An installation of the “Notes” series. Formalisms in technology, business, and philosophy — Recently, I watched a movie about Steve Jobs and got to thinking about visionaries and what makes one. The Fassbender rendition gives him a portrayal that outlines him as a socially indecorous outlier — borderline psychopath. Personally, I find this account the most plausible, which explains why I enjoyed…

Life is a Non-Conservative Path Integral, or something like that. — I’m sitting in class listening to our professor lecture. He emphasizes that we should keenly pay attention to the lecture, not taking notes, but clinging to every word and anticipating the next. “It is imperative you focus on the concepts (that is a direct quote). Think about what is being…

“No one person’s Hollywood success story has anything in common with anybody else’s Hollywood success story.” - Old Hollywood saying One day my friend Luke and I were working on a school project in an empty classroom. We got side-tracked — as usual — and I took the opportunity to…

Over the past few months a few close friends and I have been working on a publication called College Entrepreneur. We’re building a network of passionate contributors to help generate and source content. …

SocialFuse is a pitching and networking event that occurs every few months here on the UIUC campus. It seeks to unite entrepreneurial community members with a night of attendees pitching their startup ideas, finding teammates, improving presentation skills, and getting feedback. …

Over the past week, 25 UIUC students and I went on a trip put on by the University of Illinois Technology and Entrepreneurship Center. The TEC works to build the entrepreneurial community around campus. …

Every year for the past decade, I’ve made the same New Year’s resolution: don’t accidentally write the wrong year when you write the date. I love to challenging my awareness against my own negligence. 2015 proved just too easy to remember, so as an additional exercise to bring in the…

Written by Luke Frye, edited by Wiley Jones For my first few years here, whenever a new or prospective student asked me advice about college, I said the same thing everyone had told me: learn time management. Structure your time so that you can do every single one of the…

Many of us, including myself don’t write as much as we’d like to. For me, it boils down to three reasons: I feel obliged to make it long-form, 140 characters or less is reserved for Twitter! I feel obliged to write at the highest quality I am capable of. I…