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Marine Engineer Officers Board Exam Passers - Sept. 2008
Ctrl Alt Delete | October 5th 2008 by Saj
Looking for the September 2008 Marine Engineer Officers Licensure Examination Results? Marine Engineer Officers Board Exam Results or Marine Engineer Officers Board Exam Passers? In whatever ways you call it, the main point is one and the same - Did read more
Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory: Essays on Abj…
Feminist Review | October 4th 2008 by Ama Lee
By Calvin ThomasPalgrave MacmillanCalvin Thomas’s Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory is a challenging, theory-heavy text on the comparisons of abjection and the abject, and action (such as writing) as a means to shatter patriarchy. read more
UBC AMS Practice Exams
Eastwood Zhao dot COM - Happenings in a Nutshell | October 2nd 2008 by Eastwood
For those of you who don’t already know, the AMS provides a huge collection of past UBC exams: The AMS Exam Database is a compilation of final exams from a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses. Studying from these samples can be a read more
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Mike's Blog | September 29th 2008 by Mike
This weekend was another busy one for me – but then these days they always are! On Saturday I saw International for lunch and we ended up in a ruined church/rose garden near St Paul’s Cathedral for a steamy smooching session. Only three days till read more
Top 10 Mad Scientists
Ctrl Alt Delete | September 28th 2008 by Saj
Top 10 Mad Scientists, do you know them? A friend came across this article at LiveScience and thought it would interest your usual curious minds. Here we go: 10. Johann Konrad Dippel - 17th-century alchemist who was noted as the inventor of Prussian read more
8 Reasons Why We’re Not Prepared For The Future
Business901...Marketing Systems, Performance Planning | September 27th 2008 by Joe Dager
Seldom do I blog someone in their entirety but Mitch Joe at Twisted Image sent this post today that I thought was worth it. Why? I have had trouble communicating with many people in business through the social network. If a message comes from one it read more
EXCERPT from The Romantic Manifesto
Blogoloquaciousness | September 25th 2008 by Luis A. Lopez
Ok, so I just HAD to type this out from Ayn Rand's The Romantic Manifesto. I am in such awe of Ayn Rand. I'm in awe of how MUCH and how WELL she understood the human mind."The integrated sum of a man's basic values is his sense of life."A sense of li read more
Kramer Vs Dissonance
Mike's Blog | September 25th 2008 by Mike
I booked my flight to sunny Spain today; fortunately I was able to get a flight that arrives roughly the same time as International’s. I did toy with the idea of being double plus romantic and trying to get on the same flight, but that would have s read more
25th September 2008 - DATING MY PROFESSOR - AN ERROR IN JUDGEMENT
DATING MY PROFESSOR - AN ERROR IN JUDGEMENT | September 25th 2008 by sophia
I recognised today that there is no way that I can ever trust ***** again. He has let me down in so many ways and I have been left feeling scared of him. I feel in retrospect that he did use me. He used me for company to take his mind off of the fact read more
queersexlife: Autobiographical Notes on Sexuality, Gender and Ide…
Feminist Review | September 24th 2008 by Ama Lee
By Terry GoldieArsenal Pulp PressWhile reading the introduction to queersexlife, I initially questioned whether or not I would enjoy this collection of autobiographical insights mixed together with theoretical works. However, by the end of the book I read more
A cognitive look at World of Warcraft
More Death Knight news and clarifications | September 22nd 2008 by jeems
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Instances, Leveling The Human/Computer Interaction Design group at Indiana University seems interesting -- they're apparently working on the connections between the Human/Compu read more
Yet Again…
Eastwood Zhao dot COM - Happenings in a Nutshell | September 22nd 2008 by Eastwood
On a similar note to last Sunday (or, Monday morning, rather)… it is 3:00 AM, and I’m heading to bed after finishing Assignment 1 and Lab 3 of CPSC 111. Good thing I got out of bed at 1 PM today after a week’s worth of sleep depriva read more
Promiscuity and desire
Mike's Blog | September 21st 2008 by Mike
As expected I spent much of this weekend in Banbury with Academic. I must confess I was not good company due to the journey being horrendous and my bank deciding to mess around with clearing my clients’ cheques.Fortunately Academic was wise enough read more
Oxford Named the Best University in UK 2009
Ranking Fed | September 18th 2008
Sunday Times and HarperCollins have named Oxford as the best university in the UK for the year 2009. With the latest ranking, it will be the seventh consecutive year the institution sits at the top of the table. Oxford shrugged off its bitter rival, read more
Iranian professors are writing against plagiarism!
