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Into the Wild
rating system:
5: this book rocked my world
4: very good
3: decent
2: not really worth the time
1: did I really just read that?
0: useful for fires.
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
3.5 out of 5
The story of McCandless is neither unique nor glorious. Krakauer seems to agree with the former, but not the latter,and tends to idolize the spirit of seclusion, ( Read more... ) -
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so....Friday Night Lights online may or may not be consuming what should probably be study time... -
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I'm at a point in my thesis work where I feel like I have nothing to say because everyone else has already said it. Now it seems I am only synthesizing. And that is not very productive--it also feels scarily close to plagiarism...
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this evening
This is the second night in a week that I have been at the library when they gave the warning of closing by turning off the lights three times. this is only the second time ever in my college career.
This evening I watched the end of the lunar eclipse. Strange and haunting and demanding a new perception of my position in the universe. -
White
Some of you have heard me say this, but it bears writing down.
I refuse to feel guilty for being white, middle-class, good at academics and able to continue intellectual work. -
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This is a glorious moment.
I have finished Clarissa.
Now to bed for 5 hours. -
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I'd just like to reiterate the pleasure of Brazilian music. -
lists of things to do
funny how massive amounts of work can appear out of nowhere. As with last semester, it is not that I don't want to do the work, but that I wish I could do MORE of it. List of homework I want to do ( Read more... ) -
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I am feeling very anxious. and I don't know why. -
sympathy
When an animal is immersed in water, his pulse becomes weak and frequent; he feels an anxiety about his breast, and struggles to relieve it: in these struggles he rises towards the surface of the water, and throws out a quantity of air from his lungs. After this, his anxiety increases; his pulse becomes weaker; the struggles are renewed with more ( Read more... )