another washu'er — although I chose to stay in the 314... and am going back for grad school next fall (mmmm.... mba).

wait, i thought roman polanski was hiding out in france?

someone please get that man a sandwich.

as a recent grad who just went through the job search project, I have a few things that helped me land a dream position.

if you add too much spice or salt to a stew/curry/something that can be simmered on a stovetop add a cubed white potato. It'll absorb some of the spicyness and/or saltiness.

well, good for her company for finally standing up for her... and honestly, if you aren't indignant about this, ugh.

props to the weekly dispensers as well - buy 'em big, though, cause the small ones, while more discreet are also too small for say, a multivitamin and another supplement. for those of you who take multiple dosages a day, they also make "AM, noon, PM" versions. same concept.

i got fitted for an expensive pair of trainers (~100) that I loved. after a few months (this is key) of running on them, I went online, found the exact same model/size/width for almost 1/2 the price and stocked up.

i work in academia.

i'll send one rather than not — you don't end up being mistaken for ungrateful/rude and it takes a few seconds. why not? it'll take the recip. shorter to delete it than it took you to compose it.

i have a separate profile on my computer for "work" and "play". the work profile doesn't have anything fun except music on it, no access to games, limewire, etc. I limit myself to 10 minutes of surfing for every 2 hours of work i do. if i'm really, really distracted I'll use iPowerHour (plays a song per minute,…

mannn that's why my left thigh always looks burned...

i hate dangling modifiers. the only thing I hate more than dangling modifiers is when someone says "oh, excuuuuuse me" when I point the grammar error out to them in a paper/publication. seriously, correct grammar never hurt anyone.

i think if i did that, i'd get lauged out of my department.

this doesn't seem dangerous at all!

#4: never stay up past 10pm

wow, some lifehackers really need to socialize if you'd trust a perfect stranger you meet online with your pets rather than make friends with a neighbor. I'd rather just take my cat with me than leave her in the care of some random person who says they own pets online...

also, the one key to time management (which becomes super critical in college) is "wasting" your first hour. Every sunday evening after my sorority chapter meeting/dinner, I sit down for a solid hour and hand write my schedule for the week. every appointment, every coffee date, every pset and every single other…

I use campusI.com to get all my books for a fraction of what my bookstore charges. Most of my books I end up reusing or keeping for reference. no one likes to boggle over that proof that you *know* was in your multivar calc book because you sold it back for 5 bucks and a coupon for proactiv.

my girls and i are doing "pie and wine". apple pie and white wine = a perfect combination, but noone too trashed that they start crying about being single.