Rotten Gods | September 17th 2008 by Rotten Gods
After turmoils in parliament over fake Oxford doctorate degree of new Iranian interior minster, Ali Kordan; on August 11, 2008 some Iranian professors started a weblog to exonerate themselves from academic plagiarism which is a common problem in Iran read more
I ride a white horse
Mike's Blog | September 17th 2008 by Mike
This weekend I shall once again be heading up to Banbury for more delicious fun with the Academic. He’s a devil for making me travel all that way for a taste of man-flesh! But he’ll have to come to me the time after this as I’ve promised him di read more
1 Corinthians 13 paraphrased for academics
Exploring Our Matrix | September 16th 2008 by James McGrath
If I speak in the languages of peoples living and dead, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.If I have a PhD and can fathom all sorts of mysteries and significant amounts of knowledge, and if I have the common sense to read more
How many years left till you graduate?
Jaraad's Coffeehouse | September 16th 2008
I stopped counting how many years I have been in grad school. But when people ask me how long till I graduate, I keep telling them “one year left.” I started telling them one year left for the past two years. So, this cartoon got to be o read more
Super Productivity Tip: 2-Hour Long Lab Becomes 5-Minutes Long
Eastwood Zhao dot COM - Happenings in a Nutshell | September 15th 2008 by Eastwood
Here’s how I turned a 2-hour long lab session into one that lasted for 5 minutes. This is a true story. Do try this at home! So I show up to my CPSC 111 lab this morning at 10, equipped with my fully-charged, Linux-powered Thinkpad T61, ready t read more
British Universities Ponder Independence
Caledoniyya | September 15th 2008 by Layla Safi
British universities have in recent years battled on multiple fronts: whether it is the issue of gender discrimination and the ubiquitous glass ceiling confronting female academics, or the ratio of working class students to bourgeoisie, the governmen read more
Late Night
Eastwood Zhao dot COM - Happenings in a Nutshell | September 15th 2008 by Eastwood
2:37 AM, in Commonsblock @ Vanier. Just finished tomorrow’s CPSC 111 lab #2. Heading to bed read more
My Seemingly Incurable Addiction to the Library
Eastwood Zhao dot COM - Happenings in a Nutshell | September 13th 2008 by Eastwood
Believe it or not (and as sad as this may sound), I have spent every single night in the past week or so in Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (UBC’s main library). Oh, and did I mention that I passed the Math 184 standard skills test? After not read more
Lucifer's baby brother
Mike's Blog | September 13th 2008 by Mike
The Academic came, he saw, he conquered… And now he’s gone, back to Oxford for a night on the tiles and I’m here with a nice Merlot [the diet’s going well then?] and some Norah Jones. Phew, what a weekend! What fun we had – it’ll take me read more
Licensure Examination For Teachers (L.E.T.) - Sept. 2008
Ctrl Alt Delete | September 13th 2008 by Saj
The Board Exam for Teachers also known as the Licensure Examination for Teachers (L.E.T.) is fast approaching and will be conducted on September 28, 2008. From my basic knowledge, the Licensure Examination will be taking place all across the Philippi read more
new paper on asexuality
Asexual Explorations | September 12th 2008
Kristin S. Scherrer has recently had an paper on asexuality published that I thought people might be interested in.Scherrer, Kristin. "Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire" Sexualities 2008; 11; p. 621 (that's the October issu read more
Freshly Brewed Post
Eastwood Zhao dot COM - Happenings in a Nutshell | September 11th 2008 by Eastwood
So it seems like the rest of the 1st Year Blog Squad along with myself have officially made it onto the New to UBC newsletter. Whoohoo! I feel kinda famous now — expecting people to hunt me down in the middle of the street asking for autogr read more
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Mike's Blog | September 10th 2008 by Mike
I never enjoy doing the domestic bit quite as much as when I’m doing it for someone else. Today I spent most of the evening (between this piece of work and that) cleaning the flat from top to bottom – including the loathsome, to me at least, task read more
Procrastination — why do we do it?
1000 Papercuts | September 10th 2008
If you’re like most people, chances are you have a problem with procrastination. We all love to put off our work, but then we end up paying for it when we pull an all-nighter trying to finish the essay the night before it’s due. I think t read more
The world's going to end! We're all going to DIE!!!
Nashti Zhas Vorta Po Drom O Bango | September 9th 2008 by Scarlett de Courcier
...or so people keep saying. Load of codswallop, if you ask me. I like this cartoon though: Just about sums up the way academic research teams work ;) read more
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