(Holly, a student from L.A.) Welcome the blog I brought with me to college. holly_hunt@brown.edu
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
I can’t believe Noor got to meet her/be on her tour bus. So jealous.
yup.
So she’s opening for Jason Derullo at MIT’s Spring Weekend and all.
Visual Delight: ‘Organizing the Bookcase’
(via greghartlegotrandom)
N.B. — Watch the little dragon on the side table.
Teachers make too much money!
Food for thought.
Are you sick of high paid teachers? Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year! It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do - baby sit! We can get that for less than minimum wage.
That’s right. Let’s give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and plan — that equals 6 1/2 hours).
Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children.
Now how many do they teach in day…maybe 30? So that’s $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day. However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations.
LET’S SEE…. That’s $585 X 180= $105,300 peryear. (Hold on! My calculator needs new batteries).
What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master’s degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an hour. That would be $8 X 6 1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year.
Wait a minute — there’s something wrong here! There sure is!
The average teacher’s salary (nation wide) is $50,000. $50,000/180 days = $277.77/per day/30 students=$9.25/6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student–a very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even EDUCATE your kids!)
WHAT A DEAL!!!!
Looking North towards downtown L.A., looking at bad neighborhoods and smog. <3
(Source: prixpictet.com)
Very funny: Great question. Well-informed answer. Typical response. Pearls before swine….
(via withoutgods)
This is a powerful game that allows, you, the player to see it’s like to live below the poverty level. It only takes a few minutes to play. Try it.zosiablue writes:
I’ve personally been through some of these scenarios before, but can’t imagine my terror and despair if I didn’t have family to fall back on when times got tough.
Urban Ministries of Durham (North Carolina) is a private 501(c) 3 non-profit organization governed by a 18-member Board of Directors with 27 staff members and over 2,000 volunteers. Unlike our name suggests, Urban Ministries of Durham is not a church-based missionary organization.
This is stressful, and it’s just a simulation.
Urban Youth: Arguments for ROTC
It seems to me that one of the major problems in the logic for banning ROTC is that the presence of the US military in other countries is far beyond the evil of the US military. The US military goes where the US government tells it to go, which is in turn supported by large…
In an effort to avoid being as sick as I was yesterday, I have invested in Flintstones vitamins. I slept 12 hours after a day full of soreness, exhaustion, and discomfort.
Got all my homework done. A good start to the semester, I hope. Lots of reading so far.
It’s a little of a bummer that I can’t go skiing this weekend with Eddo… especially with the huge amounts of snow this week.
From Amino Acid Tales by Leroy Kuehl.
This poem was just sent out to my Biochem class to help us with memorizing all the amino acids.
I can’t believe it actually rhymes!
I also am convinced it’s still easier to just memorize the structures by staring at them…
Showed this to my premed roommate and she freaked out. Here is a link to the original article from the Journal of Chemical Education.
This poem is actually funny.
(Source: christineyu)
