Okay. I admit it. My transition to bona fide travel writer over at gadling.com has left this site in disrepair. But fret not. I will be posting new pictures next week from an all expense paid trip to Ecuador - my first travel assignment for AOL. In the mean time, brush up on some of my prose at the link below.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Articles this week
Its amazing what a little baksheesh can do for one's work ethic. I wrote 6 stories this week for gadling. Here they are:
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Graduate School Doldrums - Why I have been loafing on the blog
Once I hit the submit button, the real pain of the process began. Powerless waiting has to be one of the worst pastimes, and the application process slugs along under this banner of futility. I have been left to strange coping devices. The options are not vast, but include combing the gmatclub.com forums for information leaks and painstakingly reading through submitted essays, hawkishly scanning for errors that may influence an outcome while roleplaying the perspective of an admissions committee. The things I have done for the illusion of control are feeble and embarrassing.
The gmatclub.com forums are filled with oversensitive overachievers, hyperintelligent Indians, and the whines of north-easterners. You hesitantly welcome terms like ding (to be denied admissions), WE (work experience), and adcom (admissions committee) to your vocabulary, feeling sorry that the future of the business world hangs out spouting shorthand in seedy dens of speculation. As the process chugs along, and the days pass with anvil seconds, you pathetically welcome additional comments on your dream school's thread with a strange exuberance. The other day, I found myself excited about a new page in the MIT role call admissions forum, one that I had yet to read, only to disappointingly read some guy from Bangalore's concern about something so painstakingly mundane and detailed oriented that to type it may cause me to grand mal with boredom. In general, trying to discern the pixels on your computer screen is more exciting than reading the gmatclub.com forums. But I do it, to the tune of perhaps 25 visits per day.
So where did I apply?
1. Hong Kong University
2. Duke
3. Yale
4. M.I.T.
5. Indiana University
I realize this post has little to do with travel beyond the implications of a degree in Hong Kong. I felt that I needed to address my current plight in some form. What better place to vent than my own website.
I visited the Indiana University campus in Bloomington this last weekend, and could not have been more impressed. Below are some pictures that I took while there.
It was cold
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
A Day at the Zoo - Ft. Worth Zoo
Just hanging out, contemplating things
I recognize this profile from the evolutionary chart
Meditation in the garden
Peaking out
Not on his way to Mardi Gras, made that way
Narcissism? Unlikely.
What you looking at punk, I dare you to come up in here
I dare you.
This orang looks very wise, and much larger than the wild ones I saw in Borneo
Picking grass
A stroll, this beautiful creature is very matted, but that may be the look
Enjoying the sun
Eye contact
The rhinos always seem to be taking the day off
Gorgeous lion looks fresh from the lion salon (I wrote that one for you Daniel)
A little flirting
Stay
the hell
away
also, kindly bring us a plate of ribs
Catnap
Nature's Freaks
You never think about their horns, do you?
Creepy bird
Reflection
Lemurs are such cool animals
A Sunbear
What a strange tongue
Yep, still here
A bird looking out at the day
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