GRE Vocab: The FreeRice method

One week from today, I will tackle that leviathan of standardized, computer-adaptive, I-am-completely-unprepared-for-this-and-I-haven’t-done-long-division-by-hand-since-middle-school tests, the GRE.  Thanks to my extreme procrastinatory superpowers, I have held off on doing any significant preparation for the test until two weeks before the fact.  Is this a surprising turn of events?  In an obscure word that lends itself to [...]

The Hardest Thing

Perhaps the hardest thing I did in my four years at Carleton was pack up my car to leave.
I don’t mean this metaphorically. I mean it physically. It took me about an hour to pack my trunk up alone. My trunk is packed so tight that I can barely close the door. [...]

School

Note: This used to be the school page. I’m no longer in school, so I’ve converted it to a post and backdated it to the morning of my graduation. Enjoy!

I am currently a senior Economics major at Carleton College. My academic interests include resource, environmental, and development economics, as well as public [...]

Class-free Is the Way to Be

The last few weeks of Carleton definitely go out with a bang. Lots of socializing, lots of free food. My liver hates me these days. I’ve done something social basically every night but one in the last two weeks. It’s really put a great cap to my school experience.
But that’s not [...]

79AISHSVC

Near the end of every year Carleton holds a very special event. The “Annual Intergalactic Superhero Supervillian Convention” (AISHSVC) better known as the Superhero Party. This being the 79th annual (I’m not really sure how they count this stuff), I figured a superhero of my stature wouldn’t want to miss it.
What superhero am [...]