Zareen

Re: There's always a midpoint

You don't have to choose from just two extremes of love and money. If you absolutely hate math, you don't have to major in something so centered around it just because the field pays well. There are a ton of other career options out there that pay fairly well. I don't think you have to absolutely love your job with no regard to how much it pays. What if someone really really loves standing on a street corner and playing the sax all day for spare change, but they...

Posted by Zareen on 12-29-2007 in A job that brings the bacon or happiness?

Nothing to lose

Mental health issues are somewhat linked to physical illness and injury anyway. Certain emotional disorders can leave you with constantly high blood pressure which can lead to a heart-attack down the road. Or some light mood disorders can affect an employee's ability to work safely in a potentially hazardous environment. Instead of treating the physical symptoms of mental illnesses, preventing and covering the causes is a lot more practical and cheaper than a hospital visit and...

Posted by Zareen on 12-31-2007 in Mental Health Parity.

Facebook is just neater

I don't think I'm entirely biased toward Facebook because I have tried to maintain a Myspace for a few years. Myspace was slower and messier and there was no sense of privacy. It was either show all your information to the world or nothing at all. Facebook has the option of showing a limited profile to strangers and specific friends. And I do hate how Facebook applications really crowd up profiles. Pictures, faces, shiny things and music everywhere. It's messy and...

Posted by Zareen on 01-10-2008 in Myspace vs. Facebook

Outdated, I know

I don't know enough about digital cameras to hold any significant opinion on the cameras of today, but having grown up on my dad's extensive camera collection I feel Nikon stands (stood?) way above the rest among both the middle-range and high-end categories in terms of user-friendliness, image quality and overall capabilities. (I'm kind of sad to see film becoming obsolete.)

Posted by Zareen on 02-08-2008 in Photographers sound off: Canon vs. Nikon

Beatles sound better

They both had the skill and flexibility to try out different sounds and styles and contributed a lot to rock and music in general. However, I think through it all, the Beatles really just sounded better with everything they did. It's not that I don't like Mick Jagger's voice. The Beatles sound more harmonious I guess. Sounds kind of shallow of me, but that's what music is to some extent, isn't it? It's supposed to be pleasing to the ears.

Posted by Zareen on 03-22-2008 in The Rolling Stones are better than the Beatles