Category Archives: academics
I’m proud of my students
Today’s choral contest was by far my favorite school event. There are some students who hurt my feelings and disrespect me on a regular basis, but i loved every single one of my students today. How could you not love … Continue reading
If only our minds could just click with each other
It seems that The Stone‘s contributors’ responses to readers’ comments are often better than their original posts themselves: Philosophers typically try to illuminate with a combination of argument and (re-)conceptualization. But the most careful and perspicuous argumentation, as indispensable as … Continue reading
Filed under academics, communication, philosophy
Indignant
[update 04/13/10: My TA more than redeemed himself today. He started out recitation by saying that in grading our papers, he was forced to reconsider the criteria that he'd laid out for us for writing our papers, one of which … Continue reading
Filed under academics, college, philosophy
Mapping out your life is overrated
A wise friend of mine recently said to me, “Knowing what you want to do is not quite the same as knowing exactly where you can go.” School and society put so much emphasis on the where that i lost … Continue reading
Filed under academics, career, college, personal, philosophy
Protected: Actually, i do have something to say
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My last NYU September
The past week has been the best i’ve ever spent at NYU. This is my third semester dorming (the first, fall of freshman year, and the second, spring of junior year), and i have never been this happy with my … Continue reading
Education, learning, training
These are my initial thoughts on the differences between education, learning, and training. I’m looking to see how these thoughts evolve as i continue with my participation in all three. My Media Criticism professor said that the purpose of his … Continue reading
My annual soundtracks
This is a personal tradition i started in 2007. I decided to make a soundtrack for every year of my life with a song for each month. Here is my 2007 soundtrack: 2007: My year in music Pre. Zero 7 … Continue reading
Philosophy or Communications?
[edited 11/01/08, scroll down for the edit] I’m currently a junior in NYU Steinhardt’s Media, Culture, and Communication department. I hate it. I used to be in NYU GSP (General Studies Program, now called Liberal Studies), had thought about transferring … Continue reading
