It was my first month on campus, and I was still getting settled into my routines. I stopped by the International Center to grab some lunch after class, and that’s when I saw a guy handing out pamphlets. Or rather, he saw me. Before I could walk away, he started talking to me, telling me …
I had a college professor who always talked about originality. Before every quiz and exam he would tell us that he was looking for a synthesis of new ideas. He told us not to regurgitate his lectures. “I know the material I’m lecturing about,” he would say. “I want to hear your spin on it.” …
I was probably around nine or ten years old. It had been a normal day at school, so normal that I don’t remember anything about it. But when I came home, my world had been turned upside down. My bedroom looked completely different. Instead of a plain white room with mismatched furniture, it had been …
Back in college I made some extra cash selling stuff on eBay. My dad collected antiques, and long before my family decided to sell things off wholesale, he decided to sell some stuff online. As the resident Internet geek, I set up an eBay account and started getting items ready. My dad went to a lot …
It all started with the commencement ceremony in May 2000. The keynote speaker was James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, an international agency that provides loans to developing countries. Our normally apathetic campus was swarmed by protestors who opposed the World Bank’s meddling in international affairs. They made a lot of fine and nuanced …
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