It turns out I have gotten over my dislike of kettle corn!
Today I went on my first Gray Fund trip: a walk along the water and a visit to the Saturday Market (which is a bit of a misnomer, it being Sunday and all). The coolest thing is that they give you $10 cash. They [...]
I have been studying phonetics in Linguistics this past week. Although I can’t even pronounce Russian very well, I’ve been having a lot of fun trying to say various sounds on the IPA chart. However, as it turns out, many of them still sound a lot like familiar English sounds, so I had to be [...]
Have you ever read Herodotus out loud with your friends? If you haven’t yet, you should. It’s extremely entertaining. Last night my dormies and I spent two hours doing this, and for much of it I could not stop laughing! And you really can’t help laughing when Peaches’ dramatic account of a climactic battle ends [...]
One of my dormies shared with me a wonderful little web comic called Bunny. They even have some archery bunnies! I really appreciate its simplicity and cuteness. And, of course, Bunthulhu.
Another great little thing to check out is I/O Brush. I want to play with it, too! This and all the other innovative projects coming [...]
Reed students must complete four 5-page papers per semester for Humanities 110. Our first prompt was about the values portrayed in the Iliad, and it was assigned the Friday before Labor Day weekend. It took me forever to get a good grasp on my ideas, but finally, late Tuesday night, I finished my first draft! [...]
Jacob was stabbed by a brownie tonight. It was bloody and dramatic.
Here’s the whole exciting story: as a dorm activity, my dorm made buttons and brownies. The problem began with the brownies, which were extremely hard. The spatula was failing to cut or even scrape them off the pan, so we resorted to a knife. [...]
Yesterday was my birthday, so I am now officially 19 years of age! It was quite exciting to get little notes and letters from everyone - KC even gave me a FinFin postcard (from a virtual pet game that died years ago). Thank you everyone!
Actually, I was very lucky to get anything at all from [...]
In archery, I must use a left-handed bow because all the bows my size were taken. This is turning out just fine, however, as I keep improving my form and my aim. Even with the wind today, I got almost all my arrows to hit the target - one even made it to the center!
Archery [...]
Apple just announced a new iPod: the iPod Nano (sorry, it’s not the iPod Flea). It’s very small, very cool, and very sexy.
And it comes in black.
Disclaimer: I am a lover of small things, especially small fuzzy creatures and small cool gadgets. This one obviously falls in the latter category. It may be a slick [...]
Tonight was my first reactor training meeting! Actually, it was just (another) tour of the reactor and some information about training to get licensed there, but it was cool just the same. Essentially I will have weekly lecures and labs, learning about physics and reactor operation. There’s no credit or money involved, just pure learning [...]