Parsons: The New School For Design

It's in New York City, it's where renowned fashion designers like Donna Karan and Anna Sui went to, and did I mention? It's in New York City. Yes, it's Parsons The New School For Design. It's strategically located in one of the liveliest cities in the world and would you look at their building? Doesn't it just scream, "Look at me. I'm fashionable." Ok, I might be exaggerating a little but hey, going to a university like it is bound to take you to places. I mean, look where Alexander Wu is now. 

I don't plan on pursuing a fashion degree, but if I ever planned to in the near future, Parsons is definitely on my list. It has a good reputation, and look at their building. I would love to go to a school that looked like this. Even the building itself is fashionable and trendy.

While most people think of Parsons as a school for future fashion designers, the school itself offers majors like BA in Fine Arts to Environmental Science. Parsons also has extensive, state-of-the-art facilities readily available for students 24/7 because, according to their President, Parsons, like New York City, never sleeps. That would be great, especially for students who have a tendency to cram everything at like, 2 AM in the morning. 

Satirical Cartoons

This satirical cartoon is about "Halloween" for American adults, and while kids find beings like ghosts or headless horse riders scary, some Americans find the idea of paying more for things like Obama-care scary. You'll find this cartoon here. 

The Fountain of Youth and other misc. magical things

So a few days ago our American Literature class read the story of Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and it was an amusing story because of how the "test subjects" responded to the water from the fabled "Fountain of Youth". In the story were four friends of Dr. Heidegger's: Widow Wycherly, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne. All four of them were once at the height of their glory days, though soon became obscure and infamous from all their deeds in their youth. 

But back to the point. The point is, Dr. Heidegger used this experiment on the four elderly friends to see the extent of the power of the water from the Fountain of Youth and just how a typical human being would react when given a second chance to relive their youth. The water was proven quite powerful when the 50 year-old rose magically returned to its former bloom when it fell into the water; it also turned his friends back into their youthful and beautiful selves. The funny thing is, while the four friends had turned young, the mirror showed a different aspect: they were the same old people in the mirror. 

Anyway, the four "test subjects" didn't exactly use the water wisely because almost instantly, they began to squabble and fight over Widow Wycherly. Just like old times. Amidst their struggle to gain the upper hand, they had knocked over the table, and with it, the vase containing the water from the Fountain of Youth. BAM! Just like that, they slowly felt their old age coming back to them and they were mostly horrified. 

The four foolhardy friends then planned to find the legendary Fountain of Youth, with vain hopes of becoming young once again. The lesson of this story is how human nature is quite weak, because when given a chance to relive a time in their lives, they would make the same mistakes.