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Posted on 07-25-07 02:51 AM, in Goliath is more fun without your hands on the bar. Link
It was my first roller coaster ride.
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Posted on 07-25-07 02:55 AM, in New, not very official, have you ever thread. Link
It's my only fear.

Have you ever thought: "wow, college is as boring as high school, just on a larger scale"?

Because I sure think so.
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Posted on 07-25-07 03:17 AM, in What's a good college to transfer to? Link
Okay, this year I'll be enrolling in my sophomore year in a community college and have a guaranteed admission contract with UCSD come next fall, more or less. However, I frankly don't like UCSD and it's not for reasons related to prestige. They follow a rather dull, super-applied curriculum that I can't really face with much eagerness--incidentally, I'm trying to major in economics-mathematics, although I'd be just as happy doing something like public policy or the like. Any suggestions?
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Posted on 07-25-07 03:36 AM, in Your favorite animal? Link
I have a lot of faith in humans.
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Posted on 07-25-07 03:38 AM, in Naruto Link
He looks like he cuts himself.
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Posted on 07-25-07 05:24 AM, in What's a good college to transfer to? Link
Originally posted by Elara
UCSD... San Diego? Just checking.

But yeah, there are many good schools... you just need to research them. UCLA is good, so is USC but it is a private school so yeah, biased against it. Both schools have good econ/math programs. Hell check out the Cal State schools as well. If you get the really good grades and can afford it there is always a chance of getting into Harvard or Stanford. maybe Pepperdine or something.

Granted, no matter where you go, econ and math are both rather dull majors. Define "public policy"... political science? Law?

Well, I'm really not interested in much in econometrics as much as economic theory and pure mathematics--although they diverge, frankly.

Frankly, I'd agree with you about the econ-math thing being dull, the typical econometrics seems dull to me too. I thought math would be pure at the college level, but it's just as bad as high school. If I might provide an analog, pure math would be to baking a cake as the usual math course is to warming up a frozen, preprocessed one. And as everyone knows, "it's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake."
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Posted on 07-26-07 01:37 AM, in What's a good college to transfer to? Link
That's the thing, I'm not interested in engineering. I definitely don't think math is an intermediary, it's the end and means and everything in between.
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Posted on 07-26-07 03:07 AM, in Your favorite animal? Link
I like crows. They're smart fellows, and not assholes like those seagulls.
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Posted on 07-26-07 03:09 AM, in What's a good college to transfer to? Link
Go to grad school?
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Posted on 07-26-07 03:14 AM, in "Rape" banned in a rape trial Link
Lawyers have a good vocabulary, so they're not going to have a problem. "Rape" is a very strong word, and I think a cogent statement is far more compelling than an emotional one.
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Posted on 07-26-07 03:14 AM, in Your favorite animal? Link
A cat is fine too.
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Posted on 07-26-07 05:03 AM, in What's a good college to transfer to? Link
Dunno, I always wanted to write a book.
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Posted on 07-26-07 05:07 AM, in I got a new fountain pen Link
Sorry, no camera, so I'll just link someone else's picture of it:

It's a Rotring Core, and it only cost me ten dollars! I'm using ruby ink, and it looks awesome.
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Posted on 07-29-07 06:49 PM, in What's a good college to transfer to? Link
Well, first of all, thanks for all the support. Some colleges I was interested in right now are:

St. Johns, which has a very down-to-earth, classical approach and grants a general Bachlor's Degree (They go through Newton's Principia and Euclid's Elements). It has a pretty nice application too, a 5~10 page essay on three topics, and no SAT/ACT required, and although mine is more than decent, I like that they're not so obsessed with College board and all that nonsense. It happens to reside in both Santa Fe, NM as well as Annapolis, MA. One of the caveats is that they don't allow transfer credit, and I'd have to go the full four years there. Just a note.

I'm also interested in University of Chicago, which has a very engaging curriculum as well as a interesting essay in their application. However, the competition is to say the least, cut-throat, especially in economics. Specifically, they have a very theoretical approach to economics and mathematics, and uses a lot of books and papers that are assuredly top notch. They also happen to offer a combined math-econ major as well as a combined BA/MA program. Nifty.



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Posted on 07-31-07 02:19 AM, in What's a good college to transfer to? Link
For most courses with an A or B that don't have a placement test, then you can earn credit through satisfactory results through them. This is okay, since I only have As and Bs in college.
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Posted on 08-01-07 12:35 AM, in I got a new fountain pen Link
Originally posted by Elara
It looks nifty. Does it give you any problems with the ink or anything like that?

