Today is Pi Day! Today at 1:59:26 p.m. is Pi Minute! Not to be confused with Pi Approximation Day, because, obviously, that would be held on July 22!
All of those of you awaiting your acceptance letters from MIT, fear not! They're in the mail today! Because any other day would just be unacceptable!
MY LOVE OF NUMBERS NERDS JUST REACHED A NEW PEAK
Though I kind of understand. I've been to Kansas. Might as well stay on the pot.
The New School just called to tell me they want me too. I like to phrase this as "being wanted" vs. "being accepted" as I'm pretty sure this is one of those few times in life I'll have multiple parties bidding for my attention; plus, it feels nicer. So anyways, the New School as a whole is decidedly killer and I'm not going to lie, I applied to it 99% because of who founded it and why: um, hello Charles Beard! It's crazy progressive place.
From their site:
"This is the hour for the experiment; and New York is the place, because it is the greatest social science laboratory in the world and of its own force attracts scholars and leaders in educational work." — proposal for The New School, 1918
In the aftermath of the First World War, much of America was playing it safe. Social criticism and modern arts were restricted or banished from many of the nation's cultural institutions, including universities. In response, a small band of unconventional thinkers—including historian Charles Beard, philosopher John Dewey, and economists Thorstein Veblen and James Harvey Robinson—imagined an educational venue where they could freely present and discuss their ideas without censure, and where dialogue could take place between intellectuals and the general public. In 1919, they published a brochure listing their lectures and opened The New School to all "intelligent men and women." In addition to studying the "grave social, political, economic, and educational problems of the day," students could prepare for careers in teaching, journalism, public policy administration, and labor organization."
I mean, whether or not it's a serious contender vs. Columbia, well I don't know, but it's an amazing place and at the moment I'm just kind of liking that they like me.
PS - The New School is home to the Parsons School of Design. Yeah, you know what that means.
In some ways, I think I've outgrown Wes Andersen and that makes a part of me very, very sad. I was watching "The Darjeeling Limited" the other day, and it just didn't give me the same sort of all-consuming joy I felt the first time I watched "Rushmore" and felt like the movie was made just for me. No no, I didn't hate it or anything of the sort. It just felt the same. A good sameness, but the same nonetheless.
What I will say, though, is that Wes and I still share a deep, deep love for The Kinks. A love that I think is reinforced every time I see a scene from a Wes Andersen film in which he manages to place a Kinks song in the absolute absolute perfect perfect place. And makes me love "__(insert incredible song here)___" thirty thousand times more than before. This generally goes for Wes's treatment of Stones and Zombies songs too, but the Kinks, well, they hold a special place.
