I was so excited to play a game for my voluntold psychology experiment credit. It lasted maybe 4 clicks. My friend however, immediately figured out the pattern and played all night. Grr. The other experiment I had to be in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My Intro to Psych professor was dreamy. She told us that she had an “Oral Fixation,” as evidenced by her smoking. Riiight. She was a good teacher. However, this humorous story is actually attributed to another psych professor that my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I learned perhaps the MOST important thing in my college career (well, the first one) the second semester of college in Econ 101. I learned NEVER to take a class at 7:00 am. I don’t think I recall any single[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Paying for college is a sore subject for me. I was a student who needed financial aid. My parents hadn’t a clue, so I had no clue. Initially, I was on a scholarship from NASA, as a Chemical Engineering major.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a really cool Work Study job working in the Admissions Department at U of I. Mostly, I filed applications, so I got really good at singing the alphabet song. But whenever I had a Chinese file, it was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I applied to exactly one college in high school, Rice University in Houston, Texas. I never wanted to go anywhere else. I toured the college, interviewed with some alumnus, wrote an essay about my Grandfather (a Houstonian who had a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t remember exactly what I drank in my lunches at work, but whatever it was, it was fan-freaking-tastic! I loved it so much that my coworkers said I would make a good commercial. And I loved the “Snapple Lady.”
It was unnerving to see a Congregation of Praying Mantids (Swarm would be a dumb name for a group of Praying Mantids). I’d only ever seen one at a time, but working where we did, there were an untold number[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mosquitoes are attracted to CO2 and yummy smells (as evaluated by mosquitoes). They operate primarily during dim-light hours. Working in the hot sun apparantly produced a large amount of CO2 and as the sun faded, the vampires came out to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The area around our work site was an unforgiving landscape, seemingly the source material for the Dungeons and Dragons Dark Sun campaign. The sun going down didn’t really help any. So many times we had heat strokes. Thankfully, they had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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