If you’re about to meet a stranger who knows one of your relatives, the stranger will have made some assumptions about what you’re like even before having met you. These assumptions about your character will be based on the relationship the stranger has with your relative.
Accept this [series] Part 1: Murderers, rapists, pedophiles, white-collar tax evaders and all criminals in-between are necessary parts of a society if that society wants to recognize good behavior. There needs to be a calibration factor, against which goodness can be measured. Theoretical example: if every member of a population never took part in criminal…
I had a series of tests performed on my heart at the recommendation of chest doctors because 1. they were unable to explain what they heard with their stethoscopes 2. I suffer bizarre warm/cold sensations around my heart area To-do list: Chest x-rays. This operation was ordered to determine whether or not my lymph nodes…
It’s sometimes very easy to feel that I could retreat into the depths of my mind and let my eyes watch while my body continues to maneuver through life, as it has for 21 years. My body could continue attending courses, and it could receive a degree in some field. It could take part in…
Take for instance a situation where you’re driving through an underground tunnel and you casually notice that the tenth of a mile digit on the mileage meter turns 6 units. Say this is a tunnel only used to get you to the airport, and so it’s a few months before you drive it again. But…
Consider the businesses that close shop in observance of September 11th. What would these business owners decide to do in the event that another terrorist attack took place on a different day in the future? And then another attack, and another? What if attacks with death tolls in the mid 50s occurred bi-weekly on average….
“No, I’m not going to tell you the dollar amount because as Americans we’ve been conditioned to interpret the earnings of others in a competitive fashion.”
There’s a lot of effort on the part of some juveniles to fabricate fake IDs for purposes of buying things, or gaining entrance to events, which are reserved for adults. I question whether this is actually the best route to take. I would imagine that the negative consequences resulting from exposure of counterfeit ID fabrication…
There are a handful of squeak doors on campus that scream at a remarkably high frequency. It’s actually painful to walk through them because the waveform rapes my eardrum. And yet, people continue to use them instead of choosing adjacent non-squeaking doors. Of course, the non-squeaking doors are also used, but I had hoped that…
I recommend taking linear algebra regardless of whether or not it’s a degree requirement of yours. It’s a course that will, to use metaphor, break frames that’ve been built up around you. With respect to calculus and other math courses, the material in linear algebra is very new, maybe 100 years old, hence the ease…