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Never has my live journal avatar been so accurate.

I have everything. I'm going to relatively high ranked university for mechanical engineering, I'm in my senior year, I have a decent enough GPA, I have a loving boyfriend, two wonderful kitties, a professor who sees my intellect, values it, and wants to use it. I have an internship that can boost me into a career if I so desire. I eat, I sleep, ( Read more... )

I've been really concerned about what I've been eating lately. Hence, the kinda-sorta-vegetarian diet I'm prescribing too. Recently I've come to be extremely concerned by scientific studies of preservatives, artificial flavors, etc. I very rarely eat pre-packaged food these days; However, I do tend to eat at restaurants (though no fast food ones ( Read more... )

I think I've posted about my addiction to the intrawebs several times. Well, I've finally done something about it. Both Shiv and I are on a schedule--drastic times do call for drastic measures. This schedule not only the internet but technological media in general. So the limits? Well, we get to consume ANY time of media by ourselves for only ( Read more... )

Is it time to accept the live journal is dead? The only thing I ever use it for is a news/web comic feed. On the RARE occasion that someone posts, I tend to skim rather than actually thoroughly read. I used to use LJ as a tool to document, connect, get advice, etc, but now it's my pedestal to bitch about whatever (usually school)...ya know, once ( Read more... )

So I've decided to go the "picky meat eater" route. As in my last post, I really don't think killing animals for food is wrong, SO LONG as they've been properly cared for and had a good life and a quick and relatively painless death. Properly cared for meaning proper diet, free range, no antibiotics, growth hormones, nasty added chemicals (post ( Read more... )

I feel a little creeped out. I've watched documentaries in the past about food in America, the over processes, the economically screwy, the overly subsidized. If you haven't researched or watched a documentary about food in America I HIGHLY suggest doing so...it's a real eye opener. Well, last night I watched Food Inc right before bed (wouldn't ( Read more... )

The average for the class for the most recent lab (worth 2 labs), was around 50-60ish/100 from whose papers I was able to read over. Gotta love the curve (for those who arn't curve blessed 50-60/100 is now a B-)! When I obtained my lab, to my dismay, I got a 21/100. For anyone who knows me and for people that don't even know me THAT well know ( Read more... )

The iPad was introduced as an "in beteween" device, between a smartphone and a laptop. Job's argument that in order to create a so-called in between device it has to be better at certain tasks. This may be a good argument in times of prosperity, but in reality, who needs to spend hundreds of dollars on a device that DOES what your other devices ( Read more... )