Category Archives: Life

What's Taking You So Long?

By | September 20, 2006

This guy graduated college in one year.   The secret: come in with 72 units from AP exams, take 23 units in the fall and 37 in the spring.   I recommend it: you’ll save a lot of money, though your dating life might suffer a bit.

9/11

By | September 11, 2006

I’ve heard numbers, but I’d never seen a list.   This one is the most complete, but this one lists the age and occupation. Either one is worthy of some sober minutes of reflection.

Stupid Security

By | September 1, 2006

Do we really gain something by patting down a two-year-old? Are we somehow safer? Are we morally superior because we equally pat down the 25-year-old Muslim male and the 2-year-old girl? Is the goal security or is it to demonstrate that we are “fair to all”? I think that if we’re going to win the… Read More »

"What Do You Think About Me?"

By | December 10, 2005

The semester is over in a few hours when the students get on a plane for America. That means it’s somewhat of an emotional and sentimental time here. I will try to resist. This semester was characterized by questions. Sometimes there were more than 30 questions in a two-hour lecture, and if you know me,… Read More »

To My Former Students

By | November 4, 2005

A couple of days ago I got an email from a long-lost IBEX alumnus. His comments are not the first time I have heard such, and I don’t doubt that others have felt the same but just have never had reason or courage to communicate with me. Indeed, I feel exactly the same way when… Read More »