late nights, early mornings

raphael saadiq - i want you back
raphael saadiq - this one
raphael saadiq - chic

just checking

"as we grow up, do we grow closer to our loved ones or closer to ourselves?"

the future

what does the future hold? i don't know. world peace, economic development, maybe some hoverboards. but i want to spend it in the city on the sea:

wisdom teeth

i got my wisdom teeth pulled yesterday afternoon. then i took a nap from 7pm to 10pm. i woke up and my teeth hurt a lot. then i chilaxed in the common room with my roommate yemi until around 4, watching people come in and out. then we went to ihop with dave, seba, and this kid jon.

what a day.

feminism

i'm in the library and i can see the thong of some slag sitting in front of me. it is black and stringy.

this has become the high point of my day.

freedom

from the side of a starbucks cup.

The Way I See It #22

Everywhere, unthinking mobs of "independent thinkers" wield tired clichés like cudgels, pummeling those who dare question "enlightened" dogma. If "violence never solved anything," cops wouldn't have guns and slaves may never have been freed. If it's better that 10 guilty men go free to spare one innocent, why not free 100 or 1,000,000? Clichés begin arguments, they don't settle them.

- Jonah Goldberg
Editor-at-large of National Review Online

courses

Foreign Cultures 48. The Cultural Revolution
Roderick MacFarquhar
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 10, and a weekly section to be arranged.
From 1966 to 1976, the People’s Republic of China was wracked by civil strife, student violence, political intrigue, and military plots. What had once seemed the best disciplined and most stable of dictatorial states seemed about to dissolve into disunity, even anarchy, and as a result of the actions of the man who had done more than anyone else to create it: Chairman Mao Zedong. The Cultural Revolution is traced to pinpoint Mao’s aims and to explore the deeper political, social, economic, and cultural issues that his actions raised for the Chinese, and for the rest of us as well.

Social Analysis 10. Principles of Economics
N. Gregory Mankiw, Silvia Ardagna, and members of the Economics Department
Full course (indivisible). M., W., F., at 12. Sections also meet at 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, or 2.
Introduction to economic issues and basic principles and methods of economics. Fall term focuses on microeconomics: how markets work, market efficiency and market failure, firm and consumer behavior, and policy issues such as taxation, international trade, the environment, and the distribution of income. Spring term focuses on macroeconomics: economic growth, inflation, unemployment, the business cycle, the financial system, international capital flows and trade imbalances, and the impact of monetary and fiscal policy.

MCB 192. Principles of Drug Discovery and Development
Mark C. Fishman (Medical School), Vicki L. Sato, and Gregory L. Verdine
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 11:30–1, and a 1.5-hour weekly section to be arranged.
How is new medicine created? What steps are taken to go from observed medical need to efficacious treatment with minimal side effects? Case-study based introduction to the process of Drug Discovery co-taught by Harvard faculty and researchers from the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research. Topics include: identifying possible drug targets, chemical screening and lead discovery, medicinal chemistry, drug formulation, preclinical safety and clinical trials. Readings and assignments drawn from primary scientific literature and drug study reports.

Physics 11b. Electricity, Magnetism, and Waves
Masahiro Morii and Jennifer E. Hoffman
Half course (spring term). Lectures, Tu., Th., 10–11:30, weekly ninety-minute discussion sections, and one three-hour laboratory session every two weeks.
Physics 11b is the second half of a one-year physics sequence. It covers the basic phenomena of electricity and magnetism, elements of circuits with selected applications, Maxwell’s equations, electromagnetic waves, and a brief introduction to quantum physics.

ds

cake - short skirt long jacket

this song has the greatest lyrics ever.

i want a girl with a mind like a diamond
i want a girl who knows what's best
i want a girl with shoes that cut and
eyes that burn like cigarettes

i want a girl with the right allocations
who is fast, and thorough, and sharp as a tack
she is playing with her jewelry, she is putting up her hair
she is touring the facility and picking up slack
i want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket

i want a girl who gets up early
i want a girl who stays up late
i want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity
who uses a machete to cut through red tape

with fingernails that shine like justice
and a voice that is dark like tinted glass
she is fast, thorough, and sharp as a tack
she is touring the facility and picking up slack
i want a girl with a short skirt and a long long jacket

i want a girl with smooth liquidation
i want a girl with good dividends
at citibank we will meet accidently
we'll start to talk when she borrows my pen

also:
blur - coffee & tv
jack johnson - upside down