocks to scale on tracing paper before smashing through them with pick-axes.
But my favorite was this: when an archaeologist digs up a nail, he pulls it out, puts …

In which the editors eat cookies (Thin Mints, specifically), play mad libs, and give Emily Barrett Browning what for.