Collin Hazlett's Blog :: Carleton College

The Final Year Begins

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:08:25 -0500

That sounds ominous, doesn't it? I told some of my friends that I half-expected Senior Year to be like the last level of a video game: the Bald Spot replaced by a pit of hot lava, Scoville's turret firing laser cannons, the hardest classes I've taken at Carleton coming back to life in more powerful Final Boss Forms...

Fortunately none of that has happened yet. But I'm still cautious.

A Post of the Short Variety

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:04:48 -0600

A break from studying for finals.

Eugene the Penguin

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:32:02 -0600

At Carleton, we pick apples in fall and make ice sculptures in winter. I'm not sure what idyllic seasonal activity we do in spring, but next term will probably refresh my memory.

Math in Psychology Class

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:39:19 -0600

Have you seen "Doodling in Math Class" by Vi Hart? If not, look it up this instant! (Or, you know, when you have time.) This isn't as cool as that, but it's still cool.

Ramblings about Classes

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:51:34 -0600

It's been a while since I've put a Turtle Fact in my post, so I went out, found a new one, and stuck it randomly into the following post. It's a pretty good one this time.

So, if nothing else, there is a really cool fact about turtles hidden somewhere in this post, and you should read it for that reason.

Tube Paintings

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 21:46:41 -0600

If you've been to Carleton, you may have noticed these two mysterious little tubes near Goodhue.

Failing at Frowning

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:55:47 -0600

...an adventure in experimental misanthropy.

Chocolate Snails

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:34:55 -0500

In Hungarian, the words for "tomato" and "paradise" are the same. That has nothing to do with this post, but it's interesting, isn't it?

Another Short One

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:10:01 -0500

My computer clock tells me that it's about 8 PM at Carleton. That's not what time it is here...

So...

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:57:54 -0500

So! I got to Budapest, but my wifi antenna broke, so it was really hard to use the internet. That was okay, though, because I didn't really have time to use the internet, since I was busy getting used to the city and meeting all of the awesome people in this program. I learned some Hungarian for a few weeks, during which I got a bad cold and didn't feel like posting, and then I was going to post but I ended up going to Romania, so I didn't have time. In Romania I saw some beautiful cathedrals and went biking in the Carpathian Mountains, where I fell off my bike going downhill at high speed and fractured my collarbone into three pieces. I went to a really sketchy Romanian hospital and got a sling, and then got sent back to Budapest and then classes began. So far math has been wonderful, but very very time-consuming, and we're still not sure whether my shoulder will need surgery, and, if so, whether I need to return to America. So that's what happened.

Across the Sea

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:20:18 -0500

Somewhere,
Beyond the sea,
Somewhere, waiting for me...

Three Games I have Learned at Carleton

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:41:27 -0500

It's summer, but before I write my it's-summer-now-let's-review-the-year post, I'm going to publish the post I was working on when school got out. Here it is!