It's been almost two years since I left Macalester College ( Read more... )

Went to this pretty cool indoor rock climbing facility called Vertical Endeavors with the rockclimbing club today; That place was like a rockclimbing park. They had different types of walls for different levels of climbers, and there was this 30 or 40 meter wall where the surface becomes almost verical... Most of the climbs require manual rapelling ( Read more... )

Today was our Opening Convocation featuring guest speaker Toni Morrison, writer of Beloved. On behalf of Mr. Morris, I asked Ms. Morrison why she involved a supernatural factor in a fairly realistic story. Thanks to James and Putzer for explaining Morris's question to me, and thanks to Jackie and Cath for suggesting that I should raise this ( Read more... )

Goddamn this place is getting wild ( Read more... )

I don't know if other schools also do this, but my school was tossing away a basket of condoms and dental dams at the audience during a comedy show ( Read more... )

Yesterday, we went on a "drop-off" trip to the cities. Our mentors took us on a bus and dropped us off at a "random" location, and we're supposed to finish a few tasks and "find" (we just memorized the bus numbers) our way back to school ( Read more... )

Heck man... my school is crazy@ss liberal. Even though I don't think we have sex week or sex shops, we have a bell for you to ring and tell the whole school you've lost your virginity at Macalester, and people are to clap and cheer for you ( Read more... )

HELL YES ( Read more... )