February 2011
125 posts
WOO. I think I only need 12 units next quarter and I’m free from community college (iA)! Too bad I’ll have class everyday Monday-Friday and an evening class. But whatever, my own fault for dropping seminars in the past.
January 2011
53 posts
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SOMEONE TAKE THIS DE-CAL FOR ME.
Jersey Shore: Through the Lens of Southeastern European Immigrant Experience of the 19th century
I want to take it — it’d be hilarious.
D:
I’m killing time before I sleep early by setting up all my UC IDs and I’m having senior year flashbacks. D: NOT COOL.
Especially the Irvine one. It even has messages from when I applied as a freshman. wtf.
WRITER'S BLOCK. NO BUENO.
It’s nights like this I question why I decided to become an English major when I have weekly papers due.
THIS IS NOT THE BUSINESS.
mi2d asked: What does tachycardia mean???
That awkward moment...
gabopanda:
When you finish your test early and you don’t want to be the first one to hand it in so you wait for someone else to do it first…
“How does it feel to be a problem? Just over a century ago, W.E.B. Du Bois asked that very question in his American classic The Souls of Black Folk, and he offered an answer. ‘Being a problem is a strange experience,’ he wrote, ‘peculiar even.’ Determined to pull back ‘the veil’ separating populations, he showed his readers a fuller picture of the black experience, including ‘the meaning of its...
The following is an excerpt from the last sermon of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). He delivered this sermon during his last pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj), only months before he passed away in 632 AD (10 AH).
“All humankind is from Adam and Eve. An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab, nor does a non-Arab have any superiority over an Arab. Also, a white person has no superiority...
MLK is an Example to American Muslims
(wanted to post this yesterday but forgot.)
As American Muslims face the challenge of rising anti-Islam sentiment in American society, we can benefit from the example of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who used the power of truth and justice to peacefully overcome those who promoted fear and its resulting prejudice and intolerance.
Like African-Americans who faced far more severe challenges in the...
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I feel so uninspired.
STFU, Islamophobes!: Non-Muslim Hijabis: A Story... →
thegaysha:
I spoke with five women, two who wear the veils for reasons other than religious devotion. The three women who are Muslim, provided a great insight into the reasons behind their choosing to wear the veil.
One of the Muslim woman, who asked to be referred to as Aliya who is from…
Just got inspiration to write my paper at 4 am....
damnfuckshit:
PRESS PLAY AND LOOK AT THE...
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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his...”
– Henry Ward Beecher, circa 1887
Cool. My leg has been cramped up for over 12 hours now. I hate this. Freaking potassium, I hate you.
Waiting for my muscle relaxer. Today sucks ass.
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“Conservative (noun) - A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as...”
– Ambrose Bierce | The Devil’s Dictionary
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“Atque in perpetuum, frāter, avē atque valē.”
– Gaius Valerius Catullus | “Catullus 101”
And for eternity, brother, a tribute and farewell.
Sigh. I know my mom did the Costco shopping this time around since we have the cheap toilet paper. I miss the two-ply, softer ones my dad buys. :(
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resolutions.
Let’s see what happens….
Before break ends:
Finalize my winter quarter schedule
Buy my textbooks
Finish my private school applications
Get my transcripts/SAT scores
Email for recommendations
Clean out my room
Seriously go and sell my textbooks
Fix my closet; get rid of clothes I don’t wear
Re-format my laptop
Find my iPod D:
Wash backpack
For Winter Quarter:
Wake up...