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"We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all ( Read more... )

An excerpt from Obama's "Dreams of My Father."

"Well," he said, "that's the problem, isn't it? You don't know. You're just like the rest of these young cats out here. All you know is that college is the next thing you're supposed to do. And the people who are old enough to know better, who fought all those years for your right to go to college-- ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is going to be historic.

I think I might even cry.

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During camp, I was assigned to teach a mini-lesson about the water cycle, and one of the kids asked me, "You know what's really weird about cycles, though?" "What?" "That you never know where the beginning is." It's fascinating to be thinking like that at that age. It seems like that's when you ponder the things scientists are trying to figure out ( Read more... )

I had a somewhat productive day today at my humble abode, but some part of me feels like I just wasted a beautiful day to finish scholarship applications. From the way I am filling these tedious things, I don't think I will be winning any money, but then again, who actually takes their time with this shit ( Read more... )

I realize it's kind of early to be talking about next year, but I just really have to get these things out ( Read more... )

I don't exactly have a new resolution this year. It doesn't really matter anyway because I eventually would have forgotten about it ( Read more... )

I've spent my holidays pretty much with my boyfriend. It's been very exciting to meet his cousins of cousins of cousins and getting to know them. It makes me envy, knowing that I don't have any cousins here to go party with or anything like that. I wouldn't mind if I didn't have Peter here during holidays... if only I had cousins of cousins of ( Read more... )