Yay!!!

We are all done with the finals!!!Cheers!!!
Sorry guys I missed (yes, again...) today's Happy Hour...
I hope you all had a great time...
Happy Holidays!

The Economist: "The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time"

I just happened to notice this, and haven't finished completely reading it carefully yet but after reading just the title, I felt like I should share this:

http://www.economist.com/node/17723223

Since I haven't actually read it that carefully and I should be studying right now, I can't comment yet. But, it seems like an interesting article!

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In memory of those who didn't show up to volunteer

A Thing Of Beauty

This is something I wrote a few months back. Hope you like it!

A million colors of the night

Danced around and all was bright

The lights resplendent with every hue

The truest violet and a truer blue

The Princess of the rainbow, rested among the stars

Basking in the glories of her powers

She had been crowned the queen of color

But as time clocked by, her life grew duller

That she could paint with dreams, ‘tis was true

But she wanted to be inspired before she drew

She longed for a teacher, something to admire,

She yearned for that, which made her aspire

A thing of beauty, she sought for herself

Into deeper mysteries, she wished to delve

A world unknown, she longed to unravel

Often her mind wandered and traveled

Lonely and lost, her mind whirled and fluttered

The winds came to her and cried and muttered

She saw her dreams surround her

Beauty had finally found her

She felt like the object of a painting,

The canvas behind her constantly changing

At That moment of time she reckoned

Her creator had finally beckoned

She felt beauty like never before

Out of the canvas then she tore

When she finally returned to the stars

She felt again her many powers

Love, beauty, truth are all the same

called by many a different name

we must learn that we are the world

we are the universe’s own life blood

Beauty calls out to those, who are welcoming

A thing of beauty, they find in every being

They are all creators in their own right

And echoes with them forever the Light!

The Art of Procrastination

Its finals time, I should be studying and so should you, but, what am I doing?

Watching youtube, facebooking, writing our first blog post. Excellent way to study right?

I’ve found that the longer I’ve been in school, the greater my skills at procrastination have become. I use to exhaust my lists of things to do to procrastinate fairly rapidly, but now, I’m fairly certain I can find enough things to do until my final exam is actually over and done with. In the past couple hours I’ve tended to my crops (virtually), cooked food, donated rice and at the same time practiced my vocabulary on www.freerice.com, read www.phdcomics.com, looked through t-shirt designs at http://shirt.woot.com/reckoning and online shopped. Not that I recommend you to click on any of those links or doing anything of these things. You should be studying! But then again, you’re reading this right now, which means you have a couple of moments to spare, so why not?

So it’s your turn now, what are your favorite forms of procrastination?