{"id":26642,"date":"2025-01-23T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=26642"},"modified":"2025-02-06T12:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:06:02","slug":"asoss-41-minimum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2025\/01\/23\/asoss-41-minimum\/","title":{"rendered":"aSoSS 41 | Minimum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>I\u2019ve decided that if I\u2019m not going to succeed socially, I\u2019m going to succeed professionally. I gotta make use of something\u2026 if I can\u2019t be in a sorority, imma be in a business frat.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Alice Lloyd Hall, 9:30PM, 1\/21\/2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>relegate your goals to the backseat. how low is the bar, anyway? along the margins, the minimum viable product that you need to sustain yourself. don&#8217;t you know? you are living in a dream and all dreams must end. i sit and watch the advertisements fly by on the wall of the station, a square meter of air compressed into a single breath. an inhalation of eternities, a sunbeam of love: i am speechless at your gallantry. you press your mouth to mine and say that you have found the words for both of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>His technical skills were crazy because he would put in twenty hours a day when he couldn\u2019t sleep!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>DOW Building, 11:30AM, 1\/16\/2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>the steps to greatness and the steps to madness are often interchangeable. like a genetic sequence, one misplaced brick can rebuild generations and shatter entire worlds. on this climb, a fall from at the beginning and a fall at the end are of equal heartbreak. it is a fall in the middle, when you have gotten comfortable with the ascent and are just beginning to hope, that hurts the most. take fortune away from a poor man, he will think nothing of it. take fortune away from a rich man, he will think he deserves it. but take fortune away from the man who treads water and watch him sink like a stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>That\u2019s all you need: nice pizza and windows and a bed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Markley Hall, 10:00AM, 1\/17\/2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>there are two ways to approach life: directly, or not at all. change your perspective, accelerate your reference state&#8211;as if your room were a prison and not a shelter! a deluge of thoughts, liquid gold, envelops your brain in a cast. the migraine spills over, sharper than lightning, splitting teeth and tongue. your nails leave indents in my wrists like a paragraph. essays have been burned and blood has been spilled over less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve decided that if I\u2019m not going to succeed socially, I\u2019m going to succeed professionally. 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