A student’s life: Part I

Today was the last (official) day of fall semester. Another semester gone by, wow. That’s 9 down, 1 to go for grad school. Come February, I will enter my last semester ever as a student. As I approach the end of the end (that’s 21st grade, for anyone who’s counting), let’s [...]

Send us your tired, your poor – just no perverts

Ah, America. What a great place. Land of opportunity, home of the free. In this great country and this great country alone, you are always free to do whatever your little heart desires.
Wait, hold on. Fine print – you are free to do whatever your little heart desires, so long as
(a) It does not hurt [...]

Ah, it doesn’t matter

Kids I don’t even know come by my office asking for a stapler. They don’t gently knock, see if I’m busy, and then politely ask; it’s more like they barge in with the first words out of their mouth “Do you have a stapler?” in that supercilious tone of voice like ‘how rude of [...]

Faith in Love

Perhaps one too many Hollywood love stories has mired our thinking on the subject, but it seems a safe statement that most of us like the idea of having faith in love. In fact, I imagine a good portion of us even find it necessary for true love. I was recently having lunch [...]