Official Transitioner

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/visitingolin I met him tonight by mistake… and when I found out who he was, apparently my facial expression was hilarious More tomorrow on: Driving Info Superhighway 2 WHOOO upcoming stuff.

So, since being home I’ve realized a few things about Michigan make me particularly happy: so anyway. more on the substance side… I went up to Ann Arbor, got to see: Susan, Andrew, Annie, Nattie, Neil, and Kyle!  It was very exciting to catch up- though honestly none of us have changed much. Then I [...]

Hello there! I have now successfully braved a tweleve hour driving, putting myself right back in Michigan. Things of note: For the first time, I drove the entire length myself in one go.  This is good to know. There was a truck full of dead deer in front of us at the border crossing. Lol.  [...]

Realized today that I’ve felt a lot like “myself” lately.  I think this is in part due to several things, including: less sleep, more talking about “direction of Olin,” greater awareness that I can’t do absolutely everything I want to, large numbres of cool projects. I’ve also realized that I’m hyperaware of driving at night. [...]

Thus, allowing alternative viewpoints is crucial to the development of our intellect that we use to make our choices. It is crucial for autonomy. – Elysa Koppleman-White on John Stuart Mill I think that’s a very valuable statement.  To be autonomous, we must allow others to be autonomous.

For some reason, bacon is everywhere lately.  In the past week, almost all of my feeds have mentioned bacon at least with some frequency. People eat bacon in the house. People talk about bacon. BACON BACON BACON. Why has bacon become so infamous? Allow me to enumerate this for you. Baconnaise Bacon Salt Bacon Ice [...]

Blog Entry: Visit to the Met! Today I woke up at 6:45am in order to go to the Met school in Providence, RI. I’ve been hearing about this school, which is an alternate type of high school, since Alyshia, Andy, Marco, and a few others went down for a visit last Spring as part of [...]

Other thought from cyberposium that Greg brought up: Smugness is complacency.  For instance- now we view past technologies as quaint, but it’s only because of the knowledge we have now. In the future, us now is quaint. Anyway, back to Olin. I’ve decided I want to change how I interact with Olin when I get [...]

Another event I’ve been participating in lately has been the Babson Innovation Challenge.  That is- www.etower.org and it should have information about it (while you’re at it- check out E-Tower, it seems like an awesome place to live. If I went to Babson, I’d definitely want to live there). The challenge is to create the [...]

So- last weekend- I attended a different conference (see Cyberposium, below).  This conference was the idea that through cross disciplinary activity, united through design, we could improve the overall state of the world (that is, for poor countries, poor people, etc.) This conference, again, suffered the same issue of no tangible output. It was still [...]