Are there certain people, places, or things that you can just never keep straight? I know that I have a few. For instance, I always confuse H.G. Wells, George Orwell, and Orson Welles. Why are their names so similar? I think we should all just take a moment to sit down, boot up wikipedia, figure this out, and set everything straight ( Read more... )

This last summer my family and I took an awesome vacation to Switzerland and I decided that I better write down the details before I forget everything I did there. I hope you all will enjoy sitting and reading about my trip on your computer just as much as I enjoyed actually going there ( Read more... )

Jess and Heather and Drew came down to visit me. We watched “Good Company” and “Boat Trip” which was fun. I was in agonizing pain the whole time because I had an ear infection that I blame entirely on Jess. Not only did she make me go scuba diving with her, which probably tapped water in my ear, but she also kept sticking her tongue in there during ( Read more... )

Looking back on my first year of college I see that it was one of the best times of my life. I thought I could help us all remember it by compiling a list of the 100 most memorable things from our first year. Some of these were one time events, others were habitual activities, while others were the objects that we will remember as being important, ( Read more... )

Summer break has finally arrived and so far it has been anything but relaxing. I started work at Steep and Brew even before I moved out. I’ve been working at the warehouse during the week and at the State Street store or at the farmer’s market on weekends. You know you got up early that day when you punch out at 2:00 pm and the time clock says that ( Read more... )

Whenever I come back to Chad from a day at home I feel like I’m crossing into another dimension. Life here is just so different. One minute I’m sitting in the car with my mom or dad on my way back here, and the next I’m stepping out of the elevator and greeted with a “yo mother” from Hanson or a few rounds from Dan’s squirt gun. That’s what I ( Read more... )

Last Thursday I went to hear a lecture on international politics by Carlos Rizowy. He came all the way out here from New York just to give this talk to a small group of business men. He was an excellent speaker. He was very clear and had lots of energy. I think my parents may get a recording of his talk. In the rest of this post I will summarize a ( Read more... )

In my last post I forgot to mention that Keaton and I and a bunch of other people went to go see the stand up comedian Jim Gaffigan a the MU. He was absolutely hilarious. He had a great style where he did impersonations of what the audience members where thinking about his jokes at the moment. He made fun of everything from food to religion to ( Read more... )

In math class we are learning some crazy stuff. We are solving the three cases of second order linear homogenous differential equations with constant coefficients where the discriminant is positive, negative, and zero using linear superposition and the Wronskian matrix. It’s whack. My honors physics lecture was awesome. We had a guest professor ( Read more... )

“Time, Dr. Freeman…Is it really that time again ( Read more... )