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Entries Tagged as 'Academic'

#069: Of precocious children and one-liners

October 24th, 2009 2 Comments

Currently listening to: “Fashionable People” – Joel Plaskett Emergency I do hate to use the excuse of life and work distracting me from updating on a semi-regular basis; alas, I must throw that out here. Amidst the steady loop of midterms (take one) and term papers and midterms (take two) and commitments to various extracurriculars, […]

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#060: Of course registrations and cookie-baking

July 6th, 2009 9 Comments

Currently listening to: “Superboy and the Invisible Girl” – Next to Normal OBCR COURSE REGISTRATIONS for upcoming second-years start in a week (July 13) and already, a plethora of courses are either full or teetering at that point, with three seats left, give or take. I was looking forward to taking PHIL 385: Existentialism, before […]

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#059: The Slackers’ Guide to the Arts One Final

June 6th, 2009 6 Comments

Currently listening to: “Don’t Stop Believing’ (Glee version)” – Glee Cast I’m afraid I’ve been dreadful at keeping up with this blog over the past two months – April, through all the end-of-semester madness, and finals, and then May, when I was traipsing across Canada, mea culpa. I’ll try my best to get back into […]

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#057: Chewing the books (and other recent news)

April 3rd, 2009 5 Comments

Currently listening to: “Margaret and Pauline” – Neko Case So there’s just the last few days left to go; crammed into these few days are the following: Arts One paper to write, poems to acquire in order to write aforementioned paper, a French test, and a French in-class essay. What glee! What larks! What splendiferous […]

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#055: The return of the mad hatter

March 25th, 2009 Comments Off on #055: The return of the mad hatter

Currently listening to: some trumpet major practicing études After a record 11 days of not blogging, I am back in the blogosphere, having been driven sufficiently mad by the past week-and-a-bit’s onslaught of papers/schoolwork and elections and work and well, life in general. It never ceases to amaze me how tiring just…being awake…can be. Suffice […]

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