The finest minds of my generation.
One of my classes this semester is an internet-based science and technology course. It’s a 200-level course, so the analysis done in the web-based discussions isn’t supposed to be particularly...
View ArticleDel. Tom Gear’s a dope.
Today’s Hampton Roads Daily Press has an article (not online) by Hugh Lessig and John M.R. Bull about Virginia 21 and their report card ranking all members of the Virginia House of Delegates, based on...
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I’m done.
Finished. Ended. Finito. No mucho. The last paper was turned in not two minutes ago, at 1:43am. It was two years ago this week that I discovered that I’d be going to Virginia Tech. It was twenty one...
View ArticleBush ending land grants?
President Bush is, according to one source, eliminating the land grants that allow schools like my alma mater, Virginia Tech, to exist: In a move that caught all 50 states by surprise, the Bush...
View ArticleIt’s good to be missed.
Apparently my week-long final-exam-caused blogging hiatus, which ended in the wee hours of this morning, did not go unnoticed. On Raising Kaine, Lowell Feld offered the following theories as to the...
View ArticleOff to Sorensen, VT graduation.
I’m off to a Sorensen Institute session in Harrisonburg (topics include the poultry industry, transportation [Whit Clement is the speaker], gangs in Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley [Sen. Mark...
View ArticleFull circle.
Nineteen months ago, Amber and I packed up a moving van and moved me from Charlottesville to Blacksburg, to start school at Virginia Tech. That afternoon, when we arrived in Blacksburg, the sun emerged...
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Gradumacation.
Me, immediately after Virginia Tech graduation ceremonies, May 14, 2005. The speaker was unknown, clichéd, and terrible. The presenter, upon calling my name, told the surely-baffled assembly that I...
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Asymmetrical rivalries.
Two years ago, Amber and I drove down to Virginia Tech for my orientation. The all-day event started with us and couple of hundred of my fellow transfer students sitting down, assembly-style, and...
View ArticleOn jury nullification.
I wrote a short essay for a judicial process class on the topic of jury nullification a couple of years ago. I’ve found few people who are familiar with this interesting legal concept, so I figure it’s...
View ArticleWhat type of college student are/were you?
A brief summary of 99% of the people you will ever meet in college. I was a mix between Silent Foreign Curve Destroyer and more of Intellectual Superhero than I’d care to admit.
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Four scenes from Virginia Tech.
Scene one. I’m standing on the Drillfield. Small groups of students are filtering by me, all headed directly for the coliseum, where the convocation is scheduled to start in couple of hours. Nearly...
View Article“Why the shootings mean that we must support my politics.”
Mentally replace every appearance of the word “bombing” with the word “shooting” in this essay: Many people will use this terrible tragedy as an excuse to put through a political agenda other than my...
View ArticleVT: Media go home.
Virginia Tech’s student government asks all journalists to get the hell off of campus by 5am Monday. Seriously, guys, go away and let these kids try to make things normal again.
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