Adventures of Andrew Lee

This post was moved from an older website hosted on a college server. These have been unedited and contain many mistakes, good examples of poor writing, lack of structure, and perhaps even thought. Nevertheless, they do chronicle what I was up to in college.

... for an 8th grader or anyone below the age of 120 Middle school is the perfect time to read. You're smart enough to read chapter books and you have free time because "getting into college" does not take up all your time. Unfortunately, middle school is also the time of awkwardness and its discontents- acne, the opposite sex, and finding the right balance of your own awkwardness with everyone else's. (Sadly, adults are just as awkward, they just stop caring about what other's think.) WELL, to compensate for my lack of reading in middle school, to help other's overcome test score problems, and generally be better individuals, I present some recommended reading. Check out these lists:

1. Modern Library's 100 Best Novels- Really great contrast between the Editorial Board's choices and the popular choices
2. Modern Library's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books- Again, an interesting contrast with the popular vote
3. Radcliffe's 1998 Rival Best Novel list
4. Hacker Virgil Griffith's List of Books that Make You Dumb (or rather Books that Correlate with Varying SAT Scores)- This list is great because it shows you the favorite books of a whole generation.

If that isn't enough, I once created an 8th grade booklist (back in high school)! Now that I look at it, it's pretty terrible. Nevertheless, it may still prove beneficial to anyone who wants to read some books. It is an old e-mail to family in Idaho (trying to get my cousin to read... also pre-occupied with awkwardness). I'll update it periodically with books that I think are great (hopefully it will reflect the lists above). The books have to meet two criteria though:

1. 8th Grade Reading Level- Could an eighth grader read the book? Many arcane or pedantic texts were knocked out.
2. Make me smarter?- Does the book improve reading comprehension or can it change someone's life?

My hope is to pass the list on to my future child in eighth grade and have him/her also fondly ignore it. Feel free to send any other recommendations, suggestions to me at Andrew@andrewlee.com, to me, so I can update this list.

This post was moved from an older website hosted on a college server. These have been unedited and contain many mistakes and a sense of naivete that is only apparent for a college student. Whatever. They do chronicle what I was up to in college.

I hail from Denver, CO and now live in Fawcett 101, the Pad as we call it. Please come by for free tours anytime.

Thanks to Professor Stiffler for making us create webpages. My horizons are broadened because of my liberal use of this web design feature. I’m glad I learned how to use this, (although it took fairly long to understand anything on the web). Thank you for visiting, as a token of my gratitude, here’s some rules I’ve learned (thus far in life) to live by:

1. “If you can’t get smarter, get more organized. Mastery through Discipline.” - Mr. Peter Mehlbach, IB/AP European History teacher, 2002 Teacher of the Year (CO), Lakewood High School, CO
2. “Excellence in All Things.”- Me, but checking the internet- The Council for Global Education, Bahai Books Online, and Jews for Jesus.
3. “Rational, Reserved, and Refined.”- Greg Davis, Lakewood High School Speech and Debate Director

This post was moved from an older website hosted on a college server. These have been unedited and contain many mistakes, good examples of poor writing, lack of structure, and perhaps even thought. Nevertheless, they do chronicle what I was up to in college.

This post was moved from an older website hosted on a college server. These have been unedited and contain many mistakes, good examples of poor writing, lack of structure, and perhaps even thought. Nevertheless, they do chronicle what I was up to in college. This post introduces my roommates at Claremont McKenna.

“Over the last few hundred years, people who were not in heterosexual marriages with children have not been seen as true adults or accorded social and political power. In the postmodern world, that definition is now being challenged socially, legally and scientifically by reproductive technologies. To [those people], they deeply [feel] that a full person or a full citizen is someone who is heterosexually married and produces children. And they cannot accept that you would extend that definition to someone else.”

- Prof. Gilbert Herdt (San Francisco University), NPR

Some 51 percent of those surveyed said they would find it hard to give up their cellphones, compared with 45 percent for the Internet, 43 percent for television and 40 percent for landline phones.

I couldn't agree more. The way we think of computing is going to change and people will look back at our devices as clunky, confusing, and ultimately inorganic.

Source: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080305202159.nwant9ms&show_article=1