You’ve done the countdown. You know which one I’m talking about; it happens around the one week mark. One day you’re crowding into a van and belching off radio songs and the next, you’re scrambling to figure out if your first day of classes is on a Monday and whether or not you can squeeze […]
Month: September 2012
Song for smokers and slackers.
My first French chanson of this semester: Hôtel by Poulenc. FRANCIS POULENC: A Neo-Classical composer of the 20th century(around the same time as Igor Stravinsky and a little after Claude Debussy). HÔTEL: Lyrics by Guillaume Apollinaire. A song about being in a tight Hotel room, wanting to do nothing but smoke aka très francais. Translation […]
Chance Encounters with the Geometric Kind
I come from a family of teachers. My grandmother, my mother, my father… and me (almost). Connected with this, but not a direct cause, is the fact that I have a really close family. We still eat dinner together, and go on family outings, even family trips. This past weekend was one of those times. […]
Armenian in an Italian Dorm
Recipe of the Week: Fattoush My dorm cabinets currently have thirty-four boxes of pasta. Thirty-four. Boxes. Of unopened. Pasta. And yet there’s no pasta sauce. But that’s another story. My roommates have spent the last few weeks eating pasta, pizza, and alas, more pasta. Don’t get me wrong, I love my pasta, but two weeks […]
Autumn in New York
I dreamt about the moon last week. A luminous copper disc, perfectly full on a hot summer’s night. A thin black line appeared at its pole and a fissure snaked across its surface. This is real, someone told me. This is really happening. One half of the moon fell from the sky and careened toward […]
Fast Food Failure-Reality of Dorm Life
Recipe of the week: Cup O Noodles. (See pictures for instructions.) I was one of the last to arrive that day. As all the cars were pulling out of the Summit parking lot, and parents were saying their last tearful goodbyes to their college bound children, I was just pulling up next to the side […]
The Intro Post Of Seemingly Ridiculous Ramblings
Hello QC, all you scholars, procrastinators, and procrastinating scholars! Hello! Looks like you stumbled onto my little corner here, and if my About section didn’t give it away, it’s quite a corner. Let me give you a brief tour: if you look to your left there, you’ll see the stack of textbooks that I use […]
The Blog Before the Blog
Before I actually begin blogging, I feel it’s necessary to give a little bit of the back-story to all of the readers out there. So I guess this is the blog before the blog. I struggled a lot when I first enrolled in college. I mean A LOT. Going to school was something I was […]
Cage Madness.
This month is the 100th anniversary of the infamous contemporary composer, John Cage. I’ve only started getting into his music this semester for I will be performing some of his works at a Cage Circus which will be performed at the Aaron Copland School of Music this November. So far everything I’ve heard of his […]
Can’t Do, Can Do
The unfortunate reality of mathematics education, is that many students in the classrooms come up with the idea that they can’t do it. “I just don’t have a math brain like you,” is a common comment I’ve received. If this were a true statement it would be rather unfortunate, for then there would be just […]
