That decade before this one and after the 80s

I was in my history seminar last week when one of the many freshman in the class mentioned the fact that she was born in 1990. My professor was as shaken as I was.

To remedy these students obvious lack of knowledge about the 1990s I present this episode of Y Power Hour, called Best of the 90s, by the Honors College's own Yelena K. enjoy

Five Pounds, Lots of Chicken, and Tiring Weekend Later...

So, here I am facing the post-thanksgiving meltdown, as I like to call it. Now, school is back in session, and I have to get myself back to the daily grind - damn, that four-day weekend was sweet! I'm finding it kind of hard to work myself back into a pattern that I broke only a few days ago, but what can I do? Laziness does set in at times. Nevertheless, the key in college is to stay a bit ahead of things; this way, you can always fall behind for a day or two if you wish. I'd like to say all the best to any prospective student reading this. The regular decision deadline is up and coming (it's December 15th for those who don't know!). My advice is to give your all. Make the admissions committee here see that you will be an asset at Macaulay Hunter. And of course, don't embellish or lie about anything. Keep it honest, guys!

-Chev

So this is my first post...

Hello Everyone. This is my first post and it happens to be over Thanksgiving break so there is really not much to say right now. One thing I am going to say, however, is that I recommend everyone do volunteer work because it really does make your life so much better. I have recently decided to volunteer with patients at United Cerebral Palsy of America and I was surprised at how crucial volunteers are to the success of the organization and others like it.

So I suppose what I have discovered and am thankful for over this Thanksgiving break is the opportunity to help others. It sounds very mushy and all but I really do mean what I say.

Hope everyone's break is going well! Peace out!

Post Turkey Day

It's Friday night, been eating delicious left overs all day. I think leftovers are probably one of the best things ever. So delicious.

Hope everyone's turkey day was awesome, and everyone has something to be thankful for. =]

Catch you all soon,

Julian

Thanksgiving and Turkey

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! It's nice to be back at home, even if home (Brooklyn) is only an hour away :) I've had a really great week -

Sunday was the opening day of the Tim Burton exhibit at the MoMA, and I went to see a couple of Tim Burton movies with a friend from Macaulay @ Baruch (we met during freshman orientation). Although we couldn't see the exhibit itself because it was so crowded, CUNY students get into the MoMA for free, so we'll definitely be going back at a later date. The movies were great - Frankenweenie and Ed Wood.

Monday I finally figured out what I want to take next term, so I'm all set to register on Tuesday - I'll let you guys know what classes I'm taking when my schedule is finalized.

I have no classes on Tuesday, so I spent the day working on my term paper for my honors history class (Civil Rights and Civil Liberties). It's hard work, but I'm interested in it and I feel like I made alot of progress, which is satisfying.

I decided to make my break six days instead of four by taking Wednesday off - I haven't missed a class yet, so I figured I could get away with it. I spent yesterday meeting up with friends from high school and then partied with them last night :) I headed home this morning and now I'm about to enjoy a delicious Thanksgiving meal.

Still so much work to do, and only a couple of weeks left in the term! Time has flown by.

Schönen Feiertag wünsche ich Ihnen!

There's no vision like re-vision...

Just turned in the revision of my second essay for Eng 308. I'd kept putting it off. It's hard to revise things for workshops--you have to balance out all the things people say, resist the urge to focus on the one person who managed to decipher your incoherent ramblings understands your genius, so on. The photo shows the revision process in action: every copy from the students and professor, with comments, my notes (yellow notepad paper), and my master copy to jot down what I'm going to do. I'm looking forward to the Thanksgiving break. I have no class on Wednesdays, and I'm going to skip my internship tomorrow, since the judge I'm interning for isn't going to be there, and it's a very low-key thing (I just show up and watch trials). I'll dedicate the break to finishing Paradise Lost and Moby-Dick and a lovely book on post-apartheid South Africa, and reading and commenting on the three remaining student essays, ditto with 3 stories for my fiction workshop. It shall be fun. And I just met with my advisor today and figured out my schedule for next semester. I have to take one less class than I thought I would--woohoo!

Ahhhhh Turkey Turkey-

Sorry everyone for being so M.I.A. been doing a lot of work for this final paper of mine. It's for my History, Memory and Making of American Culture class. Very interesting. Writing about Thurgood Marshall and Charles Houston and their involvement in Brown v Board of Ed.

