My application for photo editor of the Spec… that never made it (note: MB = Managing Board)
To MB or not to MB, that is the question,
whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous deadline,
or to raise eyepiece to eye, finger to shutter,
and by opposing, expose one. To die, to...
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Joe Biden and she-who-must-not-be-named did debate recently on many issues. One of the issues that struck me was that of health care. It struck me so much, in fact, that my reactions to watching mentions of it on TV drew much attention at the bar at which I was viewing the debate. Any mention...
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This speech was prepared for the first meeting of the Columbia University Amnesty group, where I served as webmaster for one year. It was intended as an introduction to the world of Amnesty International including some of the history behind the organization.
Hi everyone and welcome to the first meeting. First of all, can everyone...
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With the 4×100m relays complete in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, one cannot help but wonder what might have been. Fortunately, the Jamaican men’s team fulfilled expectations and went on to win the gold medal in world record time, a feat which will survive history over the dropped batons.
Obviously, in order to win the...
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I recently completed a paid internship at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, which is based at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in the City of New York. It involved being the official photographer for the 2008 Summer Institute. What does that mean? I hear you ask… well, I constructed...
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News assignments are kinda cool, sports assignments aren’t bad either… but food… mmm…. Those who know me well know that I like food. I am capable of consuming copious amounts of it and, when married with a well-traveled and somewhat refined palette, this makes for an expensive combination. When the opportunity to go along...
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New York
Tonight saw the launch of “Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development”. It is the first student-run interdisciplinary journal of sustainable development… ever. That’s pretty cool. It will be an annual publication and the first issue consists of 12 articles. Now here’s the kicker – one of those articles was penned by me!
The event...
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I weathered the storm of the previous year
and in some good company I was here found
to welcome January without a fear
My feet finally returned to solid ground
from abstract worlds to which my maths had taken
me aloft and in many equations drowned
Relaxed anew, my mind it hath awakened
and to far-off lands I found my gaze...
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This poem was sent to the members of the cuai-board email listserv as a christmas card and may have been influenced by the alcohol that inevitably accompanies christmas gatherings.
To all my friends in amnesty
I write to you with festive cheer
for from semester, we are free
so closer still to your degree
but come with me, we’ll...
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