I had an evening where I could tell that things were different, and that I wasn’t in Kansas anymore. To contort Shakespeare beyond recognition, “Some are adults, some achieve adulthood, and some have adulthood thrust upon ‘em.”
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 at both. [...]
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
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 my brain. [...]
http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2010-05-07§ion=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.
http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2010-04-23§ion=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.
http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2010-04-09§ion=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.
http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2010-03-05§ion=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 because [...]