Anyway, so school's been good, I walked back to the dorms today after class. It was nice. It's kind of a far walk but it's really nice if you take your time, listening to an ipod or something, and just take in the city; really neat.

Can't wait to eat a buttload this Thanksgiving. Theyre also holding a Thanksgiving dinner at the dorms, might go to that as well. Nothing better than some good free food =D

Hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving! And has a lot to be grateful for.

Catch you all around,

Julian

I now love Thanksgiving on levels never before reached in my life. Normally the beginning of my week goes like this: Monday night is a lab class followed by a Tuesday afternoon lab class. Both are four hours and... well I'll just say they take up most of my time (don't schedule labs one day after another!). Anyway, because of Thanksgiving there are no labs this week, thus the happiness and love.
On a completely separate note, I went to an amazing lecture at Rockefeller University about two weeks ago. A scientist named Scott Fraser was invited to give a talk in a series of "Harvey Lectures," and his work on imaging the live, developing heart was ridiculously awesome. A developmental biologist collaborating with scientists from at least six other fields (including aeronautic engineering!) is something to gape at.
Good night!
Oh, even more important, Happy Thanksgiving.

Watch out everyone...

Ugh...just spent the last three days battling off the flu >.< Watch out guys! Fortunately it wasn't the swine, so it should be fine in a few days. I'm starting to see the importance of taking care of yourself, because a few days not being able to work can take a huge toll when you're writing final papers and preparing for exams.
In other news, I'm starting to really try and focus on my three final papers (finally). I'm trying to get the two easy ones down so that I can do really well on my third final paper for History/Memory and the Making of an American Culture.
Looking ahead this week: a paper due in English, some crazy reading for history, and visiting the Earth Room and the New Museum for my Arts in New York seminar. Thanksgiving break! (not really a break, anyway) and then almost the end of the term!

24 hours of CHC...

This Saturday, I went out with my fellow sophomores Sarah and Shawn to do some field work for our CHC poster project on green housing in Norwood, in the Bronx. It was great because we got a ton of work done and had a really good time hiking around the neighborhood. Sarah took notes, Shawn was our guide (he grew up in Norwood) and I was the trigger happy photographer. Witness:





And here's my brother's cat "helping" with chem homework:

thanksgiving

Thank my mother sister father brother, (the brother i never had). thank the little people and the big people, the tall people and the short people, the fat people, the ugly people, the pretty people, the naked people and most importantly the clothed people. the pedophiles and the rapists, the saints and the do gooders, the average people who keep the world going without even knowing. i would like to thank a very special dead cat fetus named Ulysses and his brother and sister who are in washington (i hope). i would like to thank the heavens hells and the agnostics who prove their existence. thank you. thank you so much.

Homeward Bound...

...in an hour or so. I'm shockingly excited - I'm really thankful for a temporary reprieve from the city and dorms so I can get work done and spend time with my family. I really, really, really miss my parents. I think I'm cooking soup tonight for them.

Last weekend was my 19th birthday! On the Friday, a rather large group of us hit Big Daddy's, on Park avenue by the dorm, and I had a pretty decent French Dip sandwich (although nothing beats L.A.'s Phillipe's, just like no NYC fast food beats IN-N-OUT). Afterwards we hit Yoshi Sushi, our typical haunt, on Avenue A between 8th and 9th. Or maybe it's between 7th and 8th. I don't know.

Am meinem Geburstag, der Samstag war, sind ich und fünf Freundinnen ins ein Deutsch Restaurant, das Rolf's heißt, gegangen. Es war ein bißchen teuer, aber es war sehr wünderbar! Die Spätzle waren fast gut als meine Mutters, aber die Rösti waren ganz appetitlich! (Ich hoffe, das jemand diesen Paragraf lesen kann.)


Work has picked up this week - I spent 6 hours on Wednesday/Thursday working on a CHC project, and I have an immense amount of reading to do. I'm also giving a presentation on Persuasion on Monday, and I need to do a lot of planning.

Betsy is out of office, and I think work will be a lot less fun without her =(

Bis zum nächsten Mal,

Katharine

P.S. You're Welcome

I Love Free Food. I Cannot Stress This Enough.

Helloo. That was not a typo. I am feeling quirky, so I said "helloo" instead of "hello." Aren't I creative?

Anywho, I'm pretty excited because tonight at 7:30 Hunter Hillel is holding a dinner in the dorms for Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath). I usually spend Shabbat with NYU, but these dinners occur once a month, and I loved the last two. This one's theme is "greening" your dorm. I'm not particularly eco-friendly, but I am interested to see what they recommend. The last two speakers (first hope in street art, than Jewish gangsters) were really interesting.

