In a crowded Roman discotheque, one of the locals approached me, Peroni in hand, and began to play the “What’s Your Nationality” guessing game. “Cinese?” “No” I replied. “Giapponese?” he asked. “No!” Having exhausted his...
Sometimes the Graduate Center feels like a hotel. Students check in and check out, pay their bills, get their learn on, and leave for the day, or week… or semester. I don’t mean that the sense of cohesiveness and community is lacking; that depends on social and familial...
Fitness and graduate studies shouldn’t be incompatible. Yet a glance at the student body reveals that Graduate Center students are overwhelmingly out of shape. Long hours of slogging through books, endless meetings and rigorous course loads leave little time to exercise – or...
Last year four British universities released their findings with regard to women, marriage and I.Q., revealing something I myself had suspected – a higher I.Q. increases a man’s chance of finding a mate, while it decreases a woman’s chance of finding one. Put simply,...
