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Here are a few things that fancied my interest this week:
XKCD comic #438. This particular strip illustrates everything that I think is wrong with how people behave on the Web. The comic is very reminiscent of a more general psychological problem that occurs when people assume a pattern of decreased “social integrity” when [...]
The dorm I live in, Cascadilla Hall, has been vandalized incessantly since the beginning of the semester. The vandals (assuming there are more than one) had at one point contained their activities to the elevators, writing nonsensical and antagonizing phrases on the doors, but when the dorm staff decided to shut down the elevators as [...]
One of my favorite campus eateries here at Cornell is the Ivy Room, but only because I live dependently on two of their dishes: the popcorn chicken pasta bake and the dijon burger. On the whole, I don’t think the food offered in Willard Straight Hall is really why Cornell has such a pronounced [...]
I guess it really depends on the kind of people you socialize with, but with a fair amount of certainty, I can bet that you and your friends aren’t willing to tolerate the subject of pornography during casual discourse. If you ever have been present during a porn-related conversation, you might remember something surprising [...]
There is one thing I dislike the most about being human, and I think it is that we are so easily swayed by apathy. Psychologically, it is all too easy for us to withdraw our emotional investments, shrug once, and forsake our ability to observe guilt.
Though my reluctance to partake in the consumption of alcohol has abated in the past few years, I have always, still, been indecisive about why exactly I accede to an inherent dislike for it. In the past, I have blamed the taste of alcohol and expressed that I find it to be almost completely intolerable.