Asides
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The White City
And God said unto the city, “Thou hast sullied thine image with politicks, moneygetting, and crime. Thou shalt be mundified, swaddled in white. It shall be cold and wet. I beseech you, Windy City, to don thy coat, lest suffer further. Shiver today as penance.”
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IncubatorU
Now, I’m sure hordes of grumpy old men in tweed jackets collectively carp about the increasing focus on commerce in the classroom, about the decay of classic liberal arts dogma about Truth and Beauty, and all that jazz. What I say to that: grow up. Fact: for as long as a college degree is a…
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Another Excerpt from ‘Didact’
Below is another excerpt from a (somewhat protracted) short story I’m working on. Current word-count is 3000 words, of which you’ll find almost 600 below. It’s unclear how it’ll be incorporated, but it will. The lines are spoken, the words are the protagonist’s, not the narrator’s, which is not me. For the record. Now, I…
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Young, Student Entrepreneur, Discusses Getting Started
This is an excerpt from my latest piece for Flyover Geeks profiling friend and student entrepreneur Colin Young. Read the whole thing here. Of his experience at DePaul University, where he is studying computer science, Colin demurred to my (leading) questions about college. Colin, like most young people in tech, is primarily autodidactic. Young claimed…
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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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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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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…