Bailey Thomson
- Class of 2010
- Hometown: Richmond, VA
- Major(s): Government & Middle Eastern Studies
- Archived Blogger
About Bailey Thomson
Campus Activities: Undergraduate Honor Council- Chief Justice; Admissions Office- Summer Intern, Tour Guide, Tribe Ambassador; President’s Aide; Mortar Board; Alpha Phi Omega Community Service Fraternity; Students Helping Honduras- Treasurer, Trip Leader, Student Staff Member; Phi Beta Delta International Studies Honor Society- President; Residence Life- Russian House RA 2008-2009; International Relations Club- Model UN Travel Team Member; Sharpe Community Scholars Program- Fellow for Citizenship and the Community; NAACP- 2009 and 2010 Image Awards Committee Chair; Monroe Scholar; Phi Beta Kappa; Government Honors thesis
Curiosities: stencil graffiti (Banksy, Bananensprayer, Blek le Rat, Elyasaf Kowner, Dave Kinsey); world travel; glaciers as sediment transporters; spoken word poetry (Shihan, Rafael Casal, Taylor Mali, Black Ice, Jon Goode, Gemineye, Mayda del Valle); educational policy; international languages; Southern food; political philosophy (James Baldwin, Jacques Derrida); the biopsychology of memory; hip hop music (Lupe Fiasco, Talib Kweli, Biggie, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, the Roots, Common)
Favorite Books: The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman by Hunter S. Thompson, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers; The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano; Wall and Piece by Banksy
Favorite Foods: bacon, sweet tea, wiener schnitzel (from Wirtshaus in der Au, Munich), collard greens (from Pierce’s Pit BBQ, Williamsburg), corn bread, my Mama’s breakfast casserole and spinach souffle
Favorite Quotes:
There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place. // Banksy
Good is the enemy of great. Few people attain great lives, precisely because it is easy to settle for a good life. // Jim Collins
We really emptied oceans with a homemade spoon and tore down mountains with our hands. // James Baldwin
Love, live life, proceed, progress. // Lil Wayne
Posts by Bailey Thomson
Youth Day, celebrated in South Africa annually on 16 June, commemorates the 1976 Soweto Uprising, in which students in the Soweto township during the
In two days, I am flying from Johannesburg, South Africa to Washington D.C. to celebrate my best friend Allison’s wedding in northern Virginia. This
Greetings from Johannesburg, South Africa, where fall has officially begun! While the College is getting warmer and the Sunken Garden is filling up with
Even though I may not contribute consistently to the W&M blogosphere, I do actively follow news from the College and greater Williamsburg. And this
“Our hearts are with thee, dear William and Mary, however far we stray.” I returned to William and Mary this week after fourteen months
There was a time in my life when I believed that I would eventually become a strict adherent to the Gregorian calendar. I was
The following are titles of particularly interesting papers I have written
in the past eight semesters. Of course, "interesting" is
relative. And, as you can see,
The following is an entry I submitted to "The Little Things at WM," a blog dedicated to celebrating the small moments that make campus
Because my Honors thesis advising meetings are on Wednesdays at 11am, I consistently find myself awake and working (read: procrastinating) late into Tuesday evening.