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Many thanks to the Greek Life office for awarding me the “Creative Achievement” award for my photography work. I wasn’t able to attend the award ceremony last night, but I’m very honored. Last night I had my Object-Oriented design final and then performed with the orchestra in Thwing Ballroom.

By the time I made it down to rope pull, I had already missed Phikap. We lasted all of but 7 seconds on a pull against SigEp. I hate loosing *anything*, but what the hell are we supposed to do? Technique only goes so far…
I took photos. I took more photos. After that, I ate [...]

Let the day of photography begin. I was really pleased with how my shots were turning out. In particular, I got a great shot of a ball passing through a tire during Obstacle course. Then, during egg toss - one of the Theta Chi groups kept dropping the egg but it never cracked. Finally, the [...]

I caught the Saturday midnight performance of “Footloose” as presented by Footlighters, along with a group of Phikaps and friends. Jeff Verespej, the director, made my night by saying I didn’t need to pay for the show - he rocks. The show was fun, upbeat, and soaked in 80’s (but bearable).
I was very impressed with [...]

Saturday’s performance at Severance Hall was surprisingly…tonal. Schoenburg, the inventor and master of the twelve-tone system, did not always compose atonal music as evident in “Kol Nidre”. The piece is based off of the Jewish prayer said at the holiest of High Holidays, Yom Kippur. Schoenburg, who was then living in California at the [...]