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April 19, 2009
Incredibly disillusioned by my middle school experience--finishing my season on the second string basketball team with a total of two rebounds and a steal--I was hopeful that college could renew my muddled notions about playing basketball for something bigger than myself.
A foot in each world
April 19, 2009
I can't decide if I'm excited to go back to a traditional academic setting--to actually read novels again and discuss theories in the safe confines of a classroom--or apprehensive that I'll be frustrated not to be learning by doing, not to be out on the frontlines of the issue that moves me the most.
All Roads: Behind the Scenes
April 19, 2009
As I am employed as a tour guide, admissions intern, and creative writing intern, "All Roads" is pretty busy for me. Besides tours, info sessions, and panels, I saw Reefer Madness, sunbathed, and contra danced.
How to put together a successful CSA film festival
April 18, 2009
Watch some of the movie. Become rather confused because you've missed the first fifteen minutes. Snicker at inappropriate moments.
Crossed up
April 17, 2009
Why is it a concession stand? What exactly are you conceding? Except common sense in what a slice of damn pizza should cost.
Emails and phone calls and physics, oh my!
April 16, 2009
Oberlin professors are super-cool, and sometimes give out their home phone numbers.
Addicted to Bad Ideas: Punk-Metal-Rap-Ska Music Shows
April 14, 2009
Tonight: Music party at Harkness, with Andrew Gombas, Birthday Kids, and Dos Mil Días De Fuego. Before that, I saw Spring Back, a dance show, so it's been... a long night. My ears hurt. My thighs hurt. I am super-duper happy.
There is Nothing Depressing in this Post
April 14, 2009
In this post: blogger pizza parties, ritualistic animal sacrifice, more Mad Max , The Bell Jar , happy things, literal clowns, figurative sharks, pacts with readers.
Once upon a time I was an admitted student
April 11, 2009
I read that sentence again and again, then ran outside to my backyard, where my dad was doing some spring yard work and making pleasant small talk with the neighbors over the fence, and I promptly yelled to the skies, "I'm going to college!"
Registration: Woe?
April 10, 2009
Upon return to campus after spring break, students receive a pleasant reminder for fall registration. "What? This soon? I'm still slaving through a disastrous spring semester, everything is about to start moving twice as quickly as before, how could I even THINK of next fall?" you think.
Drag Ball: Photo Edition!
April 9, 2009
Everyone is attractive, even when you have no idea what gender they are.
How to combine Ralph Nader, bad poetry, Bleak House, music, and chemistry into a single blog entry
April 9, 2009
For some reason, that computer program for writing Western musical scores didn't want to comply to my demands that it blend with Indian ways of notating music. I'm not really sure why it was so stubborn.
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