Raffi is an English major
Kiureghian, my unpronounceable last name, comes from Armenia—a small country in between Turkey and Iran. That’s where my family’s lineage begins, I’m told. Personally, I’ve never been there. I was born in California and went on to move to a number of places: Maracaibo (Venezuela), Houston (Texas), Lagos (Nigeria), Claremont (California), Doha (Qatar), and now I’m here, at Vassar College, (problematically) within Poughkeepsie.
I care about being creative. In middle school, I began a fruitful career in writing poems and playing guitar in terrible punk bands. I still write poems, though mostly for class, which is unfortunate. I write songs, too, but I think there’s still room for a punk band in my life since I have plenty of angst, embarrassingly, still.
I do some other things, as well. I talk about one of them below.