I was disappointed that the latest issue of Mount Holyoke's Alumnae Quarterly suggested to "reward companies that go against the cultural grain", and uses the Unilever brand Dove's "real women campaign" as an example ( Read more... )

Hi everyone! I wanted to share a silly project I did last week ( Read more... )

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My mom went to the hospital two days ago. It was just a mild tremor in her bad arm; I thought it was nothing, and my mom thought it was nothing, but my dad thought that an expensive, 3.5 hour long trip to the emergency room and a barrage of tests were needed just to make sure. Of course, it turned out to be nothing ( Read more... )

Patrick wrote about our trip, but she left out all the important parts. Like matzo ball soup. and running away from a scary homeless guy on the subway platform. And Patrick's purse that tried to break free when we were crossing madison ave. And there was also important things like LIBRARY and ROUTE 22 and CRAPPY ITALIAN FOOD. Most importantly there ( Read more... )

Course title: Creating Computer Games with TADS ( Read more... )

In computer programming, we have something called the ninety-ninety rule; it states that the first 90% of the code you write will take the first 10% of the development time, and the last 10% of the code will take 90% of the development time. So while my lab partner did pretty much nothing for the first month and a half of our project, the fact that ( Read more... )

I failed my math exam today; failed as in F. As in I was getting a B+ in the class before, but now I'll be lucky if I end up with a C-. The exam was absolutely unfair, and I never had a chance. No amount of ice cream eating or House watching is going to make me feel better. I hate mathematics, and I hate myself ( Read more... )

Okay, so my cs project has right now 200 lines of data and about 800 lines of code. Of the 800, my partner has written about 20. So whenever something goes wrong with my program, what should be the probability that the problem is coming from those 20 lines? There were mistakes on EVERY SINGLE LINE. How hard is it to store 10 bytes of data to an ( Read more... )

Sociology: done. Everything else: *shudders*

Why are so many people leaving this weekend? And isn't my roommate one of them?