“…and that’s how a three-switch circuit works. Got it, Brian?” “Yeah, Grandpa, of course,” I said absentmindedly. Of course I wasn't listening, I don’t care about circuits. Why should I? Sherlock Holmes once said about the heliocentric model, “Now that I do know it, I shall do my best to forget it.” Anything extraterrestrial did not relate to his job of finding criminals. Circuits are part of electrical engineering, irrelevant to my psychiatric aspirations. Who would've thought mere...

A Kinnus is a very difficult thing to host. A Kinnus, or “assembly” in Hebrew, is a weekend-long get-together in USY, a Jewish youth group. As one of three co-chairs for this event, I was rather distressed. For one thing, though, the weekend ended up going wonderfully. My one reminder of the whole weekend is the traditional costume that the co-chairs wear. Every single one of these weekends, there’s a costume that characterizes the Kinnus theme. The theme for...

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