February 2012
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“my host mother/grandma, visibly distraught by the snowstorm’s interference...”
– J.B., reporting from Amman, Jordan
Life being good
Had one of those meetings people always want to have with their professors where you talk about life in general rather than the immediate dead-lined tasks at hand. Usually I come out of these weekly meetings in a mild panic, but this time we talked a lot about the kind of work she used to do, and the prospects of me going to law school for environmental law. She sort of assured me in a way...
philip glass & organic chemistry
holla if you feel as badass as i do
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living the crux of the plight of the science major
pump up da jamz
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“10 August 2011
Cindy Crowley
Hey—
Is this the...”
– life as a movie? go facebook?
evolutionevolutionevolutionevolution
thank god (or darwin) i’m actually interested in this shit
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“natty was real pumped for me to meet em and i was kinda like “yaaaa ok i...”
– casey on caitlin, clara, and engram. word.
The New Inquiry: Not to brag or anything but I... →
thenewinquiry:
Popular discourse portrays marriage as a source of innumerable public and private benefits, happiness, companionship, financial security, and even good health. Complementing this view, our legal discourse frames the right to marry as a right of access, the exercise of which is an act of…
shortformblog:
Fun guy chillin’ in South American rainforest finds plastic-eating fungi
Seriously, though this is kind of a big deal. Know that big problem we have? You know, the one involving a crapload of used plastic hanging around in landfills with nowhere to biodegrade for a couple million years? Well, Jonathan Russell might’ve solved that problem. See, Russell and his fellow Yale students...
going through tumblr likes
i think i’m gonna print out every photo (of people i know) that i’ve liked on tumblr on reasonably good quality paper and use them in my room.
cause almost all of them are just, (i don’t wanna jerk you off here but i guess i’m gonna) awesome and so i hope that’s ok with all ya’ll who took them
“I wanna like sit in a place with a pizza and be visually stimulates”
– Engram, texting me about hanging out tonight, i think.
bookmania:
“The Internet has co-opted the word “browse” for its own purposes, but it’s worth pointing out the difference between browsing in a virtual realm and browsing in the actual world. Depending on the terms entered, an Internet search engine will usually come up with hundreds, thousands, or millions of hits, which a person can then skate through, clicking when she sees something that most...
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As stressful and groggy and rainy and generally low-serotonin as today was, it was a great day for two reasons:
1. Heard from two of my best friends abroad, including a phone call from amman, jordan. I’m totally living vicariously through all of them.
2. Got a new job doing research for lifecity !!!! Opportunity cost will be not working at my other job which pays more, but it will be...