tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136751472011-12-13T19:55:33.236-08:00Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)Vanes63http://www.blogger.com/profile/17499324218018793373noreply@blogger.comBlogger2401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13675147.post-8183693813628993132011-07-24T10:30:00.000-07:002011-07-24T10:37:56.562-07:00

Ok, so I'm trying to discipline myself. Not in the kinky way, no. I mean discipline myself to doing certain things every day. My parents didn't exactly expect me to do my bed every morning (ok, so that wasn't really an expectation at all) or take care of dishes or anything. I wasn't spoiled by any means, but they figured if I wasn't going to follow in their footsteps all I could focus on was

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A friend of mine gave me this recipe for a smoothie, so I wanted to put it in a place I wouldn't lose it (because I've already lost it several times) :D. 2 cups freshly squeezed orange juice 2 bananas1 bag of organic frozen strawberries 1 cup of frozen organic blueberries3-4 handfuls of organic spinach This makes 4 servings or 2 quarts of smoothie.

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Ok, so the journey I'm taking right now (in case you hadn't heard I graduated from Graduate School, moved to CA and now am teaching middle school math) is centered around the dating world... it's a scary place. Full of intrigue, mistakes, happiness and sadness. But because of one website I'm using (yes I tend to meet people online) I'm reading some journals and found some quotes/thoughts that

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I'm so sad that I hadn't replied to this comment earlier 0_o. As it turns out, I didn't not fail the course. I did poorly, but did not fail (I always make mountains out of mole hills so it figures). I think that a lot of the essence of this post has to do with my idea of success. In most schools students are graded on an A-F system. It isn't always about personal growth/progress but about

Vanes63http://www.blogger.com/profile/17499324218018793373noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13675147.post-75722097234350315772009-05-23T07:04:00.001-07:002009-05-23T07:12:57.333-07:00

Ok, this time I'm serious. Nothing is going to stop me from posting at least a few times a week. I've made a secret (not-so-secret) goal of posting twice a day but we'll see how long that happens. A few times a week sounds more realistic for me.So, in the last (almost) year a lot has happened but I will regale you with the most recent:Today I am running Day 2 of Week 3 of Couch Potato to 5K.I

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/discuss :)I will post an update to this later today, already at 8:42 am there have been some interesting things that have happened to me today and some interesting things planned. I also have some Birthday ranting to do, but I will leave all of this to a time when I am not rushing out the door to go to work. Hope you guys (the readers) have a great day, I know my day will be... interesting...

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Well, I do love to dance but I am actually talking about Math Teacher Mambo a new blog I found via my Google Reader. I've been using my Google Reader to help me look for jobs on Craigslist because I am graduating in August and moving to CA. Yes, after a long hiatus I am moving back home. Not to live with my Dad (although I love him, no I cannot stay there) but to stake my own claim and be by

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Just something fun to watch, I thought I'd post it because I kind of liked it. It almost makes me think of things I would like to say to my students, but then I think about how much stress they must be under and how serious they are trying to take my class... ok, so maybe I'm day-dreaming. But I really am trying to be nice they just are not reciprocating. More on that later, for now watch

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Just a quick response to an article I read on The Apple... The article entitled "Wanted: A few bad teachers" is a quick report about a campaign lead by Rick Berman from the Center for Union Facts. This particular campaign intends to pay "bad" teachers $10k to leave the profession... Now, a few essential questions come to mind when I think about this particular issue: What makes a "bad"

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Who wants to fail? I mean, seriously - who *wants* to fail a class?Sometimes I wonder this about my students. There are those that show up every single day and will only miss in the case of a real emergency, turn in all the homework, do ok on the quizzes and pretty average on the tests - they will pass on to the next course. Then there are those who have spotty attendance, turn in some

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Puzzle of the Week site for anyone who is interested. Someone called a co-worker of mine and asked them to find someone who could do the problem :). Hence result :).

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My friends and I are having "fake Thanksgiving"... with all the fixings :). [Definition: "Fake Thanksgiving" is a Thanksgiving-like meal that does not actually fall on Thanksgiving day... so these can take place before or after Thanksgiving (Wednesday, Friday, whenever...)]Thus far my to-do list for the day:Clean apartment, yikesClean out fridge, double yikesTake out trash, good in some respects.

