January 2011
26 posts
State of the Union
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2011/0126/The-US-response-to-Egypt-s-protests/(page)/2
As usual, the State of the Union address was filled with contradictory statements. Higher level infrastructure goals were made and tax cuts promised. Declarations of fulfilling our international support of democracy were stated, citing Tunisia’s protests and neglecting Egypt’s. I really...
Colleges Deceive You
Here is a sad truth: Multiple interviewers from colleges stand you up (well me, and it was two).
I’m just sitting there in Starbucks and Panera Bread, two separate times mind you, waiting the first time for an hour, and the second time thirty minutes. Does it bother me really? No. These people have lives of their own, both in fact, are parents. Still, isn’t it a little funny how...
A Recipe
1 handful of semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 handful of flattened pretzels
Shove both directly into mouth.
A Quote Remembered For Best Direction
A quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson (which struck me as I watched the Golden Globes’ nomination for Best Direction: my ceaseless praise goes out to Christopher Nolan and Darren Aronofsky):
“All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is Taste. Others have the same love in such excess, that, not content with admiring,...
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Quote From The God of Small Things
“After that for years Rahel would dream this dream: a fat man, faceless, kneeling beside a woman’s corpse. Hacking its hair off. Breaking every bone in its body. Snapping even the little ones. The fingers. The ear bones creaked liked twigs. Snapsnap the soft sound of breaking bones. A pianist killing the piano keys. Even the black ones. And Rahel…loved them both. The player and...
XKCD: Youtube (lollin) →
“Headmistress: Nobody does anything worth doing without a degree.
Jenny: Nobody...”
– “It’s not enough to educate us…you’ve got to tell us why you’re doing it.”
In today’s competitive society, is there a line that rings truer to a student? So often we feel as Jenny did, that maybe it is better to live life fully and joyfully than to agonize over books and one’s...
