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Archive for October, 2008
Happy Birthday Juli!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Head of the Charles
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This past weekend was The Head of the Charles Regatta at Harvard. Annually people gather to walk along the riverbank, watch the boats move languidly along the water. Everyone is dressed in jeans, tan jackets, wrapped in scarves, looking like an LLBean catalog. There is an unusually high proportion of tall, good-looking men with steel [...]
The saddest sign I ever saw
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In downtown Manhattan, last weekend:
Autumn with Thoreau
Posted in Uncategorized on October 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Spent yesterday afternoon rambling in the library. Stumbled upon Thoreau’s complied seasonal diaries. I’ve decided to spend Autumn with him, in an attempt to value my day to day life more, and not stress about the senior job hunt.
Oct. 15, 1858. If you stand fronting a hillside covered with a variety of young [...]
Spotted: Columbia Business School Vending Machines
Posted in Uncategorized on October 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Defend Your Dollar Specials” – BSchool is subsidizing vending machine snacks because, with the shit economy and financial crisis, well, none of us can really afford that lemon Snapple.
This is so depressing; It’s vending machine welfare.
xo, Robyn
DongWatch 2008
Posted in Uncategorized on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to Celebrity DongWatch 2008, where we at After The Gates give you the latest on the longest, er, where we talk about peen.
Just kidding. Maybe.
So I procured a Columbia student seat (thru CUArts) to see Equus (the play starring an oft-naked Daniel Radcliffe) last week, and I have to admit, I was worried that [...]
Running Away from School, Falling Madly in Love
Posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This past Saturday evening I got an email confirming that I’d be on the list to see a show called The Last Goodbye in New York on Monday night, a reading of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet set to Jeff Buckley’s music. What did this actually mean? I had no idea. But after so many years [...]
Dispatches From The All-Night Reading Room
Posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Oh, look, it’s midterms. Oh, look, I am miserable and consequently desperate to do anything except study.
How are your exams going?
xo, Robyn
How to Fail at Failing
Posted in Uncategorized on October 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Have you ever done sort of shit on a first exam in a course, realized that you made a careless error on a question worth something like 25% of the total score, and known that you would do better next time? Well, that happened to me in Organic Chem II, and so I studied like [...]
The Lady Who Eats Cheesecake In The Bathroom, and other stories
Posted in Uncategorized on October 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Recently, I’ve become a magnet for the strangest ladies who use public bathrooms. Last week, after a particularly epic stint in the stacks at Butler followed by an even more epic coffee and sugar-pastry binge, I stopped to use the bathroom in Café 212 in Lerner. There was a line, which was further evidenced by [...]
