I will be graduating Knox College on June 6th, married August 9th, and a week later taking classes in grad school. I came to college as a fire breathing, capitalist, Jewish, anti-conformist radical. I leave college as a more refined fire-breathing, capitalist, Jewish, anti-conformist radical. By radical, I mean arguing with everyone about every topic because I dislike conformity of opinion. My fiance claims I am one of the most loud-mouthed opinionated people she has ever met.
But really, that not who I am. I am a math/econ geek, who played chess frequently in his youth, survived cancer that infested my body before I was born, suffered from negligent and incompetent parents, and happened to miraculously find himself attending a liberal arts college. I wish to focus on one particular thing that matters to me: chess. What follows below is a an entry from my blog at xanga.
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