GPAs and College

Does a GPA truly reflect our academic performance and intelligence in college? I did honestly take a look around the CAS graduation and the ceremony booklet and take notice of who was graduating with honors and latin honors. I was surprised by who and who didn’t wear a gold tassel based on the work ethic [...]

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“You should strive to achieve happiness every day, not just at the end of a journey.” – President Bill Clinton, speaking this morning at NYU commencement at Yankees Stadium I’ll post my commencement photographs sometime this week, but I’ll facebook-steal a couple to summarize:

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Bachelor’s Degree. I haz it.

I thought the NYU CAS graduation ceremony was a good reflection of my college experience: one big, disorganized, shit show. I went because I didn’t want to regret not going in twenty years, but overall I remembered why I generally opt out. I don’t have a big family to take pictures with; most of my [...]

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There’s a pretty infamous anthropology professor at NYU that practically walked off a movie set or sitcom. He even looks like a caricature with his goofy Scrooge McDuck face, duck-like walk, and African safari attire. (He did his fieldwork in East Africa) He’s brash and unapologetic and spits out the first opinion or thought that [...]

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Once a couple of years ago, I laid down on one of those large circular couches in Bobst Library to rest and wait for my friend to go on his lunch break at work. I crossed my legs, shoved my hands in the pockets of my leather jacket, and wished it wasn’t so crowded and [...]

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Looking up and finding some guy starring at me while gyrating with his printmaking-strobe-light was just awkward. He later loudly complained that his roommate smoked his weed, so I clearly found the love of my life. </sarcasm> Happy Valentine’s Day to me.

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So my History of 20th century Russia (also known as “Twentieth-century Russia: Terror, Survival, and Beautiful Dreams”) professor took inspiration from the dictators from this time period and location and conducts the old-school cold-calling we all dreaded throughout high school. He will randomly call on you in class. Now I don’t mind speaking in class [...]

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You know you hate one of your classes when you dream about the politics of group projects.

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As much time as I spend at Bobst Library and as much as I love taking pictures, I never took pictures inside or really of Bobst until the last snowday when no one was around.

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You know you’re a college student when you finally fell asleep around 4am, rolled out of bed at 6am to finish a paper due in less than ten hours, and consider caffeinated tea and overpriced Cheetos from a library vending machine as breakfast.

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I’m all for cute furry animals and all, but I’ve had to learn more about monkeys than I ever wanted to. Look at those strepsirhines!

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It’s 7:25am but I’ve been awake and active outside my apartment for almost three hours. Reason enough to make a judgment about today: Positive: my third class of the day is canceled and my professor okay’d my ethnography proposal Negative: THE MICROWAVE IN BOBST LIBRARY IS GONE

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Sitting down in Bobst and realizing the person doing a double take at the table is someone you hated from your freshmen dorm floor = slightly awkward The fact that he saw you shirtless because he walked into your apartment unannounced = very awkward

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I’m trying to give Anthropology of Language a chance, but the readings are dreadfully boring and full of jargon. However, I’ll give some extra credit points after receiving this email from the professor: Dear Students, I trust that by now you’ve heard about the major storm that is supposed to be hitting New York tomorrow [...]

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Homesick

I’ve always lived in temporary locations – even in Poland – with the mentality that I will uproot my life in a few months or years.  My current apartment is the first place I voluntarily sought out, chose and truly like whereas I couldn’t wait to leave previous locations for different reasons. Pictures of my [...]

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