Who is the Wise Owl?

Name: Rahul

Major: Political Science and History

Hometown: Marlboro, NJ

Current Year: Senior

Favorite Books

• Marx Reader
• Anything by Plato
• The Federalist Papers
• The Namesake
• Harry Potter
• Anthem
• Siddartha
• Anything by John Locke
• The Economist (I know it’s a magazine, but as one of my professor’s once said “the people who enter the airplane and turn left read the Economist, the people who turn right read everything else”
• The New York Times

Favorite Movies:

The Godfather, Donnie Darko, Pulp Fiction, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Usual Suspects, American Beauty, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Maltese Falcon, Million Dollar Baby, Bad Santa, Annie Hall, V for Vendetta, The Graduate, Gandhi, Glory, Mystic River, The Big Lebowski, Snatch, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, The Departed, The Magdalene Sisters, Braveheart, Lucky Number Sleven, Thank You for Smoking, Inside Man, The Untouchables, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Boondock Saints, The Namesake, The Insider, The Kingdom, Superbad

Favorite TV Shows:

The West Wing, Lost, Alias, Scrubs, King of the Hill, The Simpsons, DL.TV, Diggnation, Dr. Who, Spooks, Weeds, Law and Order, Lost, House MD, Top Gear, How i met your mother, My Boys, Mythbusters, Monk, Psych, 4400, 30 Rock, The Office, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Law and Order CI, Bionic Woman

Favorite Bands/Music:

M.I.A., The Beatles, Sum 41, Aerosmith, Punjabi MC, Maroon 5, Queen, Bob Dylan, Barenaked Ladies, The Donnas, Buddy Holly, Coldplay, No Doubt, Black Eyed Peas, Raghav, Cake, Gorillaz, Jay-Z, MC Vikram, RUN DMC, Sublime, Blues Traveler, Chumbawamba

Favorite Classes at TU:

• Intro to Political Philosophy
• Marxism
• Public Policy
• Business and Public Policy
• International Organizations
• American History Through Film
• Intro to Marketing
• History of the American Presidency
• Nazi Germany