The dinner gets pretty crowded by Jews and non-Jews alike, since there's free food. With no meal plan, it's a pretty tasty offer. My secret? I bring down tupperware to the dinner and hoard like a Collyer brother.

Have a good Shabbat, or weekend, or month, or whatever floats your boat!

Your obedient servant,
O.G. (No, it's just me, Gaby, but I hope someone out there likes the reference)

About that dorm bill

Felt obligated to note, since I'd complained earlier this week about Hunter sending me a dorm bill, that within a day of my contacting the Bursar's Office I got an email saying they'd updated things and I'm now listed as an Honors College student and don't have to worry about it. So yay, Hunter bureaucracy works, for once. In unrelated news, I've started Moby-Dick for my American Lit class, and am finding it unexpectedly amusing. Ishmael is actually a kind of funny narrator.

Time for the post-midterm recuperation...

Today started bright and early with a chem test at 9 o'clock - and that thing was really long and really hard. On the one hand, tests are always kind of fu (at least to my weird brain) cause of the puzzle aspect, but on the other, trying to fit 58 chemistry questions, some of which probably only make conceptual sense to chem PhD's, into 2 hours is an exhausting way to spend one's Tuesday. I left the lecture hall feeling decidedly dizzy, which unfortunately persists. But the upshot - no more midterms! There's now a test lull until finals, giving me an great chance to wrap up my CHC and independent study papers - yay! More importantly, I've now got a chance to get some real work done in lab, which has been somewhat on hold for the past few weeks. Today I'll be talking with our collaborating professor at SUNY Downstate medical school and doing reverse transcription on some mRNA - just as soon as I get my brain back together.

I'M DONE WITH MY RESEARCH PAPER!

Had to brag about it somewhere, this seemed like the spot. 12 pages arguing that Hawthorne made the fate of Hester Prynne's daughter deliberately ambiguous at the end of The Scarlet Letter because she was so closely based on his own daughter that to specify what happens to her would mean to confront his own mixed feelings about the radical feminist revolution proposed by Hester. Incidentally, wrote it while trying out the free demo version of Scrivener, which may be the bestest word-processing program ever. Perfect for research papers because you can import PDFs, notes, etc and have them all there to look at. No page-layout features, though, so I found it best to export to MS Word for printing. Anyway, for what it's worth, I recommend it. And if you're struggling with writer's block, consider Write Or Die, which does all sorts of amusing things if you don't keep typing.

In other news, Hunter's inimitable Bursar's Office sent me a bill for my dorm room. I must now figure out how to explain to them that I don't actually have to pay for it, thank you very much. Fun!

Hey guys - I just recently got back from the Executive in Residence with Sy Sternberg. Tonight's discussion was about the economy, and it was as lively and thought provoking as this year's earlier Executive in Residence discussion on health care. However, the best part is the free dinner! If no one's said it yet, Macaulay always has great food at its events.

Great weekend--> Beginning of the Week

This weekend was really fun. Yesterday, it was one of my friend's birthdays, and so at the lovely, Brookdale dorms, we had a fun party, then went out to a sushi restaurant near St. Marks. The place isn't so far from the dorms. Lucky for us, the location of our dorms are pretty neat- we're around a group of restaurants, stuy town, a few blocks away from union square... and other great spots.

Really the great thing about the dorms, is the oneness with others, a bond with the other residence that grows so quickly and they become your best friends.

Today I have two classes, and finish my day at the Macaulay building, with constitutional law. Here's to the start of a new week--

Julian

Late to Start

Well I am a little late to the party but that never killed anyone.

I'm Jon and I work for Hunter Radio. I will be writing about what it is like working for a radio station and, hopefully, will get some of you interested in joining our ship.

WHCS (where hunter college speaks) broadcasts from TH101. We are an online radio station and you can listen to us in the big and small dining rooms as well as the TH105 lounge. If you want to listen to us from home (or find out about our awesome parties) go to our website- whcs.hunter.cuny.edu.

Todays post features the hilarious (and caustic) commentary of one of the Honors College's own- DJ Skittles.

This is his show, Lost in the Sauce, which broadcasts every Friday from 12-1pm. ENJOY!

Chaos, Discombobulation, and, finally, Rest...

