Hold your head even higher/ And into the fire we go!

I realize that it’s important to practice critical thinking and detailed analysis at the graduate level. But I do wish I could practice it on something I’m, oh, actually interested in. Die, Plato, die! (Sorry, echoindarkness.)

You’d think salespeople would figure out that college campuses are bad places to try to sell people stuff, because, hello, Students. No. Money. (Yes, I realize this is LA. Right next to Bel Air, and stuff. But there's a reason USC, not UCLA, is called the University of Spoiled Children.) Yesterday I’m sitting peacefully tucked in one of the arches outside Royce Hall, trying to read Socrates pontificating on rhetoric, ( when this girl walks up... )

Hold your head even higher/ And into the fire we go!

I realize that it’s important to practice critical thinking and detailed analysis at the graduate level. But I do wish I could practice it on something I’m, oh, actually interested in. Die, Plato, die! (Sorry, echoindarkness.)

You’d think salespeople would figure out that college campuses are bad places to try to sell people stuff, because, hello, Students. No. Money. (Yes, I realize this is LA. Right next to Bel Air, and stuff. But there's a reason USC, not UCLA, is called the University of Spoiled Children.) Yesterday I’m sitting peacefully tucked in one of the arches outside Royce Hall, trying to read Socrates pontificating on rhetoric, ( when this girl walks up... )