So. I took a diagnostic LSAT the other day, as part of my newfound goal to get a JD/MBA. I know, I know, the dual degree is worthless. But I'm not convinced it is. I think it should be fairly valuable, actually. To that end, I'm in the process of scheduling an interview with one of the MDs at Fortress to see what exactly is valuable about a JD/MBA ( Read more... )

In case my (few) readers haven't noticed, I think that I'll be spending a fair amount of time circling around literature here. As I alluded to before, I think that this is because i (shamefully) enjoy reading books which my good academic sense indicates are a patent waste of time. Part of me agrees with this sentiment and laments that I don't enjoy ( Read more... )

I'd like to be recursive for a moment to talk about creativity. Reading synopses about the upcoming film Watchmen has left me somewhat irresolute. By far the most commonly used buzzword in those 5-second reviews was 'reverence' (or some derivative thereof). What's interesting about this, however, is that the reverence those reviewers reference ( Read more... )

I have inquired recently, but in a relatively shallow manner, into the nature of literature--specifically, what makes it, and is there a way I can parlay my fascination with (predominantly epic) fantasy novels into a sort of literary credibility? The touch-hole for this line of thought has more often than not revolved around the use of impeccable ( Read more... )

This will be my first post in slightly more than three years. I had decided to give up on keeping a blog (and can I just note that figuring out how to use 'livejournal' to refer to this webspace in a fast, casual, and comfortable way without resorting to that unholy term, 'blog,' has rendered me sleepless for far too many nights?), preferring ( Read more... )

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so guys, have you heard the news? apparently, in the academic world, outright theft is totally allowable now. think i'm shitting you? because i'm not. so in my poetry class, this 'edgy' girl (the same artsy one from before) turned in some poetry for class discussion today. of her three poems, one stole from a dictionary (whatever), one was actually ( Read more... )

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ok, just a quick note before i head out to fencing practice. i've had all of my classes once. here's the skinny: japanese, as usual, is going to ream me. maybe not every day, but certainly every other day at least. french... well, it'll be a bit challenging because i don't get to speak enough french at once per week to really start getting better, ( Read more... )

yep. so, i had two classes today: japanese and poetry. my japanese class is ok, it seems. i won't be able to make good judgments on them until after several days in the class. my poetry class is full of lesbians. actually, i don't know that they're lesbians, but it seems pretty likely. at any rate, i'm the youngest student in the class, which is ( Read more... )