A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world ( Read more... )

There is a line in Bruce Springsteen's Blinded by the Light, that reads, "Some brimstone baritone anti-cyclone rolling stone preacher from the East he says, "Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in its funny bone, that's where they expect it least." What a great line! It really speaks to me in a strange, I don't understand it sort of way ( Read more... )

Luckily today I visited the assistant dean in charge of the combined plan program. She gave me the basic application and told me to have a letter written by the diretor of my department of interest testifying that I can indeed complete my BA by the 5th year. The only thing of concern is the Columbia Core, and those pesky requirements I still have ( Read more... )

I woke up multiple times last night, covered in sweat, but each time I returned to sleep I had a similar dream. I found myself standing on a wooden pier on a cloudy evening, staring at the back of this girl with a red sweater and blue pants. I approach her slowly, scan my surroundings and only see the usual movements of the ocean, and I walk ( Read more... )

It's James C. Hone, not John C. Holmes! Boy my professor must be pissed...

You can only eat one Reeses Peanut Butter Cup at a time, I believe, just as with consuming two bananas or three dinner rolls with butter. The satisfaction is only great with that initial taste, with that first experience, and is diminished because of the loss of both expectation and desire. The Law of Diminishing Returns states that for a given ( Read more... )

If it doesn't add up then how can it make sense? Perhaps I need to go back to formula...

A poor attempt... Manus cunctantem inanus. Deballare superbos.

Must I always? Perhaps there is another way...

All I can say about today is that it has contained unfavorable overtones. Moments of concern drifted in and out between books of The Aeneid, between notes on the equations of motion of cantilever beams, between reviews of Spanish vocabulary and grammar. There are certain traits I favor and there are things that easily affect me, but I remain ( Read more... )

I've always been of the opinion that to solve the greatest crime is to commit the greatest crime. The world needs mysteries, things to be sought and strove for. As Dostoevsky once said, "The world rests on absurdities," and to deny the absurd, through its comprehension, is to remove much of the impetus for innovation ( Read more... )