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i'm taking swahili this quarter, which is pretty cool. i like pronouncing things in swahili but not really learning the grammar. just the sounds of the words are enough ( Read more... ) -
change happens, get used to it.
from cette_vie
carpentersville, il residents express bigotry against hispanics moving in.
For them, it boils down to this: many Mexican immigrants are reluctant to adopt the American culture. “They want the American dream, but they don’t want to assimilate,” Sigwalt told me. “Immigrants are what made this country great, but the immigrants of yesterday ( Read more... ) -
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me: yeah… so this is what i’m going to study, i think
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/299/5606/558
Yee: have fun with the insects
(i find the thought of insects in general, and their respiratory systems in particular, quite frightening)
me: hahah
Yee: frightening doesn’t quite sum it up… bizarre would be more like it
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some photos i've taken for the chicago weekly
Some photos I've taken for the Chicago Weekly, the South Side arts and culture rag at UChicago.
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being a bio major sucks. i love my actual bio classes, but the peripherals: chem, o-chem, biochem, and physics -- seem too daunting. not to mention my motivation problems -- I don't know what it is in me that makes me conclude that watching arrested development is more worthwhile than chemistry homework ( Read more... )
