thursday, september 29, 2005
A list because I say so
These are books that changed something about how I think:
- The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald Norman
- The Evolution of Useful Things, by Henry Petroski
- Gödel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Six Degrees, by Duncan J. Watts
- Light and Color in the Outdoors, by M. G. J. Minnaert
- How Buildings Learn, by Stewart Brand
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs
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friday, september 23, 2005
Pirates roam the patio
College is excellent stuff. Here are more pictures:
Those are my professors and my dean. He is holding a pool toy.
That is my side of the dorm room. My grandma made the quilt for my mom when she went to college. You can also see a wooden box of index cards and a mini-refrigerator full of vanilla soymilk.
The people in my house are wonderful. We are wild and play DDR at all hours of the night. Plus, the cafeteria food isn’t bad.
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sunday, september 18, 2005
My dorm talks like a pirate
I’m officially at college; that is the view out of my window. Things are not much different from summer yet, except that I have a roommate (a nice one!) and no kitchen. Plus, I’m going kayaking on Saturday, I might take a pottery class, and I can swim any time I want to.
I have classes too. This quarter, I’m taking three literature classes (Diaries; Letters; and Islam, Arabs and Arab-American Voice in American Literature) and a freshman seminar, if I can successfully crash everything.
My dorm is beautiful and relatively new. My house has 42 people; my hall has 11 people and four bathrooms. Almost all of us are in the same program for crazy nerds. My mini-refrigerator has a half-eaten burrito inside. All of it is still a little overwhelming, and it is all good.