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A very addictive music video... you may remember Bloodhouse Gang from The Bad Touch (i.e., you and me baby ain't nothing but mammals...). So yeah, here it is - don't say I didn't warn you.

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If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be J.L. Doob's Measure Theory.I am different from other books on measure theory in that I accept probability theory as an essential part of measure theory. This means that many examples are taken from probability; that probabilistic concepts such as independence, Markov processes, and conditional expectations are integrated into me

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While I love the idea of Love and I love mathematics, a friend of mine sent me this link and I thought I would share.This comics title is "useless", although the results I think are astounding.Happy Monday everybody!Enjoy,-V.

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Lots of news since the last post (in April) so I'll try to be brief for now and then post something longer later. I know I always say that, but with how things are going school-wise right now I can only be honest to myself by making that disclaimer.Biggest news (for the loyal readers I suppose) is that I am now divorced. Well, effectively divorced. Only the Final Decree of Divorce is left to

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Wow, the last post I have up is from February. So, this first "new" post is going to be a bit of an update. Classes are sort of ok. Finals start (for me) next Tuesday so I've been pretty stressed out about that. Marriage is pretty ok. We get into fights every once in a while but time and time again he's shown that he wants to make things work out, so it gives me a lot of hope about our

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I don't know why bad days are attracted to me. It must be my awesome personality and attractiveness. Besides not getting to really see my husband today, being excluded from an event yesterday, not being happy with how things are going in my life right now and feeling very dead-end about certain things. Oh! Let's not forget that while doing group work in class, I lent out my Teachers Edition of

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I really have to make more "me" time during the semester in order to blog. Blogging is really relaxing for me and in the midst of all the chaos on my life right now - I need to blog. Today I have my first final in a topology class. I am nervous about what kinds of questions he will be asking. I have to make definition cards for the material before I really do much else. I have a friend who I

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Well, you can guess that a lot of things have happened since I last posted. I did pretty well on my exam. Although my score was not fantastic - it was the 2nd highest grade in the class. For that I am particularly happy because I thought I was not understanding at all and now I feel as though I have some understanding. I hope to have a better grade on the next exam, although I do not know when

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I do have to say, when I exited that exam I do not know what I was thinking. For one, I should have gone over my definitions a little more thoroughly, he did ask some relatively easy definitions on the first question and for that I am thankful. But the 4th or so question had to do with giving a definition and sketching a proof and I do not know if that question was sufficiently answered. I

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Ok, so how many "sports" have a game day on a Tuesday? Mathematics! Despite what some people say about proofs, etc., mathematics is a performance sport. Tests are a measure of how you can perform on a particular day, game day otherwise known as test day. So what do I do the night before game day? Unfortunately, I do not look over the countless vocabulary cards I made, which still do not

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Today, and really for the last couple of days, I have had some songs floating through my mind from movies that I really like. (If you want to jump to the lyrics and video for any particular song, I put tags so you could quickly skim, tags are for [Lyrics] and [Videos] only.) Recently, we (my husband and I) rented A Lot Like Love and a song they have the music video for on the DVD is Brighter

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Tonight the math grads are going out on the town. I will post more about it later, but I do have to say that it really is a whole lot of fun to go out with a bunch of people in the department. We get to hang out and not talk about math the entire time, most of the time we talk about office gossip - but we have a real fun time doing it. Ok, so there isn't much office gossip, but we get to know

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Well, not to say I was not trying to work against the grain before, but in response to a comment on the last blog post - yes I have been trying to be more prepared, especially since the video. The video was taken very early in the semester and after my advisor visited my class I did prepare more, although this is not something that can be seen in the video. I do more worksheets for my students,

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I am a sham, or at least I feel like a sham. Not the kind you put over pillows, but a real has-been. Not that I ever was a "been" but anyways. Today I had to present on a previous teaching experience I had. I had to present to a group of my collegues and some random guy I did not know. I felt nervous, as we always do during presentations - but mostly because my boss was there. I cannot say

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This weekend we are trying to find something. More particularly, when we got married we did not have a joint bank account, nor did we think about being able to cash checks that did not have our legal names on them really, and my name had not been changed yet so any checks that said "Paid to the Order of: Mr. Something and Mrs. Something" we did not cash. Then we decided to move. We had

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Today I am going to work. I woke up about an hour ago, ready to take some more medicine and while I will still be taking my miracle drugs that allow me to breathe, talk and not cough, I will go to work and infect my co-workers. Ok, it is not my intention to infect my co-workers at all. I really do not want anyone else to catch this horrible thing. Unfortunately, my husband said he thinks he

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Well, I was deathly ill yesterday and today I am honestly feeling a bit better. I asked my husband whether or not I should go to school and he said "no" because I told him I wasn't exactly feeling 100%. I do have late classes tonight and then early classes tomorrow morning, so maybe it is not so horrible that I am staying in today. I did already get someone to cover my class, so that is good.

