A bad week in TV-Land (or, “Tear Down That Wall!”)

So, the nation’s oldest and largest student-run TV station has been disbanded by the chancellor of Syracuse University (without the hearing guaranteed to it by the Student handbook, I might add) because, apparently, it is genocidal.  (Here’s a good video story of what happened.  And a fairly crappy one.) I worked at HillTV (then, UUTV) for all [...]

Weekend Update

SILVER SPRING, MD, USA Two summers ago, I worked a promotion at the Capital Barbeque Battle. It was a fun way to make some quick money and the event itself wasn’t bad, but not worth the $10 admission charge by far. I had no interest in going back. Flash forward to this year. I still [...]

Sunday night update

SILVER SPRING, MD, USA I still read the Daily Orange and syracuse.com almost every day. Considering that I graduated last year, I guess it’s kind of odd that I am getting very nostalgic around graduation time. But then again, I was supposed to be in the class of 2005, so I guess it makes sense. [...]

Things I’m Thankful For

BLACKWOOD, NJ, USA That I am free to completely ignore proper grammar on my website and no one can stop me. The knowledge that whatever happens in the future, I have lifed a MUCH fuller life in the past 2 years than most people in the world could ever dream of. Asking for anything more [...]

On finira par le faire

MARLTON, NJ, USA So how’s this for anticlimactic: I took my last class in Syracuse in December. I took my last Syracuse University class in April. I walked in graduation in May and last Thursday, June 24, I had my last college class. My transcript will be finalized in July, I will “graduate” in August, [...]

My life as a cougar

BLACKWOOD, NJ, USA No updates in a while, but really not that much to update y’all on. I started my summer class at Camden County College last Monday, and it’s amazing. What would make me say that a Lab Physics class is amazing, because we all know that it can’t possibly be the subject matter? [...]

This is shorter than it looks: A post-mortem on college

MARLTON, NJ, USA There are about 8 blogs that I read on a regular basis. Most of them I read every day (or several times a day), but there are a couple that I’ll only read once a week or so. Most of them I read because I really enjoy reading them and keeping up [...]

Good to be back.

SYRACUSE, NY, USA I wasn’t ever really in a hurry to come home from Europe, but after my trek across Eastern Europe last week (it was a wonderful time, btw, but nobody really cares so I won’t do a recap) I had done pretty much everything I wanted to do over there, so I was [...]

The ABCs of study abroad

SCHILTIGHEIM, FRANCE I haven’t really been up to anything interesting, so I think I’ll take a few minutes to give you a report on what life has been like overall since I arrived in France. But since nobody likes reading my long rambly entries (formatted like I’d format a paper for school, my report about [...]

I just rode back from Geneva, and boy are my wheels tired

SCHILTIGHEIM, FRANCE There’s really not a heck of a lot to tell about Geneva. One of my classes, “Policy Seminar on Contemporary Europe” visited the city for a few days to meet with some officials from some international organizations. Me playing diplomat once again. This time, I got to sit in the seat of the [...]