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journal is substantially friends-only
Dear livejournal surfer,
If you're interested in reading my journal, sorry; it's only readable by a small handful of personal friends. If you'd like to get to know me as a person, feel free to email me at poly {AT} berkeley {DOT} edu; I'm open to hanging out in the Bay Area. -
Can you have close friends if you're in a monogamous relationship? VOTE!
This is a subject I'm curious about, and would like to know about other people's experiences or intuition.
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thesis musings
When thinking about what I should write my thesis on, I'm trying to optimize for several variables ( Read more... ) -
according to books and tests, i should get a career in everything and nothing
So, according to What Color is Your Parachute, I enjoy and am good at the following things, in rough order from most to least:
Highly enjoy/am skilled at:
Analyzing information/breaking ideas down
Finding patterns in data
Generating new ideas
Getting things done
Evaluating/making recommendations
Initiating, founding, establishing
Taking the lead
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interruptions when i'm not even close to finished!
my mom is trying so hard to help me figure out what to major in, do with the rest of my life, etc. but every time she asks me what i like doing most, i proceed to go into this long theoretical diatribe weighing all my options against each other. she tried to make it easier on me by asking what i most wanted to accomplish in life, and i said ( Read more... ) -
saving the world, writing my thesis, etc.
i'm going to post this now because i want the feedback, even though it's not as complete as it could be. i may flesh it out as time goes on and if people want clarification.
note: i make some potentially broad and unsupported claims, such as that it's a myth that we're in iraq to spread democracy. because i'm only using these claims for the sake ( Read more... ) -
this is what Berkeley should be, always.
at around 8pm last night, i wanted to watch the election results in a social environment but i didn't really know anyone who was throwing a party or anything. i also wanted to be in a lgbt-friendly environment because i'd done a lot of campaigning against prop 8. so i wanted to go to the queer alliance resource center, but at 8pm, i was passing ( Read more... ) -
field of study. halp?
every time i talk to my advisors, they tell me to look at a course catalog and pick out all the classes that look interesting to me. i've done that and come up with a list of 60 classes, though i could easily come up with a list of 200. i went in to talk to another advisor on friday, and he said to pick the 20 classes i would want to take the ( Read more... )