Archive: School category
You know how people talk about taking languages that'll be useful? Meh. Usefulness is seriously overrated. ;) This morning I decided to continue my longstanding academic tradition of studying fringe languages by registering for Syriac and Ugaritic next semester. And I'm giddy with excitement.
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I just paid off my student loan in one fell swoop and boy did it feel good. :) I had the money all along (a scholarship), but wasn't able to start repayment until recently, and having a huge sum hanging over my head for the past year has been ...
First off, thanks for all the feedback on the magazine. My inbox is sagging at the seams with responses, overwhelmingly positive ones for the most part. The print edition should be ready for orders by the middle of next week, which'll be nice because great as online stuff ...
I graduated a year and a half ago, and since that time I haven't taken any classes. That's going to change this Tuesday. Now that I'm full-time, you see, I get free tuition, and I can take up to six credits a semester. Being addicted to learning ...
So, I, um, dropped out of grad school today.
Technically, I only e-mailed my professors today to notify them, and I won't be calling the school till Monday to make it official, but the line has been drawn, the lot cast, my road forked. I've taken the step and, as ...
So, I have a small paper due tomorrow. Until this evening, I hadn't done anything about it -- I figured I'd just put it off until there was no longer any more off to put. That's what I usually do.
But somehow, miraculously, the planets aligned and tonight I ...
I got home from Vegas about half an hour ago, and mmm, it's good to be back. I wish I had all sorts of juicy stories to tell -- getting mugged in an alleyway behind Bellagio, scaling the outer walls of Caesar's Palace with suction cups and rappelling back ...
I just have to say that I'd much rather be at church all day than here in class all day.
'Nuff said.
So I'm sitting here at a lab in the UNLV Lied Library, waiting for my advising appointment (which luckily got bumped up an hour -- underpromise and overdeliver is definitely the way to go to make people happy). I'll post about Vegas after I get back, though.
In the meantime, ...
I'm reading Lewis Thomas's The Medusa and the Snail, and the other day I came across his brilliant essay entitled "The Health-Care System":
As a people, we have become obsessed with Health.
There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in ...
