Just stepped outside and smelled a certain plant I haven't caught a whiff of in a while. Guess I'm back on campus ( Read more... )

Rachel and I were watching the Olympic opening ceremonies on tape when Rachel opened online standings to see who had won medals. The US was up, with three medals from fencing. I was like - fencing? I was pretty good friends freshman year with Eva Jellison, a chill, friendly freckled redhead from Massachusetts who lived down the hall from me. She ( Read more... )

that line is from the Counting Crows song "Caught in the Middle" which I'm feeling a lot now ( Read more... )

I’ve been listening to this really awesome internet radio station called Gospel Grass ( Read more... )

I’m currently reading Adam Smith’s “Theory of Moral Sentiments,” and will be posting thoughts and reflections.

Smith’s primary thesis is that sympathy is the cornerstone of our moral behaviour, the key from which all else flows.

But because sympathy will never be complete, our desires for what we might call authenticity can never be completely ( Read more... )

done with finals. time to sleep. (i spent four hours sleeping last night and five hours taking finals today. i deserve this.)

I have no words.

http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/10/5/stanfordShocksWorldUsc2423http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/10/5/

interesting quote in my econ reading:

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, 1897

i just sent messages to nineteen freshman who were interested in working for the Daily. some of them better pan out, or else...

I almost got run over about half an hour ago ( Read more... )