At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

According to the Financial Times, anyways. Kind of a random article, but the British intelligentsia love their Obama connections: London School of Economics is well represented among Obama’s buddies The dreaming spires of Oxford had better wake up if they want to continue to play in the major leagues of American government, as long was [...]

Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!? I have to say that I’m a bit disappointed with the partial nationalization of several large U.S. banking institutions. Quite frankly, I feel that this plan doesn’t go far enough. I was kinda hoping for a complete nationalization of the U.S. economy in order to further my career prospects. Allow me [...]

I’m about 300 pages into Kurt Eichenwald’s Conspiracy of Fools, which details the rise and fall of every Californian’s favorite company, Enron. One of the main players is Michael Kopper, Andy Fastow’s right-hand man and all around immoral prick (originally from Long Island…figures). He’s also a fellow alum of the London School of Economics (MSc [...]

Here’s a few more recently upped photos of LSE friends – some from my dorm (Bankside represent) and others from my Russian & Post-Soviet Studies (RPSS) program. The theme for this week is drinking, or whatever. This is a pic of Omar from the Bankside boat party held at the beginning of term. Possibly the [...]

There we were, ready to knock France’s École Polytechnique off its pedestal and claim the title of “Tenth greatest university in the world,” when some fellow in the Social Psychology department decided it would be a great idea to admit Monica Lewinsky to the MSc program. The end result was a ton of jokes at [...]

I finally uploaded all the pics from Grad week in London. There are two sets…first, photos from the actual graduation ceremony: Me on stage…after shaking Howard Davies’ hand…or going to shake his hand…I’m not exactly sure The reception in the Hong Kong Theatre after the the ceremony A group photo of the Russian and Post-Soviet [...]

It seems like everyone is blogging about the year gone by, so it’s only fitting that I follow suit and reflect on some of my best memories of 2005. Attending LSE Since I was a sophomore at GWU, it has been a goal of mine to attend the London School of Economics. This goal was [...]

I’m back from London. It was a lovely week, filled with old friends, the usual London sights, and plenty of pints of Strongbow. It was actually a rather surreal experience because I felt like I had never really left the city, and that the past three months in an overglorified resort town of yesteryear was [...]

I’m heading off to LAX in an hour…flight leaves 7pm, gets into Heathrow around 2pm on Monday. I’ll be back in the U.S. on the 19th. Looking forward to seeing all my LSE friends, showing my friend Kim the city I lived in for the past year (a friend that I have known since 1st [...]

I swear, stuff like this usually doesn’t happen at LSE…well, at least when I was there. As much as we would have loved to go on a drunken rampage following our RPSS core course, we somehow kept ourselves under control. And yes, this all happened in the MIDDLE OF THE AFTERNOON. That’s the LSE for [...]