Quotations on the University of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson at the Monticello website.

This one is probably my favourite because my literary and debate society loves to reference it and because it really speaks to many of my views as a secular Humanist:

1820 Dec. 27. "This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For ( Read more... )

One of my friends has a tendency to lash out at people when she's feeling frustrated or upset. I really don't like this, but I'm not sure exactly what I can do about it, because she's a wonderful person otherwise ( Read more... )

This just in: I have officially graduated with my Bachelor of Science in computer science from the University of Virginia engineering school. Phew! Sadly, this may be one of the last times I use my 'engineering school' and 'college' tags in a post, which is sort of bittersweet.


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W00t, turned in my undergraduate thesis! *dance* Finally.

Our technical project team was done for the year earlier this week, so we all went out drinking. I woke up the next day at 8AM with a spectacular hangover and had to go participate in a 4 hour research study for a grad student in the systems engineering and information department.

I hadn't eaten breakfast beforehand and didn't have time to pick it ( Read more... )

Queer prom, usually the final event in Proud to Be Out Week, is on Saturday, and I just got notified that I was nominated for Queer Prom Court.


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Soon after I started college, I began to think seriously about getting an external hard drive to backup all my things. I adore having a laptop. It affords me privacy and personal space that I never had on the family computer. But laptops are also nerve-wracking because they can have more hard drive issues than desktops because they're mobile and ( Read more... )

Okay, so this is driving me crazy. There was a AE Inception fic that had Eames as the host of a television cooking show, and Arthur and Ariadne were fans who watched his show and went to one of his book signings. And I remember one of Eames's tv episodes featured him showing his viewers how to use various parts of a pig when cooking food. Of course ( Read more... )

That awkward moment when you walk out of the lab with wet-gel electrode leads still stuck to your arms and don't notice it till your friends point it out.