Dan

I’ve been to plenty of places on this globe that have made me feel tiny – Geologically minute, Historically brief. My experience at Machu Picchu managed to do both. It is very easy to feel geologically small. The badlands of Dakota, the Grand Canyon of Arizona, and giant expanse of...

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  • March 31, 2014

Interview 1 The phone wouldn’t ring. It was time for my first interview with Google. An empty notepad ready to go. My notes prepared with delicious anecdotes and resume accomplishments. The latest brainteaser jostling in my head. Any potential stress knocked out by a jaunt at the gym. I was...

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  • October 29, 2013

An MBA was always part of the plan. Even as I wrapped up my engineering degree, I knew I wanted to pursue additional education. It was in that 4-5 year vaguely-planned horizon. And of course, those years just flew by. And now, I am halfway through the MBA experience. And...

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  • October 26, 2013

So, looking back, I haven’t posted anything in a very long time. However, I try to only post important, cool, or interesting things in my life. And as such, I definitely think this applies! After back and forth phone interviews over the phone, I just had to accept the offer...

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  • February 19, 2013

The graveyard is filled with lovers The bars are filled with bones We search for hearts in empty cages And always go home alone A Mausoleum lover Silent as a tomb I’ve been dead already Since the day you left the room We make love to corpses Our hands unclean...

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  • October 28, 2012

We’d rather be distracted than informed. Entertained opposed to educated. We have a congress full of millionaires, yet we call them representative. What we consider news isn’t even obligated to be true ( It must only sell ad time.) The food we eat doesn’t even have to be labeled imitation....

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  • July 28, 2012

I once walked with my Father every Sunday. When other children filled wooden pews listening to robed men and choral prayers, I held my Father’s hand and we listened to the world. He would let me choose a direction. I liked South the best, if felt like going home. On...

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  • March 28, 2012

Another shirt design I created a few years ago to be sold as part of our chapter’s fund raising efforts. I was running with the graphic tee trend. I like how it turned out, now if only I could see it on a shirt.

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  • June 19, 2011