Yet Another Yahoo Contribution

So this is an interesting story of how I got to be where I am today, which is the University of Chicago. Read my story here.

Blog Post Contest Entry: Zombie Readiness Task Force at Your Service

Writer's Note: This blog entry is for a contest at the University of Chicago, where I'm a student. This post will be for the Uncommon Blog, which is a blog for prospective and admitted students. Winner gets their blog posted on the Uncommon Blog. I wrote about a club called the Zombie Readiness Task Force just for fun. Hope you guys like it!

I am proud to say that I am a member of the Zombie Readiness Task Force (ZRTF), an RSO based around anything zombie-related. Now I know what you’re thinking. Well, I probably don’t, but I’m sure many of you aren’t expecting zombies to take over the world by force. But we here at the ZRTF understand that the thought of a zombie apocalypse, though extremely cool to consider, is very unlikely to actually happen. But that really doesn’t matter, at least to us. Sure, we’re a club in its infancy, and maybe we don’t have as many members as say Model UN. We’re just a couple of people who just happen to know each other and share an interest in zombies, though the free pizza at every meeting is always a plus. We even found zombie-related activities that don’t involve killing the walking dead. Just recently, a group of members, including myself, attended a lecture from a former UChicago professor by the name of Daniel Drezner. He gave a talk on international policy and zombies, and it is a talk that was not the least bit trivialized because of the zombie involvement. It was actually enhanced. And of course, what kind of anti-zombie force do you think we would be without a little “Humans vs. Zombies” (hopefully)? For those who don’t know about HvZ, it is pretty much a massive, two-week long game where the humans try to survive under the pressure of attacking zombies. So, in about a month since its conception, members of the ZRTF have held a couple of meetings, attended a lecture on international policy and zombies, and proposed a campus-wide game of Humans vs. Zombies. Most importantly, we turned something that could have easily been disregarded somewhere else into a nearly full-fledged, funded, and fun RSO. And of course, if UChicago does happen to be overrun by zombies, at least we’ll be ready.

Update: I have PICTURES!

The Presentation

Professor Daniel Drezner

Thoughts on Donald Glover

So I just saw Donald Glover tonight. And initial thought was that he was hilarious. Donald Glover is known primarily as Troy on Community, but I've seen some of his stand-up and this did not disappoint. So here are just a couple of paraphrases of some of the best jokes I heard.

Everything is "no homo" until you say "no homo".
Shaft has no powers and it would be awesome if Michael Cera was Shaft.
Shaft juice sounds a lot like semen.
People don't change. So if you're a woman who doesn't give BJs, be ready to have a lot of cats and Twilight books because you're going to die alone.
Charlie Sheen is the only person who can say the N-word without any problems because he hates so much that he becomes colorblind.
"Niglet" is the black version of "Piglet". And there is already a sign for "Niglet" in sign language.
Filipinos are the black people of Asia and Armenians are the black people of Caucasia.
Reggie Bush "stole" Donald Glover's glasses for $100, and was wearing them when he cheated on Kim Kardashian.
Donald Glover used that $100 to get a lap dance.
People should have expected Tiger Woods to cheat on his wife unless his wife's vagina was the Tiger Woods of all vagina.
Donald Glover got punched in the face by a homeless man.
Babies are like AIDS. You're stuck with them forever and you can pretty much only date other people who have them. The difference is you can't go to jail for dropping AIDS on its head.
Home Depot, not University of Chicago, is where fun comes to die.
"Muppet Babies" and "TMNT" are really screwed up.
Don't actually take a dump in a Home Depot toilet.

Also for you Community fans, I have news. Richard Ayoade is going to be directing an episode of Community and this episode will be an homage to a movie. In order to maintain innocence, I will speak cryptically now. This movie was directed by a "cutie". So Donald Petre out!