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Sharing notes is a terrific way of collaborating... and it's also a painless way to deal with people who always want a copy of your notes, since you do your note taking on a laptop. I started posting my notes on my website a year or so ago after the requests started to mob me. Now, I give out a web address, and let…

Ah, the double edge of cell phones. Am I the only one that misses having a brick that never kept a charge, and hence, could only be used in the car? Now I have a wee thing that only needs charging once a week. Hence, everyone thinks that I should be accessible at all times.

Hmm— I would say it has less to do with Pavlov's dogs and more to do with Skinner's pigeons.

Be interesting. Sadly, that's the one that's the hardest to fake. You can be nice, non-judgemental, a good listener, but it won't make people -want- to be around you... They simply won't -mind- being around you.

A bit of warning about group trips: they can be a lot of fun, but they can also make a little corner of hell for you until they're over.

@katana - I'm with you. Offices are distraction machines. Sadly, my home isn't much better, so working from there would be moot.

Stock up on fast meal options. I cornered the market in keilbasa and chedder brats because they only take a few minutes to prepare. Also, I often roast a turkey or chicken on Sunday, then morph the leftovers over the week: pot pies, open faced sandwiches, wraps, salads.

If I had to guess, I would say the pad uses the same science as a gecko's feet: many tiny branches that create a weak bond to whatever it's touching, allowing the gecko to climb glass walls effortlessly.

Punctuation! I hate it when I get a text that should be three sentances, but it's crammed into one. It makes an already hard to read message worse.

I gave up caffeine once, and I was the most miserable person in the world. I think the mild antidepressants were the only thing keeping me happy with the guy I was with at the time. Add a headache to that, and you have one dark and bitter world.

It all depends on where you go. I would argue that Ivy League is wasted on undergrad. Most people don't really care where you got your undergrad, as long as you got it. While I would shy away from places that look suspect (a friend of mine was burned by a small college that then collapsed, all its records with it),…

Darn— All big plants. Does anyone have any suggestions on small plays (aside from cactii) that can survive my dubious gardening skills?

As a student in psychology, I constantly have to work with PDF's, either for research or course reserves. This program is a dream! Instant opens! Proof that it is not the PDF file structure that's the problem, but Adobe's bloated software.

I wonder why 48 minutes exactly...

Ways we saved on our wedding:

You know what's strange? I go to a school where the average age of the freshman is 27, so our classes tend to be full of much older students. The ones I hear the most whining from are ones in their 30s and late 20s. Sure, the 18 year olds mutter a bit, but most just slog through or quit coming to class.

I go to GMU, and on our LJ community, we try to post money saving tips