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How far I've come
When I look back at how my life has gone since high school and where it seems to be going, I am pretty pleased with it. I get to live with my favorite person in the world, I get along with my family, I get to do the science I want to do, and I get to live in San Francisco. If you had asked me in high school what my dream life would be, I think this ( Read more... ) -
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Mt. Rainier was success!
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New Perspective on Sickness
I'm sick today (I got sick yesterday, kind of suddenly) and while I have all the usual feelings associated with sickness (guilt for not going to lab, disgust with myself, feeling like a wimp for not being stronger than my sickness, feeling like God (useful concept for days like today) is punishing me for my sinful ways and my attempts to get by on ( Read more... ) -
I'm participating in a blog meme!! Woo internets
this is from Heather. Here are the instructions: Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given ( Read more... ) -
sophomoric tendencies
When I was either a junior or senior in high school, I asked Mrs. Vosovic (the Great English Teacher from high school) what classes she requested to teach. She told me that she asked not to teach sophomores. I asked her why. She told me to examine the etymology of the word. Then she elaborated a little bit about how sophomores are annoying because ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on Math
I volunteered at the San Francisco Math Circle today, and helped a few kids and one very persistent grown up solve the "tiling torment" which involved figuring out if it's possible to tile a n by n board wtih 2 by 1 (and later 3 by 1) tiles. It was fun and exhausting. Afterwards, I talked a little bit with the math teacher who organized all this ( ( Read more... ) -
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School has started again.
This whole sleep-deprivation thing is getting lamer and lamer each year.
But on the plus side I got new running shoes and am learning some of the things that I should have learned but didn't learn freshman year of college. -
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I'm in Boulder, Colorado. The mountains are lovely and the weather was warm. Then today a glorious rain poured upon me and through my wet field I felt a fond nostalgia for hiking in the rain with my mother when my little brother was a baby. And today I got to stroll along the beautiful, beautiful Boulder Creek with Diane, a grad student at ( Read more... ) -
The bestest thing on the internet
Ok click on this link:
If you don't think this is the best thing ever....well..
It should go without saying, but everything they say is absolutely true.
This basically rivals the Hitler rap, and is better because it won't offend anyone :)
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