None really, and it comes with a converter. Although I'd say the holes are for balance, not an ink viewer. Ink is pretty cheap though, so I recoup losses pretty fast. I'm old fashioned and still write notes in pen, so I'd go through disposable pens rather quick. Another thing is that while fountain pens might seem more expensive, the ones people use for day-to-day writing are usually in a very affordable range () and nibs are really cheap and work better over time, and while those thin line pens (<0.5mm) always cost a lot, a fine or extra fine nib does the job nicely. And fountain pens need a lot less force to apply ink to paper, although this one works for legal papers even.

It has really nice balance though, and it's lighter than it looks. I miss my old one though, it was a black Sheaffer, although it took a while to get used to and was a bit heavier.

Also, I like using the Pentel sharp for pencil-work, and you've probably seen one of these:
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Posted on 08-01-07 11:14 PM, in What's a good college to transfer to? Link
Guess what guys, essay questions are up for UoC. Now maybe you'll see why I like their prompts. :O



Essay Option 1
Chicago professor W. J. T. Mitchell entitled his 2005 book "What Do Pictures Want?" Describe a picture and explore what it wants.
Proposed by Anna Andel, a graduate of Bard High School Early College, New York, NY.

Essay Option 2
The University of Chicago has a venerable tradition of seminar-based learning, in which students and professors gather around the classroom table to discuss ideas. Less venerable, but no less valuable, is our tradition of conversation around another table–the dinner table. Indeed, on any given night you will find members of our student community breaking bread together, discussing everything from The Symposium to The Simpsons. We in the admissions office would argue that a community can be defined by its table—by its shape, by who finds a seat there, by what transpires there, by what is inspired there. Tell us about your table.
Essay Option 3
In Jorge Luis Borges’s Labyrinths, he writes a parable entitled “Borges y yo,” which translates as “Borges and I.” In it, Borges writes about “the other one,” his counterpart, who shares his preference for “hourglasses, maps, eighteenth century typography, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Stevenson,” but is not the same as he. “The other one” is the famous author; “the other one” is the one “things happen to.” He concludes this parable with the line “I do not know which of us has written this page.” Write a page. Who has written it?
Proposed by Zhuyi Elizabeth Sun, a graduate of Inglemore High School, Bothell, WA.

Essay Option 4
Modern improvisational comedy had its start with The Compass Players, a group of University of Chicago students, who later formed the Second City comedy troupe. Here is a chance to play along. Improvise a story, essay, or script that meets all of the following requirements:
It must include the line “And yes I said yes I will Yes” (Ulysses, by James Joyce).
Its characters may not have superpowers.
Your work has to mention the University of Chicago, but please, no accounts of a high school student applying to the University–this is fiction, not autobiography.
Your work must include at least four of the following elements:
a paper airplane
a transformation
a shoe
the invisible hand
two doors
pointillism
a fanciful explanation of the Pythagorean Theorem
a ventriloquist or ventriloquism
the Periodic Table of the Elements
the concept of jeong
number two pencils
Essay Option 5
Take as a model Options 1 through 4 as you pose and respond to a prompt of your own. If your prompt is original and thoughtful, then you should have little trouble writing a great essay. Draw on your best qualities as a writer, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, sensible woman or man, citizen of the world, or future citizen of the University of Chicago; take a little risk and have fun.

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Posted on 08-06-07 04:41 AM, in Minneapolis Bridge Collapses Link
I think that the government should be privatized.
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Posted on 08-06-07 04:46 AM, in Transformers! Robots in...shoes? Link
Originally posted by NHK Dairinin
Originally posted by insectduel
I could impress girls with these.
Haha, I'm sure you could.

If you find an attractive girl who shares the same passion for Transformers, you sir, will be victorious.

Is a girl without such a passion truly beautiful?
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Posted on 08-06-07 05:00 AM, in Cant have nothing. Link
It feels so awful, the thought, but I agree. All I want to say is don't act rashly. Just try not to kill your neighbor.

It hurts so much to see something so full of life slip out of your grip, it's like seeing a piece of fruit ripe and ready for savoring being squashed upon, a delecable shelf of hot rolls uncerimoniously tossed in the trash and into the dumpster in front of a starving homeless person.

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