What would Aretha Franklin do?
“Last night, she said:‘Oh, baby, I feel so down. Oh it turns me off, When I feel left out.’ ”- The Strokes
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“Last night, she said:‘Oh, baby, I feel so down. Oh it turns me off, When I feel left out.’ ”- The Strokes
Duke Ellington once said, “There’s two kinds of music: good music ... and the other kind. I like both.” When I first came to campus four years ago, Duke and I disagreed. I thought good music had died around here and only the bad was left. It took some time before I was proven otherwise.
Talking energy is like talking pop culture these days. I keep having the same type of conversation, and I keep running into the same kinds of misconceptions about the field. I think new and exciting solutions, whether they be new technologies or improvements to old designs, are out there, and it’s important to keep pursuing them. But how we go about that process is a matter of contention. The problem is that it’s becoming too easy for the public to be swept by some new technology they’ve heard about and to immediately champion it without fully considering its current state and its future viability.
“Randal Graves on the construction of the second Death Star: “All right, look— you're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia— this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn't ask for that. You have no personal politics. You're just trying to scrape out a living.”
For me, it’s almost always internship hunting season. Applications and interviews this year began in late September and end, frankly, whenever they end — even some of the earliest ones didn’t make decisions until early January. For me and many others, TigerTracks is the most accessible way to find internships. At least, it beats cold applying to the same company’s career website or keeping track of myriad application and interview schedules.
I don’t mean to say that I find pictures of cats necessarily preferable to politics. But, a couple weeks ago, I definitely added that Chrome extension (Unpolitic.me) that replaces everyone’s political talk with pictures of cats.
It’s that time again. The presidential elections are just about here, and for many of us, this will be the first time we actually get to vote. That is, if you are registered; if not, hurry up because the deadline for voter registration is fast approaching.
The U.S. Senate recently passed the annual National Defense Authorization Act, a U.S. federal law that specifies the Department of Defense’s budget and expenditures. The bill, passed in a 93-7 vote, includes a significant new provision: Anyone who the U.S. federal government considers to be a member of al-Qaida or any associated force can be held in military custody indefinitely and without trial “until the end of the hostilities authorized by the Authorization for Use of Military Force.”
From time to time, it seems as if we live in a society of only two generations — those who came before and those who came after the Internet. And I’m not just talking about the times you have to show your mom how to use her Facebook account. The technology gap manifests itself in the different ways the different generations approach situations.
About a month ago, Wilfred Chan of IvyGate claimed that there was very little evidence “that anybody at Princeton gives a damn” about Occupy Wall Street or any campus extension of the protest. While there are opportunities at almost every other Ivy League school to show support for the movement, nothing seems to be happening in Princeton, he said. Well, guess again, Chan!
All the unemployed people, where do they come from? Ask any of your Asian parents, and even they will definitively answer, “The (enter humanities major here) department.” But they would be wrong. Because, nowadays, more and more Princeton graduates with degrees in the humanities are successfully finding jobs in the financial sector.