Reminded / inspired by my friend Ani’s post referencing The Aims of Education address I thought to go back and reread some of them including my own. Originally, I wanted to go through and read a lot of the addresses, perhaps starting a year or two before the one given at my orientation, and then [...]
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The Aims of Education
December 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: personal crap · school
More on the End of College
October 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment
A little while ago I remarked about the NYTimes Essay Contest about the “End of College”. I even managed to convince a friend to enter. I’d been meaning to come back to this ever since they decided to put all of the essays online (about 450) in a search-able database. I’ve only looked at a [...]
Finals Study Break
March 13th, 2006 · No Comments
Dude you know what? Fuck this. Fuck this school I’m fucking tired of this library and I’m not gonna sit here and take this shit anymore. Fuck that, I’m done. Who needs a college degree anyway? I’m going home. Fuck all the naysayers I bet I could live on $5.15 an hour. Maybe less. Maybe [...]
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reading period
March 9th, 2006 · No Comments
There is nothing new to say here really. I’m just going to spend a little time as I sit here in my “optional review session” lamenting the state of reading period here at the University of Chicago. Basically this is a [tag]whine[/tag]. I don’t really know the history of the reading period here, and so [...]
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polyphasic failure
January 3rd, 2006 · 5 Comments
I have just now (well, 40 minutes ago) waken from a catastrophically over-slept nap. I need to rearrange my schedule such that I don’t have to stretch the nap times from the outset or I need to abandon this venture, at least until I can have a more suitable schedule. I guess with that in [...]
Tags: polyphasic try 1 · school · sleep