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Inherently, going to a liberal arts college means you’re going to have at least one pretentious professor. They might be a science professor who thinks they’re so much smarter than everyone else, or they might be an arts professor that things they’re so much more cultured than anyone else. Bottom line is, they’re pretentious, and I submit that this pretension ruins learning. But because we’re all going to deal with it at one point, I thought I’d write a little how to post regarding them. Continue reading “HOW TO: deal with pretention in professors” →

During my playwriting class last semester, we were charged with writing a complete 2-4 minute play set in an unusual location. Mine was set in my school’s music practice rooms, that are about 6’x8′ big, a piano taking up 3/4 of the space. That might be slightly hyperbolic, but take it from me, they are small. And because it was me, I wrote about a zombie apocalypse. Of course, there was a bit more to it than that, but the important things to take away are these: I wrote a mini-play set during a zombie apocalypse and jammed about ten people into the only rooms on campus smaller than in the freshman dorms. Continue reading “Brains” →

I’m sitting in the Portland airport, and even though I have blogs scheduled through next Friday, I just wanted to drop everyone a line because I’ve got the time. If all goes according to plan, I will have internet on the trip (though I can’t promise I’ll post anything since I’ll be too busy having an AWESOME TIME), so that’ll be nice. I’m planning on exhaustively documenting everything this time, so I’ll have more to work with for recaps. The plan thus far:

-Film waking up every morning and saying the day of the trip

-Film the inside AND outside of all transportation

-Film the initial plan for the day (to cut down on the narration I’ll need to film later on)

-Film closeups of ALL people traveling (last year I ended up with not enough unique footage of people)

-Film group shots

-Film landmark shots of at least ten seconds

-Film Colton and I OWLing at all relevant locations (aw yeah)

-Pictures of myself in front of landmarks (a la Washington DC circa 8th grade)

-Pictures of all food consumed, meal or no

And that should make recaps and editing MUCH easier. Woo! (Colton’s already annoyed with me. Oh well!)

In other news, the currency exchange guy is super cute, and I’m gonna go now. See you after Rome!

Dear Humanity,

Relatively, only a minuscule percentage of you know who I am, let alone that I’m on the speech and debate team at my college. On said speech and debate team, I compete in an event called “impromptu” that I have a fairly intense love/hate relationship with. This event takes place in seven minutes, during which time you’re given 2-3 quotations to chose one out of, then about a minute to write a speech, then the remainder of the time to actually give the speech. Yes, it’s fairly nerve-wracking, and last year I specifically wrote an extra speech so I wouldn’t have to compete in it. Continue reading “A Love Letter to Humanity” →

A couple weeks ago, when we filmed the pancake episode of Cooking with Gandalf (watch it HERE!) with all the boys, the group of us had something of a “gossip night.” By that, I mean to say that me, Ellen, and the boys sat in our living room, ate pancakes, and talked about our romantic lives. Past girlfriends/boyfriends, crazy love stories, etc. The whole she-bang. It was doubly funny because it was between Ellen and me and four straight guys, but I guess it’s unfair of me to have expected anything different. Continue reading “Like an Open Book” →