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I’ve made my decision. Next year, I’ll be going to Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany. If you’re interested, the school website is here and there are some cool panoramas of Bremen here. And here is a video of free hugs made in Bremen.I’m mailing the forms and wiring the deposit tomorrow. And then I have a lot to do! I have to go ...
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As I face important choices, as I am overwhelmed by responsibility, as I realize that I am sorely lacking in good decision-making skills, there are many, many times that I want to just escape, in many ways. Of course, there’s the feeling that physically escaping the situations will make it better, the desire to just leave, but that’s unproductive. ...
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Amy asked for 25 facts. These are my 25 facts.
When I love a chunk of music (be it a song or an album or all the songs of an artist or even just some random playlist), I listen to it repeatedly for days and days until I get sick of it and can't listen to it for a few weeks at all (right now, it's the Rent soundtrack).I have discovered ...
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Thanks to Adele, I now know that my review of Paper Towns has been quoted on the Australian edition of the book! Wow. I've been quoted on books before, but a. nothing else this awesome and b. usually not as myself (they're reviews I wrote for other sites). Although sometimes I kind of wonder, what books are out there with my words that I ...
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Helium (http://www.helium.com/) is a super cool website that will appeal to a lot of you--it pays you for your writing! Any of it! And, okay, the upfront payments are like $.50 at first (it's based on a scale of writing stars), but if you write ten articles, that's five dollars you didn't have before. Also, if you wouldn't mind too ...
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Hundreds of Palestinians have lost their lives in the past few days.
Men, women, and children have died. Many of those who died were not fighters. They were schoolchildren. They were mothers. They were fathers. They were sisters and brothers and best friends. They were in love. They were loved. They had lives that were ended by this violence. ...
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I’d never been to Waffle House. I’d heard that it was smoky and dirty and “totally sketch,” to use the words of one friend, especially after midnight.
It was 12:30 AM, and my friend was driving me home from a birthday party, when I said, “Let’s go to Waffle House.”
Naturally, this suggestion was met with, “Why?” I answered, “Because it’s an ...
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Two bits of exciting news, one writing and one college. First, the writing--my piece about a trip to Morocco is currently first rated on Teen Ink website's travel and culture section (http://www.teenink.com/raw/Travel/) ! Read it at http://www.teenink.com/raw/Travel/article/59459/Bienvenue-Dans-Notre-Pays/.
College news: I got accepted to ...
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Few people would argue that reading, in
general, is bad for your mind. However, I have encountered some people
who seem to think that the value of reading is lessened by the type of
reading you’re doing. Fiction is apparently less worthwhile reading
than non-fiction, and even in the world of reading fiction, adult
fiction is often ...
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I have books that I immensely enjoyed, and
am in continuing awe of the skill of their authors. I have books that
fall into only one of those two categories (I appreciate how well done
they are, or I loved reading them). I have books that I think everyone
should read because everyone will love them. I have books that I
appreciate because ...