From Boston University’s Show Us Your Blogs competition: The 16 finalists are listed below, in no particular order: 1. This Be My (B)log http://carolineb-log.blogspot.com A student discusses her ongoing treatment for leukemia. 2. Alliteration Abound http://www.alliterationabound.com Video game aficionado posts on gaming and life. No, I did not win, and that’s perfectly fine. To be […]
Sweet Dreams
I didn’t get any work done when I was sick this past weekend. I had told myself that I’d rather be healthy and unproductive than ill and unproductive, but tonight is a night of healthiness and unproductivity, and I found myself wishing that I was sick so that people wouldn’t blame me for being unproductive. […]
Topics to discuss during office hours
From Always Excel: Campus Markers and the Purpose of Boston University As students at Boston University, we are expected to learn many things before we enter that right of passage called graduation… Mathematics may be used to rob a bank; chemistry used to kill; penmanship may be used to forge a check; psychology may be […]
Which came first, the わりお or the わるいじ?
Waluigi – Evil version of Luigi Waruiji – Japanese pronunciation Ijiwaru – Japanese word for mean-spirited waru – iji iji – waru COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT! If only Wikipedia didn’t beat me to the punch.
Note I left in the BU Dining Services comment box
Dear Mr. Fruit Basket, I know you have a great reputation as a matchmaker, but all the fruit you’ve given me has been mediocre. I’ve gotten bored with the fat red apples you keep showing me. They may be sweet and nice, but I need some zest in my life. That’s when you brought that […]
Compulsive Research – 2U
Sometimes I wonder whether I made the right choice by majoring in computer science. There are definitely parts about the subject that I don’t like: the algorithm analysis, the complex math, the debugging, the snowball effect that results from misunderstanding a concept… But there are flashes of insight and revelation that completely reassure me that […]
Mystic Snake – 1GUU
For the past twelve hours I have been thinking entirely in terms of Mario Kart: Double Dash!!: I keep envisioning myself blue sparking. Blue sparking around the enemies in the game I’m playing. Blue sparking around the hall. Blue sparking around my kitchen table. I loved the game the first time I played it. It […]
Draw-go
If I had a lifetime to train as a fighter, I would specialize in counters. I would wait until my opponent attacked, then analyze and redirect it to throw him off balance, following up with an attack at the newly created opening. When I play chess, I always prefer to be black because I do […]
Caution, Fragile, Handle With Care
Am I no different than the rest of the crappy gifts, just with softer wrapping paper?
Yuki 雪
First snow, and it looks like it’s coming down hard.
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