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Hanging On!

  Last exam tomorrow, then 6 glorious days of rest before staring again. Read more »

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A Fish Out of Water

The picture below captures perfectly the essence of my being. The Osprey, a magnificent raptor, is the symbol for Calculus and Computer Science. The fish, an insignificant link in the food chain, is the symbol for I, the hapless student. Observe the grasp of the Osprey, with it razor sharp talons embedded in the brain [...] Read more »

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The Fork in the Road

"Life is all about choices" – Wise Old Man "When you get to a fork in the road, take it" – Wise Old Baseball Manager   Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I [...] Read more »

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Sodium and Potassium

Sensation is an abstraction, not a replication of reality – Santiago Ramon y Cajal "Every thought, every feeling, every sensation ever experienced by any animal on this planet is the result of sodium entering a cell and potassium leaving the cell…" paraphrased from my notes as spoken by our Biology professor. Above (Na+/K+-ATPase – aka [...] Read more »

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Spring

One thing I learned early on is that gauging weather patterns on a college campus is impossible if you are using male attire as the metric. I’d forgotten, I’m sorry to say, that we fellas don’t need much clothing, even in the dead of darkest winter. Shorts, flip-flops, wrinkled t-shirts? It must be December. Jack [...] Read more »

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