So Jessica from the co-op had a shrine dedication ceremony which was half-joking, half-serious. We all wrote prayers on pieces of paper and then she burned them and put them in the shrine she built in the corner of her room. It was hard to come up with a good prayer or wish or whatever, I ended up using lyrics from two different songs ( Read more... )

RIP Arthur C Clarke

So the co-op has a kind of special dinner, and the theme is cartoons. I was thinking about dressing up as Gir from Invader Zim but I don't know how. Any ideas?? (Or ideas of a better/easier cartoon to dress up as?) I do have the house that comes with the DVD box set so that probably helps.....

Dear Stanford Football,

I am so proud of you. It's too bad I had to move all the way to Austin before you could kick ass again. But I'm happy to make that sacrifice for you. Unfortunately, UT Austin's team, which is quite good in general, has had 6 members arrested in the past few months. Sorry guys. I'm gonna be here for 5 years. Better think about ( Read more... )

I meant to do this for all the other columns I wrote but anyways, I'll just lump them all in this entry:

(by the way, you can just go to www.dailytexanonline.com and search for my name to get all columns)

When the Media Hurricane Hits (some edits to this one, especially the last sentence is not my own)
Mind the Cultural Gap - revisiting Brown v. Board ( Read more... )

Pretty good day yesterday. First, on the way to class an editor from the Daily Texan called me to say she liked the article I submitted so much she was going to run it and hire me as a columnist. Forget the rest of the application process woohoo! The article has a few editing problems, but overall I think I did a good job. I haven't written for a ( Read more... )

You know those scifi props everyone uses but aren't true?

So to go along with the one about "we only use 10% of our brains, so a person who uses 100% is amazing" you can throw in the whole idea of destroying a society with an EMP - researchers are talking about making mechanical computers that will be slower than electrical ones but more energy- ( Read more... )

The idea that good grades will eventually lead to great riches may be documented at the national level as well. A recent study by the American Council on Education shows that the number one goal for 74 percent of college freshmen is to be "very well off financially." This attitude represents a shift since 1967, when 82 percent of entering students ( Read more... )

So this actually happened LAST Tuesday and for some reason I didn't blog it! I went to the Luce concert in Palo Alto w/Ben and we ended up next to something called a busycle. Well, I had heard of it before because it's been in the Palo Alto Weekly but for those who haven't, it looks big like a bus but there are pedals for everyone and a steering ( Read more... )

::sigh:: Guess I won't be going to Russia anytime soon. That's too bad, because I really want to get better at Russian (and/or remember any of it that I learned).