Orange Orange (Jue's Blog)

I did homework 29 hours a day and swallowed my pride for sustenance. Now I wash it down with a smoothie made from the fruits of my labor. Can’t wait till I can gorge myself on the fat of the land.

Four Yorkshire Men

Can’t see the music?

William Deresiewicz, an English professor at Yale, is disappointed. Really disappointed. In you. Why? Because thanks to your cleverness and ruthless ambition, Ivy League schools are turning into glorified professional academies:
When elite universities boast that they teach their students how to think, they mean that they teach them the analytic and rhetorical skills necessary for [...]

There was a time when life was simple, and the only cause for malnourishment was the annoyingly early closing time of Swiss grocery stores.
This year, without the excitement of a European summer to motivate me, I’m sliding down a slippery slope of apathy. Going to work, brushing my teeth, eating food — anything is fair [...]

#1) Take the name of his sweetheart, convert it to ASCII encoding, take the exclusive-or of each letter with the letters of a secret message, use each letter-wise result, modulo 13, as the note in a tone row to compose a string quartet. Then he would have it performed for her and ask her to [...]