Going to college? Read me first.
So, among lots of other things, I freelance for the Irish Times. Last week I wrote a couple of articles - on how to avoid having any fun in college (important stuff in there), and the strange and horrifying way the universe might have been altered had Tom Selleck been Indy instead of Harrison Ford. Hopefully I'll be doing more over the next while, but enjoy these in the meantime. If you are looking for a journalist, copywriter, editor, researcher or indeed a project manager (- and who isn't, right?) drop me a line anytime. College Fun & How to Avoid It Get up, read through some notes, eat, recite the Periodic Table, go to school, have lunch, search for “continental drift” on Wikipedia, feverishly reread Hamlet on the bus home, eat dinner, dive into piles of notes; fall asleep and dream of your Leaving Cert exams being disrupted by huge robots made from Bunsen burners inexplicably repeating directions to the train station in French. Repeat for two years. Read more The choices you make can change your history Are you sure about your chosen course? Really sure? Are you certain you wouldn’t rather do chemistry? Or juggling? Perhaps you’ve been wrong about this medicine thing. All the cool kids are doing millinery these days; is it too late to make the jump? Thanks to the CAO change of mind form, you no longer have to fear spending decades in the trenches of Hollywood moviestardom, when your true love is marine biology. Maybe you’re more than happy with your chosen career, and who can blame you: leaking official secrets to the news media is the trend du jour. But even if you are, who among us has not wondered about the path not travelled? To help you clarify things in your mind, we’re going to take a look at five seismic decisions that changed history. Read more