As a point of protest against Phil's inconsiderate advice to CUT OUT HALF OF MY DATA SET (i.e. pretend those 2 months of my life never happened), I have cut out the data of 2 kids at a troubling age group, which has changed my p value for one of the variables from .08 to .05, thereby making my results much easier to work with and explain, and thus ( Read more... )

"I think when you get out of the world a little more, you'll discover that not all well-dressed, articulate, detail-oriented men are gay....many of them are just Asian."
- Veronica Mars Season 2, episode 18

We don't ever think about the mistakes we DIDN'T make, or the mistakes that turned out to be ultimately good for us.  What are your mistakes that you're grateful for?

- not going to med school in Hong Kong even though it was such a sweet, sure, deal.  Over and over again in my life, I have chosen the path undetermined as opposed to the path over- ( Read more... )

What I am going to do with my life?

Everytime I think about what I'm doing, where I'm going, what does this all mean and where is it going to take me?

I literally want to run into the bathroom and puke my guts out, and then cry for a considerable period of time.  I'm so, so, scared.  So scared that I have REFUSED to let anyone ask me what I'm doing ( Read more... )

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Modernization is typically portrayed as an inevitable hegemonic process whereby developed countries exploit underdeveloped ones for their own self-interests, to the demise of the latter’s cultural traditions and autonomy (Brym 2004, p470). However, anthropologists have identified instances where agency, which refers to the actions that can be ( Read more... )

This week has been a monotonous ebb and flow of paper-writing and sleep. One year ago, I would have completely freaked out at the amount of work I had to do. In these past two weeks, I have written three papers, finished the testing for my thesis, prepared for two tutorials, and written two quizzes. Next week, I will have to take two tests and ( Read more... )

Ugh, y'all know how much I"m a sucker for sad TV.  Yesterday, I burst into tears THREE TIMES while watching TV (once during Grey's Anatomy, twice during 24) and I cried again today.  I guess at least it shows that I have some empathic skill, and specifically, the ability to identify empathically with others, according to various psychologists in my ( Read more... )

24: I knew I shouldn't have started, but I did.  Now it's a drug, an addiction.  Thanks to the wonders of network file sharing, I can satiate myself with episodes of 24 until I drop.  I finished season 1 in three days!  The one thing that really really really irks me about the show is that PEOPLE NEVER DO AS THEY ARE TOLD.  Ok, so I expect the ( Read more... )

Ahh, the sweetness of being roomate-less for a night.  As much as I am happy with my living arrangements and am amazed at how my roomates and I have remained clean, accountable, and friction-free, there are many things about them that irk me.  For one, their boyfriends - if it isn't the incessant chatter about how Andrew doesn't take her feelings ( Read more... )