Up to this point, 95% of my articles have focused on scholarly subjects and how-to guides. With around one hundred so far, this has been a fulfilling experience-I hope reading them has helped you in some way. In light of my particularly difficult and busy semester, this is my first ‘reality post’. I just need to blab a bit, but I’m also sure that you’ll be able to relate, at least a little.

As it stands, I have the following left on my plate:

• Shakespeare: Measure for Measure Quiz - November 3rd
• Modern Middle East (MME) Paper: Discuss the origins and actions of

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Iiiiisn’t sheeee loooooovely?

Waters Designs did a great job on this new theme. I am so glad to be rid of my ugly old one.

Some articles in the works:

• Graduate School, Law School, LSAT/GRE, etc. In other words, the great beyond between college and a career.
• MCAT, Medical school applications process
• Probably some more election stuff
• Stage-fright/auditions
• Probably a broad series on research papers, we’ll see.
• About 45 others on various school/life related things.

Stay tuned…

The first debate between Barack Obama and John McCain was supposed to center around some questions about economic and foreign policy. Unfortunately, I often had a hard time remembering what the questions were because they simply weren’t being answered. This is business as usual in politics, but it has no place in writing.

Here is a list of every single question each candidate was asked to answer:

• Where do you stand on the bailout?
• How do your economic plans as president differ?
• What will you have to

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Not all articles are created equal. Most articles aren’t completely true, are biased, and even considering them as sources will give you dubious marks at best. To protect your integrity, as well as your pride, perform the following each time you are scanning a Wikipedia article for some source material.

The next time you are on Wikipedia, take a look at the top right of an article of your choice. If you see a little lock, that means that nobody can edit it anymore. In other words, the article …

Some of these may already be graduation requirements, but if they aren’t, you need to take them anyway.

1. A Public Speaking Class of Some Sort. - Public speaking is a skill you will need your entire life. Start while you are young. In the real world, boardrooms and auditoriums won’t be forgiving.
2. CPR/First Aid Class. - This course is generally only required for teachers, but everybody should take it. It is a brief class with little to no homework. Plus, you learn how to save lives.
3. Foreign Language(s). - There are many benefits to learning a foreign language. I’m a French speaker,

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If you’re like me, you have pretty crummy spatial intelligence.

When it comes to eyeballing a picture frame to see if it is centered, I could stand there all day and never get it right. This also affects my ability to thoroughly scrutinize things since I am much more of a big-picture person. You can imagine what I am like when I try to evaluate an entire apartment and write down its flaws. Luckily, I have a brilliantly artistically gifted fiancee with banging spatial intellect. She pointed out all kinds of things I otherwise might have missed.

I’m going to try to …

Just to let you know, I’ve never put more effort into an article than this one. I hope it makes your life a little bit better…please comment.

In my cozy office, with my candle-shaped fountain trickling and citrus-incense blazing, very little effort on my part is required to stay busy and focused. Unfortunately, since I decided not to have internet access at home in order to save money, I can’t always stay in my cave. It’s when I’m hunched over my laptop while enduring a herd …

Since I run an ad or two for some clickbank products I like on Facebook, I decided to switch to the new style that just came out. The change in ad implementation didn’t strike me as anything unusual, since it is obvious that Facebook is wanting to reduce the amount of scrolling its users do. (Further down the page = further away from advertisements = further away from $$.) What did, however, was the way Facebook has supercharged its …

Be sure you have already read Part 1 and Part 2 before continuing.

Alright overachievers, learners, and participators, listen up. (Slackers, at least pretend you are listening.) I am now going to break down the positive traits of each type.

Slackers (S)

Let’s start with the Slackers. Instead of continuing to make S’s the bad guys, I’m going to play devil’s advocate for now. What can we learn from Slackers? Here are some of their

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Grab your responses from part one. Each response awards either 10 points, 5 points, 3 points, or 1 point. Others reward no points at all. This is intentional, because only certain questions were designed to actually target your learning type. Others deal with areas such as which hemisphere of your brain you tend to favor or are just there to make you laugh.

Read Part 1 here.

Here are your results.

TIP: There has been some confusion about how scoring works. …