I really dislike unresponsive people. People who don't have reactions to things. It's those people who make conversations fall flat. I've only met a few unresponsive people. They're definitely nice enough but conversations with them just plain suck. Thankfully I don't have any friends like that. But on occasion, I'll tell someone something and they won't respond to it. It's these times that I want to slap a reaction into them. I don't think I ask for much. I don't need the reaction to be positive. It can be as simple as "That was a terrible story. I don't know what to say." Or, "you're full of shit; never talk again." I'm not asking for anything dramatically over the top. I just want you to acknowledge what I said because what we are having is called a conversation and generally giving the other person a response helps the conversation move forward.

In other news. Today I went on Facebook to Superpoke Michelle. As part of our DC+2 tradition, I wanted to spank her. So I did. But I also inadvertently spanked 10 completely random people. I really don't know how it happened. But when the page refreshed it said I had spanked the following people, more than half of whom I haven't talked to in a few years or are only acquaintances with. Yeah I know it's not real but that's weird and sketchy on my part. People are going to think I'm all perverted and horny. I hate Facebook applications.

I think I should comment on my last entry. Maybe a little later. I'm pulling an all nighter tonight so I can blog about that at some point in the early morning.

Junior Sem is devouring me. It's eating away at my soul.

Interesting. No time for thoughts now. I have to read about 300-400 pages (depending on how many pages I'm ok with being behind) and write three journal entries. But thoughts to come later. Hopefully.

Haverford Affirms Independent Assessment in College Evaluation and Decisionmaking

I, and the other undersigned presidents, agree that prospective students benefit from having as complete information as possible in making their college choices.

At the same time, we are concerned about the inevitable biases in any single ranking formula, about the admissions frenzy, and the way in which rankings can contribute to that frenzy and to a false sense that educational success or fit can be ranked in a single numerical list.

Since college and ranking agencies should maintain a degree of distance to ensure objectivity, from now on data we make available to college guides will be made public via our Web sites rather than be distributed exclusively to a single entity. Doing so is true to our educational mission and will allow interested parties to use this information for their own benefit. If, for example, class size is their focus, they will have that information. If it is the graduation rate, that will be easy to find. We welcome suggestions for other information we might also provide publicly.

We commit not to mention U.S. News or similar rankings in any of our new publications, since such lists mislead the public into thinking that the complexities of American higher education can be reduced to one number.

Finally, we encourage all colleges and universities to participate in an effort to determine how information about our schools might be improved. As for rankings, we recognize that no degree of protest may make them soon disappear, and hope, therefore, that further discussion will help shape them in ways that will press us to move in ever more socially and educationally useful directions.

Stephen G. Emerson
President

Anthony Marx, Amherst
Elaine Hansen, Bates
Barry Mills, Bowdoin
Nancy Vickers, Bryn Mawr
Robert Oden, Carleton
William D. Adams, Colby
Rebecca Chopp, Colgate
Russell Osgood, Grinnell
Joan Hinde Stewart, Hamilton
Ronald D. Liebowitz, Middlebury
David Oxtoby, Pomona
Alfred Bloom, Swarthmore
James Jones, Trinity
Catharine Hill, Vassar
Kenneth Ruscio, Washington and Lee
Kim Bottomly, Wellesley
Michael S. Roth, Wesleyan
Morton Schapiro, Williams

This really isn't a proper update. It's more like a reminder to myself of things I need to blog about:

1. my summer
2. my stolen computer
3. highs and lows
4. how reading has become my life (including but not limited to Shakespeare and SEX)
5. church and IV stuff
6. study abroad
7. junior year
8. my awesome apartment
9. becoming obsessed with driving stick
10. all of my inner turmoil eating away at my soul

Almost everyday I have something I want to blog about, but I can never do it because I haven't blogged about things that happened before the thing that I just thought of. And of course I can't ignore the things that have passed. So I just end up not blogging. And i always tell myself that I'll catch up over the weekend. But that never happens because weekends are just as busy as weekdays.

Oh look it's 3:17am. It looks like I'm getting back to my "normal" sleep schedule. Joy.