When tower bells are created, or cast, they are traditionally inscribed with a quote. There is such a bell at Hayes Hall in Buffalo, New York, and its inscription proclaims: "It is the voice of life which calls us to come and learn." This aphorism resonated strongly with me, since the pursuit of information and an insatiable curiosity have always ben a strong part of who I am. In fact, I only know about tower bells because of a lecture...

Perhaps simultaneously one of my biggest vices and strengths, indecision flows through my veins. I am curious and interested in a surfeit of areas, from molecular biology and behavioral psychology to video editing, mathematics, and even cryptography. I've devoted a great deal of time to each of these interests whenever possible. My curiosity towards the way the body works and its relationship with all life led to a love of AP Biology and the recent reading of Quirkology, a book...

I love playing Ultimate Frisbee. It was about two years ago when I first really got into it; a bunch of my friends from school would play several times a week. I first became interested in Frisbee when my friend Eddie's older brother asked if we would "toss a disc" with him. Eddie's older brother Tom is a very intelligent, self-motivated person whom I admire very much and as it happened, Tom was very interested in attending Brown. In fact,...

Twenty seven pounds of dry ice, strobe lights, and trips to the pet store are not typical components of an English project. However, during an artistic project last year, a few of my friends and I decided to go on a little over the top. The assignment was simple: Analyze and depict five scenes from Mark Twain's Huck Finn on a 2x7 foot piece of paper in the form of a mural. The catch was that each group would be...

Invisible Children, Incorporated, is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2003 by three altruistic film-school graduates. It has since brought to light a humanitarian crisis in Northern Uganda; millions have been displaced and countless others are without a proper education as a result of the...