Category: The Halcyon Days
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The Declaration of Student Involvement in the United Nations Academic Impact
Click the link to view & download the newly-revised Declaration of Student Involvement in UNAI/ASPIRE (in .PDF format). In an earlier post, I publicized a Declaration student leaders of the UNAI initiative wrote. Not to take credit for the thoughts of other people, it was I who did the bulk of the writing. I did not, however,…
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5 Einstein Quotes To Which I Owe My Current Sanity & Perspective
Albert Einstein, for reasons too numerous to go into here, is a personal hero of mine. “Avuncular” is a good word to describe him; he is the deadly-smart uncle with crazy hair we all want… that is, until one learns about his personal life. But, nonetheless, his public persona is one I respect immensely. His…
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Thiel’s 20-20 Vision: Stop Out of College
Here is the first paragraph of a post I wrote for Flyover Geeks, the remainder of which can be found here. The average cost of a college education at a private institution is just short of $37,000 per year, according to an NPR survey last October. One important question students ask themselves when entering is, “What…
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An Excerpt From a Short Story I Am Writing: Code Switcher – I
The following is a brief excerpt from a short story I’ve been working on. It’s called Code Switcher, and it plays around with multiple-personality disorder and the idea that one or more of the personalities might be autonomous. I’ve got a lot of brain research to work on, which means it will be awhile before…
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A Quick Thought On Awesome
I want to find something awesome, you know, in the 19th century sense of the word ‘Awesome’. I’ve never really sat in awe of anything before. In finding what I find awesome, I will find what I want to do with my life.
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Lab42
Lab42 is one of the young, nimble startups carving out a niche in Chicago’s growing tech community. Specifically, Jonathan Pirc and Laura Rokita, the team behind Lab42, are forging ahead to establish an altogether new category of market research firm. It is market research reinvented for the social-media landscape.
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On Haiku
I bought a book of haiku last week. I admired its contents for its simplicity, a certain sparseness. They are bleak and uplifting, simultaneously. They also contain a universal grammar and reference structure which I’ve written out below in the form of haiku. Exhibit of calm evoking a grey feeling– One delicate thing.
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Careerism is Dead.
I’m now blogging for Flyover Geeks, a Chicago-based blog aiming to be the TechCrunch of the midwest, the “flyover states”. I’ve been tasked with writing about college, entrepreneurship, and my opinion of both/either of them. Here, on The Halcyon Days, I’ve posted the first paragraph of my Flyover Geeks post, “Careerism is Dead”. It is…
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On “The Road” & A Paper Written About Same
The world is a harsh, ugly, vicious, horrifying place sometimes. Sometimes. Although most of the time aforesaid meanness is a product of the imagination, it is, on occasion, actually so. However, the man and the boy in McCarthy’s novel survive their ordeal because they will themselves to do so.