The secret to having a large vocabulary is not in knowing a bunch of big words, but rather knowing the words so small that people think they're big anyways
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That's way awesome. I slacked way too much in high school. I actually started slacking in 9th grade, or I could have been val that year...I think my fear of public speaking keeps me from doing better.
I have a penchant for the old orders: I don't fast-forward through fifteen year old commercials while watching VHS-they fascinate me; I nearly regret how large my school has grown, remembering the free-reign and privileges we had as a small place that future students will never know they lack; I have spent hours reading arbitrary files from on-line communities that were saved twenty years ago; this is not to say, however that I do not embrace new ways that are developing in the world; I strive to maintain a sense of tradition and normalcy in my courses, but inevitably I end up straying from those paths, and from those of anyone I know; this cannot be helped, so I have come to expect it; predictably, as one who is thrown into the world of today, I use computers excessively; however, unlike other teenage girls, that does not require the extent of my sojourns be Myspace, MSN Messenger, and Facebook; instead, I subscribe to various news “Feeds”, participate at various fora, and have taken my computer apart and put it back together
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What was your essay about?
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Pretty much the exact same thing KB had to write last year. http://king-bahamut.livejournal.com/74762.html
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