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KARMA REPAIR KIT: ITEMS 1-4
1. Get enough food to eat,
And eat it.
2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.
3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.
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Richard Brautigan
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[September 16, 2008] |
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter-'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
-Mark Twain
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I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. I am I, and you are you, and if by chance we find each other, that is beautiful.
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| from nell's grad present |
[May 27, 2008] |
as we nudge our physical boundaries with yoga postures, we become fully focused on the body, breath and mind. we become absorbed in being in the present moment. it's like a break from our usual mind status. like a holiday, it refreshes us. yoga practice helps us move from distress to de-stress from dis-ease to ease, from passion to compassion.
yoga is a state of mind. the state of yoga is when the mind is still. the turnings of the thoughts have ceased and there are no distractions. this state of mind was primarily sought through the practice of meditation. over the last two thousand years other practicies were developed that helped the body and mind become more receptive to the experience of stillness.
stillness fosters awareness. when we know we have forgotten something we often freeze momentarily while we remember. hatha yoga includes physical exercises that seek to relax and still the body, breath work to focus the mind, chanting to arouse and then calm the emotions, and meditation to center the spirit.
keeping a healthy discipline makes life feel better. ou feel better after you've finished a yoga practice than when you started it. sometimes you begin your practice feeling unfocused, anxious or tight in the body. sometimes you feel lazy and lethargic. yet after absorbing yourself in your practice, you feel warm, loose, relaxed, calm and perhaps more connected to a force greater than you. because it feels so good the practice itself is your reward as well as the journey along the path.
it's difficult to relate to others in a relaxed authentic way if you feel that the environment you have created might not survive a few storm clouds. fear fades and tranquility arrives when you relax back into a sense of wholeness. it's like lying back in a warm bath. it's when you re-remember who you really are when, caught up in the whilwind of life you'd forgotten yourself for a while
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[November 27, 2007] |
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
...Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Be who you are in every situation.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business – or in anything else, for that matter.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
If you really want to be happy, always try to do what’s right.
Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Don't be overwhelmed by decisions. Only consider the ethical ones - you'll find your options are much fewer
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be
shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind.
Think big anyway.
What you spend years building may
be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack if you help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have
and you might get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
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[September 12, 2006] |
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"The true New Yorker secretly believes that anyone living anywhere else has got to be, in some sense, kidding." - John Updike
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Saw V for Vendetta friday with samara and sonia. FANTASTIC. Samara ordered the world's smallest piece of baklava. Don't go to sahara grill people. I love drivinggggggg <3
The SUP UB conference went so well. I was so proud to be a part of it. I want to write more, but I don't even know how to explain it. So many different clubs representing everything they slave at and all of that food and all of the speakers. Mike Niman talking about media activism. Learning about the kids who went to New Orleans on Spring Break to do Katrina Relief. Jenn and my presentation on vegetarianism that sparked a lot of interest from the meat eaters in the room. I loved it. And then Ben came with me to Colin's and we met up with Jenn and Joe and chilled with a bunch of people at Colin's house and got tipsy and giggly and it was just such a chilled out night. Went home and had my standard late night drunk phone conversation, which I will now proceed to be shady and say no more about. Got up at 11:40! So late for me :-D. And then contemplated cleaning. I have an overwhelming amount to do and am supppper in denial that I still don't know where I'm living this summer, which is uber UBER bad.
Okay I'm gona do some crunches clean get coffee go to work study study study make dinner plans do laundry work work eat dinner organize vegetarian club ongoings work more drink more caffeine bitch about things to people on aim sleep.
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| more stalling |
[June 18, 2005] |
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Here is a list of the books I've read this year. Several were for college courses, it will probably be obvious which. I read around 10 books each semester so leisure reading was sporadic, but still important enough to me to keep up with. I have a sprawling summer reading list and I would love it if you all could suggest a book that you consider extremely important to have read. I'm hoping to read *at least* 5 more books this summer. Thanks!
