| Writer's Block: Licensed to Drive |
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05:30pm 19/05/2009 |
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I personally think 16 is a little too young to have full driving privileges, but I also think 18 is a bit too old. I believe that 17 is an appropriate age for people to be given full driving privileges; this allows them more time to acquire responsible driving skills and attitudes, and avoids just releasing 16-year-olds onto the roadways with little experience that may be prone to take more risks or commit more driving infractions. |
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| Writer's Block: Wild Life |
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12:53pm 28/04/2009 |
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Well, I'd like to flatter myself and say that I could survive in the wild indefinitely, but I don't really believe that. I honestly don't know. I'm certainly no Bear Grylls, and I've never had any formal survival training, so I suppose I'd only have my wits to rely on, which is not very comforting in such a situation. If food, water, and shelter was ample, I think I could survive for an extended period if I really tried. |
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| Writer's Block: Musical Affliction |
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08:11pm 27/04/2009 |
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Funny this should be the Writers' Block of the day, as I am listening to my own personal "earworm" now as I write. I'm a theater geek, and I have a special place in my heart for musicals, my most recent obsession being Urinetown (yes, that is the actual title). Act One Finale is my current earworm and I have been carrying it around in my brain for around a month now. I won't write the lyrics though because the song is almost 6 and 1/2 minutes long and is a very vocally complicated piece. music: Urinetown: Act One Finale |
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05:34pm 24/04/2009 |
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So I got a call yesterday. It was Big Brother. The U.S. Marines. They want me, but I don't want them. So for around twenty minutes this marine tried to convince me that I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and that the military was the answer to my apparently useless life. The military just isn't in my plans, but I humored him and allowed him to send me some brochures, despite the fact that he lacks some very basic social skills and even inadvertently insulted me at one point. He says he's going to call me again to "check up". Guess who's not going to answer their phone when that call comes? |
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| Writer's Block: Shhhh |
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01:39pm 20/04/2009 |
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If I had to I could go on a silent retreat. I've mastered the art of listening without adding my own personal opinion, so I think I could go for a good week or more without talking. Eventually I would want to speak again though; I do have things I want to say from time to time and after a while I'd need to say something. |
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11:51am 19/04/2009 |
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This semester is simply going way too slow for my liking. Break is still four weeks away? Intolerable. Unacceptable. Unfortunately, quite true. This was supposed to be the "easy semester"; I picked these classes for their perceived lack of academic rigor on my part. Who would have thought my teachers would be crazy, and my classes filled with insanity and lots of homework? Oh well. Maybe I'm just becoming a softie. Fortunately, little things like this don't break me; I have a GPA to maintain, and a little adversity is no match for my determination.
Here concludes my rant for the day.
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| Writer's Block: Starting from Scratch |
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10:57am 17/04/2009 |
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I might be happy for around a minute if I were put in the Witness Protection Program. Then I would cry. Although there are some aspects of my life that I'm not crazy about, I still have a lot of things and people that I'm attached to, and which/whom I couldn't bear to leave behind. I could probably do it if I had to, but it would be very hard, and I would not get over it easily. On the bright side though, I would get to live somewhere else and meet new kinds of people! |
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10:52am 17/04/2009 |
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It has been a hectic week, and one I would be glad to never repeat; I've had several papers due within the same period of time, as well as the usual overabundance of homework, tedious housework, and oh yeah- a social life. Things seem to be settling down again though, and for that I am exceptionally grateful. Now I can actually catch up on my reading and begin to post semi-regularly in my LJ again! |
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01:38pm 29/03/2009 |
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I have but a few more hours remaining of Spring Break; alas, it went too fast. I'm also not looking forward to seeing what I got on my Art History midterm (Lord, spare me!) and going back to my insane Sociology class with my crazed professor. Sometimes I wonder what keeps me going; I handle a lot of stuff, and sometimes I just wish I could drop it....but I don't, and I don't know what motivates me to keep pushing forward. Some days I really wonder what would happen if I just stopped: stopped the homework, the social life, everything I work for, just stop trying....what would happen then? What would happen to me? Something holds me back though: maybe it's my ambitions, or what I want to do with my life, or where I want to go, or the people I want to see, but something stops me. I don't normally get this philosophical in my entries; being the private person that I am, such thoughts rarely come out. I must be feeling open and emotionally unrestrained today. |
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06:20pm 25/03/2009 |
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So I was reading the Chicago Sunday Sun-Times for March 22 and the cover article "A Job For Life: Med School Applications Up 24 Percent" (Mark Konkol) caught my attention. The second page had some very interesting and surprising statistics concerning the amount of people that apply to any one medical school compared to how many applicants are actually accepted into the program.
