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...still get nervous? Absolutely. If there's a large group of people I don't know, I definitely get nervous. There are two options to deal with this: wither away and be a wallflower while you're singing - which I can never do - or to be overly excited, which tends to be my default way to deal with nerves, and it always makes me look somewhat psychotic. Nobody wants to be the guy who's already jumping up and down when it's only the second song and no one else is at that point...
...headline reading: “Girl Talk Rocks Campus for Five Minutes, Tells Us that Everything ‘Fucking Sucks,’ Sinks Ben Schwartz’s Political Career.”While the Schwartz-Biggers ticket has not collapsed, it has had to deal with the Girl Talk issue. And they don’t run away from it.“I ran Girl Talk,” Biggers said.It was the last event Biggers and Schwartz would organize as members of the CEB. She admitted that there were problems with the event and that...
Apparently, some of our peers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made a deal with the digital devil. In exchange for a free Windows Mobile “smartphone,” about 100 MIT students have agreed to allow researchers at the Media Lab to track their every digital move, including phone calls, e-mails, and text messages. The scientists at the Media Lab are not working for the students’ families, significant others, or the Department of Homeland Security. Instead, all of this data is being used to explore a new field known as collective intelligence...
...rhythmic gymnastics. Serious beliefs are awkward, especially religious ones. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with them, it’s just that people’s real, heart-felt, deeply held beliefs are, well, “not easy to handle or deal with, requiring great skill, ingenuity, or care”—in a word, awkward. (Merriam Webster) . And on the whole, our generation would rather disengage than risk stepping on an awkward landmine. This is why we don’t have relationships or read books anymore...
...He’s a good player, but what’s the big deal? The problem was this: the season before, he wasn’t playing Harvard IMs. He was playing in the Big Ten. He was starting for the Minnesota Golden Gophers. He was playing in front of 10,000 fans...