Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Squash on Toast Recipe from the New York Times
I may have already posted this on tumblr, but I LOVE this recipe. My brother was the one who told me about it, and we had to try making it that day because it sounded so good. Delicious!
From the Wellesley Wire:
“(David Teng Olsen, assistant professor of art and fellow at theNewhouse Center for the Humanities created this collaborative, “stream-of-consciousness” painting in March 2013 in the Newhouse Center in Green Hall at Wellesley College.)”
This is awesome! I hope this spreads to other buildings and dorms on the campus too (both professional and nonprofessional). Although I will admit there is already a lot of wall art in the Severance basement (DOF, Dungeon of Fun) and in the Keohane Sports Center :)
Can’t wait until I have a place of my own, can paint an entire wall with chalkboard paint, and then have a professional chalk mural done…
Every year, on the eve of Asian Awareness month, Wellesley Asian Alliance launches a guerrilla postering campaign all across campus. As the only politically motivated Asian American organization, we strongly believe in consciousness raising and open community dialogue to bring awareness to Asian…
In addition to the previous link.
Although suffering is so multifaceted that is obviously can’t be neatly diced into fifteen types (as acknowledged in the original post), this helps give me perspective and more understanding of my suffering and the suffering I see others endure.
I know I’m super late in seeing this, but whatever. I’m really glad she cares about her unicorns in Ireland, they ARE really rare! :(
I, who am horrible at writing back to people through email in a timely fashion, have just agreed to a bet that is directly dependent on the number of emails I can send between now and March 30th. Prize? Loser buys winner dinner at either Bon Chon or Shabu-Zen.
High school friends, I meekly apologize in advance for the future non sequitur emails I may send you. But don’t worry… the email will be nice and personal :P
Hi everyone,
The Divided Families Film has launched our official Kickstarter campaign!
Divided Families Film Kickstarter Campaign Page
Ending March 31st, this campaign is our final fundraising push to raise the $20,000 we need to finish the project. A Kickstarter campaign works like this: if we hit our goal of raising $20,000, then we can use the donated funds towards our project. However, if we receive pledges that add up to anything less than our $20,000 goal, we are unable to keep any of the funds. Therefore, although we’re closer than ever to finishing the film, we can only do this with YOUR help!
- Pursue what you love. Passion is an incredible motivator. It fuels focus, resilience, and perseverance.
- Do the hardest work first. We all move instinctively toward pleasure and away from pain. Most great performers, Ericsson and others have found, delay gratification and take on the difficult work of practice in the mornings, before they do anything else. That’s when most of us have the most energy and the fewest distractions.
- Practice intensely, without interruption for short periods of no longer than 90 minutes and then take a break. Ninety minutes appears to be the maximum amount of time that we can bring the highest level of focus to any given activity. The evidence is equally strong that great performers practice no more than 4 ½ hours a day.
- Seek expert feedback, in intermittent doses. The simpler and more precise the feedback, the more equipped you are to make adjustments. Too much feedback, too continuously can create cognitive overload, increase anxiety, and interfere with learning.
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- Ritualize practice. Will and discipline are wildly overrated. As the researcher Roy Baumeister has found, none of us have very much of it. The best way to insure you’ll take on difficult tasks is to build rituals — specific, inviolable times at which you do them, so that over time you do them without having to squander energy thinking about them.