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| My drunk friends |
[April 24, 2005] |
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I missed one hell of a night apparently...here are some highlights
hobbes2809 (4:25:07 AM): okay youy ahgvee no idea whatsw happeend in this drom tonight morgan a
hobbes2809 (4:28:32 AM): everything is supside down and i donttt know what to trhink because of al the ine
hobbes2809 (4:28:36 AM): wine
b e a ch GlRL 22 (4:37:15 AM): i missed a helluva night
hobbes2809 (4:37:32 AM): eah there weres sioo many people thatw particicplated
Tomscool54 (3:47:34 AM): sonia is smashed
Tomscool54 (3:47:48 AM): chris and ben are smashed
Tomscool54 (3:47:55 AM): i think ben is sleeping over tonight
Tomscool54 (3:48:11 AM): sonia was just over here, she has my hat
Tomscool54 (3:48:49 AM): there were a lot of salsa and chips involved too
morePICKSLIDES (4:28:29 AM): goodnight
morePICKSLIDES (4:28:34 AM): blkaaaahhsaidhnvklndfsb
morePICKSLIDES (4:28:43 AM): i so ran into a couple of walls
morePICKSLIDES (4:28:52 AM): stupid drunk peopel didnt stop me
orePICKSLIDES (4:32:55 AM): ok goodnightizzle
morePICKSLIDES (4:33:07 AM): im like goign to the bathroom like almost naked
morePICKSLIDES (4:33:13 AM): but i sooo dont care right now
b e a ch GlRL 22 (4:35:26 AM): lol
omg and then fiorella introduced me to some hardcore stalking good times and like..i duno this night just suddenly became fucking amazing
i heart my drunken buffalo fam, maddi and my give and take relationship, my fi fi, passover, matzoh, and brooklyn with daddy
<3 and realizing that emotionally-defunct users are not what matters
-Morgs
p.s.: what finals??
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I don't really have much to say, not in this forum at least. I just want to remember this feeling that sits at my fingertips, itching to spam this page. It stays contained, just juice on the keyboard, nothing for the public to see. But I'll remember the feeling when I read this. And I guess that's the best idea I've got right now.
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| I guess it's time to update |
[March 18, 2005] |
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As at any time when I have so much to say that I don't know where to begin, I will choose to be extemely tight lipped until things have calmed down a bit. I suppose the statement that often passes my lips at times like these will simply have to suffice as they pass again,
"What is my life!?!"
I hope your breaks have been mavelous or will be marvelous or are in the process of being marvelous.
Buffalo sunday...call me if you want to chill before I'm back in the tundra.
<3 peace and love
Morgan
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This is the most ambitious procrastination project I have attempted (and completed!) in quite awhile. It’s probably a bitch to get through so I’ll forgive you for not giving a fuck. Enjoy.
( fyi )
Thirteen random things you like:
1) Billy Corgan
2) Grape bubbleicious bubble gum
3) Mac makeup
4) Rain on the hottest day of the summer, when the sky opens up and it starts pouring after three grey days so miserably humid that you have to fight your way through the steam, one flip flop begrudgingly following the next.
5) When my mom sends me emails and makes lots of references to “connections” “spirit” and calls me sweetumsl.
6) Health food from Jandi’s in Oceanside.
7) The things my dad writes in my birthday cards.
8) Linguine al Pesto
9) The way Fi’s hair smells.
10) Obsessively clicking on one xanga/livejournal after another until four hours have passed and I feel fully updated on everyone and their mom’s life.
11) Maddi’s poetry.
12) Amanda’s bright orange hoop earings.
13) Girl talk with Sonia and Steph in hushed voices on Thurdsday nights when we all have a crapload of work to do.
Twelve movies:
1) Almost Famous
2) Dead Poets Society
3) Blank Check
4) Working Girl
5) Lolita
6) The Fisher King
7) Life As a House
8) When Harry Met Sally
9) Garden State
10) Closer
11) Philadelphia
12) Heavyweights
Eleven Good Bands/Musicians
1) R.E.M
2) Modest Mouse
3) Radiohead
4) Matt Nathanson
5) Smashing Pumpkins
6) Dave Matthews Band
7) Ani Difranco
8) Salt n Peppa
9) Weezer
10) Ella Fitzgerald
11) The Beatles
Ten things about you
1) I don’t have my license.
2) My favorite kiss was closed mouth, while watching “Terminator Three” (which was awful). And he wasn’t even my boyfriend. He was just a boy, holding my hand. And looking into my eyes.
3) I’m scared of doing fractions.
4) I’m really glad I decided to stop eating meat.
5) My favorite color is purple.
6) I like being “the short one”
8) I’m afraid to read over the book I started writing in high school. I want to finish it more than anything and don’t know where to begin. I’m looking for an editor, and ear, and someone to help me take it to completion. I’m scared to death that won’t happen.
9) All I’ve ever really wanted to be was content with myself.
10) I love Ralph’s Italian ices in the summer more than I love breakfast cereal. I associate it with hot summer nights with Fiorella and Amanda. Fiorella with her mint chip and Amanda with her Tiramisu and me with my java chip-almond joy-chocolate reeses triple scoop, my most indulgent and glorious pseudo-meal of the day.