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Recently, I got a new haircut. But is that the only news I have? Is it ever? It seems that we're all in a state of change, much like the seasons. I have, finally, come down with my winter season illness. I get sick every fall/winter and I was expecting it to come eventually, but now it is in full force and I did not go to work earlier today. I really wish I could have gone to work, I really

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Today I am posting 2 posts because the first of these is a shameless plug (although not directly beneficial to me, so it that still a plug?) for a new internet radio-type site that a friend of mine hooked me up with. What am I talking about? Pandora an off-shoot of the Music Genome Project. To learn more about the site you really have to check it out for yourself. For your first "station" you

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Some of you may know that I do not really drink coffee. But what does every newlywed couple have to have on their registry to entertain guests? A coffee maker. Ok, so we did not really need one, you could argue. But my mother likes to drink coffee when she comes over and his parents, although they will never admit that they want coffee if you do not have a pot already boiling, also drink

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I'm listening to U2 and this particular song is playing, but it also is very reminiscient of what is going on in my life right now. I have been TA a math course (is it really TAing if you give the lectures?) for a couple of months now and we regularly participate in a professional development seminar. They taped each of the new people and my tape is being shown next Monday. I had a particularly

Vanes63http://www.blogger.com/profile/17499324218018793373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13675147.post-1159278367550773922006-09-26T06:33:00.000-07:002006-09-26T06:46:14.536-07:00

I must say, it has been a *while* since I have been online. I am going to stop promising to come back and blog more because - well, because I cannot keep my promises. So I figure, if I do not make promises, maybe I will post more. The irony of everything, right? Grading has, in effect, taken over my life. Grading and lesson planning, of course. I preview the material, try to think of an

Vanes63http://www.blogger.com/profile/17499324218018793373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13675147.post-1156811143872862662006-08-28T16:52:00.000-07:002006-08-28T17:25:43.956-07:00

Ok, so classes have been going much better than I thought they would. My students are great and relatively enthusiastic towards the subject. I think I really connected to them on our first days and now we are covering material. I have homework from my own classes, which I am currently avoiding doing, but the classes seem fun so far and my professors are really nice. I do have this one professor

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I'm super nervous because classes start tomorrow. I am not so much worried about the courses I am taking, but the classes I am teaching - that is what I'm very nervous about. Right now, I get to spend most of my day with the kitty. Who is still a little sick and who I get to patronize while he plays with paper balls and plastic bags. I cannot stop him from doing these things and watch him

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It sounds like this weekend we're getting the kitty :D. I've unpacked most of the boxes and really revamped the apartment. There still is some stuff I have to get out of the old apartment, we have to get out of the old apartment. So we've got some work to do, but it'll be worth it to play with the kitty. We're still working on kitty names, which kinda sucks. But we'll figure it out when we

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Oh my gosh, I'm so glad. We're moving out of this rat hole. Ok so the old apartment isn't that bad, but it could be sometimes.In between the lady next door complaining about the air conditioning and the kitchen light that went 3 months without being fixed, I am definately glad to be moving on to a new apartment complex. A complex that is actually a complex and not just a 1-building 8-tuplet.

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In other news, chocolate may fuel your next car. Does anyone remember the end of Back to the Future when Doc takes a banana peel and uses it to fuel his car? Yeah, it's sort of like that.

