Being ashamed ought to mean that a youth gives up some cherished error or conceited image of himself, and goes on, without loss of dignity, to achieve an ideal that is real; this is honor. Only the community can bestow honor, on those who enhance the community, who follow the useful callings, or bring new culture ( Read more... )

Now with Linux!
A couple of weeks ago my computer decided that its HDD had developed more bad sectors than it was able to deal with, so it started going U NOE I'M ABOUT TO DIE ANYTIME NOW SO BACK UP UR STUFF AND REPLACE ME KTHXBAI. Unfortunately I also forgot to take my meds that day. But despite scrambling to back up my stuff (thank you 1TB ( Read more... )

I am such a keener that, having FINALLY received my syntax textbook, I am the first student in the class to actually HAVE the textbook. I found out what textbook the teacher was using for the course directly from her about a month ago and had ordered it back then (at a steep discount, which was one of my reasons for purchasing it early). The ( Read more... )

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I think that my practicum this time around is off to a good start. It was a tiny bit shaky at first, but once it quickly came to a point where I was prompted and was able to reveal my sob story fears and pressures to my mentor teacher and my facilitator (both of whom are new to these roles), things became a lot easier because I don't need to hide ( Read more... )

I think that I'm starting to piece together some relic-of-a-lost-generation explanation for the old-school/pop-culture-rejection outlook on life I think I first recognized in, hmm... grade 5?

Now that we are well into late modern society, it is "normal" of a sizable proportion of the population to have a poorly formulated sense of themselves as ( Read more... )

I cleaned out a bunch of the cardboard boxes that the former roommates left in the storage room. Took a bag of styrofoam out to the garbage, and a couple of boxfuls of recycling. There's still stuff in the storage room I don't know to whom it belongs, and some shoeboxes that would be handy for my own shoes ( Read more... )

The display cases in Rutherford Library (South) currently have pop-up books in them. Who designs the moving parts, anyway? Are they credited inside the books? Does anyone wake up one morning and think, "I want to be one of those people who make the pop-up bits inside pop-up books"?

I got Internets back in my place. It was actually kind of nice, though, to have to trek to the library twice a day to poke around online, once in the morning and once later at night. So it's time for another quote!

Problems of Adjustment to Occupation: [...] So far from being one-sided in ability and interest, [highly intelligent children] are ( Read more... )