Department of Alchemy » google reader http://doalchemy.org Wed, 23 May 2012 19:51:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 A Quick Update http://doalchemy.org/2008/05/a-quick-update/ http://doalchemy.org/2008/05/a-quick-update/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 06:37:11 +0000 Alex Leavitt http://alexleavitt.wordpress.com/?p=18 Continue reading →]]> Well, I completed my third year at Boston University last Thursday, after passing in my final exam for Literary Theory (EN406.A1). At the moment, I’m attempting to continue accruing content for my internship with ByStudents, as well as catch up on the feeds in my GoogleReader, and on top of it all begin reading the books I’ve bought throughout the semester but never got around to reading (first on the list: Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Henry Jenkins). I have an unsorted mass of potential blog posts to compose, especially after compiling page after page of ideas regarding ROFLCon and the lectures I attended at MIT this semester.

Looking towards the near future, on Thursday and Friday of this week, I’ll be over at Harvard attending Berkman@10, a conference on the future of the Internet, hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Harvard Law School). I’m glad that the summer is finally starting. Although I have to continue searching for jobs, I’ll be living at Harvard (while volunteering for another consecutive year at Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre), preparing panels for Otakon and Connecticon, and organizing articles for this blog.

]]> http://doalchemy.org/2008/05/a-quick-update/feed/ 0 ROFLCon is over equals open parenthesis. http://doalchemy.org/2008/04/roflcon-is-over-equals-open-parenthesis/ http://doalchemy.org/2008/04/roflcon-is-over-equals-open-parenthesis/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:08:11 +0000 Alex Leavitt http://alexleavitt.wordpress.com/?p=17 Continue reading →]]> I registered. I went. I was enlightened.

ROFLCon, created by teh awesome Tim Hwang, went down at MIT last weekend on Friday and Saturday (April 25 and 26). A bunch of popular Internet microcelebrities (memes), industry guests, and academics, as well as seven hundred residents of the Web (like me!).


I’m the kid in the brown striped hoodie with the Mac, bottom left.
(Photo credits: LaughingSquid)

ROFLCon detonated my brain, and the convention’s blog, my GoogleReader. I have so much to write about, but I’m also finishing up the semester at BU, so I’m trying to balance the blog, essays, film editing, extracurriculars, and celebrating.

Thanks ROFLCon crew. Expect to hear from me about helping out next year.

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