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Well, not exactly "teacher" training, but I will be taking, effectively, a crash course on lesson planning. Or at least that's what it looks like from the agenda. On 8/16 I will be starting this training and I hope to make some friends. I do not know how I will get there *sigh*, but I do know I have to be there around 8 o'clock in the morning. How will I wake up? I do not know. The bus/

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I am not getting an amazing amount of work done today. Mostly because I found this site: BlogHer. Tell me what you think about it. I think the idea is very good. Female empowerment is a very positive thing. I also hope to stay more or less supported and positive as I go into grad school in less than a month. I am a little worried about the composition of my classes, but will probably not let

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The Math Grad Podcast is a podcast about different elementary topics in mathematics. The podcasts are very easy to understand, or at least are recorded with efforts particularly drawn towards making it easy to understand for a wide-audience. Check it out if you like. For actual mathematicians, it may be a little slow and uninteresting, it is really geared towards people who have a more average

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The wedding is OVER. I am so glad. The day after, you could tell I was no longer stressed out. Some of my college friends came, it was really great to see them. I am so glad they made it. Some of my high school friends did not make it :(, they said the maps were confusing. I was thinking: "confusing? I made them...". Oh well. I won't post pictures here, but anyone that knows any of the

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Although the things on the top of my mind are mostly his parents (again, yes I know), I am going to try to do some things on my to-do list to keep me preoccupied. So, here is an abbreviated version of the things I am supposed to do today: Clean the apartment. Although I will not finish this task today, I figured that folding the clean laundry, doing the dishes and folding up the bags laying all

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His parents are sending me in a whirlwind of rage. But I am going to try to stay positive thoroughout this blog (who knows how long that will last...).If only Thank You cards wrote themselves, I'd have an easier time doing them and sending them off. I do not know if I will ever send off my dad's package to him because now I cannot find what I was going to put in there.I was taking a nap earlier

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In order to get the kitty we want, I have to dig up the apartment lease and find out how much the pet deposit is. If I do not find the apartment lease, we have to wait until we move apartments (probably next month!), but I don't really want to wait that long. The problem is: the apartment lease is buried somewhere in a pile of papers in the bedroom. I have been cleaning in the bedroom and the

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It looks like we're getting a kitten. Yesterday we ate at Jason's Deli just for the heck of it. He got home from work at 1 pm and we ate this labor intensive meal I prepared for us, then we both took naps for about 3 hours (so unhealthy...). When I woke up he was already at his computer working on some stuff. We talked for a bit about this and that. Then, when we were both hungry, we decided

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I am always looking for the newest financial trend in order to try to get out of debt. Well, maybe not the newest. Maybe I don't think I can completely get out of debt right now either... But anyways, a friend of mine told me about this site and I thought I would see if anyone reading this has used this site and what their experiences are. So the site is Prosper.com. An "online marketplace for

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Again, trying to stay on track with the blogging: so here it goes... I had 2 showers this weekend (yes, 2 showers!) and got a lot of stuff. My fiance is starting to freak out because we do not have that much room in the apartment. He tells me, "where are we going to fit all this stuff?" and then I tell him, "just wait, I'll fix it". Really, it's not like he cleans the apartment anyways. It

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No, I am not encouraging people to drink alcoholic drinks. I am merely commenting on our registry. I cheated a little bit. We received these wonderful glasses from one of my aunts. No, she isn't normally nice but she did behave herself the last time I saw her. You may think I am cruel, but in real life she really is mean! She spread rumors about my mom and throws tantrums when she doesn't

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I just took this spelling test and got 16 wrong. I was very surprised. But the ones I got wrong were those words that I flip-flopped on. I am not the best speller in the world, and I bet that some of my readers are better spellers than I am, but I did not think I was that bad. What did you get? By the way, I know I said I would be working on invitation stuff today but I am just slacking off

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It is sad when it is almost cheaper to fly to France than to come to my wedding.

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I am waiting until 10 am CST before I do any of the real tasks I have to do today. What are you up to this week? This past weekend we went to go visit my mom and there was a surprise (shock!) bridal shower. I really was taken aback, but I had an inkling that there was something like this planned. Everything went really well, there were lots of games, the food was great and my aunts were on

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I've got a lot of posts running through my mind, hopefully I'll type them out and share them with the Blog-o-sphere sometime soon. They really are comical stories, but who knows, maybe I just think they are funny. Anyways, my birthday just passed a few days ago. On my birthday my fiance had many things planned for me, we went to a wildflower center where they do wildflower and native plant

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There are a lot of things for me to do from now until July 15th, but the more I get into the whole wedding mojo the more I feel stressed out. My fiance's mom was compiling a list of people to invite to the shower my future aunts (I guess that would be their title, right?) are throwing for me. It is supposed to be a joyous occasion, but I do not know how joyous it will be. She asked me for a

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Today I was checking out the Manage Your Loans section of the Sallie Mae website. I checked my e-mail here and there because I forget my username/password combination so I figured, maybe I got my username wrong. On my hotmail account I receive a MSN Money newsletter from one of the Women in Red columnists and they have a blog on MSN Spaces (really long introduction for how I got to this

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A question for all those topologists out there. Ok, I can see how a donut is topologically equivalent to a coffee cup, but if a donut can also be topologically equivalent to, say, a skirt for instance then what is the topological equivalence to (a) a shirt and (b) a pair of underwear. Let's keep it clean people ;).

