4 days ago
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"The next suitable person you’re in light conversation with, you stop suddenly in the middle of conversation and look at the person closely and say, “What’s wrong?” You say it in a concerned way. He’ll say, “What do you mean?” You say, “Something’s wrong. I can tell. What is it?” And he’ll look stunned and say, “How did you know?” He doesn’t realize that something’s always wrong, with everybody. Often more than one thing. He doesn’t know everybody’s always going around all the time with something wrong and believing they’re exerting great willpower and control to keep other people, for whom they think nothing’s ever wrong, from seeing it. This is the way of people."
- David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (via finemorning)
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4 days ago
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Another View: The Science and Strategy of College Recruiting
“Each fall, our country’s top-tier banks and consulting firms cram New Haven’s best hotels with the best and brightest to lure them with a series of superlatives: the greatest job, the most money, the easiest application, the fanciest popcorn.
They’re good at it. They’re unbelievably, remarkably, terrifyingly good at it. Every year around 25 percent of employed Yale graduates enter the consulting and finance industries. At Harvard and Stanford, the numbers are even higher…”
The recently deceased Marina Keegan validates anxieties I have about what to do with my education.
Nowadays, I feel that it’s very hard to explain why your chosen field of study is valuable unless you’re aiming to work in finance, law, or science. Sometimes I don’t know if I should just throw up my hands and pursue one of those things at the expense of my genuine interests, although I feel that time is running out for me to make a decision.
1 week ago
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"It’s worth contemplating one of the primary factors that drove Facebook’s adoption by (soon) 1 billion people: Loneliness. Americans have less support than ever — 1 in 8 in the Pew survey reported having no “discussion confidants."
1 week ago
in the Modern Family season finale, Alex’s prom date is gay. We’re supposed to know this from the moment we hear him by his slightly nasally/high-pitched voice.
I’m not sure why this characteristic is supposed to be a marker for homosexual men. Can anyone help me out? Is it considered appropriate to associate gayness with this type of voice?
1 week ago
not sure if i should feel proud or pathetic for feeling proud
1 week ago
| Notes: 19
"Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees."
- Saint Gregory of Nyssa (via orthodoxbrit)
1 week ago
| Notes: 67
Thomas Couture, A Realist, 1865
From the Van Gogh Museum:
This painting can be viewed as a painted caricature of Realism. The French artist Thomas Couture used the canvas to criticise the new direction in painting, whose adherents preferred everyday, and sometimes trivial, subjects, to literary or historical themes. This particular realist has ‘demeaned’ himself to such an extent that he is willing to portray a pig, a symbol of stupidity. Insignificant, everyday objects hang on the wall while the painter displays scant respect for classical culture: he is seated on a sculpted head of the Greek god Zeus. Couture himself generally painted more exalted subjects, in a style better suited to the academic tradition.
Interesting. In class I read a lot about artists who criticized academic styles, but didn’t see much of the reverse.
Source: cavetocanvas.com1 week ago
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I’ve been paying closer attention to my neighborhood and realized that it’s a pretty awesome place. We have a main street that contains a bunch of different shops and restaurants. It’s a fun place to explore.
I recently found a used bookstore with a nice cushy/dusty/cavernous atmosphere: 
There’s also a new cafe in town that looks like the offspring of an Urban Outfitters and a Starbucks. How hipster is it? Its cash register is a Mac. Still, it’s nice to have an alternative to Dunkin’ Donuts.
I’ve also explored a Jewish gift shop, a new fro-yo place, and a new candy shop.
1 week ago
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do you ever feel like you like someone a lot more than they like you and then start to feel like you’re just annoying them because while you always want to talk to them they probably don’t always want to talk to you and it stresses you out a lot and then you just start to feel really depressed about it
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