Nine Reasons You Keep a Livejournal
1) A good commen can make my day.
2) Because it gives me an excuse to write.
3) I use it to procrastinate.
4) I think it lets people know me in ways that I can’t let them.
5) I like the little kittens that display my “current mood”
6) Because I want to remember what I thought about stuff ten years from now.
7) It’s away for me to vent, publicly.
8) I say things in it that I’m scared to say out loud.
9) It think it helps me stay connected to people.
Eight favorite food/drinks:
1) Diet Pepsi
2) Grandma slices from The Pizza Place
3) Half almond joy half peanut butter iced coffee from the cheese store, number four
4) Brown rice pizza with Soy cheese from Jandis.
5) A brownie with a scoop of peanut butter and vanilla ice cream from witches brew.
6) Accompanied by an “Eve’s Temptation” iced tea.
7) Bagels from bagelo toasted and scooped with nonfat veggie cream cheese.
8) Vegan cookies from the dining hall (I’m sorry but they make my life).
Seven things that annoy you:
1) Watching potential get wasted.
2) General Education Requirements
3) Julia Roberts in every movie minus “Closer.”
4) Really bad pictures of myself ending up posted on the internet.
5) People with mid section fat that wear cammies that ride up. I don’t even wear fucking cammies that ride up.
6) People who think reading is pointless.
7) Watching people be actively intolerant.
Six bad habits:
1) I forget to lock the door in the morning.
2) I don’t keep my mouth shut even when I really should.
3) I bitch to people who have it worse than me, about the specific stuff that they have worse than me.
4) I walk blindly into ugly romantic entanglements.
5) I say the word “retarded” to describe negative things.
6) I openly bitch about my flaws.
Five TV shows you’ve loved at some point:
1) My So Called Life
2) Degrassi
3) Beverly Hills 90210
4) Singled Out
5) Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Four words you'd rather didn't exist:
1) Moles
2) Faggot
3) Ooze
4) Tuition
Three celebrities you have a crush on:
1) Angelina Jolie
2) Jude Law
3) The hot Spanish guy in love actually that Laura Linney makes out with.
Two Truths:
1) It’s time for Regis Philbin to retire.
2) Macs are better than PCs, in all ways.
One word:
1) Canoodle.
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| Beauty |
[February 23, 2005] |
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Today I would like to discuss beauty. I think the concept is fascinating. I mean the term "beauty" is kind of a vague one...there is aesthetic beauty (the physical), emotional beauty (the interior), and then there is that type of beautiful that doesn't really fit into a category.
I think beauty is playing a song I love so loud that it makes me cringe a little, and tingle a little, and sigh because it is so good it's almost painful. There is this quote that I'm obsessed with that I think best describes my thoughts about music: "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness." Maya Angelou said that. I think she's pretty beautiful too.
Beauty is the sound of waves crashing on the beach. The scent of cookies made from scratch. Revelations about life and love that make us grow. It is the smooth skin of a young child and the smile lines that form with age. It is achieving a goal. It is the curl of lips into a smile...and the widening of that smile into a grin. It is sand castles. It is forts made in your bedroom with your friends at five, a haphazard compilation of pillows and blankets and laughs. It is the sound of raindrops landing gently on blades of grass on a warm summer morning.
Beauty is all about perspective. You can learn to love or to loathe what you have. I think that what's beautiful is the power we all hold to see things the way we do, and to change our thoughts as we learn.
Today I was having a bad day.
I was acting like nothing was the matter, but honestly, I just wasn't feeling happy. I have a lot of things to do and my agenda often bums me out. I kind of just wanted to go back to the room and go to sleep. I think that at times like those sitting down and forcing yourself to write an entry about crap like beauty makes things seem a little less atrocious.
I hope that if you were having a bad day maybe this entry helped you find the beauty in it.
I'm off...
<3 and Silver Linings
-Morgan
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I don't want to do my work or admit that it's Monday :(. I had a great weekend and all that's left is half of a sandwich from Amy's place, and a crapload of unfinished work to do. Whatever, I'll get to it I guess. I'm staring at my happy bunny bumper sticker book that says "It's all about me. Deal wtih it." Is it sad that I always keep it on that page because I love it?
