New Friends Self-excite

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 College, Personal, School No Comments

And I’m still waiting…


Instead I got a different owl:

Sunday, July 11th, 2010 College, School No Comments

How does IMF conditionality impact economic development?

I don’t think it does actually.

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I took Poli Sci 553 this quarter because the politics of international trade is something that I had virtually zero knowledge about prior to the course. I still feel uncomfortable making and defending claims on the subject, but hopefully this paper demonstrates that I know more than I feel I do. I welcome criticism or suggestions for future approaches to material in this area.

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 College, School, Spring '10 No Comments

Home stretch

I’m almost done with my first year of college!

Monday, May 24th, 2010 College, School, Spring '10 No Comments

The English Bill of Rights, 1689

My first final essay of Spring Quarter 2010! The English Bill of Rights really is an interesting document. It is definitively responsible for shaping British politics as we know it today by establishing Parliament as the supreme governance body of the United Kingdom with all offices of the state responsible to the Prime Minister and his cabinet. The Bill of Rights of December 16, 1689 laid the foundation for present-day British Common Law.

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Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 College, School, Spring '10 No Comments

Autumn 2010 Schedule

My class schedule for Autumn Quarter 2010

1) Music 252 – History of Rock and Roll

Hughes Hall 100, MoWe 9:30-11:18am

2) Spanish 401 – Advanced Grammar

Mendenhall Lab 129, TuTh 3:30-5:18pm (waitlisted, position 1)
update: I got enrolled!

3) Spanish 403 – Intermediate Spanish Composition

Hagerty Hall 056, MoWe 3:30-5:18

4) Political Science 552 – Security Policy During and After the Cold War

Professor John Mueller, Journalism Building 300, MoWe 11:30am-1:18pm

Monday, May 17th, 2010 Autumn '10, College, School No Comments

Am I too mean to Bryant Brookver?

Bryant Brookover 1:02
Cyrus Sethna 1:02
Bryant Brookover 1:03
Cyrus Sethna 1:03
Bryant Brookover 1:03
im curious now why you hatin on the org?
1:02
it’s largely a waste of time for faggots to wank in my opinion. Similar to slashdot
its a news site derpppp
1:03
perhaps destroying the little credibility of the movement “news”
1:03
Cyrus Sethna 1:03
Bryant Brookover 1:03
Cyrus Sethna 1:03
Bryant Brookover 1:04
or scene or whatever term you want to use
1:03
…the scene? It’s a news site. You go there for streams and tours and album info.
1:03
I know you use it so it’s natural for you to want to defend it but I don’t and I have no desire to and probably won’t ever so that’s just my take on it and my reasoning behind it
1:04 1:04
…the movement?
I guess I don’t see the logic in you going up in arms against a news site.
Cyrus Sethna 1:04
Bryant Brookover 1:05
Cyrus Sethna 1:05
Bryant Brookover 1:05
it’s not a news site, read some real news and come back and tell me it’s a news site
… it reports on shit it’s a news site
1:05 1:05
that does not make a news site.. it’s a rag with zero journalistic ability

http://www.punknews.org/article/38204

how is this not news its reporting something
1:05 1:05
Cyrus Sethna 1:05
Bryant Brookover 1:05
Cyrus Sethna 1:06
Bryant Brookover 1:06
Cyrus Sethna 1:06
simply syndicating information does not make you a news site
and thats good enough reason to hate it?
absolutely
thats a pretty poor reason to hate it.
it’s charading as something it’s clearly not
Bryant Brookover 1:06
Cyrus Sethna 1:06
Bryant Brookover 1:06
Cyrus Sethna 1:06
I think you’re splitting hairs and being a dick for the sake of being a dick.
similar to the national inquirer but not to that extreme
Out of all the issues you can poke at wait wait no
don’t even start
1:06 1:06 1:06 1:06
it claims to be a news outlet too it’s just fake
1:07
Bryant Brookover 1:07
Cyrus Sethna 1:07
Bryant Brookover 1:07
Cyrus Sethna 1:08
wait 0/10 I fell for this Cyrus You are a quality troll
1:07 1:07 1:07
damn you
You’re good. You had me going.
1:07
goddammit I wish I hadn’t said the thing about the inquirer that probably ruined it
1:08 1:08
Bryant Brookover 1:08
Cyrus Sethna 1:08
that gave it away yeah
1:08
next time so close I was hoping you or Jeff would get on me about that tweet so good
1:08 1:08 1:08 1:09
no hard feelings

Sunday, May 9th, 2010 Personal No Comments

Community Service at Ohio State

Those who plan community service events at The Ohio State University would do well to learn the distinction between “service” and “free labor.”

community service
noun
voluntary work intended to help people in a particular area; intended to be of social use

I have participated in three “large-scale” community service events at OSU, Community Commitment in autumn quarter, the MLK Day of Service winter quarter, and today’s Katchmar Day of Service with the Glenn School. All three of these events have certainly been volunteer work in the sense that nobody forced us to partake and no compensation was offered. However, the tasks I have performed on all three distinct occasions have been work that would have otherwise been carried out by a paid staff person. On one occasions, the work that I did was a way of actually generating revenue. No community service was being done.

Today, the Katchmar Day of Service took me to one of the Columbus Early Learning Center’s day care centers, where we cleaned a building under the supervision of a maintenance man who would have otherwise spent his day doing the work we carried out in a few hours. This isn’t community service, it’s doing somebody’s job for them.

On every occasion service projects have presented themselves to me at Ohio State, they have been of this nature. Nobody in need is being helped and no social needs are being fulfilled; especially when there is profit involved. This conniving use of the term “community service” seeks to do nothing more than capitalize on the idealism of young college students. Therefore, I will no longer be participating in any University proscribed or endorsed service project unless a clear link can be made between performing work and societal improvement. I would encourage those of you who have also been duped to do the same and encourage people organizing such events to be more scrupulous.

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 College, Extra-Curriculars, School, Spring '10 No Comments

American Interventionism as a Driving Force of “Anti-Americanism” Abroad

How American foreign policy garners disapproval and breeds enemies abroad and how we can work within the constructs of our international framework to regain America’s standing in the international community. Enjoy!

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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 College, School, Winter '10 3 Comments

Finals: An Update

Monday concluded my final exam for Philosophy 150: Intro to Logic and thus I am done with math-related coursework forever. I do have to take a statistics class, but Political Science 485 should be interesting.

Today I finished up my Spanish 104 exam, it was pretty easy. The two papers that I polished off for my poli sci class have been posted, and I’m going to spend tomorrow morning brushing up on terms and vocabulary for the exam at 1:30. Then it’s spring break!

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 College, Personal, School, Winter '10 No Comments

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1:20 AM Sep 02, 2010
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3:10 PM Sep 01, 2010
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3:09 PM Sep 01, 2010
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1:09 AM Sep 01, 2010