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Wow. I have not blogged in a while (again) and it is starting to really nag at me. I have a lot of blog post ideas in my head, but the first and foremost thing I should do is update before I move on to stories of woe and excitement. It does not feel like I am beginning my 2nd week of being a college graduate. It was sort of exciting the day of graduation, but really I do not feel very

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Today we are cleaning up the apartment, or at least trying to, and will be unloading a box or two so I can take them with me to Small U, pack the rest of my stuff and leave Small U forever - or at least until they invite me to some nice dinner with food. I am graduating (horray!) tomorrow. My dad is flying into neighboring city where fiance lives today around 4 pm. They have never met each

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While checking my gmail, the sponsored links at the top showed this story. Interesting things about the story I thought: (1) they are in 2nd and 3rd grade! When I was in 2nd and 3rd grade we didn't know much about anything like that, what are they teaching kids nowadays that gives them those ideas? (2) This is at an accelerated school, wow. That doesn't comfort me about sending my kids someday

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One, two. I heard from a friend that my blog was down, just checking right now... Btw, on a good note: I took my last final today and I am floating on air. Moving out most of my stuff by Thursday though, so I will be busy with laundry, packing and filing papers. Wish me luck! - Vanes.

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I got the TAship. It feels really good just to type it, let alone to say it aloud. My professors did not doubt that I would get the TAship, but I doubted a little. I did not know how many slots they had available, etc., and how that might affect my application. Now I just have to do a ton of paperwork and submit it to HR before I go crazy. I will probably finish the paperwork sometime during

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While I haven't reached this point yet, I am running low on script (school cafeteria cash) and it's getting down to the wire. I graduate in less than 2 weeks and I will be going to my fiance's apartment this weekend so I will have some way to get some food before then. I also have an ok amount of money in my bank account, but since a lot of my friends are broke they do not want to go to Burger

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One of my professors showed this to me in one of my philosophy classes. I thought it was too good to not post up here. I hope you either have a good laugh and/or do not become offended. The link I posted is not the original link to the Letter but nicely explains a dispute concerning who the author was. Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a US radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in

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Not only does AOL have bad internet service and allows people to spam their chat rooms with sexual predators, but now they have to try to rock the boat with this. Ok, so this may be the story from the other angle of the spectrum, the anti-AOL angle, below you will find the AOL side of things (I could not find the AOL press release stating that this tax would go into effect though, every one

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I was going to post this as a blog on another site, but then I figured it might be better over here (where less people who know me in person would read it). So here is a new post about some drama in my life ;). I have been having a dilemma lately and I thought I'd at least post what I was thinking about it, even though I might not reach a resolution before things are over. Maybe someone (*ahem

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So it's been a few months since I posted anything. Yeah, I'd say that makes me the worst blogger ever... Sorry about not posting recently, I have actually resolved to get as much work done on time as possible without going crazy. In a small way, it is working. I have been able to find time for most of my assignments and to catch up with some late work that I have gotten behind on. Graduation

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Talk about ripping off copywritten names... Does anyone else think this is wrong?

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Within months of graduating and making possibly one of the biggest decisions any young adult could make, the ETS messed up and handed them the wrong cards, or score reports I should say. According to this story from CNN, ETS made an error when scoring the tests for approximately 4,000 students. Could you imagine getting a letter that said, "We regret to inform you that you have been rejected"

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My last college roommate has a blog about being in law school. Another blogger, bob, has a similarly titled blog. I wonder if there are any blogs out there with titles related to my very own snazzy "Infinite Journeys"...