Moving on, my animal rights professor is a freak of nature. He emails everyone in the class literally every five minutes. I am posting a copy of an email he just sent under an LJ-Cut so that you can experience it with me...the subject of the email was YOU WERE SMART TO SAVE YOUR MONEY @ A STATE SCHOOL! :)
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Ladies and gentleman, that was merely exhibit A. The man is a doof, I'm sorry but he is. He makes me feel like a child and I definitely am not the only person in the class that feels that way. We come in and sit down and have to watch him scrawl in godawful chicken scratch all over the dry erase board. He writes questions like: "Would it be wrong for humans to be treated similarly to chickens on factory farms?" He gives us one-sided reading material. I SWEAR TO GOD the man has never said anything that I didn't read in one of the six books that I had to purchase for the class. I think the worst part is that the class is actually fascinating. I feel like such an ass for never trying to learn more about ethics and how to live my life in a humane way. I'm feeling good about being a vegetarian and trying to do my best to be a realist and yet a morally whole person. However, being treated like my views are "irrelevent" merely because they do not fit into the part of the agenda that "Nathan" has allotted an hour and thirty five minutes of our hour and forty minute class for makes me very very angry. I am put off by the fact that the class is basically a one man show. A really skinny whiny 15 year-old-looking 35 year old man talks AT me while I try to calm myself down by doodling so I don't start screaming. And instead of being encouraged to discuss with the other very intelligent kids in the class just how touching reading about the unacceptable conditions on farms and in zoos are...we are all linked mainly in our disbelief that Professor "Nate-dawg" Nobls has his doctorate.
Fine...maybe I'm projecting my views/anger/aggravation onto others unfairly but fuck that, I'm pretty sure I'm right and I'm pretty sick of keeping quiet about it.
...But enough about animal rights..grr...umm..let me see...I cut my bangs?
Oh and I had a great weekend! We all drank friday and saturday in the dorms and bonded like crazy and today I went out to dinner with Levina, Samara, Shirah, and Jo (it was my vegetarian coming out party!)
Even so, I feel something is gnawing at me and I'm pretty sure it's guilt because I didn't do jack shit as far as homework. Plan for tomorrow: do my chem labs (yes I have TWO due for next week, read chapter four of chemistry, and study statistics. After stats...write my animal rights paper. Fun right?
Wish me luck..I'm off to bed ~yawn~
<3 and manic mondays
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| On the Weekends |
[February 19, 2005] |
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This entry is dedicated to weekends because weekends are very sacred chunks of time. The weekend is the point in my week when everything kind of loosens up. During the week I wear baggy clothes. I put my hair up in a sloppy bun and I leave the dorm early only to return home late. I eat shitty food in the food court at the Student Union. I study until my brain is killing me in a little cubicle in the library. And I long for the days when I can just relax and think about things for myself.
I know that despite the title of this entry, I just spent a paragraph discussing why the week sucks and not why the weekend is crucial. That actually wasn't an unneccessary tangent, it was a segue, so shut up. Anywho, today is Saturday and it is the weekend. As on most weekends, I have imbibed some illicit substances and made a pseudo (or as Steve would say "pah-suedo"...don't ask) ass out of myself. As on most Saturday nights, I have done my makeup, let my hair down, and put on clothes that make me feel like a girl, not a phys. ed. teacher.
I don't really know what my favorite thing about the weekend is. Maybe it's the waffle maker that they put out at brunch. I just think it's amazing that they have waffle makers, but only put them out two times a week because that's kind of just completely analagous to my life in a way. I *have* my own thoughts. I *have* the means to analyze, philosophize, and exercise...but I only really do it fully and wholeheartedly two times a week.
During the blissful period known as the weekend I walk around with a smile on my face. I catch up with my friends and Sonia and I exchange the gossip we've picked up just from living. I sometimes go get really good vegetarian food at Amy's with Samara. I hang out with my hall and laugh a lot. I could go on with examples, but I guess I've made my point. The weekend is basically amazing and everyday when it's not here I wait for it like a kid waiting for presents on Christmas Eve (I'm guessing?). Knowing it's coming makes me feel strong and while it's going on I savor every minute of it.
My advice to anyone that reads this is that they should see the beauty in the weekend as I do, or find some type of inspirational force that they can look to when things seem bleak. And when that anticipation is finally realized and it actually is the weekend, or whatever it is you have been waiting for has arrived, savor it. Take in every moment...take pictures!
And don't be sad when it's over...be excited that another one is coming soon!
<3 and TGIF(and S!!)
Morgan
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| Recent Musings... |
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Happy Friday everyone! This has been an extremely intense week. I'm trying to savor the fact that I ended class today at 1:00; every Friday for the rest of the semester (give or take a recitation) I have class from 11 AM to 5 PM, no breaks. That's correct: Spanish, World Civ 2, Chem Recitation, Chem Lab-all in a row. I have 10 minutes between each class to get to the next.
