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A Brief Silence

It’s that time of the year semester again, in which I find myself running about putting out fires that have either 1) burst forth just recently or 2) been smoldering all semester while I ignored them. The biggest fire is the aforementioned term paper, which sort of.. smoldered and burst forth. I knew it was [...]

Term Paper Woes (Part 2)

I wrote a couple of days ago about having some serious problems with getting started on a term paper for one of my classes. Things with it have moved forward a bit, and so I wanted to toss an update out:
I now have enough material to write the paper. However, only one of my sources [...]

Term Paper Woes

It’s that time of the semester again – that is, close to its end. I think just about anyone who’s done the whole college thing would say that the end of the semester, the last few weeks, are the worst. Even if you stay on top of things the rest of the time, things start [...]

When is enough truly enough?

There’s an older fellow in one of my classes this semester, who has indirectly put me in a bit of a bind. I’m stuck considering when one should go from tolerating rudeness and derogatory remarks, to not tolerating it anymore and doing something about the problem. Let me explain:
The class is about world history up [...]

So Much Stuff To Do, So Little Time!

Hi, readers! (I do still have some of those here, right?) I wanted to let you all know that I’m still alive and well, and that I’ve not decided to up and stop blogging all at once. It’s definitely something I want to continue doing, and will continue doing. So, what gives? Why have the [...]