It's been a hectic week. One of my worst thus far. I had an English research paper, Computer Science power point presentation, and performance to attend for my Arts in NYC class. The research paper was eight to ten pages on stem cell research (fun!), and surprisingly, it came together well; I handed it in, and am getting the grade soon (check back for an update). Unlike the smooth-running of my paper, my power point presentation got botched. One of my group members completely switched the order of the slides. I ended up improvising for half the presentation. I am very relieved that it's are behind me. The performance at Hunter, "Curse of the Starving Class," was a relaxer. It was a great end to my week. I was all over for the place for the past few days, but just getting to attend a performance and head back to dorms to hang out with friends are what really help me stay grounded. Now, I am off to enjoy my rainy weekend!
See you guys later.

Public Service Announcement to all Future Literary Critics:

Please, please, keep a bit of perspective.

Now, I've got nothing against a bit of close reading, delving into things, so on.

For example, ysterday, my American Lit class was doing Dickinson, whose poetry can sometimes be deliberately ambiguous and confusing. We had a good time debating what she means when, in a few poems, she calls herself the "Empress of Calvary." Would that be the Virgin Mary? Mary Magdalene? Both Marys? Neither Mary? (I go for all of the above--the more the Mary-er, I say).

This sort of thing is all well and good, but sometimes people go a little too far in trying to argue that every single detail is deeply symbolic.

To wit, I came across an article on The Scarlet Letter which argues that the book itself is symbolic of inescapable Puritan society. It contains this priceless sentence:
"The material text is no less a prison/grave (books, after all, do in their three-dimensional rectangularity evoke prison-houses and tombstones)."

Really? Really? So remember, critics of the future: sometimes the sea is the sea, the old man is an old man, the boy is a boy and the fish is a fish.

Ahh It's Thursday

Hey Guys,

So I just got back to the dorms, had my anthro lab this morning at 945am and then my History and Memory class at 1pm. I stopped at one of hte Pizza stores new campus, after school, grabbed some pizza with a friend of mine (its really good btw) and then to the Hunter Library to do some work. Afterward, I head back to the dorm, and here I am.

Its thursday! which is the beginning of the weekend! yes... thats right, thursday is the new Friday. I dont know i think its a college phenomenon.

Can't wait to enjoy the beginning of the weekend tonight =P

Catch you all later,
Julian

I declare ENGLISH!

(points to anyone who caught The Office reference)

So I officially declared my English Creative Writing major - I hadn't gotten around to it for a year an a half, and I started getting agitated emails from Hunter about declaring. So, I declare to everyone but myself, who already knew, that I am now an English major. Woohoo!

I'm rather busy otherwise - I'm trying to do a lot of work today so I can try to enjoy myself this weekend (my birthday weekend). The last thing I want to do is have an awful Sunday because I decided to have fun for my birthday. Basically, I don't want it to turn into another Halloween. On the bright side - or maybe a half bright side - Fiction 2 was canceled for tomorrow, as my professor is sick. My second story was supposed to be workshopped then, so it sucks that I have to wait for Tuesday, but that leaves me an extra half hour or so tonight and a full hour and a half tomorrow to get some stuff done. Like reading Emma, which I told myself I'd have finished today. Oops.

I'm still the high bidder on my Prada shoes!!!!! This is the highlight of my week.

-Katharine

Good morning everyone! TGIT! (I love not having Friday classes). Today I'm up early to meet with my history professor and show him my preliminary work on my term paper about the ERA. Then I have History, German, a nice long lunch break, and Acting. Tonight I'll be going to see Curse of a Starving Class at Hunter for my CHC (aka Macaulay Honors Seminar) Art's in New York. Yesterday I actually had my CHC class, and my professor brought in some amazing opera singers to perform for us personally, which was pretty cool to say the least. Then I went to an event at Macaulay - a panel discussion on "Reading in the Digital Age" which was also pretty cool. There weren't that many Macaulay kids there (most events are Macaulay students only, this was one of those exceptions), so I ended up talking to someone in the publishing business during the "cocktails" before the actual panel discussion. Who knows, maybe that contact will come in handy someday. Macaulay is always hosting interesting events; on Monday I'm going to a dinner discussion about the economy with Sy Sternberg, who did a similar event on health care earlier in the year that I went to. Even if none of these events sound like they'd appeal to you, there's tons more - if you want to see a sampling, click here.

