I hope my schedule works out this semester. It's definitely tougher than last semester. I'm taking 5 classes, so I have 14 hrs/week of class. And frisbee team practice is 14 hrs a week this semester--over the course of 6 days a week. It really takes a lot of time. Sometimes practice is from 11pm to 1am. I have a job for 5 hrs/week ( Read more... )

I got my first Yale grade ever today. English 120a (Modern Prose: Advanced Writing): A-. Yay! A few more details about my recent life my new Yale website:

http://pantheon.yale.edu/~jkj6/

f*ck! I have really bad luck with eyewear! First I forgot a pair of glasses at Harvard, and now, within 2 hours of my arrival at Northwestern, I've LOST a contact--gone forever! I was just putting in, it didn't go in...and POOF it dissapeared! a 1-year contact only 3 months old, too! grr..

In response to the suggestion that a monkey and a typewriters would, after an incredibly long time, produce Hamlet"Who says the monkey is even going to use the typewriter? It'll just poop on it ( Read more... )

Dammit! I left my damn glasses at Harvard! Grr!!! I'm so stupid!

Jannie is right. Kant says a lot of stuff without supporting it. I had to read Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals this month. Kant is really inarticulate. No wonder there's so much controversy surrounding different interpretations of his philosophy--he really didn't explain his philosophy well. He makes some good points, but there are a ( Read more... )

Wow, I haven't posted in a long time. Whee! College is fun. I went to the first football of my life today. It was at the Yale Bowl. Yale 35, Columbia 7. Yay!! Wow...it was really enjoyable. Doing the Saybrook Strip in the freezing weather was a bit crazy, but it was interesting ( Read more... )

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I've met 2 of my 3 suitemates! They're really nice people, and they seem to like a lot of the same stuff I do! In fact my roommate (well we've just decided to be roommates) Aaron likes and hates almost the *exact* same things I do ( Read more... )

I can't believe [...] happened. Why ruin the perfect ending to a truly memorable year with stubbornness and insensitivity to the group consensus?

P.S. I'm not too happy with [Person Z] either. On top of being selfish, imposing the values of the minority upon the will of the majority, and being stubbon, [Z] still finds time to point fingers.