So the point of all of this listing and explaining is that this semester has got to be about discipline, drive, and endurance. For me, the biggest challenge to overcome will undoubtedly be Chemistry 101. My teacher talks really really fast and if it were not for Sonia's notes and the reassurance of all of my Science-savvy-suitemates, I may have had a nervous breakdown.
I think another thing that I can attribute to my eery calmness is my having freed my self from the shackles of my coffee addiction. I have never felt more healthy. With baby carrots in my refrigerator and tea leaves on my dresser, this challenging semester seems far less daunting.
Here's the run down of my classes/proffessors and stuff...in case you were wondering.
Spanish 104: Today my teacher asked how many students were currently in their "primer" year of study at the University at Buffalo. Our of the 22 kids in the class, I was the only person to meekly raise my hand. In this class, the advantage is not being older. It matters not whether or not you know wheir Slee Hall is, or which dining hall has the grossest food, or which teachers to stay the hell away from. In this class, the one thing that affords a student with all of the advantages in the world is having taken Spanish recently, and having excelled at it at that. I happen to have taken Spanish recently. I stopped taking it Junior year. Therefore, verb conjugations are still fresh in my mind and I still have an expansive vocabulary. I really like my teacher, Diana Vela. She's short and cute and from Peru (Lima, specifically). Her accent is thick yet understandable and she really makes learning fun.
World Civ 2: My teacher, Prof. Sussman, has a curly mop of salt and pepper locks and speaks with abrupt pauses between each word. He handed us about 25 pages of reading material as a "Syllabus" and told us that this class will entail about 5-6 hours of reading per week if we want to get As. He is part of the comparative lit department and on top of our text book and source book he also assigned us Hamlet and Frankenstein to read. Despite his cookiness and unconventionality, I love him and think that he is absolutely brilliant (what I gathered from his lecture and his syllabi, cumulatively). Kate and Sonia are in the class too which is definitely a bonus. I think this is going to be the best history class I will ever take and I'm going to actually LEARN as opposed to memorizing useless garbage. A very promising class that I will update you guys about more later!
Chemistry 101: As I mentioned before, this class seems like it's going to be a total bitch and it appears as though I'm going to have to spend about 10 hours per week (at least!) just studying for it. And this is my conclusion despite the fact that I haven't attended lab or recitation yet. I think that despite my initial panic, I have resolved to do well in this class and am extremely determined to put in the hours neccessary. I feel like I have supportive friends who are willing to help me and that's always good. Let's hope this isn't the GPA spoiler I hypothesized it would be.
Psychological Statistics: This class is totally up in the air. I took Stats in high school and though it was easy and boring and didn't study=me failing the AP and being wary of the "second time around." Privatera teaches it and he is supposedly completely stellar but I think it will be doable as long as I don't blow off his lectures/not do the practice problems. I already read chapter 1 and did most of the homework despite the fact that I don't think it's due until Wednesday. Let's hope it's as easy as the professor told us it can be.
Animal Rights: I chose to put this class last because it is the class that is the most hard to...explain with mere words. The teacher looks like he is in his mid-late twenties, he is very thin, has a Buffalo accent, and is a bit rambly. Sometimes I try to really analyze his body language or intonation but it's not possible! I have no idea what to expect from him. He told us yesterday that the class is introductory philosophy. I don't think that is what I bargained for at all. I think the most unpleasant thing about the class is the reading material. I started reading the first book and got to about page 125, it's by a philosopher and animal rights activist named Tom Regan and is called Empty Cages. The book basically states over and over again, in a persuasive manner, utilizing deft argumentation, that anyone who does not actively fight animal abuse (eg. practice veganism; not wear wool, leather, or fur; oppose the use of animals for scientific endeavors...etc.) is morally bankrupt in many senses as well as hypocritical and cruel. It may be true, but a lot of the information is hard to swallow and unpleasant to immerse oneself in. Despite my reservations, it is my Honors Seminar and I am required to take it. Thus, I need to take it for what it's worth and hope I can still live with myself after attending 28 more guilt trips...I mean lectures.
So that's basically the low down. I am trying to stay on top of my work. I am not drinking coffee. I work out every day. I have a liquor stash and am ecstatic that it's Friday.
This took a crapload of time so I guess I'll go do my work now!
<333 Love and vegan peanut butter-carob brown rice krispie squares <333
Morg
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I cannot STAND stupid immature idiots who don't realize that they are no long FIFTEEN years old and that they are now in COLLEGE. Get over it and move on with your lives people. It's time.
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