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What Kind of Nerdfighter Are You?: Computer Science Philosophy

About Me:: I'm a college student studying philosophy, computer science, and French. I love to read. A lot. Too Much. It's all I do really.

Oh I almost forgot I run. Cross Country.

Favorite Books, Movies, Music, and more: Orlando, Pride and Prejudice, Weaving the Web, Waiting for Godot, Republic, Beyond Numeracy, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Berlin Stories, Code 2.0, The Second Sex, Sons and Lovers, Death in Venice, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Moby Dick....................

What's your favorite thing to put on your head?: Floral Arrangements

If you could do your happy dance with anyone who would it be with?: Virginia Woolf (I feel like she could really use some happy)

When did you start watching the Vlogbrothers?: 2008

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The Inauguration

At the beginning of the week a few of my college friends and I went to Washington, DC to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama. Other than hearing him speak live and in person, the best part of the trip was the political blogging party I attended on Monday night. A lot of amazing people were involved (like Nate Silver from FiveThirtyEight.com) Howard Dean even came and spoke to the attendees. Governor Dean had some really positive things to say about the Net and acknowledged the huge role it… Continue

Posted on January 21, 2009 at 6:30pm

Abortion-Its About Time We Abort this Topic (For the Present Anyway)

I just spent a few minutes looking at a forum about (you guessed it) abortion.

To be honest it pains me that abortion takes such a huge portion of the political spotlight. People spend hours talking about their opinion on the matter and nothing ever changes. As a society, we are all aware of the facts and statistics when it comes to abortion. We are all for the most part also very decided as to where we as individuals stand on the matter. Clearly this is a topic that will not, in the… Continue

Posted on January 18, 2009 at 1:48pm

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At 3:03pm on April 5, 2009, C4 Aries said…: -poke poke-

At 6:15pm on January 21, 2009, Becky said…: hmmm... all-time fave..... probably pride and prejudice... but i'm not exactly sure.... i also really love a tale of two cities, favorite artist is probably edgar degas, favorite poem... i really like most anything by tennyson
i really like classic poetry with rymes, i can't stand slant rhyme

oh and if i had to pick a favorite individual poem, not just a poet, i would probably pick Annabell Lee by Poe

At 7:47am on January 19, 2009, dozzzier said…: Thank gawd. If college ended up being the exact same as high school, the chances of me dropping out would've increased exponentially.

So, how's college? What classes are you taking?

At 2:26am on January 19, 2009, Becky said…: who is your favorite character in it?

oh and what is your all-time favorite book?

At 2:07am on January 19, 2009, Becky said…: i think it has to be one of my all time favorites.... there is something that is just so timeless about it..... and mr. darcy never fails to impress, either.... heeheeheee

At 2:02am on January 19, 2009, Becky said…: pretty good... so you like pride and prejudice too???

At 1:32am on January 19, 2009, Becky said…: how're you doing?

At 11:34pm on January 18, 2009, Pwnography said…: I would hope college is better... It's difficult not to be.

What courses are you taking in college?