Anyway, enough Macaulay plugs, I'm off to school :)
ttfn

It was a long day, but not an unproductive one. I went to The Met with my Arts in NYC class, and lingered around a particular Caravaggio. I usually like our trips for that class--it's a nice change of scenery and the walk up to the museum is always relaxing.

It was also good to clear my mind before an insane Biology test, which turned out to be pretty challenging. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Bio, but testing along with 700 other stressed students isn't exactly ideal.

Anyway, tomorrow is Wednesday, meaning it's my day off. Guess that means TV to catch up on, work to begin, and time to procrastinate (oops).

Later!

Post paper, pre-midterms

I had my first ten page paper due for my honors Political Theory of Human Rights course and although I'd rather that this was the end of it, I have two back to back midterms in Chemistry and Microbio this week. Sufficient to say that this isn't shaping up to be a fun week-all I'm looking forward to is my three day weekend (I don't have classes Friday :)).

Alright, I'm off to study.

-Kunwal

Ahhh Starting Off a New Week

G'morning all,

Just about to head out to my History, Memory and the Making of American Culture, class. Very interesting class, great discussions and time well spent talking about ethics, morals and the "mystic chords of memory." Then after that I head across town to the Macaulay building for my Constitutional Law class. Maybe later, I'll either edit this post, or post again and give you guys details. I just wanted to check in with you all =]

Catch you later

Julian

Rest! Relaxation!

This past weekend, I officially emerged from the rush of midterms, which meant I actually got to sleep. Fun! I'm in two writing workshops (fiction and nonfiction), and had the brilliant idea of scheduling my second essay and story of the semester on the same week, right after I'd had papers due. Tomorrow, they both get workshopped in class, and then I'll have fun trying to reconcile a dozen different people's comments on each for revision.

I'm also working on a research paper for my American Lit class, due this Friday. I'm going to debate whether the fate of Hester Prynne's daughter in The Scarlet Letter represents a final triumph of the repressive Puritan patriarchy, or whether it's simply a Take That to the idea of inherited sin, and a mockery of the clichés of the women's fiction of that era (btw, whenever I discuss lit stuff, you can expect much linking to TV Tropes, which is perhaps the greatest informal media-criticism collective out there).

Also for tomorrow, I'm reading Book 6 of Paradise Lost, which is rather fun. And I'm going over affidavits and rules of evidence, as part of Hunter's newly formed and very awesome mock trial team.

Today, in itself, is looking to be pretty relaxed. I've just got one class, South Africa And Southern Africa After Apartheid. The best part about this class is instead of a final, we do a two-day roleplaying game revolving around the politics of southern Africa. I'm on the Zimbabwe team, which should be loads of fun, since the Zimbabwean government seems determined to keep giving us stuff to work with.

I'm also going to pop by the office of a the professor who handles the CUNY/Paris Exchange Program for Hunter. I spent the spring semester in Paris (paid for largely by the Honors College Opportunities Fund--in case no one's mentioned it, every student has $7500 available for study-abroad, internships, and such). I'm just finalizing everything so it'll show up on my Hunter transcript. Most everyone I've worked with has been helpful, but the official hard-copy grades still have to make their way through the CUNY and University of Paris systems, which are neck-and-neck for the Dense Bureaucracy Award.

busy...busy...busy

Hi guys, this is Hannah. Just got back from a very long day. Today I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art (which I've visited so many times even just during my Arts in New York Seminar) and took a Bible "Woman and the Seed" Tour. It was really interesting; I recommend you check that out.

Now I have to start doing some research for both my Expository Writing final paper and my History, Memory and the Making of an American Culture final research paper as well. The latter is a really great course, but I'm not sure it's being offered in the future... :(

Alright, I have lots of work to do so I will be posting some more later.
See you,
Hannah

Chickens can live without their heads...

Which is a good thing too, since I feel like one. In the past week and a half, my shenanigans have included (but were not limited to) Marvelfest in Union Square, attending the free premiere of Gentleman Broncos, going to the MoMA, seeing a concert, going to Rocky Horror Picture Show, voting, going to class (including a midterm) and work, seeing Ricky Gervais live, seeing Whip It, and attending a piano recital. But today I probably did the best thing of all.

I took a nap. I almost fell asleep at the computer at my internship (at the Jewish Week newspaper), and realized I'd not only been burning the candle at both ends, but in the middle as well. I came back to my room at 11:30, did work for class, and set my alarm for an hour before class. The next two hours reminded me that sleep is awesome. I should keep that in mind from now on.



