Some quotes from my Thanksgiving weekend at home (and with the relatives ( Read more... )

Some people would say it's the stress of first semester sophomore year at Mudd.  Others would attribute it to being a teenager.  And still others would chock it up to merely being human.  But whatever the reasons (I'll go with a liberal combination of all three), I've been kind of depressed lately, and after exhausting all the methods I can think ( Read more... )

I met with Prof Steinberg, my humanities adviser, briefly today. The meeting went fine, but on my way out I noticed that he has one of those boxes that's divided into twelve compartments for bottles of wine on the floor of his office by the door, and the box was about half full. When I commented on it Steinberg said to me, "Oh, when I have to ( Read more... )

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1. Professional dog walker (especially dogs like Newton!)

2. National Geographic photographer. Granted, my skills would need some refining, but I've seen and photographed a couple of pretty interesting things lately. The first was a hawk that had caught a squirrel:


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What I like about this almost as much as the drawing itself is that I drew it during class. There's no better way to say it than STS, or Science, Technology, and Society, sucks the life out of my soul. It's not the subject that I can't stand, it's just this one class. And besides, if the entire subject of STS were always taught in the same ( Read more... )

Really. I just give up. I couldn't possibly have studied more for the E&M midterm. I knew how to do all the of practice problems perfectly. I knew how to do 90% of the recitation problems. I thought I understood the concepts. And I still did well below average. If I've learned anything from this entire experience, it's that it doesn't matter ( Read more... )

I've only locked myself out twice this year. This first time was before I'd even picked up my key, so I just walked over the F&M and got it. The second time was today...while I was taking a shower. Right after I'd worked out. So the only clothes I had were a sweat-soaked pair of shorts and a T-shirt wadded up in ball on the bathroom floor. I'd ( Read more... )

Mudd's dining hall (Hoch-Shanahan, otherwise known as the "Hoc" or "Hawk") isn't known for the quality of its desserts. Actually, it isn't really known for the quality of any of the food it serves, but every now and then the Hoc goes all-out and comes up with something that actually looks...really good! Today was one of those rare days. Or so I ( Read more... )

Today was suddenly made infinitely more awesome by me finding out that the Fourier assignment originally due this Friday is now due next Friday, the 21th. That literally gives me 13 hours of free time over the next 36 hours, and means than when I go to bed at 4:30 on Friday morning it will be because I spent four hours dinking around online ( Read more... )