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misadventures at harvard medical school

Category: high jinks

Thisclose to Greatness: A Photoessay

1 I notice JPMorgan promotional books piled high in one of LSE’s computer labs. Might as well take a look, right?

2 Flipping through the book, I come across this page. It has a picture of a group of summer interns with Steve Black, CEO of JPMorgan.

3 I inspect more closely—wait a minute, that photo looks [...]

Math is fun!

The magic of investment banking:

That’s some pretty nice magic.

Intercollegiate Insights and Other Advices

[The post title sounded better than the runner-up choice, "Sagacious Supers." Okay... moving on.]

Rad says “College is fun!”

The top ten-ish rules of college:

Waking up early sounds better at night than in the morning. (Don’t kid yourself; even with bundles of willpower and infinite ambition, you’re not getting out of bed until twenty minutes before your [...]

Sober Jinks

I shall be vacationing (different from “tripping”) and shall not be blogging, I think, for the next two weeks. Super Good!

Super Best Movie Ever!

It was a really good movie.

Paul-culus

Paul used to make these for me all the time. Payback. (See his comment here for circumstantial evidence.)
P.S. On another note, Paul’s taking the MCAT today. Wish him luck.

“See here, this graph is charting your coolness level, on the vertical axis, versus time tn, on the horizontal axis. As you can see, your coolness [...]

Protected: Un-Diversifying the Wardrobe

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Haplography Funnies

Courtesy of wordsmith.org, a truly delicious little site dedicated to the study of “the magic of words.” Sign up for their daily email at the link above. Seriously, just do it.

A young monk, new to the monastery, noticed that the scribes were copying the scriptures from copies, not originals. He expressed his concern to the [...]

Protected: And Paul, Too

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15 Minutes of Fame — Now Over…

As mentioned earlier, my friends and I went to a taping of The Price Is Right whilst in Los Angeles for the Rose Bowl. The show aired two Fridays ago. We actually got on TV. Ve’y Nice!

Michigan kid who ended up winning Plinko.

Golf clap.

Rademacher and Rowden… ridiculous.

Bob. We’re sitting in the middle behind Contestants’ Row.

Cortaid [...]