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Knock, knock. Who's there? Ketchup.Ketchup who? Ketchup with your or ...I have tons of things to do and no time to do them, so what am I doing? Blogging. I am sitting in a computer lab, the algebra lab I am sort of the TA for is in here and will be out in 6 minutes, then I have about 20 minutes before my next class and only 10 minutes in between that class and the next one before I have to go

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When I was younger, the most common thing for me to give up for Lent was soda. I almost never made it through all of Lent without having at least one can or bottle of soda. I used to practically live off of the stuff, and that is what made it so difficult for me to go through all of Lent without soda. My favorite soda was, and pretty much still is, Pepsi. Although when they came out with

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Lent is a time of preparation before Easter. In that spirit, some people give up things for Lent because Jesus gave up life for us and our sins. We could take one stance on it that requires we give up soda (which never worked for me) or candy or a million other things. But is that really what Lent is all about? I went to a residence life program about Lent and what it means for us. During

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Practice makes perfect, but no one is perfect... so practicing (while it helps) still does not help the problem of perfectionism. Thus, we should strive for great things, but realize that perfection is almost never attainable and striving for greatness is as good as it is going to get. So yeah, that is why I like to visit sites like this one, Building a Better Blogspot where you can learn about

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I read financial news, kind of frequently. Ok, whenever I get a chance to. The other day I was reading some articles on MSN Money. Although it is not the most informative, or non-biased, financial news source, it has articles that revolve around the topics I like to read about like getting out of debt and/or learning to save and budget. There also is another site that I use to look for

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Inspired by Vito's musically-related posts, 1 & 2, I decided I would follow suit. I play the piano. The interesting thing about this is not that I play, but that I had never played a musical instrument before this and I picked it up in college. I play ok well, I can sight-read fairly ok, but I was never a big practicer. Which, of course, catches up with you when you are playing instruments.

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I have always wanted to travel to Europe. Why Europe you may ask? Well, I love languages and where else can you find so many languages spoken in such a small area and also so much history and commerce? The countries I am most interested in visiting are Spain, France, Britain (my brother went to visit there and loved it), and also a little off to the side, the Czech Republic (mostly due to my

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I am 21 years old, just about to graduate from college and I don't have a license. I don't have a car either. I don't have a license mostly because no one will teach me how to drive. I sort of know how to drive, but no one took the time to teach me all I needed to know to pass the driver's test. I don't want a 100% on the test, I just want to pass. When you think about it though, it's

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As some of you may know, I have been applying to graduate school this last year and am fed up with it. I finally got a letter back on Monday of this week and forgot to post anything until earlier this day when a friend of mine reminded me that it was not up on my blog yet. So here it goes. I've been accepted into a local MS program and I am going there. Horray! I think it would give away a

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My Interactive Johari Window is available online! You can go here to tell me how you think of me, please be honest I'd really like to know. I don't know when I'll check on it again, I might write an interesting fact about me tomorrow related to this... but who knows.

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I saw this earlier on Bitch Ph.D's blog, but now CNN is in on the loop. Lawrence Summers has resigned. The search for a new President begins, and I can only speculate what that means for them. There are many possible outcomes to this. They could get someone almost exactly the same, will the same things happen to them afterwards? Maybe, maybe not. You would imagine that someone who can be the

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I'm very artistic. One time I went to a retreat, it was a very spiritual retreat and I got a lot of benefit from attending it. Near the beginning, they gave each of us a cup and told us to decorate it. I made "star angels" on mine in the middle of clouds and put numbers all over the place and decorated it really nicely.Well, somewhere later in the retreat we were talking about each other, only

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I once wanted to be a taxi driver. There was this long period of time in my childhood when I wanted to be a Marine Biologist and after that I have no idea why I wanted to be a taxi driver and/or pianist. It was somehow connected to a weird series of dreams I had with taxis and pianos, but it made sense at the time. In high school there was also a period of time that I wanted to be a Culinary

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I sure wouldn't like to go to KFC, Popeyes or Church's Chicken and get one of these on my plate. It might be dangerous to your health to get a chicken with teeth. Yes, chicken can grow teeth. It's a type of mutated chicken that does it, but still - it's within the realm of possibilities. So, if the apple doesn't fall far from the tree then regular chickens that are close to their ancestoreal

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In elementary school I ran for Student Body President. The speech that I had written was actually really cool, but I lost it and someone found it on the playground. Then the person who ran against me used the beginning of my speech and beat me. I was pissed that they stole the beginning of my speech, which was a play off of "4 score and 7 years ago..." from Abraham Lincoln. I did not run for

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It's embarrassing, I know. But I have an account on Neopets. I have 4 Neopets, the maximum amount of Neopets you can have, and each of those pets has a petpet. A petpet is a pet your Neopet has. My bank account at the National Neopian Bank earns more interest in one day than my real savings account earns in a year :(.

