This video made me laugh. Regardless, some of the ideas may be interesting to try out. Thanks to Hack College for making this one-minute-ramen-hack video.
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Seeing the World
I will never look at sand the same way ever again…
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What We Can Learn From Bats
I learned quite a bit about bats in this talk by Emma Teeling. One of the more basic-science-based TED talks recently, I thought this talk demonstrated how little most people know about bats and how much we can actually learn from them.
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Neo-Punctuation
“Piled Higher and Deeper” by Jorge Cham
www.phdcomics.com
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On Education
I found this quote via Alisha Hackinen’s TEDxTerry talk a few days ago 
The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It’s proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or “accessing” what we now call “information” – which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.
–Wendell Berry
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The Value of Involvement
This afternoon I had the pleasure of being part of a workshop brainstorming ideas about how UBC should organize its approach to getting more students involved on campus. A lot of great discussion was had, and I really want to comment here on how different kinds of involvement are valued.
First of all, I think it’s important to broaden what we define as “involvement.” Yes, starting your own club or heading a committee is an involvement, a huge one, but sometimes it can feel like if you aren’t doing a BIG thing, it doesn’t count. Something like going to one of the gardens on campus, seeing a play, attending an event, or just showing up for a recreational club meeting (you don’t have to be on the exec!) all count, in my books. There is a broad spectrum of depth of involvement, ie. how much time and commitment an activity takes, but all should be counted and valued equally. For example, someone commuting and taking six courses is probably not going to have the same amount of time to spend doing extracurriculars as someone taking three courses and living on campus. If the six-course commuter gets involved by attending the occasional AMS event or club meeting, there is nothing “less” about that in any way than the three-course rezzie being an SLC co-chair. They’re just different experiences, and both are important.
Secondly, the type of activity one is involved with can sometimes vary in value. I am going to use myself as an example this time: personally, committees tend to drive me nuts, and while I commend those who love charity work, it’s just not for me. My life can be a hell sometimes, and I want involvement to be an escape from that, just to be fun. To be a place where I make/be with friends. I want to help myself. If that’s selfish, well, quite frankly I think that’s a rude label because all human beings are selfish at some time, so excuse me for being selfish. So I joined knitting club. Now personally, I don’t think that joining a recreational club should be any “less” than say, joining a club that fundraises for cancer research, or being a residence advisor (also not my thing). Wanting to get involved for the sake of finding your “people” or your “home”, or just purely to have fun, does not make you a worse person, or a less important person, than someone getting involved to give back to the community or hone a skill set.
The main thing I’d like to see more of, I suppose, is all involvement in its myriad forms to be recognized equally.
Focusing on Happiness
Here’s an interesting TED talk demonstrating an interesting correlation between happiness and focus, or rather, between happiness and mind-wandering.
Matt also mentions an iPhone app called track your happiness. Unfortunately, it’s only on iPhone, so I can’t use it 
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Early mornings are hard…
…but early morning dance parties make them easier.
Pro tip for keeping yourself from sleeping in on Sunday mornings: make your current favourite song your alarm clock. It’s nicer to listen to than a bunch of blaring beeps, and you might avoid the snooze button in favour of waiting for the best part to come on. Having a coffeemaker next to your bed helps, too. Not to mention gaining an extra hour thanks to Daylight Savings Time.
Now I’m off for brunch at the University Golf Club, crafting for Kwak’s one-week vegetarian challenge, and studying my tush off for ochem and genetics in the Law Library. Productivity, here I come. Hope you do something great with your extra hour, too!
A Powerful Talk on Many Levels
The pursuit of normality is the ultimate sacrifice of potential.
–Faith Jegede
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To-Do List Apps
As many of you know, I use Remember The Milk as my to-do list. It transfers flawlessly to my phone, and I have it set up in a way that works for me. Honestly, I think I would be pretty lost without my to-do list.
For those of you who want to try out a to-do list, or for those of you who tried one in the past, but are worried about motivating yourself to actually do the stuff on the to-do list, here are two phone apps that may be interesting for you.
For iPhone users, check out EpicWin. For Android users, check out Task Hammer.
These apps function as a to-do list, but to help motivate you to actually get stuff done, they have turned it into a game. You get a character in these apps that to level up, you need to check off things of your to-do list. I personally haven’t tried either of them, but I have read good things! Let me know if any of you have tried either of them!
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