I want to be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
'Cause I want to be the minority

How prescient!  How tragic, too, but it's amazing that Green Day was on to the cultural divide gripping the country even before Bush and the uproar over "moral values" and crap.  These lines might as well have been written this year.  ( Read more... )

One more day, but let's sum up what has happened so far. Red Sox: check. Redskins: check. Now to see what comes out of this morasse...

If the Red Sox keep winning, I may have to go to the Hub next year! This portends well for next week's events, I think. Woo hoo!

I'm honestly not convinced that this college process is going to end well, essays in particular.  I've finally decided to apply early to Yale, so I can finally work in earnest on these devices of torture.  Of course, I'm about two weeks behind, and I have to be completely done with this application in two weeks, so I've gotta get cracking.  Oh, and ( Read more... )

( cathartic rant, part 2 )

Why am I so shy? I need to learn how to talk to people, how to have actual conversation. I'm going to be very lonely otherwise. Heck, I might as well use present tense there. Even though MIT is an incredible school, I'm psyched out by the thought of having to find my own roommate, and part of the allure of Yale is that built-in social network ( Read more... )

Finally done with that stupid National Merit essay! Now onto...more essays! What fun.

Still debating between Yale and MIT for my early application. Does anyone have suggestions?

Back to work,
Jonah

Interesting. Somehow pictures of the AT reunion in North Carolina equal pictures of Alec playing basketball. I have no idea how we ended up with Strachan pictures, or how my pictures from last year and the beginning of this college tour mysteriously disappeared. At least the pictures from the bulk of the college trip turned out well, though I'm ( Read more... )

Part One: People

Well, I feel like such a dork for saying this, but we knew that already, so really no harm done: I can't get enough of these college information sessions!  The information and the questions are basically the same boring stuff every time, but I look forward to them now because I know that I'll see...Reed people!  (or other people ( Read more... )

Well, it's been awhile since I last posted, but needless to say a lot has happened since then.  This fcking house still isn't done, but I finally have my own room again!!  Of course, this setup will only last for a year, unless I somehow end up with a single (like Scott at Cornell), but in the meantime it's great.  This also means that I retract ( Read more... )