Today is Wednesday, which means I have a class from 10:30-12:00 and another starting at 2:00. I had planned to use the two-hour break to go eat Hare Krishna food. As every good UCSD Triton knows, the Hare Krishna food is the best deal in town. You get all-you-can-eat curries, rice, and other lentily vegany [...]
This is my official “thank you” to the second-years at Rady for organizing the Thursday night Rock Bottom happy hour, much needed after a six hour day filled with quantitative analysis and accounting. Good news: six hours of class on Thursday means no class on Friday. More good news: “Tamara” and her friend “Chris” came [...]
Last weekend, I was in New Orleans for “John’s” bachelor party. It was my first time there, and it was quite an experience. Of course, a requisite part of the trip was strolling down Bourbon Street. Late Saturday night, after a lot of walking, we wandered into a blues bar. We sat with our beers [...]
We’re a week into preterm at Rady. Some distinct personalities are already starting to emerge, including that of someone we’ll call “Sergei.”* Sergei is both very quotable and very Russian. I’d like to share some of his recent insights: Sergei, after a class discussion of factors possibly affecting a baby’s gender which touched on nationality [...]
I had my first two days of pre-term at the UCSD Rady School of Management yesterday and today. It was really fun, and I met all my classmates. I could talk about all of that, but I think I’d rather just talk about the bread pudding that I made on Tuesday, because I ate leftovers [...]
I’m going to keep gushing over David Foster Wallace’s gem Consider the Lobster. I just reread the title essay yesterday, which is about a topic which is of course very near and dear to me: vegetarianism. One feature that makes the essay so great is that the ostensible topic is not actually vegetarianism, but rather [...]
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