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Why I Go with My Mother to Work on Vacation
I've gone with my mother to her job these past days of winter break. If I didn't, I'd sleep till 10AM and watch TV and not exercise. Instead, my mom wakes me up at 7AM, I go to the local gym, and get a lot of work done without the distraction of the Internet. I feel very accomplished by 5PM.
My mother is a molecular biology researcher at a global pharmaceuticals company. While she works at the lab bench with other oncologists on cancer drugs, I read books, blog, and sample every flavor of prepackaged espresso and tea in the lounge.
On my third consecutive day at the office (more accurately described as a huge research and development complex with unique Swedish architecture), an employee finally asked me about what the hell I was doing there. Human resources employee Andrew approached me as I reached for the "Sumatran blend" flavor.
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Columbia Students Forget Their Sanity
Do Columbia students need to be sane human beings? What does it mean if we do?
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Thanksgiving and a Blast From the Past
Hopefully everyone is having a fun Thanksgiving. If you are not, sexy pilgrims singing R&B will cheer you up.
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Evil Testing Serpent
"There should be some serious investigations into the nature of your shit."
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At Least You Never Pissed Your Pants During an Exam
For 40 minutes, this college student computed harmonic oscillators and solved thermodynamic equations in his own urine.
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Does That Make Me a Bad Person?
When she revealed her mother had died of brain cancer, I thought, "I can tell that story so much better."
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Columbia SIPA Follies 2009
Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs has a student group called Follies. My understanding is that they produce comedic videos for their annual shindig.
I was lucky enough to get involved, or rather enveloped in one, last semester. Minding my own business and trying to get some work done in the architectural catastrophe [...]
Crazy Karate
How to respond to a stranger's "What time is it?" without regaining consciousness in the back of an unmarked white van and how to collapse a thug's trachea with the spine of a book.
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Separated At Birth I: Peter Griffin
Erich Ely (Columbia University's Director of Facilities Operations) = Peter Griffin
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HK Ivy Ball 2009 – Take Two
I have been challenged to rewrite my previous post, which may have come off as a one-sided and unpleasant diatribe to those who actually attended the Ivy Ball. Since I am not one to let a challenge go unanswered, I present to you a different, yet truthful, rendition of the same sequence of events.
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HK Ivy Ball 2009
Ivy Ball is a social extravaganza for Ivy League alumni who live in Hong Kong. Every summer, hundreds of men in tuxedos and women in evening gowns enter the Grand Hyatt ballroom, which overlooks the harbor on land reclaimed from the sea, for professional networking and auditory/gustatory entertainment.
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Who the F**K is Ruth Carter?