So yesterday was just “one of those days.” I spent the day doing yard work at my aunts’. Everything is going fine. It gets to be the end of the day, and I find myself dragging out the hose to water various things in the back yard. I screw the hose to the spigot, and [...]
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So I’m a fan of tongues firmly placed into cheeks. Here is a classic example:
During the course of the Spring ‘08 semester, my roommate (Matt) and I were both enrolled in the same honors class, for which a period of time was spent studying fairy tales.
During this time, he regaled me with an account [...]
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I read PostSecret because of stuff like this:
I don’t think I’ve officially endorsed it yet, so here it is… from the website:
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail
in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.
Basically, you’re going to read some of the most painful things you can imagine on [...]
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Ever do something really stupid?
Don’t lie, I know you have.
Well, I just did. Whilst changing the strings on my electric guitar, I went and broke the high E string (the littlest one).
Brand new string, broken. Great job Andrew!
Also, whilst moving out of my dorm room and cutting zip ties, I went and stabbed myself [...]
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Give me options, or give me death!
Social Psych this semester: 78 MC in 12 minutes
Intro Psych freshman year: 120 MC in 22 minutes
BBB: 75 MC and more short answers: 24 minutes
I take tests inordinately fast, and it makes me feel awesome. Students and teachers alike are left in awe, their faces pricelessly aghast when [...]
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In the fourth grade musical production at my elementary school, I starred as Peter Pan, singing the song “I Won’t Grow Up.”
I’m pretty sure I have internalized that more than should be reasonable or rational. In some ways, this is good. Grow old, but not up, ya know?
But I think this has also plagued my [...]
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Production.
I wrote part of this essay (up until “That said…”) in response to the Ignatian Residential College question “Whose Am I?” We were given three questions (“Who am I? Whose aAm I? Who am I called to be?”) to ponder and explore over the course of the program (all of sophomore year), for the purpose [...]
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