I went to Oberlin

I went to Oberlin College, and they don’t have a film major, but they do have what’s called an individual major, where you can sort of pitch to a committee your own course study, and if they approve it, you have essentially just designed your own major. So Oberlin doesn’t have a film major; they … Read more

To be totally candid,

To be totally candid, it was really born out of a panic attack the summer between my sophomore and junior years, when I realized I wasn’t going to graduate in four years unless I somehow managed to glue together all the courses I’d taken. That said, I’m really glad I did it, ’cause it was … Read more

In fact, a very

In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an explosive condition, which was “nonlinear, catastrophic structural exasperation,” or to put it another way–as a junior cabinet minister did on television the following night in a phrase which was to haunt the rest … Read more