Randomness

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When I resurrected my blog last month I had a mental resolution to post at least once a day. And that resolution has officially been broken, haha. But I keep reminding myself that it isn’t the end of the world if I don’t blog every single day. Although I just ran across an article warning of the coming end of the world on February 22nd, as predicted by Norse mythology. Sure, the Mayans got it wrong, but perhaps the Vikings are on to something! I’ll be honest and say I have no idea what this post is going to be…

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The Queen’s Allegiance: An Exploration of Hamlet

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This essay is “hot off the press” (aka, I wrote it about 10  minutes ago) for my MOOC class on Hamlet. Enjoy!  There are three different versions of Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. The First, or “Bad” Quarto includes a scene which the other two versions leave out completely. This scene is a dialogue between Queen Gertrude and Horatio. Horatio tells the queen that Hamlet has escaped the death trap set by his uncle, King Claudius, (he was sent to England with a sealed letter to the King of England requesting Hamlet’s immediate execution) and is back in Denmark. In the other…

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A Random Assortment of Pictures

I am a bit swamped with homework today, trying to finish everything today so I don’t start next week behind. So instead of an actual blog post, I thought I’d share some photos as a visual summary of my week : )      

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The Benefits of Self-Education

I’m resurrecting this post fro 2012 because 1) my chemistry homework absorbed all my possible blogging time today, 2) it is an interesting post and I thought might be helpful for those who didn’t see it the first time around. : ) I’m always having conversations with people that go something like this, “so are you in school?” and I struggle to explain my whole life because there isn’t a nice, simple answer. I’m tempted to reply with, “I’m not a college student, I’m actually an autodidact.” But my own sense of social interaction prevents me from actually carrying this…

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Giving In

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I aced the first two weeks of chemistry by doing math my own eccentric way. But it is week 3 and I’ve resigned myself to dimensional analysis. Bad news: the equations no longer make any sense. Good news: I can actually solve the equations correctly.

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Paperless Paper

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I was completely unaware of the new Facebook app until it was actually released. When I saw mention of it in my Facebook feed, I decided to give a try. Because I’m the kind of person who downloads new versions of apps as soon as they’re released. After reading about this new app, Paper, I was all the more eager to try it. I intensely dislike the Facebook mobile app design (and don’t get me started on Messenger…) so I’m game for anything that promises to be even a slight improvement. I was quite pleasantly surprised by Paper. It has a simple and beautiful…

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Reflections on the Debate

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To preface this, I enjoyed live blogging the debate last night! Here’s my live blog post if you want to look at it. It was so much fun that I’m looking for another event to live blog, so let me know if you have any suggestions! In hindsight, I think it would have been helpful to give more details as to what was actually happening, to better contextualize the statements. But it was a good first attempt! What the live blogging did for me was capture my thoughts as I had them, so today I can just run through my comments…

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What I Learned Last Week

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It’s a bit awkward when you sit down to write a blog post about everything you learned last week and your mind goes completely blank. I know that I didn’t do much besides studying, but I don’t remember a thing, haha. At that point I pull out my trusty binder and refer to the prodigious notes created last week. And now I remember one thing: I got a 100% on my chemistry exam! That literally stunned me. I am not strong in science or math, so I’ve thought it impossible for me to do well in a subject like chemistry….

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