Ryan's Blog

In papers, in word counts, in total pages written. Or at least I used to. (474 words)

Yesterday Notre Dame beat Stanford on the road to finish the regular season 9-2. I posted this 5-second timelapse video of Carroll Hall's GO IRISH! banner to celebrate the season. (200 words)

The excitment and anticipation of the #1 USC vs. #9 Notre Dame football game extended to the southern hemisphere, so we decided to have a game "listen" party Saturday. (218 words)

My mom booked my ticket back to Notre Dame and specifically requested the window seat on the left side of the plane for my connection through Cincinnati. From this seat, you can look out your window as you approach Notre Dame and see the campus. I took a couple of exciting aerial pictures during the airport approach. (157 words)

Today, like most weekdays, I woke up to go to class. But unlike most days, today felt melancholy. As of 12:15pm, when I left Evolutionary Medicine with Prof. McKenna's, I'm done with class. (246 words)

The end of the semester has been packed with activities. (179 words)

The short answer is no. (219 words)

Rather than just talk about how tired I've been this week at school, I thought I'd give a little demonstration. (188 words)

I'm not sure how many sheets of paper are in a tree, but I took down about 20 pages this week. (241 words)

This past weekend started the wonderful procrastinatory tradition at Notre Dame of home football weekends. (158 words)

To answer the question raised in the subject: not in thy weather, for sure. (188 words)

An editorial I wrote to The Observer, ND's campus newspaper appeared in last Thursday's issue. You can read it online here... (21 words)

It's been a wild ride, but I'm done. Today had its victories and defeats. (304 words)

In all likelyhood the next time I write will be 53 economics questions and 6 pages of philosophical writing later. And then I'm done. Halfway. (277 words)

Chris helped me break my Lenten video gaming fast by playing several hands on Yahoo! Spades. (311 words)

What I am about to relate (quickly) to you is a series of events that is sure to go down as legend. (279 words)

I classifiy this weekend under the title "Eliminate Residual Stress From Previous Week." (208 words)

After four days of preparation, I am ready for my economics mideterm tomorrow. Unfortunately, my philosophy midterm tomorrow is going to be a little harder. It's a take-home test, though, so hopefully that will give me some extra time to... (127 words)

The white chocolate raspberry cheesecake at the Olive Garden was a transcendent experience (it was unanimous). (163 words)

My roommate Chris and I have formed Z.A — Zoolander Anonymous — with the stated goal of gaining control over our unfortunate tendancies of using Zoolander phrases too much, appling Zoolander inflections to our speech, and flashing Blue Steel and Magnun far too frequently. Now that we have accountability partners, we should make some progress. (464 words)

Oh my. This afternoon I just finished an 18-hour block of time where 12 of those 18 were devoted to writing my philosophy paper. I shut down the Como study lounge and crawled into bed at 5:40 this morning. Then... (113 words)

It seems I forgot how long it takes me to read Descartes: about 5 pages an hour. (181 words)

I went to a luncheon with Joe Garden, a writer from The Onion today. In his words: "I hope my sheer charisma is enough to carry me through this speech, because, as I mentioned, I only got 2 hours of sleep last night." (180 words)