Till next time- my e-mail is Arctophile2000@gmail.com

-Gaby ('13)

P.S. The picture is of my new keys to success.

ache one and one (again)

I'm sick! On the worst day too. I know most people hate Mondays, but they're wrong. The worst day of the week is Wednesday. It's long and seems to drag and drag. I've got Bio lab, (3 hours of fun) and CHC (another three hours) with virtually no break in between. Being a freshman I guess I just didn't know I couldn't take that many classes in a day. For incoming students: don't do it! It's better to sacrifice having a day off than to have all your days packed with class class class. Ugh.

A bit late for Halloween, but...

...it seemed like a sin to not talk about it, considering that it's my favorite holiday and an incredibly fun time to be in NYC. The parade was swamped, so it was kind of useless to head down to that side of town, but it was an incredible night to people watch. Especially dressed as the most bad ass skeleton on the streets. Even though I miss trick-or-treating back home, it's hard to not have fun on Halloween in the city.

Unfortunately, 18 credits, a part time job (in the honors lounge, though!) and a day off don't mix quite well, and I spent all of Sunday and most of Monday catching up reading and work. I'm still not caught up entirely. So it goes.

I spent the majority of my one class today - English 389.55, Jane Austen - vehemently defending Fanny Price, the heroine of Mansfield Park. This girl in my class (who I'm pretty sure despises me now) was arguing that she's boring and prissy, and I argued that introversion doesn't equate to dullness, and that Fanny Price has the most interiority and is the most relatable and realistic of all of the Austen heroines. Perhaps I'm just defending her because I totally relate to her. Something to consider...

Also, I saw Ricky Gervais do stand up at Hunter last night - absolutely hysterical (and for the Hunter-subsidized price of $10!) His taste is far cruder than mine, but it was a great way to step outside myself for an hour. It was totally refreshing. Hunter entertainment is generally pretty solid, actually. I'm excited to see a friend of mine perform in Curse of the Starving Class, which runs this week and next. All of the shows I've seen here so far have been impressive, to say the least. And the student productions are free! Hooray for poverty friendly entertainment!

Not much else going on, other than an immense amount of reading for this week and next; Austen's Emma, Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Morrison's Beloved. It's all enjoyable, at least.

-Katharine

Good Evening

Hey everyone, just got back to my dorm from a full day--

To start off I woke up at a great time today.. 12pm (gotta love those late class days). I got ready for school, and headed to my 2:10pm CHC class. I'm a sophomore so I'm taking Science and Technology of New York. Really interesting class, lot of statistics about the city, and apparently what some scientist guy thinks the city will look like in 400 years (the most recent thing we've discussed... I don't believe what he hypothesized at all). Then after that ended at 3:25, I rushed out (I was starving) and wolfed down a halal chicken 'n rice platter from of the stands before my Anthropology exam at 3:45. Aced that bad boy.

Afterwards, I took a nice walk uptown, to 96th street, visited my parents, and then came back to the dorms, where I sit now, writing to you all. Pretty amazing how that works out, huh?

Now, I'm gonna do some work, get ready for my Law, Politics and Morality of Same Sex Marriage course tomorrow, (I'm into the Law thing, planning on intellectual property law, probably-- I'm also taking Constitutional Law on Mondays). Then I'll probably hang out with some people at the dorms, and then cap the night off with a little guitar? maybe? I don't know we'll see, haha.

Well, catch you guys soon.

Julian

It's Monday!

Another morning in New York City... 8 a.m. bio recitation today, 9-12 bio lab, and then a German midterm - thus begins another week at Macaulay Hunter. By the way, the Hunter German department is excellent, and the language is really easy and fun. Bio lab.. a bit pedantic but hey, you do learn some useful skills. Plus there's something fun and reminiscent of kid's chemistry kits about doing the "experiments."

Yesterday I went to an Honors Seminar Sophomore common event - Macaulay is always trying to foster cross campus activity at the lovely Macaulay brownstone on the upper West side. Since this semester's seminar is on Science and Technology in New York City, the common events are short guest lectures from various scientists. This one was with an astrophysicist from the Museum of Natural History and was fascinating and fun - we got to hear about intergalactic collisions and multiple infinities from someone who actually discovers these things! Macaulay really works hard to make their common events good and this time they definitely succeeded. And my extreme nerdiness may have also contributed to the fun of it... But I can definitely vouch for the fact that MHC Hunter is quite nerd-friendly.

And so it's off to class for me. Happy Monday!