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Fall Semester 2008: Research and Scholarship Ethics - M 2:00-3:40p Advanced Topics in Molecular Biology - MW 4:30-5:45p Advanced Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology - TR 9:30-10:45a, F 9:00-9:50a Physiology of Human Systems - TR 2:00-3:50p Colloquium in Molecular Biology Research - R 4:00-4:50p Old Journal Entries
Or rather, entries from the old journal, as it were... - An open letter to the College. (August 27, 2006) - Untitled. (July 16, 2006) - Haunted (Part One) (May 29, 2006) - Are we growing up, or just going down? (May 3, 2006) - I had a dream... (March 19, 2006) - ... (March 14, 2006) - Enjoy it while it lasts. (September 12, 2005) - Scene: 3:27 AM. (September 3, 2005) - Untitled. (July 26, 2005) Psst... if you're looking for the academic writings I used to have here, head to my Reading Room. Blockbuster Total-Access DVDs
Week of 6/30/08: - Tokyo monogatari [Tokyo Story] (1953) Week of 6/16/08: - Akira (1988) - Habuah [The Bubble] (2006) Week of 6/9/08: - Prime Suspect 4, including: - The Lost Child (1995) - Inner Circles (1995) - Scent of Darkness (1995) Week of 5/26/08: - Like Minds [USA: Murderous Intent] (2006) Week of 5/5/08: - La Strada (1954) - Black Orpheus (1959) - Le Notti di Cabiria [Nights of Cabiria] (1957) Week of 4/7/08: - Cleo de cinq a sept [Cleo from 5 to 7] (1962) - Det Sjunde Inseglet [The Seventh Seal] (1957) Week of 3/24/08: - Prime Suspect 3 (1994) Week of 3/17/08: - Funny Face (1957) - Lalechet Al Ha'mayim [Walk on Water] (2004) - Charade (1963) Week of 3/10/08: - Yossi & Jagger (2002) - Mists of Avalon (2001) - Blow Up (1966) The *New* Reading List
Since June 2006... - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Dead Emcee Scrolls by Saul Williams [61.3%] - - Junk Science: An Overdue Indictment of Government, Industry, and Faith Groups that Twist Science for Their Own Gain by Dan Agin, Ph.D. [64.4%] - - - - - - - - 1984 by George Orwell [18.8%] ClustrMap
So THAT'S where all the people reading this come from... | The power of Place. Wednesday, May 16, 2007 @ 2:03 pm Place is more than just a physical location--it is history, it is memory, and for those reasons, it is deceptively powerful. Physically being at a location means nothing more than standing at a series of arbitrarily-assigned spatial coordinates. Place seizes your emotions, forces you to feel things you didn't think you'd feel again. The power of Place controls you. By chance, I came across a job listing at the Joint Science Department of the Claremont Colleges. They are looking for a research technician in molecular biology that will both carry out research and supervise undergraduates in the lab--something I thoroughly enjoyed doing last summer. Although I am very happy interning at NASA, and while I know in my heart that things won't be the same if I took up a position in Claremont for a year or two, the mere possibility that I could get that job... that almost makes me want to quit and take the chance. Because Claremont is more than just a location--it's where I grew up (from a stupid teenager into a slightly-less-stupid twenty-something). It's where I learned to be an adult. It's where I made friends with some of the most intelligent, quirky, and most importantly HOTTTTTT (personality-wise, though for more than a few of those people, physically as well) human beings in the entire fucking world. How could I NOT want to go back to that place? But I know it's all memory's fault; it's all history's fault. And if I were to go back there--to live in the city of trees and Ph.D.'s, to walk the streets of the Village, to eat almond drops at Some Crust and drink hefeweizen at Hero's--it would be at the very least a little saddening. The memories would remain, but the experience would undoubtedly pale in comparison, and I'd be like a strung-out drug addict chasing the high but never attaining it. The chemistry just wouldn't work anymore. 5 Comments. Ah... Yes, I know what you mean. I am stuck between staying in the city for college or running out into the world, er, another state. Hmm... » Silver-dot- on 2007-05-16 05:55:20 As much as you would want it to be the same, it won't be. I hate that. » Southern on 2007-05-16 09:55:25 i actually would leave the place i grew up in for another place. » renaye on 2007-05-16 11:20:16 : » Zanzibar on 2007-05-17 10:20:08 It was my life and it was fun Another season of my life was done Another race I'm glad I got to run Another chapter of my life, it's over No, I'm never going feel like that again Time's rushing by me like the wind I'll never be as young as I was then No, I'm never going feel like that again. :( » Zanzibar on 2007-05-17 10:21:00
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