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Four Letter Words: Cash Flow
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men. Sydney J. Harris. When I was teaching, I didn't think anything of stopping by YoLo Bakes. Orders correlated pretty well with stress levels. Now, I'm making money again, even if it is only for ten weeks, and I am enjoying a healthy balance of frugality and treatin' myself. I still can't bring myself to buy full-price theatre tickets (as my NYU friend said, "just use some of that SA money and buy normal tix! For example, but I have.
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Four Letter Words: Poor Kids
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When you've walked through the door of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. I didn't grow up in rural America. I have never spent any considerable amount of time in rural America. Still, I feel like I can relate a little to the kids in this article: The Web-Deprived Study at McDonald's. Of course, when I was a kid, it wasn't wireless internet people coveted to give their kids a leg up. What was it, then? Honestly, I don't know. Books, cultural opportunities, traveling abroad? Is one of them.
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Four Letter Words: Post-STEM
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Life is an unrepeatable experiment with no control. Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing. I read this statistic the other day on some promotion for GoldieBlox. Fewer than 3 in 10 graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM fields) are women. And barely 1 in 10 actual engineers are women. Should I be feeling guilty that I self-selected out of STEM? It sometimes worries me that I do not know how to sustain anything, that my past fickleness is not buried in the past at all. I have live...
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Four Letter Words: Book Year
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You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next. Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. I made my brother cry yesterday. By reading a beautiful children's book with him. Books that move you stay with you. It may not have been the first book I cried at, but I still remember reading Lois Lowry's Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye. Recommended by Ed, and We Learn Nothing. I'd also like to update this more. Ha. Up up and aw...
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Four Letter Words: Four More
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In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. I have received at least five e-mails from the Obama campaign in the past two days, urging me to get out the vote and tell friends to get out the vote. Based on everyone and their mother blowing up my news feed, I'd say that the young people I know got out the vote pretty well on their own. I voted around lunchtime and earned my smug little sticker. These speeches need to start soon so that I can finally go to bed.
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Four Letter Words: Rita
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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What! I thought I was the only one! We're both Chinese (but we sadly cannot speak Chinese together, as I speak Mandarin, and she speaks Cantonese). We both worked for Teach For America as Campus Campaign Coordinators. We both worked for Teach For America as Operations Coordinators. We both plan to go to law school (me, right after teaching; she, sometime in the future). We both have younger brothers. Despite our similar experiences, Rita...
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Four Letter Words: Jeff
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I've heard it said / that people come into our lives / for a reason. For Good," Wicked. I often wonder what life would be like had circumstances not led Jeff to become our fourth roommate. I really can't picture things working out any better than the way that they have. After screening a dozen candidates on Craigslist. He even came with beautiful furniture, making our then-minimalistic house into a very comfortable home. Here is a man who knows how to hold a real conversation. I feel guilty. Stephen Kell...
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Four Letter Words: Good Soil
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As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience. I read Stacy's post. Often times, especially as children, we don't get to choose our environments. It's your fate to be born into good soil as far as family goes, and that's nature and. Could certainly be a reason, but it's the mutual choosing that means so much. 8221; And they’re like, “I know! Anyway. I attribute all of who I am as a person to having been a see...
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Four Letter Words: Lazy
http://aqpsu.blogspot.com/2009/02/lazy.html
The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. In an extremely brief break during an extremely jam-packed-with-school-and-lab-and-work-and-clubs day last week, I ventured down to the Kaplan center to pick up my practice LSAT score report. Pleasantly surprised, I am now actually contemplating applying to law schools in earnest. As with everything else, I am not sure if I actually want to be a lawyer, but I'm very sure that I don't. I just don't know. I'm su...
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Four Letter Words: Know Your Luck
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Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right. I am unbelievably lucky. As I come up on my last semester of law school, I have been doing a lot of reflecting on the past couple of years and my life in general. And all I can really say is, I am unbelievably lucky. So lucky, in fact, that I find myself looking over my shoulder (figuratively) sometimes, wondering when things will come crashing down. It doesn't even seem fair. Yeah, that's luck. Decision by my parents to ...