王兰: Archive

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Jan 1st

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On Being a Grammar Douche →

If you’re an English nerd, read this! It’s absolutely hilarious!

Jan 1st

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Stereotyping people by their favorite author →

My favorite author is Haruki Murakami (people who like good music). I have to say, I completely agree, although I’m a bit biased.

Dec 31st

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Dec 31st

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Dec 31st

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Dec 30th

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Never though I'd say this, but I'm going to miss...

A lot. High school was actually pretty great. Yes, I did have a limited amount of independence, but only in a physical sense. Mentally, I did so much exploration during these past four years. I’ve found my taste in music (something I used to treat apathetically in elementary and middle school), I’ve had great times with my classes and friends, I discovered what subjects I’m...

Dec 30th

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Dec 29th

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I can do this!

January 1st University of Pennsylvania Brown University Stanford University January 2nd University of Chicago January 4th Columbia University

Dec 29th

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Boys get cool stuff, girls get pink stuff →

“Someone somewhere observed that when it came to technology, there was a stereotype that men were the engineers and designers and women were the consumers and users,” she writes. “Well, that’s essentially what Toys R Us told me.” The top results for boy techie-builders were “13 building/engineering games (like Lego and KNEX), 3 ipod accessories, 4 portable DVD...

Dec 29th

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Welcome to the fashion funhouse →

“The message is clear: High fashion has no size limit,” writes Ben Barry, CEO of an eponymous Toronto modeling agency that specializes in diverse body types, in a gushing blog post about V magazine’s upcoming “One Size Fits All” spread. The spread features size 2 model Jacquelyn Jablonski and size 12ish model Crystal Renn in matching outfits “by high-fashion...

Dec 28th

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Run of the Show

photographer: Craig McDean stylist: Alex White « AMAZING!

Dec 28th

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Dec 27th

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“One of the biggest risks is being too cautious.”

– David Spiegelhalter, Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk (seriously) at Cambridge University

Dec 27th

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The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises →

funeral:somethingintellectual:studentloansforbeermoney: “PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.”

Dec 26th

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Dec 25th

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Dec 22nd

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Last night, I watched Rent at CSULB. It has reignited my girl crush on Rosario Dawson. yeah.

Dec 21st

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Dec 21st

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Nan Goldin

Dec 21st

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Dumbing down the first lady | Michelle Obama... →

A year and a half after her approval rating hit a low of 44 percent, Michelle Obama is now enjoying the “overall favorable” opinion of many more Americans — 68 percent, according to a recent Marist College Institute for Public Opinion poll. Even 67 percent of Republican women gave the first lady a thumbs-up in an April Pew poll. Lynn Sweet at Politics Daily says the reason for...

Dec 21st

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@ otempora

otempora: Thank you, I love you. :) You are my favorite tumblr. And you know what? Some of the things you told me are along the line of the things I say, some which are verbatim. Some of the things in your life are just opposite of mine; it’s almost as if I’m hearing my own doppelganger and it is absolutely surreal. Good luck! Best wishes! You are my favorite tumblr as well, and probably the...

Dec 16th

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Yale deferral

I think this was the most I could have hoped for, being a not-very-accomplished Chinese female. Of course, I would still love to be admitted regular decision, but it’s not something I’m anticipating, given that the RD accpetance rate is ~5%. I was initially bitter. Waiting three more months? Really? After having some time to think it over though, I’m grateful that I can even be...

Dec 16th

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Dec 16th

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Dec 15th

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Dec 15th

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“Fashion isn’t an obviously brainy thing to write about — it is a fairly hermetic...”

– Cintra Wilson

Dec 13th

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Dec 10th

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“A study published Monday in The Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry has...”

– New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source (via pianississimo)

Dec 9th

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Dec 9th

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Dec 8th

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hello: Hi! I’m otempora on tumblr and I love seeing your posts show up on my dashboard. We’ve got quite a lot of things in common, and minus our interests, I assume we’re both Chinese-American seniors in high school applying to college! :) Where do you live? I’m going to assume, the far West, in California? Catch you later! I hope you get into the college of your choice!...

Dec 7th

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Dec 7th

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Wikipedia has helped me find religion (I'll...

Ignosticism Ignosticism, or igtheism, is the theological position that every other theological position (including agnosticism) assumes too much about the concept of God and many other theological concepts. It can be defined as encompassing two related views about the existence of God: (1) The view that a coherent definition of God must be presented before the question of the existence of God can...

Dec 6th

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Is My Kids Making Me Not Smart? →

The common misconception of childless, alcohol-imbibing party guests and cyber-ether baby-haters alike is that parents blabber constantly out of some arrogance or indulgent desire to show off their great kids and their perfect parenthood. Nothing could be further from the truth. We parents have so little now; the children have taken so much. We just have nothing left to say. We sometimes hear...

Dec 5th

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List of Free Foreign Language Lessons →

Dec 5th

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