Hello blog and readers of it. Today I'm going to talk about a problem I've always had regarding homework, comprehension, and receiving help ( Read more... )

Today while eating with folks, we got to talking about the origin of the word "fudge". I got curious and looked up the definition for fudge3 (as in "to fudge the data"):

Origin:
1665-75; orig. uncert.; in earliest sense, “to contrive clumsily,” perh. expressive var. of fadge to fit, agree, do (akin to ME feien to put together, join, OE fēgan); ( Read more... )

So I just got out of Russian. Today, being the first day back from what is meant to be a relaxing weekend, we had a simple assignment due--read articles from these Russian Life magazines over Midsemester Break and come back on Monday to report about anything interesting you learned about Russian culture ( Read more... )