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| this comment will make me seem socially challenged but i love textbooks! it makes me so giddy to own ones that are well written and authoritative in their field. i want to collect every authoritative, classical text there is in physics, chem, math, bio, medicine...etc. urgh but they are so expensive! i must wait....but i want them all now! but this is good...this makes it such that i will always have something to occupy my mind with. i can't wait until i have money so i can develop a study with walls stocked with the best collection! oo...and speaking of my future house, i also want a closet full of clothes and my own ballet studio and a lake....i'm random. 
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| Blech! I hate it when a discipline tries to justify itself by being excessively intellectual. I respect a discipline more when it is direct and true, not when it tries to artificially seem more important! Bah! This happened in my plant biology class when the professor tried to make an analogy between the structure of a plant and that of a building by saying that "If there are any engineers in here (why would there be?) you would know that one of the main things they teach you in the construction of a building is..." And now I'm taking this French translation class and I'm reading this article that goes on and on about the subtleties in meaning that can be lost in the translation of a text and how this can be clarified by making an analogy with the concept of energy loss in engineering. I mean c'mon! I'd respect this class much more if it was straight to the point. A lot of this stupid theoretical talk about translation can be summed up to: use logic. And I'd be fine with that and I'd truly enjoy the class if we just started translating things more and learned from practice what makes sense and what doesn't instead of talking on and on and reading stupid intellectual texts about meanings lost in translation. AH! I'm so sick of school. I'm so sick of talk.
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| "If I had a quarter for every time I said I had a nickle, I'd have five times as much theoretical money!" - Stephen Colbert. HAHA.
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| what can i say, worst things have happened to better people, so it's time to suck it up! | | |
| I'm stupid. Even though when I really think about it I know better, subconsciously I've been imbued with the notion that knowledge is the basis of fairness. "What I gain should equal what I know." Bull. I'm so stupid. I mean I've always known this. People who are successful in this world are less often smart than they are competent. I don't know why I even think the argument of had I had more time I could have done better is even relevant. You're always going to have to make quick decisions and of course the world isn't going to afford you such a subtle point of equality as time when it doesn't afford you even the most seemingly fundamental of equalities. There is luck and then there is a short period of time during which you make important decisions and if you make the wrong ones then you really don't get another chance. Next time I say something to the effect of "that's not fair" someone should just tell me "no shit." Bah. Gonna go study more. I'm such a fucking slacker.
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