“The End of the Beginning”

June 25, 2010admin 2 Comments »

If I learned anything from reading the news in the past year, it’s that titles and the last line of things actually make a big difference. The former to entice a person to read something, and the latter to ensure that they are left with the right impression. I want to get better [...]

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Last Patchwork Philharmonic

May 21, 2010admin No Comments »

Alert! Lindsey and I will be having our last Patchwork Philharmonic radio show tomorrow from 10 AM-4 PM EST. Make sure to tune in for a bit! wbor.org

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Slipping

May 20, 2010admin 1 Comment »

I can feel Bowdoin slipping away. I spent a few hours in the student union tonight, studying for my last act as a Bowdoin student tomorrow (a final in American Political Thought). I read Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt, the Founding Fathers and Croly, trying to cram the last testable material I have into [...]

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Nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so

May 7, 2010admin No Comments »

http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2010-05-07&section=2&id=2
I’ll let it speak for itself. It’s not perfect and I feel like I could have written a hundred different iterations of it, but it’s there. I hope you enjoy.

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Supreme Court Nominee

April 23, 2010admin 2 Comments »

http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2010-04-23&section=2&id=2

Second to last article for the year! I had a hard time getting this one out, mostly because sometimes I think the arguments I want to make are too obvious and perhaps too idealistic.

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Global Warming

April 9, 2010admin 2 Comments »

http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2010-04-09&section=2&id=3

I’m worried about this one. Mostly because I go to a school that has a polar bear floating on a lone piece of ice in the middle of an ocean on the front of its website this week.

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National Debt

March 5, 2010admin 1 Comment »

http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2010-03-05&section=2&id=3
I had a moment this week where I remembered that the way to be a better writer is to write a lot. Usually, I stress a little bit about what I’m going to write about, and most of the time I’m not totally happy with what I settle on. I think that’s mostly [...]

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Watch the Olympics!

February 21, 2010admin No Comments »

Here we go again, on our own:
http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2010-02-19&section=2&id=6
For supplemental and related reading, you might be interested in:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/opinion/21bayh.html?pagewanted=1&hp
It’s by Senator Bayh from Indiana who recently announced his retirement because of partisanship in Congress.
I started a new book!
http://www.amazon.com/Missing-Peace-Inside-Story-Middle/dp/0374529809/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266766172&sr=8-1
I was attempting to read a book a week which has utterly failed, but I have a least started the sort [...]

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