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description: Ross Musings | The Ross School Blog is a window into the tesseractic honeycomb of ideas that permeate the Ross experience, each post a plane in a spiraling fractal pattern. Students, teachers, and staff will be posting on an infinite variety of subjects—history, economics, media, science, art, video games, Bach, cheese, cryptozoology, race car design, the finer points of cat grooming, you name it—and we’ll occasionally dig back into the archives to share timeless treasures. In addition, we’ll keep everyone up to date about the exciting things happening on campus.
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## [Pens or Pencils: The Ultimate Showdown](https://blog.ross.org/pens-or-pencils-the-ultimate-showdown)
May 29, 2019
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Hello! This is Pearl here, back again bringing you more utter nonsense. In this installment, I will be discussing one of the most divisive topics a..
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## [The Longest, Hardest, and Most Influential Books I Have Read at Ross](https://blog.ross.org/the-longest-hardest-and-most-influential-books-i-have-read-at-ross)
May 28, 2019
[Ross Musings](https://blog.ross.org/tag/ross-musings), [Literature](https://blog.ross.org/tag/literature)
Of all the books I have read throughout my 15 years at Ross, *Mansfield Park*, *Heart of Darkness,* and Machiavelli’s *The Prince* are the three novels I..
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## [The Pros and Cons of Amazon Echoes](https://blog.ross.org/pros-and-cons-of-amazon-echoes)
May 20, 2019
[Ross Musings](https://blog.ross.org/tag/ross-musings), [Local](https://blog.ross.org/tag/local)
The Amazon Echo: it plays your music, it tells you the weather, it reminds you that the big game is about to start. As an owner, I have found the..
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## [Our Inability to Do Nothing](https://blog.ross.org/our-inability-to-do-nothing)
May 06, 2019
[Ross Musings](https://blog.ross.org/tag/ross-musings), [Local](https://blog.ross.org/tag/local)
By now, we all know that cellphones probably aren’t the *best* for us. And yet, millions of people worldwide use them constantly. Part of the reason is..
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## [Pollen: The Dread Season is Nigh](https://blog.ross.org/pollen-the-dread-season-is-nigh)
Apr 03, 2019
[Ross Musings](https://blog.ross.org/tag/ross-musings), [Local](https://blog.ross.org/tag/local)
Buds are appearing on the trees here in New York, and birdsong is steadily taking over for my alarm clock. Those of you with allergies know that this..
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