Despite now having lived in a big city for three years, I still don’t have the survival-essential city instincts. I don’t automatically assume that everyone may be out to mug me, and when people ask me for directions, I always stop to help. At one point, I did wonder why I seemed to be targeted [...]
I’m in Toronto for a conference on tissue engineering, and all of the talks started today. For the first time ever at one of these conferences, I saw people taking pictures of presentations with digital cameras. Whenever a new slide gets shown, or even sometimes when animation on a single slide gets changed, someone would [...]
I saw this book in an airport newstand, and it caught my eye because there was a picture of Michael Moore on the cover. I thought, YES, finally, somebody who doesn’t worship the ground that Michael Moore walks on, and I bought the book hoping to pass some time while waiting for my plane. It [...]
A couple of nights ago, I was conducting interviews to pick a student representative for this MIT-wide committee. The first point I want to make is that while I’ve done my fair share of interviewing before, I never feel that I do a good job. I don’t contest people enough; I don’t think about stuff [...]
My friend, while talking about his girlfriend, who wouldn’t let him break up with her because “you can’t break up unless both people agree”: him: the only other time i’ve ever heard of someone not allowing a break up was on seinfield him: I feel immasculated, like i lost some manhood; i couldn’t even break [...]
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My dad forwarded me a jury summons letter yesterday, which asked me to appear at the Mount Pleasant Municipal Court on August 24. I was wondering how long it’d take before my name got drawn from the hat and summoned for jury duty. General life-sense tells me that people usually see this as an annoyance [...]
Conversation with Ryan Sunday morning, as Ryan drove me and him to Paul’s house inside the Beltway for some brunch, I told him about Dave. Ryan had only met him once, so I asked him if he remembers a guy named Dave whom he met when we went to that Jeff Scholar cocktail thing at [...]
My original intention was to write some non-sense about Pirates of the Caribbean: Dean Man’s Chest, or complain some more about unmet expectations. That all went out the window when I saw an email in my inbox from Mary Ashburn with a subject line of “sad news”. Upon opening the email, my jaws dropped, my [...]
My friend Hong and I went riding this morning on our spiffy road bikes. We were trying to find a lake that I remembered seeing on the map, which I conveniently failed to print out, trusting that “of course I will remember the way”. After a while, we gave up trying to find the lake [...]