January 2012
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Yuck - Georgia
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“‘For instance,’ [Meryl Streep] says, forking at a bread-crumbed oyster, ‘we are...”
– “Meryl Streep: Force of Nature,” Vogue (via thatluciegirl) (via foodmusiclife)
Meryl Streep donated the $1M she made playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady to the endeavor of building a National Women’s History Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Stuff like that is why I love her.
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December 2011
29 posts
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“No wonder some women are unconsciously passive aggressive when expressing anger,...”
– Why Women Aren’t Crazy (via lagrandefille)
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“We claim to be part of the American dream and of... →
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Anka Zhuravleva
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CAUTION: WORD VOMIT
To be blunt: I LOVED MY THIRD SEMESTER.
Elaboration: Ever since being accepted to college, I had been feeling a bit lost.
In high school, it was so clear what I was aiming for. I wanted to get into Brown so I could be immersed in a diverse, intellectual environment. In my mind, Brown was perfect: it was a place to learn, but also to have fun; it wasn’t competitive; the goal was...
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Winter Break To Do List
lovedecadence:
Reading List:
Norwegian Wood
Golden Compass
One Hundred Years of Solitude
and if time:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Song of Fire and Ice
Coding/Design: (plus NERDFEST WITH WINNIE!)
Buy + code my website
Learn Maya
Learn WebGL
Maybe learn html5, css3, web design aesthetics
Brush up on javascript
Find print design inspiration to prepare for next semester
Find an...
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Freelance Whales - Generator ^ First Floor
Damn...
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Things I've done in the past hour:
Eat
Discuss women in CS
Play Tetris Battle
Google pictures of cute baby animals. (Mainly this)
Things I have not done in the past hour:
Lit essay
Study stats
Work on CS final. oops
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“I hide myself within my flower,
That wearing on your breast,
You,...”
– Emily Dickinson (via farewellisliketheend)
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Glee is not progressive.
feministglee:
Read More
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things I need to do over winter break
It’s almost 2 A.M. There’s an essay I need to write by tomorrow. But my mind is stuck in the future. I like literature, but I don’t think I can take another lit class at Brown again. There’s something about analyzing literature that seems a bit…reductive. I don’t like that. Anyway, I digress:
Learn Java
Learn C++???
Learn Maya
Read a lot. Top of...
November 2011
15 posts
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Discovery - So Insane
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What are the chances of you coming into being? →
By: Ali Binazir June 15th, 2011
A little while ago I had the privilege of attending TEDx San Francisco, organized by the incomparable Christine Mason McCaull. One of the talks was by Mel Robbins, a riotously funny self-help author and life coach with a syndicated radio show. In it, she…
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If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong: The... →
Hard work is deliberate practice. It’s not fun while you’re doing it, but you don’t have to do too much of it in any one day (the elite players spent, on average, 3.5 hours per day engaged in deliberate practice, broken into two sessions). It also provides you measurable progress in a skill, which generates a strong sense of contentment and motivation. Therefore, although hard work is hard, it’s...
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Banking As An Ethical Career →
First, as a banker, you could earn well over £6million. By donating 50% of those earnings, you could pay for several charity workers. So you’d do several times as much good than if you were a charity worker yourself.
Second, if you decide not to be a charity worker, someone else will take your place, and so the benefit you provide would have happened anyway. In contrast, if you take a lucrative...
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Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
I have done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it—
A sort of walking miracle, my skin
Bright as a Nazi lampshade,
My right foot
A paperweight,
My face a featureless, fine
Jew linen.
Peel off the napkin
O my enemy.
Do I terrify?—
The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
The sour breath
Will vanish in a day.
Soon, soon the flesh
The grave cave ate will be...
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I love Brown but...
I really want to take a gap semester and figure shit out. I’m tired of academics.
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Discovery - Swing Tree