My graduation speaker was one of the non-famous Kennedys. I don't remember his name but he did some kind of philanthropy and wasn't nearly as funny as he thought he was. I mainly remember the insane man wearing a lot of bodypaint who manages to go to every single graduation ceremony (and football game and basketball game and....) at a university with about 45,000 undergraduates.
History majors are definitely necessary to keep around. I function as the history major for the other med students, but that's usually because I forget that it isn't normal to know the basic structure of medical care in Japan (and France and the UK and Canada and Costa Rica and China and a couple other Southeast Asian countries and...) All of them are superior to the US's in terms of outcomes. 90% of Americans haven't believed that we ranked 39 and probably rank lower now, and seem to think that you can rig things like cancer outcomes and infant mortality comparisons.
If you can't tell, studying is immensely boring and I was trolling LJ for something interesting, and this is awesome. Congratulations to you and your sister! (I don't know if it works on her, but my friend the linguist can be summoned by repeating "buffalo" seven times, even if it sets the rest of that group of friends off into debating whether it should be said six, seven, or eight times to constitute a full sentence.)
That's awesome that you are using your mad history skillz in your profession. :) I think that looking at what we're doing in the present comparatively with what was done in the past or what is being done in the present can be very informative and helpful in finding solutions to current problems. :)
Ah, yes, the Buffalo thing! I was always under the impression it was five "buffalo"s. Read it as "Bison from Buffalo City bother bison from Buffalo City": Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. :)
I thought it was five buffalos, but two teammates are absolutely sure there's some kind of adjective that you can add in both times. I usually let them fight about that while I (so far unsuccessfully) convince people that they have the order of King Henry VIII's wives wrong, because C/Katherine Howard was killed, which means she had to be the fifth wife because the second one is Anne Bolelyn. "Divorced beheaded died, divorced beheaded survived"-- children history cartoons are rather morbid by necessity.
History majors are definitely necessary to keep around. I function as the history major for the other med students, but that's usually because I forget that it isn't normal to know the basic structure of medical care in Japan (and France and the UK and Canada and Costa Rica and China and a couple other Southeast Asian countries and...) All of them are superior to the US's in terms of outcomes. 90% of Americans haven't believed that we ranked 39 and probably rank lower now, and seem to think that you can rig things like cancer outcomes and infant mortality comparisons.
If you can't tell, studying is immensely boring and I was trolling LJ for something interesting, and this is awesome. Congratulations to you and your sister! (I don't know if it works on her, but my friend the linguist can be summoned by repeating "buffalo" seven times, even if it sets the rest of that group of friends off into debating whether it should be said six, seven, or eight times to constitute a full sentence.)
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Ah, yes, the Buffalo thing! I was always under the impression it was five "buffalo"s. Read it as "Bison from Buffalo City bother bison from Buffalo City": Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. :)
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