There's going to be a students' antiwar demonstration at Public Square in Cleveland on Thursday, March 20 from 4-6 pm. It would be cool if there were an Oberlin contingent there. Nudge nudge ( Read more... )

I learned today that I've been admitted to Penn. I've also heard about offers from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Penn, and they're all as good as they could possibly be, so I have a tough decision now.

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CambridgeTravel plans: train to Chicago and bus to Madison on Thursday, accepted students day there on ( Read more... )

I've had the experience of my favorite candidate dropping out of the Democratic primary race twice this year, but I still feel like there's a pretty big difference between my third choice, Barack Obama, and my last choice, Hillary Clinton. I think that Obama would bring in a wave of optimism and reform. I think that Clinton would bring in, to quote ( Read more... )

So I entirely forgot I said I'd keep an updated list of grad school stuff like jqsilver did last year. These are listed west to east, which is the order I've been tending to list them verbally. Italics means I've been accepted. I don't know what my financial situation is yet at any of those schools, but I should in early March.

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I'm in the middle of many, many books. I did finish some in January, though:

• The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back by Andrew Sullivan: Mostly a conservative attack on fundamentalism. I have reservations, but fewer than I expected.
• Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman: Pop philosophy and ( Read more... )

“Let us consider whether King wasn't right in 1958, and whether contemporary warfare isn't too destructive, too blunt an instrument to achieve even negative good any longer.

Far more al-Qaeda operatives have been busted through good police work than were ever captured on a battlefield. And, the brutality of the Iraq war has created hundreds of ( Read more... )

I wrote my first essay since college that wasn't part of a grad school application. It was really fun so I thought I'd share.
( Social Network Sites and the High Fidelity Model of Identity )

I just noticed that They Might Be Giants are playing at the Beachland on February 27. Tickets go on sale Saturday. It seems to me like a smallish venue for them, so it might make sense to buy tickets soon.

So the University of Oklahoma history of science program has been trying to get me to apply; they sent a big packet of information a couple weeks ago, and then last night I got an email from the chair. The department actually looks quite good and has faculty interested in things I care about, but it's in Oklahoma. This means first that it's three ( Read more... )

I just did dishes and took out the trash while listening to The Wall. It was like a one-person crew.