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Wow, this is interesting. I think what attracts me to the blog is it has the same name as my favorite book about Paul Erdos with s similar title, My Brain is Open by Bruce Schechter, and via the My Mind is Open blog there is a post about the Coffee Bean Man, and of course its' relation to your right-brain intelligence: Man in the Coffee Beans This is bizarre - after you find the guy - it's so

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Fact # 2: I am obsessed, I mean obsessed with organizational supplies. While my space is pretty messy most of the time, I can always find everything that I need. But when asked to organize something or clean my room or what not, or when I need to clean my room because someone special is coming over and I don't want them to think I'm a slob, then I clean like a maniac. But I have to have

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I was going to post this earlier, but now is as good as any time. Thanks to Vito and Tardis, I have decided to join the trend and post 100 things about me in 100 days. Let's hope I keep up better than with my Word(s) of the Day... Fact #1: I hate to disappoint people. While this is common among a LOT of people, I think I have an interesting case. Why? Because it guilt trips me into doing

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Well, I already sent out the application and am still awaiting a decision, the good news though is that I received the employment application today. Should I feel weird that the title of the application says "Faculty Employment Application"???

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This is where I will be linking all of my 100 Things About Me posts... Bear with me while I take you through a non-continuous journey of my past, present, and hopefully my future. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 3/4ths more to go...

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I received a postcard yesterday that said, effectively, it will take approximately 2-3 weeks for the department to make an admissions decision and then I will be notified by the graduate school. I don't know if it's appropriate to e-mail the graduate advisor (at least I think that was her title) to ask more questions about whether or not I should be sending in paperwork for the TA position or

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This is coming off of the sidebar now. I have decided that, for personal reasons, I'd rather go for the MS in Math right now and learn more mathematics and really polish myself up before diving into a Ph.D. program. I really believe I am making the right decision for me right now. - Grad Programs 4 me? - About Applying Carnegie Mellon MSU Purdue TSU-San Marcos U of MD-College Park U of Mich U of

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At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln there is a professor who uses ipod for lectures. I can see the benefits of doing this, but I think - how is this applicable to my own life? I am taking an online course based in WebCT, which is very much like Blackboard for anyone who uses that software. I think WebCT is easier for the student, having taken a course that uses Blackboard at another

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I was at work taking some of the quizzes I just learned about recently. She added more quizzes in, and while I still haven't read I still got a good score on them (will take again, didn't put "false" in some of my answers so I got a 90.9 instead of 100). Had to put this up: Your Job Dissatisfaction Level is 73%Your job is a total bummer, and probably the worst job you've ever had.Your

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Yesterday I almost spent the entire day cleaning, but once I took a break it was all down hill from there. I spent a lot of time with friends afterwards and never got back on task. So today I sit here lamenting time lost, but hopefully progress will be made on laundry soon. I did clean most of my room, but haven't started any loads. I also found out that part "A" of my exam for my online

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*whew* The worst is still not over. But on the brighter side, I get to do a few things over the weekend that I haven't had time over this last week to work on: Do Topology Homework (highest priority)Do Laundry (due to lack of clean pants, also a high priority)Clean room in general (due to lack of ability to find papers, also high priority)I've got lots of work to do over the weekend if I want to

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What follows are some reflections on quotes I came across today. I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. Woodrow WilsonI think this is true of me. I am very innovative and tend to ask people for help in their area of expertise. Everyone has a gift, right? Part of mine involves working with people and getting people to work together towards a common goal. Sometime

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Avid readers know I have been battling with a few things: applying to graduate school, planning a wedding and trying to graduate. After a long period of thought (realize I have not posted in a while), I think I have reached a resolution. Is this a promise to myself to study hard? Unfortunately, no. This is a conclusion-type of resolution. If you see any flaws in my argument, please point

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I talked to my advisor today about my exam. Well, really I told him yesterday about my score and he was on his way to a class of his. I totally understood that he needed to go, walked him to his class and said bye for the day. I needed his signature for a paper I had to turn into the Registrar's office and that was the original reason I went to see him. Well, when I saw him today he said to

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