The Dollar is worth less than the Canadian dollar, Bank of America bought Countrywide for pennies on the dollar, seventeen thousand jobs went up in smoke in January, and to really put icing on the cake, Microsoft just made a bid to takeover Yahoo. (There's almost no chance the SEC will allow it - Microsoft would rightly get hammered with antitrust ( Read more... )

Attn: All crazy psychotic serial killers in the Southwest Virginia area ( Read more... )

Well, it's Friday night and here I am at my home computer. That's right, home computer. With the being home. And the Swedish Fish. So, aside from the awesome recent news of me being back, my life has also included such noteworthy achievements as making it through the final chem lab without ever having purchased lab goggles, reasonable amounts ( Read more... )

So. I'm back from what was, essentially, my beach week. Except it wasn't so much a week as six days. And it wasn't so much with friends as with family. And it wasn't so much at the beach as much as the beach, Philly, and New York City ( Read more... )

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Wow, just when I thought people couldn't get any more foolish, a group of individuals did something so horribly absurd they may well have to deal with its repercussions for the next four years. They are, to identify them specifically, the Office of Admissions at Carnegie Mellon.

And they let me in.

I'm in a college! Victory dance!

The thing you must understand about OM is that to calculate total scores, they take whoever got the highest score in a category and scale it up to the maximum, and then multiply everyone else's scores by the same number. So for long term the team that did best will have 200 points, for style the team that did best will have 50 points, and for ( Read more... )

Hey, you know that whole Odyssey of the Mind thing at 3:10 PM on March 4th at Falls Church High School in the front of the little theater that you're all - yes, you, reading this - coming to? You should come to that.

So. It's a new year. 2006, to be exact. I trust everyone enjoyed the leap second. You know what's awesome? My applications are in!!!!!! Happy New Year!!!!!!!! But what does this new year hold? My dad will go insane. I will get a bunch of rejection letters. And for those other 363 days? Meh. Beats me. I need a resolution. I was ( Read more... )

Wow, I was just looking around the shiny new senior destinations website and right there on the front page there's this brick of statistics that says ( Read more... )