Grind Heroes: Deep Light from the Dirt

A foundational place in my memory

I published a piece in 2018, five years ago, about my experience in college at Rensselaer Polytech, a tech school. The piece hopes to becom a cross between a memoir and a poem, a ‘memopemoir’ [my coinage].

Today I ran it through an AI modifier with the stipulation that it, “make my original work less negative,” and it produced the first version below. I …