Archive for December, 2008
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Do Good things, and Good things happen.
pYesterday I was walking up Pike and Melrose, which is quite icy and fairly steep.#160; A number of cars were stuck and spinning their wheels, including a truck, a taxicab, and a minivan.#160; I stopped and watched for about thirty seconds, until I decided to jump in and start helping them out.#160; Fortunately for me, [...]
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
NPR: Inspiring College Essays
pThose who have chatted with me in the last few months will probably know of my love of This American Life.#160; For those of you who aren’t familiar with it’s “…temhat show by those hipster know-it-alls who talk about how fascinating ordinary people are,” /emto paraphrase a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O_C” target=”_blank”the O.C./a /p pThis week’s episode [...]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
The story of my life
pIf you want an excellent description of what it’s like being an admissions counselor on the road, you can click over to read this very informative article:/p p#160;/p pa href=”http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i16/16a00102.htm?utm_source=atamp;utm_medium=en” target=”_blank”Measuring the Miles per Applicant:/a/p blockquote pMost people in admissions have a road story. There are tales of wrong turns, [...]
