This TED talk has played well into my psychological health upswing lately ( Read more... )

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The past five days or so have been one of those rare times in my life when my social life expands to the exclusion of all my concrete projects. It's been real good.( Read more... )

Today, passing from the simulated college students studying on the Quiet Green past the simulated college students playing packed frisbee games on the Main Green and between the two clashing currents of sound flowing from rival frats over the heads of the simulated fraternity crowds and their athletic harems, I had a flash-forward through my life ( Read more... )

I just went to a "Career Fair Extravaganza" and did exactly what I expected I would do: shuffle around sheepishly, not talking to any of the recruiters, and picking up two or three random flyers that will tell me nothing.

I feel like I need:

1. A shirt with buttons.
2. Marketable skills.
3. Confidence.

I bounced a sort of contentless objection to necessity off Reginster today, but he was not receptive. One cannot, he claims, fall into true nihilistic despair if one is still uncertain about the unattainability of one's highest values, because then there is always the possibility of hope ( Read more... )