October 2011
15 posts
Quiero Leer
In first grade, Mrs. Platt’s class, we had a reading caterpillar. I’m sure he had some clever name involving alliteration, but it must not have been that clever if it didn’t stick thirteen years later. Every time you read a book, you got to add a circle to the caterpillar’s body with your name and the name of the book you read. By the end of the year he had wrapped and...
truly an inspirational man
http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html
I hate cancer. I hate that such an inspirational man had to suffer through it. I hate that it flips the lives of not only the people suffering through it, but the people around it, upside down. I hate that it can lead to taking the life of someone who has made such an impact on the world, or the life of even the least known...
.5 Pencil Lead
I love math. I know that is probably the nerdiest thing I could say, but I have come to accept the fact that solving problems gives me great satisfaction. This might be why I am legitimately enjoying learning in my accounting course this semester and could not be more excited when my debits equal credits.
Along with my nerdy love of mathematical concepts is my OCD love of .5 mechanical pencils. I...
