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After much deliberation and decision-making, I finally took the plunge and sent in my confirmation card — to Brown University.

Yes, it’s a complete about-face from my original decision; I really did think I would end up at WPI. But the more I thought, and the more I researched, and the more I walked around Providence, the more appealing Brown became, until it was finally too hard to say no.

I shall spend the next few months preparing myself for the workload an Ivy League school can dish out. Somebody help me.

Right now, I’m in Spain, probably loving it. Wanna’ see what we’re doing? Check the official Spain blog!

The Mounties are back on top. Congratulations on a great season, going out in style! I wasn’t able to get much with my phone, but I do have a few pictures from the very end.

If there’s just one thing I’ve learned from having to write Mr. Lawrence’s one-page essays, it’s that it takes a lot of effort to sum a complex concept up into a short space. The results have the potential to be beautifully simple, though, and that is always what I strive for. Thus, I present to you my opinion of 2007, and my expectation for 2008, in one (longish) paragraph each.

I’m not sure if it’s the same for other people, but in my recollection, I hit the ground sprinting in 2007— what a work load there was! And what intense confusion: relationships were a mess in the beginning, both with friends and with more, but they ironed out eventually. There wasn’t much coasting until about mid-year,... (more...)

Team Solitaire? Touch controls? Seriously, it’s like a giant iPhone, who wouldn’t love it?