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May 18, 2011
I've just had one of the most thrilling weekends of my life. And no, it's not because Ajax, my Amsterdam soccer team, won the Dutch league on Sunday (although that was pretty cool). I got to hand a $100,000 Human Rights Award to the Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón.
It is an honor!
May 17, 2011
"This thesis...will explore debates concerning modernity [in the fin de siècle] through the reactions of the British and the French press to the 1900 Exposition Universelle."
Living with Strangers
May 17, 2011
Alumni - you'll remember, fondly, friends like these. Prospies, I guarantee that you will make some.
My Weekend, In Summary
May 16, 2011
A highlight: the dessert contest, with categories such as hottest dessert, coldest dessert, and most fractal (largest surface area to volume ratio) dessert.
No Sweat
May 15, 2011
Throw in stress for something that actually matters, like finals, and I'm toast. I'll be in bed at midnight, eyes open until 1:30, and awake when the sun comes up at 7.
Cake and Circuses
May 14, 2011
The Romans would offer bread and circuses to distract the public from real issues and keep them happy. Similarly, I am writing about pleasant things to avoid working on finals.
Endgame. And after.
May 13, 2011
In which a professor wrestles with time, flirts with an existential crisis, and wins the lottery.
An update on my Bioanalytical Chemistry class
May 12, 2011
I picked it in part because I'm interested in the intersection between chemistry and archaeology and in part because mummies are very cool.
Love and basketball.
May 11, 2011
Intramural basketball at Oberlin, and a schooling on some Basketball 101.
Living in the Harkland
May 11, 2011
In this post about OSCA, I am: a first-year, old, excited, and naked.
Honey! I'm Home! (but oh--)
May 11, 2011
Watching Harry Potter on the plane home yesterday did not fulfill my wish to land in a place where everyone still had British accents.
From Apathetic to Academic: Becoming a History Major
May 11, 2011
In which my life becomes embodied by History Major Heraldic Beast.
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