Today is the last day of spring break, and this break had been a long time coming. Among other activities, I had a chance to dust off all the recording equipment and lay down a few songs. I recently revisited the music of “The Tallest Man On Earth,” the pseudonym of Kristian Matsson, a Swede [...]
I was studying today for my marketing final, and I came across a quote from Sergei that I had scrawled on a slide printout of the “Branding” lecture. We had been talking about the definition of a brand, and one of the examples our professor gave was Livestrong. Sergei had his own opinion of that [...]
The Rady Student Board held elections over the past few weeks. I was selected by my classmates to be the new CEO, and I’ll be taking over in the spring! I’m pretty excited about this development, despite the fact that it confers upon me all the responsibilities of an executive without any of the compensation. [...]
I forgot to preregister for spring quarter last week, and so my scholarship payment was temporarily put on hold. Unfortunately, I still had to pay my rent for on-campus housing, and I did not realize that UCSD’s online payment system (a) is one-click and (b) does not take partial payments. This resulted in me making [...]
Since Saturday’s post, there have been quite a few developments on the UCSD race relations front. Sadly, the developments have been weighted more towards escalating tensions than diffusing them, even though it seems that most students would basically like to see the issues be resolved and have the fracas die. Again, I really think that [...]