All things considered
To Blog takes a lot of hubris. You've got to pretend, to yourself at least, that what you do, or say, or say you do, matters enough that someone else wants to know about it.
To sit here and I write, I'm asserting that I do things other people wish they could, or find find fascinating. This blog has been in the making for a long time, as I've been waiting to enter a time in my life in which I could make a case for such.
I came to Duke this year, and now my life is more interesting than I can handle.
The sheer number of experiences I've had here prove the truth of the statement.
From the very first day, I’ve dined with a super rich CBS exec, met Ben Stein on the streets of D.C., (not) enjoyed a drunken apartment party in a high rise in New York, counseled a foreign student that was raped by another foreign student, and given a speech to Duke Student Government that earned the ire of one of our biggest fraternities but a glowing editorial from the Student Newspaper. I’ve written 50 (fifty) pages on a CREEK (A FLIPPING CREEK) that runs next to campus in a class for which I never purchased the required book, emptied the vending machine of all the Twix bars just because I could, studied in the Elevator one night, started a non-profit which will receive over a hundred obsolete computers in the coming months, treated one of Duke’s new Rhodes Scholars to lunch before he was a Rhodes scholar, stood and asked the university president a question at a highly pretentious debate put on by Phi Beta Kappa, tried to start a student publication that ran into every possible obstacle, debated with the Philodemic society at Georgetown, learned of the sex-capades of the other members of my Improv troupe in a high-flying road trip, organized and put on Physics demonstrations for middle school students every Tuesday, never showed up to my work study as a researcher (a job for which I am not qualified anyway), and met Robert Bork at the National Federalist society convention I attended in November.
Something foreign to me as well, is that a blog never really ends. Unlike school, with deadlines or at least capstones, I have until the end of my life to share these stories, and the unfolding stories of my experiences.
But as much as I like to talk about my own life, and I'll do that a lot here, this blog is about the world around us. The political world - yes, but not exclusively. Stemwinders.org is an ambitious name, and I want to see it fulfill its definition.
Here I share the floor with a list of authors, friends of mine, who bring unique and interesting views. Together, we are a consortium of political and social thought, from the perspective of this, the "Net" generation.
This is the first of many posts. I invite you to read many more.
To sit here and I write, I'm asserting that I do things other people wish they could, or find find fascinating. This blog has been in the making for a long time, as I've been waiting to enter a time in my life in which I could make a case for such.
I came to Duke this year, and now my life is more interesting than I can handle.
The sheer number of experiences I've had here prove the truth of the statement.
From the very first day, I’ve dined with a super rich CBS exec, met Ben Stein on the streets of D.C., (not) enjoyed a drunken apartment party in a high rise in New York, counseled a foreign student that was raped by another foreign student, and given a speech to Duke Student Government that earned the ire of one of our biggest fraternities but a glowing editorial from the Student Newspaper. I’ve written 50 (fifty) pages on a CREEK (A FLIPPING CREEK) that runs next to campus in a class for which I never purchased the required book, emptied the vending machine of all the Twix bars just because I could, studied in the Elevator one night, started a non-profit which will receive over a hundred obsolete computers in the coming months, treated one of Duke’s new Rhodes Scholars to lunch before he was a Rhodes scholar, stood and asked the university president a question at a highly pretentious debate put on by Phi Beta Kappa, tried to start a student publication that ran into every possible obstacle, debated with the Philodemic society at Georgetown, learned of the sex-capades of the other members of my Improv troupe in a high-flying road trip, organized and put on Physics demonstrations for middle school students every Tuesday, never showed up to my work study as a researcher (a job for which I am not qualified anyway), and met Robert Bork at the National Federalist society convention I attended in November.
Something foreign to me as well, is that a blog never really ends. Unlike school, with deadlines or at least capstones, I have until the end of my life to share these stories, and the unfolding stories of my experiences.
But as much as I like to talk about my own life, and I'll do that a lot here, this blog is about the world around us. The political world - yes, but not exclusively. Stemwinders.org is an ambitious name, and I want to see it fulfill its definition.
Here I share the floor with a list of authors, friends of mine, who bring unique and interesting views. Together, we are a consortium of political and social thought, from the perspective of this, the "Net" generation.
This is the first of many posts. I invite you to read many more.
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