Word: interestingness
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Following on the heels of “21,” “Deal” is a similar movie from director Gil Cates Jr. about a college student-cum-card shark who wins millions in Las Vegas casinos. But “Deal” fails to...
Martin M. Wallner ’11, a student from Austria, said “it is an interesting contrast between [Latvia’s] first wanting to leave the USSR and then wanting to join the EU.”
And Anna Shabalov ’10, a native of Latvia who is ethnically Russian, said it was “very interesting how [Vike-Freiberga] lived in Canada her whole life and then became the president of Latvia.”
But we, having to live them, make them interesting for ourselves. So instead of sharing our problems over cosmopolitans—like Carrie and the girls—we share ours over molten chocolate cake at Finale. (Unless our particular problem is how to lose ten pounds before the first...
In the early 1920s, the economist and social philosopher Frank Knight offered an easy answer (though admittedly with reference to market participation, not the problems of college life): “Man’s chief interest in life is after all to find life interesting.” An...