I wrote this as an Op-Ed for the last progression of University Writing. Posted here to share. A recent study found that 87% of US undergraduates are on Facebook for an average of 93 minutes daily. At 11 hours a week that’s nearly as long as many of us spend in class. If 12 hours [...]
Last Thursday Night/Friday morning I participated in an all night NYC bike ride for one of my classes. For more official background, the WSJ wrote it up. It was an optional activity as part of the History of the City of New York class I’m taking with Kenneth Jackson at Columbia University. He, the class, and [...]
Playing around today, I came upon an obvious/clever idea. A bit of hacking in Inkscape led to this. Note the crown, font and colors (don’t sue me, Trustees!)… For those interested I’ve uploaded PDF (if you want to print or have a larger copy or something) and SVG (if you want to modify) files. It’s [...]