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• Vitamins, Fruits, Minerals, In One Shot!!

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 144
  Recently I just had the most amazing opportunity land in my lap, I feel very blessed I was given this awesome opportunity!! The drink is fabulous I sleep better at night, my mind is clear all the time, I have more energy and stamina all the time and the best part is I no longer have to take any more pills such as ...
  11 hours ago

• Surprise! How It Can Help You Get Accepted

  
  Accepted Admissions Almanac — Authority: 124
  "My visit to the cemetary on Friday gave new meaning to Black Friday for me." Actually it didnt. But if it had, that line would have provided a strong opening to this post on the second of Made to Sticks six principles of memorable, persuasive communication: Unexpected. You expect me to post about writing and ...
  12 hours ago

• Elusive

  
  Brown Sharpie — Authority: 118
  Copyright © 2009 Brown Sharpie. Thanks for reading Brown Sharpie! Check out the shop: Brown Sharpie at cafepress:)
  21 hours ago

• Reconnecting

  
  mighty maggie — Authority: 127
  As a result of his revolting work ethic, Phillip had weeks and weeks of vacation time he had to use or lose by the end of the year. It was no problem taking time off for Vegas and Disneyland, and now were in the middle of a week off at Thanksgiving and looking forward to another week around Christmas. And he still has ...
  1 day ago

• Nerd Analysis: Identity Politics, Race, and Gay Marriage

  
  Mad Minerva 2.0 — Authority: 480
  Identity politics-a-palooza! Here is a blurb by a grad student whom academia has apparently failed to re-program (hail, fellow rebel!): All too often, white liberal classmates at the University of Virginia would ask, "Shouldnt blacks, more than any other group, support gay rights?" I never understood my ...
  2 days ago

• On School Woes

  
  Hortus Deliciarum — Authority: 112
  It’s been a really, really tough couple of weeks.That Wheezy post? Well, the wheezy turned into the flu. Probably not H1N1, unless it was the no-high-fever variant that some folks apparently get but the flu, pure and simple. The next day was a deep, hacking, painful cough. The day after that [...]
  2 days ago

• Fight Sarah Palin, The Tea Baggers and Michelle Bachman

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 144
  Go to sarahpalin.org to help support the candidates who will be running against the Sara Palin/Tea Party/Michelle Bachman hand picked candidates.
  2 days ago

• Five Ways To Save In Grad School

  
  loans-blog — Authority: 149
  Most graduate students are strapped for cash. Even with the Federal Stafford Loan, Graduate PLUS Loan and alternative student loans students often do not have the money to live a comfortable lifestyle. Between tuition payments, rent, food, and only being able to work part time things can get really tight. Here are ...
  3 days ago

• Let’s get personal

  
  NeuroDojo — Authority: 133
  The Dr. Jekyll & Mrs. Hyde blog had a quite good post on writing personal statements . There’s a tricky thing about personal statements: It’s almost impossible to find good and bad examples of them. Because personal statements are part of competitive applications for programs or positions, they’re ...
  3 days ago

• Foundation work + spitting at kleptocracies

  
  This is not a brothel. — Authority: 127
  THE Clinton Foundation — where I’m volunteering — has helped provide access to anti-retroviral drugs for some 2m HIV-infected people in 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. How does it work? Since 2000, the cost of the drug cocktail needed to treat AIDS has fallen from $10,000 per patient ...
  5 days ago

• Queer International Studies

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 686
  Laura Sjoberg informs us that she is working to form a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, and Allies  Caucus of the International Studies Association (the premier organization of academic IR scholars) in order to: A. To promote fair and equal treatment of members of the Lesbian, Gay, Transgendered, ...
  6 days ago

• Possibly the best thing about America...?

  
  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way Home... — Authority: 117
  There is a whole lot to like about America, and I think we can probably all agree on that. By no means do I think we are perfect, but we get a whole lot of stuff right, and we have a history of improving ourselves. For a variety of reasons, the United States has been the source of much of the great technological ...
  1 week ago

• North America cities that have (or had) a pedestrian mall

  
  UrbanReviewSTL — Authority: 130
  Friday I asked for help with information on 60 former pedestrian malls ( see post ).  Readers responded with helpful information.  Today I’m sharing my complete list of cities that have or had a pedestrian mall built during the period 1959-1984.   A few cities are listed twice because they had two pedestrian ...
  1 week ago

• Do cats kiss?

  
  Faraday's Cage is where you put Schroedinger's Cat — Authority: 420
  I was going to go to a midnight showing of the Princess Bride tonight. Unfortunately, my friend had to cancel because her sister, who is the same age as the older boy, was signed up to do babysitting at church tomorrow. Her parents werent too happy with our plans. (Typing that makes me feel like a kid.) As it ...
  1 week ago

• I need me some Snow Clothes!

  
  Courtenay Brown — Authority: 116
  My goal for the weekend is to get at least one grad school application submitted (out of seven total). Latest obstacles to this goal include: -discovery of yet another essay I need to write (”describe a situation where you displayed leadership”)(my tweaking skills will be put the test here. I think my community ...
  1 week ago

• The Big Test

  
  Gazelles On Crack — Authority: 130
  I studied a LOT for my mid-term today. I was nervous – this class is really hard for me. When I opened the test, I was afraid. It was really hard. I took about 18 of the 20 allotted minutes, and finally knew I’d done the best I could.So, I saved my answers & hit [...]
  1 week ago

• Weekend List Post

  
  this woman's work — Authority: 424
  1. Got heads up on a project to try out for that has me kind of excited. I like the start of things — the research and planning and learning something new. I love it! 2. I wrote a guest post on the Bitch blog on (surprise!) adoption and it got hit by a troll. It’s true that there are a few (very few in my ...
  1 week ago

• Grad Admissions: Helicopter Parents

  
  Accepted Admissions Almanac — Authority: 124
  The New York Times published an article this week "Letting Your Grad Student Go " on the phenomenon of helicopter parents in graduate schools admissions. Yes, I mean graduate, not undergraduate, admissions. I have a dual perspective on helicopter parenting. I have been working in graduate admissions as a private ...
  1 week ago

• The beauty of mathematics

  
  Another Monkey — Authority: 129
  Once upon a time I was a Physics graduate student. It didnt last long, only a single semester. I was in the wrong place; the place where I wanted to be, where I should have been, had stopped taking any graduate students that year - shortly after I had been accepted into their graduate program. I was in the wrong ...
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• I am counting this as a win!

  
  Trouble Is A State Of Mind — Authority: 131
  My SSHRC application is due to the department tomorrow. (SSHRC = funding for PhD work at this level. 116 people get a SSHRC grant across Canada. My chances are thus very low. *crosses fingers anyway*) I think my "give me money" is done. Im a bit worried about it because you get "two pages, single-spaced, 12 ...
  1 week ago

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