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Book Review: Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future

Last week I got a shiny new library card for my new hometown. Well, it’s hard to call it my hometown, since it’s somewhat likely that I’ll only be here for the summer, but going three months without access to … Continue reading

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Housework expands to fill the time available

So, now that I’m between jobs (having finished at the census and counting the days until I move out to California), I’m back in full-on housewife mode. See, I just sit around at home all day by myself. Today I … Continue reading

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"Add it to the life list"

Whenever my good friend Adelaide and I were feeling particularly distressed about how we’d ever manage to get through MIT and make it into the real world and if we even really wanted to make it into the real world, … Continue reading

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Did you know you're almost famous?

I got a phone call from my ex-boyfriend today. We’re still close friends years after the fact, and talk often, so this wasn’t out of the ordinary. But part of the reason he called was to ask Ex: “By the … Continue reading

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Jobfox Resume Critique is a Scam, Part 2

About forever ago, when I still blogged and stuff, I wrote about the JobFox “Resume Critique Service” and how angry it made me. Basically this job search engine offers a free resume critique “service.” You check a box when you … Continue reading

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Unhappy Valentine's Day

If you’ve ever met me, you know I hate Valentine’s Day. There are a lot of reasons for this, and I doubt I really need to list them. I mean, if you’re reading this you have an Internet connection, you … Continue reading

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MIT, making you feel like crap, even after you've graduated

So there’s a blog out there that claims to give the MIT Alumni Perspective on the world, or something. It’s called Slice of MIT, and I’ve run across it before but didn’t really find it interesting, so I don’t follow … Continue reading

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Jobfox Resume Critique is a Scam

Now, I really was planning on writing an entry not about job searching. I swear! I have a couple half-written already. But I got an email today that just made me so angry, I had to switch the schedule up … Continue reading

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I will never find a job

Earlier today, I sat down on the floor and cried hysterically for 10 whole minutes. Despite the fact that I’ve been job searching off-and-on for oh, about a YEAR now (I had a summer job for a few months, plus … Continue reading

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Why I will always hate bankers

Today, I identify very, very strongly with the anti-banker sentiment out there lately. I will probably hate them for the absolute rest of my fucking life. Why? Because in their infinite greed, they fucked up the economy so hard as … Continue reading

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