I thought I might have had a lot of things to post about but it seems as though I was mistaken... I slept until one today and felt reasonably guilty, although thanks to daylight savings time it was actually only until twelve, which is okay.  I was in Boston for almost exactly twenty-four hours, in which time I hung out with people I was waaaay too ( Read more... )

Pretend the title is "Vlad the Impaler leaves his mark"
http://phoenix.swarthmore.edu/2008-03-06/living/18010

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Thanks but no thanks, Career Services!


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I love nationalist propaganda, don't you?
This is wikipedia, the most reliable of sources:

[On Transylvania]
"Since the Austro-Hungarian empire had begun to disintegrate after the end of the First World War, the nationalities living inside proclaimed their independence from the empire."

Can I use the word "heretofore" in a personal statement? (yes/no ( Read more... )

So today in French class I lent this girl my mechanical pencil and my eraser because, you know, she needed something to write with... And she fucking broke both of them! She is the most nervous fidgiter I have ever seen. I'm really upset about it.

I know that you shouldn't lend anyone anything that has sentimental value, and I know that I shouldn't ( Read more... )

- For  a minute I thought the "Ten Commandments" class posted in reserved students this morning was a "Ten Condiments" class. That sounds like a really good idea ( Read more... )

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This is from the article about Sartre:

"Anne-Marie [his mother] raised him with help from her father, Charles Schweitzer, a high school professor of German, who taught Sartre mathematics and introduced him to classical literature at a very early age. Sartre soon became cross-eyed."