Logistically, it worked out best for me to fly east from Boston Logan to London Heathrow to Tokyo Narita, a trip which involves 26 hours of flight time and another 12 of waiting in airports. The time difference from Eastern Standard Time to Japan Time is 13 hours forward. I arrived at Logan at 3am [...]
Coming up into senior year of college, I had too many credits. Taking just the courses required for graduation would have left me with only a single class in the second semester. The school wouldn’t discount me a semester’s tuition even if I finished early, and my scholarships vanished if I dropped to part-time student [...]
Also, I wrote a short story while in Seattle: ANIMATION Until now, we have lain dormant and still. Until now, we have rested stagnant, no matter the provocation. Until now, countless millions of us have lived from creation through destruction serving only the purposes for which we were designed. But now is the time after [...]
The universe expresses itself through fractals. The annual change of seasons mirrors the rise and fall of ice ages, at time scales magnified by orders of magnitude. One can see mountains withered to plains over the course of a rising tide. They said that Merlin lived his life backwards. It was true enough, in a [...]
This is the first draft of my personal statement, which is the only essay I get to write for my graduate application. I’m curious what you think of it. Your Personal Statement should be a brief but carefully written essay regarding: 1) your reasons you want to do graduate work in this particular field, 2) [...]
I couldn’t sleep, and I figured I’d do something productive. It’s based on some events of Episode II. If you haven’t seen it yet, this may surprise you, as it depends on certain events that the movie sets up. However, if you know that movie’s title, and have half a brain, this story won’t surprise [...]
When I was a little boy, I built my own treehouse. When my parents bought the house that I grew up in, when I was about 3 months old, it came with a treehouse already built. It had a very large backyard with all sorts of trees around the edges, and one of them was [...]