I think they could work on their spelling just a bit. Not that I'm really one to have moral superiority on that subject:)

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I had a pretty wonderful weekend. I did my undergraduate research presentation, which I think went acceptably well. I always have a hard time telling how I sound to the rest of the world when I’m doing presentations. We saw Sin City with a group of people, and I found it entertaining, bloody and melodramatic certainly, but in the comic book way ( Read more... )

So it has once again reached that time of year when I always get a strong urge to shove some clothes and essentials into a backpack and go find a mountain somewhere to climb (don’t worry darling I’m not actually going to, at least not until after graduation). This has a tendency to happen every spring when I suddenly get restless with being cooped ( Read more... )

I found this amusing:
Your dating personality profile:

Funny - You laugh often. People never accuse you of lacking a sense of humor. You don't take yourself too seriously.
Intellectual - You consider your mind amongst your assets. Learning is not a chore but a constant search after wisdom and knowledge. You value education and rationality.
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I spent this past weekend visiting UT for graduate school, and I was pretty impressed. I’m not sure how much you can really tell from such a quick overview, but in any event it was a positive experience. I spent Friday morning talking to various professors many of whom took me on tours of their labs and talked about their research. That ( Read more... )

So, just a thought on the article in today’s newspaper on student self esteem, everyone has “issues” on some level, and we all have self esteem difficulties from time to time, learning how to deal with these things, that from what I have observed seem to go hand in hand with humanity, is all part of growing up and becoming and adult. Our high ( Read more... )

I got accepted to UW, they said they'd let me know later about fiancial stuff, but I think I just exhaled a huge amount of stress.

Programming with Jane Austin in the background. For whatever obscure reason I find BBC dramas calming.

How to make a bodica
Ingredients:

5 parts success

3 parts humour

5 parts instinct
Method:
Blend at a low speed for 30 seconds. Serve with a slice of lustfulness and a pinch of salt. Yum!

Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com