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life as (oberlin) usual
School is okay. School is even good sometimes, when I let go of the fact that I'm frustrated by classroom learning and this ridiculous unproductive encouragement Oberlin seems dole out have for taking more classes/credits than you can really handle. I've gone back and forth a lot over whether taking algorithms is really worth it, since it takes ( Read more... ) -
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Argh. Fuckin' LaTeX. I should propose to my CS professor that those of us not actually in the CS or math departments should not be required to learn a new programming language just to format our homework that could more easily be handwritten. I mean, not really, but I'm a little bitter ( Read more... ) -
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"Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we aren't, there's something missing."
-Judith Butler, Precarious Life -
Oberlin.
I'm back at school from Winter Term, Sweden and everything else. I don't feel ambiguous, really - I just don't want to be here. But not enough to leave, or to even think about leaving as a real option. I'm trying to tell myself to stay positive, that things will change and I'll like being here and be happy in my classes and work and ( Read more... ) -
still alive
The Appalachian mountains are insanely, ridiculously, mind-blowingly beautiful ( Read more... ) -
Mission accomplished. Next?
Stuff = in my room ( Read more... ) -
varying degrees of awesome
Today I went to go visit Jack, the LGBTQCC (say that three times fast). Our conversation went a little like this ( Read more... ) -
decisions, decisions
Looking ahead in my travels, I will soon be going to Oak Ridge, TN which I'm really excited about, as well as seeing Corey and Jonah and Giusti play/call in Knoxville. But now I have the dilemma of what to do on the next day: leave in the morning, stop in the Smoky Mountains National Park and get to Asheville in the evening, or hang around ( Read more... ) -
"Gendered Nationalism On The Road" or, how I intend to spend January
My January schedule, which I'm sort of locked into at this point, looks something like this ( Read more... ) -
merry christmas tree
I have a car now. Her name is Judith. She got acclimated to the Wisconsin winter very quickly. Scraping the ice off her windshield at 4AM was really fun. And cold ( Read more... )