Author: Jason D. Rowley
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A Poem for a Missing Friend
Winter passes bleak and fleeting. Spring’s promise: cloying. A snowflake on a girl friend’s nose. From on high, product of grey. Still. White. Fleet, it falls and fades away. Failed accumulation: too warm for that. God’s grace, you see. The glowing. That ache? Longing for my April.
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The Upstart’s Conundrum: The Credibility Catch-22
All entrepreneurs face certain problems when they undertake new projects. All projects have considerable time costs, and often times the entrepreneur must establish credibility for him- or herself in fields where previously he or she had no expertise. How does one balance work and play given time constraints? How can entrepreneurs make others perceive them…
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A Modest Proposal
Saying that one “must have a B.A. or its equivalent to apply” is akin to signage in the early 1900s stating that “Irish need not apply”. It’s merely discrimination on the basis of social constructs, one on the basis of ethnicity and the other a basis of credibility. A further parallel can be drawn between…
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Reflecting My View of Modern Party Dance
Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous, silly to watch and excruciatingly embarrassing to perform. It is ridiculous, and yet absolutely everyone does it, so that it is the person who does not want to do the ridiculous thing who feels out of place and uncomfortable and self-conscious . . .…
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On Redefining Intellectual Entrepreneurship
The intellectual entrepreneur is one who develops, researches, discovers, or learns in order to fulfill objectives beyond the attainment of credentials, approval of peers, or furthering of career goals in a manner or process primarily outside the bounds of extant educational institutions, systems, and pedagogies.
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On Realism and Graduate School Applications
I applied and was denied admission to the University of Chicago’s Masters Program in Social Sciences summarily and without review of my application. This was, to a certain extent, expected. I am a third-year. I spoke with one of my professors, a well-known political scientist at the U of C, about my denial from the…
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The Upstart’s Conundrum: Time Crunch
College entrepreneurs around the country are at once impelled by their institutions to “innovate” and launch ventures, yet stymied by organizational structures and other systemic constraints that render college an inopportune time to gain entrepreneurial experience.
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Student Entrepreneur Hewett Talks Shop[pit]
Hewett tells a compelling story, a universally relatable one: shopping is heinously inefficient. “Customers wade through hundreds of items they aren’t interested in just to find the one item they want to buy. Shoppit changes all of this and does it better than anyone else in the market thanks to our proprietary RFID technology which…
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Halcyon Days Goes on Vacation
The Halcyon Days will be going on a brief hiatus while its principal contributor, Jason D. Rowley, (a.k.a me) finishes up a graduate school application (the three page “statement of intent” of which will be posted for HD‘s readers’ perusal) and visits Washington, D.C.. In the meantime, though, I highly recommend some of my friends’…