wooo! i got accepted to albert einstein's PhD program!

now for all those other schools i applied to...

probably a lot has happened since i last posted, like getting engaged and applying to grad schools and stuff. this is irrelevant, because the real reason i wanted to write was to pass on what i think is the sickest optical illusion ever ( Read more... )

so i went to the ER today, because i had an arrhythmia this morning while working out - my heart was literally skipping every 10 to 12 beats. it freaked me out, but after a bunch of blood work and 2 EKGs, they concluded that it was most likely just dehydration coupled with the strain of working out in the morning. i'm also supposed to avoid ( Read more... )

i'm "div-free" now. having handed in the final draft of my thesis last monday at 50 pages (with .79 inch margins; it would have been 55ish had i been able to fit my images into the standard 1 inch margins), i dicked around for a week (making presentations and doing other scholarly things, of course) and had my final meeting on friday morning. i ( Read more... )

so, i just have to revise 1 more chapter of my Div III (thesis) and write up what little of my experiment i actually successfully finished, double-check my references, and print it out. it clocks in at about 45 pages, and somewhere around 120 references (i actually had 191 papers in total, i didn't use them all...especially those 35 for the chapter ( Read more... )

i've decided to make my journal essentially friends-only, because


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What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done;
there is nothing new under the sun.

so, i reread fahrenheit 451 while getting tested for narcolepsy today (i highly recommend a reread, it's much better now than it was in 9th grade, for me anyway); the nurse walks in to tell me it's nap-time again, and says, "oh, you like ray bradbury? he had this show on TV, did you ever see it? it was real funny ( Read more... )