by Akshil Patel | Apr 3, 2016 |
April 1st: not only is it the first day of April, but it’s also the only day of the year when you can prank someone and get away with it (usually). But, how did the tradition of April Fools start? Let’s find out! There are several legends and folk tales describing the...
by Akshil Patel | Mar 27, 2016
It is now almost 4 months until the 2016 Summer Olympic Games begin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It will be the first time a South American country has hosted the Olympics, either Summer or Winter. Announced in 2009, Rio de Janeiro beat out the competing cities of...
by Akshil Patel | Mar 20, 2016
It’s now the middle of March, and with it comes my favorite sporting event of the year – March Madness, the NCAA Men and Women’s Division I Basketball Tournament. In it, 68 teams from all over the country compete for the National Championship. The teams are split into...
by Akshil Patel | Mar 13, 2016 |
Here are my overall thoughts and reflections on the spring break trip to the various sites of the civil rights movement: Personally, one of the most powerful moments of the entire trip took place on Friday afternoon, when the entire group walked from the Washington...
by Akshil Patel | Feb 28, 2016
First, please watch this video: This week, one of my friends on Facebook posted a very interesting in-flight social experiment conducted by the airline company JetBlue. In the video, which was posted by JetBlue’s YouTube channel, complete strangers who...
by Akshil Patel | Feb 20, 2016
As everyone in America probably knows by now, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away last week at a resort in Texas. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, the stout conservative judge has had a tremendous effect on the Supreme Court, and his opinions...
by Akshil Patel | Feb 15, 2016
As I wrote about in my blog last week, I recently sought help from a counselor at University Health Services to manage the huge amount of stress I’ve been under recently. It began to consume my life and to affect how I lived my life, and so I decided to do something...
by Akshil Patel | Feb 7, 2016 |
The first few weeks of this spring semester have been hectic, to say the least. Not only am I enrolled in more difficult classes (including taking my first 400-level biology classes), but I have also gotten more involved with my research lab, and the extracurricular...
by Akshil Patel | Jan 30, 2016
Why is it wrong to murder someone? Should all people be treated as equals? These were just a few of the ethical questions we deliberated during a Distinguished Honors Faculty Program through the Honors College. The title of the event was “Religion, Ethics, and Climate...
by Akshil Patel | Jan 24, 2016
Update: Just as I was finishing up this blog, I learned that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has elected to amend its governance and voting policies. I won’t brag, but I think this blog may have had some influence on the decision… Controversy once...
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