Here at Virginia Tech, I’m majoring in Political Science with a minor in Legal Studies. Both the major and the minor require, of course, that I take particular classes, sometimes a specific course and sometimes I can select a certain number of credit hours from a list of classes. One requirement for Legal Studies is …
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A university putting knowledge to work?
Walking out of my first class today — an underwhelming statistics class that lasted all of 15 minutes — I found that the entrance to the building had been taken over by a vender selling bootleg posters. As a university that feels strongly about protecting intellectual property rights and enforces those rules, it’s nothing short …
More on Phil.
My desription of Phil the Titan arum yesterday generated quite a bit of interest, and I was compelled to return to photograph the now-blossomed Phil. Well, not quite blossomed, but getting there. If you look at the bottom (click to biggify) you can see that a 4″x4″ hole has been cut in the bottom to …
The corpse is in bloom.
Yesterday, I read that Virginia Tech’s horticulture department has an Amorphophallus titanum (man, that name is a trip), and it’s scheduled to bloom today. The Titan arum, as it’s known, was first discovered in Sumatra in 1878, and they bloom quite rarely, but when they do, it’s quite a scene. The 48-hour blooms are not …
A special circle of linguistic hell.
My Lord. This excerpt is from Félix Guattari’s Soft Subversions, as assigned for one of my classes this semester: The exercise of power by means of the semioses of Capital proceeds concurrently with a control from above of social segments, and by a constant subjugation of each individual’s life. Even though its enunciation is individuated, …
Marcus Vick suspended.
In May, Virginia Tech football star Marcus Vick was convicted and sentenced to jail time and a fine, after he lured a pair of 14- and 15-year-old girls to his apartment, got them drunk, and compelled them to strip. (Mutual acquaintances assure me that this was hardly an isolated incident. He just got caught on …
Summer semester the second.
I have my final exam this afternoon, and then I’m finished with my six-week first semester of summer. My three classes — Legal Environment of Business, Global Environmental Issues, and Public Speaking — weren’t anything terribly exciting. I learned more about the mechanics of contract law in the business law class, the professor in the …
Pay the fiddler off ’til I come back again.
Ten months ago, I had just moved to Blacksburg, and was spinning my wheels, waiting for class to start. Six months from today, if all goes according to plan, I will be taking my last exam before moving back to Charlottesville. So, six more months. That’s twelve final exams, twenty four weekends, and an estimated …
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Note to the girl who sits in front of me.
High heels with nice clothes make you look classy. High heels with gym shorts and a little league shirt (reading “STACE”) make you look like a whore.