May
31
Oh no.
My entire newsfeed is about to be a 2012 graduation / 2011 nostalgia fest. Better stay off Facebook.
The Slack Attack
You always make it special for me by just you're being you. I like you just the way you are. You know that, don't you? See you tomorrow. Good-bye. (exits)
May
30
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
Socrates/Plato, proving that some things never change
May
29
I’m scared of losing this web we’re in. This elusive, indefinable, opposite of loneliness. This feeling I feel right now.
But let us get one thing straight: the best years of our lives are not behind us. They’re part of us and they are set for repetition as we grow up and move to New York and away from New York and wish we did or didn’t live in New York. I plan on having parties when I’m 30. I plan on having fun when I’m old. Any notion of THE BEST years comes from clichéd “should haves…” “if I’d…” “wish I’d…”
Susie Hopkins '11 was there first, but this is still pretty cool
White House Honey Ale is the only beer known to have been brewed in the White House.[1] The process began in January 2011[2] at the request of President Barack Obama who purchased the homebrewing kit using his personal funds.[3] It includes a pound of honey collected from beehives on the South Lawn.[4] The chefs at the White House are said to use “traditional methods” to brew the beer, before it is bottled and labelled with a customised logo. The logo features a line drawing of the White House on a maroon background encircled in yellow.[5]
Anonymous asked: thank you for your prompt reply to my question :) i'm interested in the hard sciences (physics), math and computer science, but a very rigorous grounding in the classics + liberal arts in general is very important for me because i don't want to be a cookie cutter math nerd. thank you in advance :)
I think the legendary Williams College Math Department would take strong exception to that last sentence, but it sounds like you have the right school in mind. :P
“Never mind growing old. It’s a privilege denied to many.”
What happens when you put some of the best bluegrass musicians in the same room (with Steve Martin, who can hold his own). 1:58 is INSANITY.
May
28
“Most of all, though, it just bugs me that you—and yes, I’m sorry to single you out, because there are a ton of people in this very article who are being dicks and acting like it’s the height of hilarity, when if you’re going to be a dick, you’d better be really, really fucking funny—were just an asshole and didn’t seem to care and (even worse) got 12 automatic “likes” for being an asshole who makes the world a worse place to live, just a little bit. Here’s the thing: I don’t know you, but I know you don’t have to be an asshole. You don’t have to say that thing. You don’t have to start this whole conversation. You don’t have to make the women in our midst feel unwelcome if they don’t look like Allison Williams. You don’t have to make me feel disgusted to write for a website that people like you comment on. You don’t have to make the world a worse place. You don’t have to make that joke. It’s not worth it. You can be a bigger man. You can be a better person. And you’re just not. And that pisses me off.”
Response by a TV critic to a comment about “Girls.”
There is no symbol in the world that represents such pure friendship and openness for me as the one above. This past weekend was a taste of that - a culture where everyone is meeting, everyone is mixing - where the word clique seems anachronistic.
One of my regrets about the politicization of religion is how much is missed by that public conversation - that so much of what I do under a religious tent isn’t predicated on a specific creed or belief, but rather the simple act of being friendly.
However much I can fail at that. :(
Anonymous asked: i'm also applying to williams this fall. i was wondering what the academic intensity is like? like are people actually excited about the classes they're in? or even as intense as places like reed/swat/uchicago? thank you:)
Academic intensity is what you make of it. Even at the most “intense” schools (though I have no evidence for this, I’m sure resourceful students can figure out how to have comparatively lighter semesters, and the opposite at “safety” schools, where you can load up on credit hours. I’d say that from a strict time perspective, Division III has a stereotype of taking longer as you have classes AND labs, but I found the time I spent there to be reasonable, though my courses were more intro level.
As to if people are excited: it’s the #1 liberal arts school in the country, and while Williams students have many talents everyone is also nerdy, however much they may sometimes pretend otherwise. I can’t say I was satisfied with every class I took in terms of student engagement, mostly because of the many students that had genius ideas but didn’t like sharing them in public, but I also had some GREAT experiences. I would suggest asking your tour guide if they know anyone in your major, or finding a way to connect with a specific department. What field are you interested in, if any?
May
24
New Game - “Get Down, Mr. President”
Big group of friends: someone puts their hand on their ear, secret service style. As others notice they join in. One one relatively unobservant person is left, the whole group yells “GET DOWN, MADAM PRESIDENT” and tackles them.
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