Ok, I know this is a bit unusual, but I\u2019ve been meaning to try something different with my blog. I plan to blog once a day for the next week about what\u2019s going on day to day at Puget Sound. I\u2019m trying this out for a couple of reasons:<\/p>\n
1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is a daily-life blog, and maybe a quick post each day will say more about daily life than I could do in a long post.<\/p>\n
2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Finals are coming up soon, and if I don\u2019t do this now I won\u2019t be able to when I descend into the abyss of final paper writing and exam studying (I exaggerate \u2013 but I have surprisingly more free time than I expected pre-finals).<\/p>\n
3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Probably the most important reason \u2013 it\u2019s been far too long since I last blogged, and I hope that I can make up for all the missed posts by affording my readership a few extra nuggets of student life information here.<\/p>\n
So now I\u2019ve made a promise to blog for the next week. If you\u2019re an admitted student still deciding on Puget Sound, hopefully you\u2019ll get a better taste of Puget Sound daily life before May 1st<\/sup> (and good luck to you on the exciting decision!). And if you\u2019re a member of the Puget Sound community, hopefully this will give you another angle of Puget Sound daily life to consider.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll start today\u2019s post de j\u00fbre by talking about a few recent (and upcoming) campus events I\u2019ve been meaning to blog about. The Senior Thesis Festival has been going on for the past few weeks and I saw its penultimate production last night. It was really powerful and got an immediate standing ovation. The Senior Thesis Festival is a series of full-length productions directed and designed by graduating seniors in fulfillment of their senior thesis requirement. It\u2019s entirely student designed and acted, and it\u2019s also a great opportunity for the campus community to see several full-length productions each week for a month.<\/p>\n Some other recent and upcoming events of interest: Acclaimed baritone Sherrill Milnes is coming to campus tomorrow for a talk and masterclass, and I look forward to seeing it! On Friday, renowned philosopher No\u00ebl Carroll gave a keynote address on comedy and morality to kick off Puget Sound\u2019s very own undergraduate philosophy conference. Earlier this year, Bill Cosby came to campus to perform stand-up; his performance played in our largest venue and sold out. I was lucky enough to attend a talk by Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights<\/i> earlier this year. And finally, earlier this year I saw Alan Menken, composer of most of the Disney films and Broadway musicals like Little Shop of Horrors<\/i> and A Sister Act<\/i>, in an inspiring free interview and performance in Seattle. It\u2019s been quite a year for events in and around Puget Sound.<\/p>\n That\u2019s all for now \u2013 feel free to check out my posts tomorrow and the rest of the week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok, I know this is a bit unusual, but I\u2019ve been meaning to try something different with my blog. I plan to blog once a day for the next week about what\u2019s going on day to day at Puget Sound. … Continue reading