I like to tell stories. Words are the logical units that build a story and hopefully these stories consist of meaningful combinations of words to create good stories—you be the judge. As native american writer Thomas King suggests, stories make up who we are, so I encourage you to read these stories and find out more about myself.
Stories from Abroad
Budapest / Hungary / Prague / Bratislava / Greece / Istanbul / Copenhagen
These stories are a series of emails to family and friends back home from my adventures abroad in Spring Semester 2007. I was studying Mathematics on the Budapest Semesters in Math program.
- Dan BS what?! (December 22, 2006)
- My first night in Budapest (January 16, 2007)
- My first week (January 23, 2007)
- Budapest! (January 28, 2007)
- From Bratislava with Love (February 4, 2007)
- Who are those Hungarians, anyway? (February 13, 2007)
- Wine Cellar No. 2 in the Valley of Nice Women (February 28, 2007)
- Daniel the Mathemagician (March 24, 2007)
- Pictures, pictures and more! (March 30, 2007)
- Greece: Santorini, Ios, Athens and Parents: The Visit (April 24, 2007)
- To Asia, Scandinavia and Back (May 15, 2007)
- Finishing Up (May 25, 2007)
- Summary (June 1, 2007 — unsent)
My first night in Budapest is surely the most rememberable of the stories.
View my abroad photos »
Essays from American Studies / American Studies 100
The Alarm Clock — an entry for the American History Museum, which contains artifacts from everyday life and explains their cultural significance.
Essays from Campus Ecology / Environmental Studies 222
Creating a future of practical idealism.
Into Our Values: Expressed and Operative — a look at how our expressed values (the values share with others) are different than our operative values (the values we live by).
Personal Essays
This Land is Our Land — we need to change our perception of land in this country. Land belongs to communities not individuals and affects the communities more than the individual.