January 2011
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On the upside, no more post-long-shower guilt? →
beautyinbreakdown:
Apparently, it takes 3 gallons of water to produce a single sheet of paper. Oh, and 27 gallons to produce one banana. I think the solution here is to stop buying textbooks and kill all the monkeys out there.
But seriously, kids, mind equals blowns. D:
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Getting Into Harvard Easier Than McDonald's... →
“I’m thrilled and proud to attend Hamburger University,” said Zhou, who in 2007 started as a management trainee in the central Chinese city of Changsha, a job for which she and seven others were among 1,000 applicants. That’s a selection rate of less than 1 percent, lower than Harvard University’s record low acceptance rate last year of about 7 percent, according to the school’s official...
Mark van Bommel to join AC Milan →
Mark van Bommel (33) is leaving Bayern to join Italian league leaders AC Milan with immediate effect. The Dutch international requested FC Bayern Munich to release him from his contract, which was due to expire on 30 June 2011, in order to leave the club for professional reasons. After meeting…
oh Kapitän, mein Kapitän. ♥
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“The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that...”
– JFK’s Harvard application. “Harvard’s application in those days was all of three pages long, and Kennedy’s “essay,” date April 23, 1935, was a mere five handwritten sentences.” (via somethingchanged)
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lessadventurous-deactivated2012 asked: hey cindy! i'm trying to work out some server issues with my hosting company. it's kinda messy (wordpress simply doesn't work! the mysql database goes all crazy!) so i've just put it on lock just til i can sort things out.
i am glad to see you're updating, a little more regularly :P i really enjoy reading your blog posts, cindy. hope your christmas/new year is...
i am glad to see you're updating, a little more regularly :P i really enjoy reading your blog posts, cindy. hope your christmas/new year is...
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You Should Date An Illiterate Girl →
“Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are the storytellers. You with the Joyce, you with the Nabokov, you with the Woolf. You there in the library, on the platform of the metro, you in the corner of the café, you in the window of your room. You, who make my life so god damned difficult. The girl who reads has spun out the account of her life and it is bursting with meaning. She...
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