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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Year Applications Accepted
2008 7, 412 170
University of Chicago Pritzker Medical School
Year Applications Accepted
2007 7, 865 112
Rush University Medical School
Year Applications Accepted
2008 6, 475 130
University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School
Year Applications Accepted
2008 6, 716 308 I was very surprised by these statistics. I knew that entrance into a medical school was competitive, but the number of applicants versus those accepted is a lot more extreme than I expected. Having said that, the article also went into detail explaining that medical admissions may have gone up due to economic instability and lack of job security in other fields, but from the statistics shown in the article applications never went below 4, 000.
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10:10pm 19/03/2009 |
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Midterm Mayhem: Evil Spring Break: A time to sleep late, catch up on my reading, and perfect my technique of becoming an indistinguishable lump from the couch When I return from my academic hiatus, I have to give a speech on a theory/concept/idea- any theory/concept/idea. I have no shortage of things to talk about, but I do have a shortage of things I can talk about that I reasonably can expect the rest of my class to understand. I'd love to do a presentation on a cutting-edge scientific theory, but I can't reasonably expect most people without a scientific background to understand what I'm saying, even if I simplied it extensively. I could do a presentation on an economic theory, but I'd prefer not to use a quantified theory, and non-quantified theories usually don't fill of six minutes. I was also considering doing a sociology theory, but I don't need any more sociology in my life right now than I already have. Alas, what to do? Is there any balance between simplicity and interest? I try not to make my entries so esoteric; I failed miserably this time. |
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| Writer's Block: Change for the Better over a Decade |
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10:06pm 19/03/2009 |
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I am more sympathetic to people and willing to help those in need than I was when I was younger. Most young children are relatively oblivious to the major problems of the world, and I was no exception, but I couldn't relate emotionally to many people until I was older. Perhaps I was self-centered, or perhaps I just didn't have the emotional capacity to empathize with others yet. Either way, I am much more emotionally open and receptive to people now, and I try never to think of another person's problems as less severe or urgent than my own. |
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09:23pm 18/03/2009 |
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Tomorrow = Art History Midterm I hate having to put effort into my Art History course; when I took the Ancient-Medieval Part I hardly had to study at all (mostly because my teacher was awesome). But now, because I have a different instructor that doesn't want to let us get off easy on the Midterm, so he has devised an evil system in which I have to invest time to study. I just finished a bunch of math problems; I don't need this. Yet, is my textbook open? Open to a page about Nicola Pisano. Am I studying? No; I'm writing on LJ. Will I be studying? Yes. Damn; being a good student is too much work sometimes. |
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11:51am 17/03/2009 |
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I decided not to go to classes today, as I felt rather ill when I awoke this morning. So I now sit at home, putzing around the house, and surfing the Internet, waiting for something fascinating to happen. I love being lazy. |
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| Writer's Block: Big Debates |
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06:43pm 15/03/2009 |
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If ever there is a time to sound like a crazed liberal, I suppose now is as good as ever. I believe stem cell research needs to be continued; research in this field holds a wealth of scientific breakthroughs just waiting to be discovered. My advocation of this form of research is purely for the prevention and treatment of diseases however; although cloning may be super-cool, it is yet to be seen whether or not it is ethical as a practice on humans. Meanwhile, stem cell research has the potential to one day treat patients with terminal illnesses or other life-threatening diseases, and could also aid in the growth of organs more suited to their potential owner (instead of the current, slightly-dysfunctional organ-donation system currently in place), as well as many other life-saving projects. |
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