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Tom Brady. (via herblondness)
I nearly fell off the couch laughing.
(via sotheresthat)
(via sotheresthat)
I sucked pretty bad today, but our defense saved us.
Casadei “choose-your-own adventure” boots that transform from over-the-knee to knee-high to ankle.
um, hello. in love.
(via Rachel Zoe)
These are amazing. They’re like the much better, grown up version of zip-off cargo pants/shorts/manpri’s.
Androids are coming! ⇢
They’re coming! Robopocolypse will be here!
Or instead, we’ll just learn about to make injuries non-issues!
IT’S RODARTE AND IT’S COUTURE, SO I DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT YOUR AMATEUR FASHION CRITIQUE
I MEAN, YOUR WHOLE LOOK IS AMAZING TOO. NOTHING SAYS ‘I’M SEVEN YEARS OLD AND ALSO A PROSTITUTE’ QUITE LIKE AN AMERICAN APPAREL ROMPER AND A SIDE PONYTAIL.
(via meredithbklyn)
Words that aren’t accepted by Words With Friends
Fooey. As in, “this chicken tastes fooey.”
Thon. Old English for Then.
Centide. A massive high tide that comes once a year.
Thead. Formal version of you.
I know this is late, but here’s some Penguin goodies from Christmas! Clearly, my family is well aware of my love of the tuxedoed ones.
“Most kids don’t know how to write, don’t know any history, and that’s a disgrace,” Mr. Fitzhugh said. “Writing is the most dumbed-down subject in our schools.”
His mood brightens, however, when talk turns to the occasionally brilliant work of the students whose heavily footnoted history papers appear in his quarterly, The Concord Review. Over 23 years, the review has printed 924 essays by teenagers from 44 states and 39 nations.
The review’s exacting standards have won influential admirers. William R. Fitzsimmons, Harvard’s dean of admissions, said he keeps a few issues in his Cambridge office to inspire applicants. Harvard considers it “something that’s impressive,” like winning a national math competition, if an applicant’s essay has appeared in the review, he said.
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The term paper was once an important feature of American secondary education, requiring students to dig deeply and write at length. Mr. Fitzhugh said that most public school teachers have stopped assigning such papers — a shift that he attributed mostly to the fact that teachers have so many students and so little time.
Still, hundreds of earnest students send Mr. Fitzhugh papers every year, hoping to win his stamp of approval.
In the most recent issue, a senior from Montclair, N.J., writes of Theodore Roosevelt’s tenure as a New York police commissioner; a New Orleans student profiles a 19th-century transcendentalist philosopher; and a senior from Seoul documents the oppression of Korean residents on a North Pacific island.
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NYT (via meredithbklyn)
I went to the high school that Mr. Fitzhugh taught at. Sadly, I never wrote a term paper. My first major research paper was my sophomore year of college. I’m not sure why education doesn’t focus more on research papers; I’ve found some pretty horrific research and technical documents at work (how do some people still not know what plagiarism is?!!!).
UncommonGoods Ticket Stub Diary ⇢
So I don’t know if anyone else saves ticket stubs (my friend Meredith got me a ticket signed by Dispatch), but this seems like a much better idea than the envelope that I currently store my ticket stubs in.
