Archive for 2008
Interview!
I’ve got a scholarship interview tomorrow. Any money I get at this point will reduce my loans for the semester, which would be wonderful. I’m a little nervous and very worried that I’m going to have a migraine. Yikes! ***UPDATE*** I got it!
What I’ve noticed
The US government conducted a huge raid for illegal immigrants in Postville, Iowa. They haven’t explained why some are being deported and others are being jailed. Wives of the arrested men have been fitted with leg monitoring bracelets and basically been told “You can’t work, you can’t leave and can’t stay.” The local Roman Catholic […]
My first ESA meeting!
This summer, I went to the Ecological Society of America’s annual meeting in Milwaukee. After spending most of my summer at KBS near the small town of Hickory Corners, it was nice to be in a city for a few days. The conference was great. I learned a lot of ecology, met tons of cool […]
Back to the music
I haven’t done a weekly top 5 since June, and I’m not planning on doing one today. Hopefully you’ve all still managed to find good music. Just in case you’re having trouble, though, here‘s a song I really love.
Vacation’s over
I lived at the Kellogg Biological Station for most of this summer. It’s wonderful to be home, but living on a lake wasn’t all bad.
“It’s natural”
From Helen Boyd‘s She’s Not the Man I Married. I find it amusing that people find excuses for their bad behavior by pointing to residual cavemen genes, since I thought the whole point of civilization was to maybe get past our most basic urges, or at least indulge them responsibly.
Wondering what to do with your life?
From The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin. [T]he fact that general relativity and the quantum are not yet united means that we have no single picture of what the world is that we can believe in. When a child asks, What is the world, we literally have nothing to tell her.