Just when I have too many things to attend to--a book review for YSM, organizing UNICEF campaign, English essay, Math--I've decided to blog. I need to relieve my restlessness somehow and I figure writing randomly for half-an-hour should force me to......do something worthwhile.
And I don't have a picture this time; I've been meaning to take a shot of Harkness but I keep forgetting to.
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There's this person, in one of my classes, who acts like everything that comes out of his mouth is some kind of a transcdental-intellectual-philosophical statement with meaning so deep that no one other then the teacher will be able to understand it. It's really annoying. I want to tell him that me makes no sense; apparantly being artsy gives you the liberty to be stupid and get away with it.
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The chemistry test today was very difficult. I'm never able to accomplish the right balance in that class; either I study too much for an easy test or I don't study enough for a very difficult one. Sigh. I'm glad he's letting us drop one of our four marks.
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Today, I ate beef.
I'm a vegetarian and a Hindu. These two generally preclude the consumption of meat of any kind, but especially beef (the cow is sacred in India). Some careless worker in the Branford Dining Hall mislabeled the burger patty's as "Vegetable Lovers Burger".
Thinking it great that vegetarian options were being more varied, I picked one up and began to happily consume it. Something tasted wrong. I asked the chef who informed me, cheerily, that someone had put the wrong label on it. Oops!
It feels awful to have violated something you've kept up for close on 18 years.
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Everything kind of piled up this week; it's actually been kind of awful. I'm so swamped with extracurricular commitments (they caught up to me) and my schoolwork that I'm having a tough time managing things. Still, it's not as busy as high school.
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I'm shadowing a neurosurgeon at the Yale New Haven Hospital. He is a very smart guy, and he often gives me long talks on various philosophical subjects. You can't help but listen to him because he's so frightningly intelligent; he has an unnerving way of making keen insights. Some novel notions he introduced me to:
- people who criticize science are stupid. The longevity of our lives and the comforts we enjoy are both attributable to the efforts of scientists over the decades. Further, scientific thought and method are essential in politics- and noticeably lacking today.
- philosophy has been usurped by literature. He blames this on Nietzche.
We also talked about Malcolm Gladwell's new book Blink which is actually really good. I suggest you buy it.
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Our English teacher gave to us, as an optional reading, the book Chloe Does Yale. I heartily suggest that you do not buy this piece of drivel. Although sometimes capable of humour and insight, she is mostly awful. She tries to be titillating and provocative, Sex and the City style, but the novelty of an Ivy League sex guru quickly wears off. The reason we're reading it is to collect "data on love". Our next, very broad, essay assignment is to write something about love. I'm talking about the American notion of marriage and the Indian notion of marriage. Kind of, Sex and the City vs. Arranged Marriage.
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Pictures may be edited in later!
And I don't have a picture this time; I've been meaning to take a shot of Harkness but I keep forgetting to.
-
There's this person, in one of my classes, who acts like everything that comes out of his mouth is some kind of a transcdental-intellectual-philosophical statement with meaning so deep that no one other then the teacher will be able to understand it. It's really annoying. I want to tell him that me makes no sense; apparantly being artsy gives you the liberty to be stupid and get away with it.
-
The chemistry test today was very difficult. I'm never able to accomplish the right balance in that class; either I study too much for an easy test or I don't study enough for a very difficult one. Sigh. I'm glad he's letting us drop one of our four marks.
-
Today, I ate beef.
I'm a vegetarian and a Hindu. These two generally preclude the consumption of meat of any kind, but especially beef (the cow is sacred in India). Some careless worker in the Branford Dining Hall mislabeled the burger patty's as "Vegetable Lovers Burger".
Thinking it great that vegetarian options were being more varied, I picked one up and began to happily consume it. Something tasted wrong. I asked the chef who informed me, cheerily, that someone had put the wrong label on it. Oops!
It feels awful to have violated something you've kept up for close on 18 years.
_
Everything kind of piled up this week; it's actually been kind of awful. I'm so swamped with extracurricular commitments (they caught up to me) and my schoolwork that I'm having a tough time managing things. Still, it's not as busy as high school.
_
I'm shadowing a neurosurgeon at the Yale New Haven Hospital. He is a very smart guy, and he often gives me long talks on various philosophical subjects. You can't help but listen to him because he's so frightningly intelligent; he has an unnerving way of making keen insights. Some novel notions he introduced me to:
- people who criticize science are stupid. The longevity of our lives and the comforts we enjoy are both attributable to the efforts of scientists over the decades. Further, scientific thought and method are essential in politics- and noticeably lacking today.
- philosophy has been usurped by literature. He blames this on Nietzche.
We also talked about Malcolm Gladwell's new book Blink which is actually really good. I suggest you buy it.
_
Our English teacher gave to us, as an optional reading, the book Chloe Does Yale. I heartily suggest that you do not buy this piece of drivel. Although sometimes capable of humour and insight, she is mostly awful. She tries to be titillating and provocative, Sex and the City style, but the novelty of an Ivy League sex guru quickly wears off. The reason we're reading it is to collect "data on love". Our next, very broad, essay assignment is to write something about love. I'm talking about the American notion of marriage and the Indian notion of marriage. Kind of, Sex and the City vs. Arranged Marriage.
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Pictures may be edited in later!
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