Category: musings
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![[Portfolio] Fanfiction in the Classroom: Field Notes from a Fanfic Author turned Educator](https://miamarci.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Fanfiction-Feature-624x274.png)
[Portfolio] Fanfiction in the Classroom: Field Notes from a Fanfic Author turned Educator
I am still in utter disbelief that I had a basis for writing this. Fan fiction was like admitting that we read a novel’s “good parts” over and over again, and it’s a rabbit hole from there once you find it. I found a teacher’s lesson plan about fan fiction to a sheltered 7th grader…
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![[Portfolio] Let’s Get It On: A List of Good Eats You Can Get from Metro Manila’s Motels](https://miamarci.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/PepperMotelTN-624x361.png)
[Portfolio] Let’s Get It On: A List of Good Eats You Can Get from Metro Manila’s Motels
First published on Pepper on August 1, 2014. I am often asked if I had to actually stay in those places to do this piece. No, but I know even admitting that will only lead to more nagging doubt, wouldn’t it? Hehe! But I hope you had as much fun reading this as I did writing it.…
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Summer 2017: Doing More
I was recently scandalized by two other people before who made awful well-meaning jokes about not being able to earn off teaching. I knew that teaching would not pay as well as corporate, and it won’t allow me to be a stereotypical millennial by way of traveling wherever or buying really nice things, but it would…
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The Grad School Survival Guide in Doodles
I haven’t had time to update because of this. Are you a graduate student? How did you survive graduate school?
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Convict Cake: Bilibid’s Nameless Bakeshop and the Inmates Who Run It
Originally published on Marci 6, 2014 on Pepper. Words by me, photos and text editing with additional reporting by Lars Roxas. Photo editing by Mylene Chung. It started with a joke. At least, I thought it was a joke. I was late for a good friend’s party. I had missed the singing of the birthday…