Resolutions
I have no resolutions. But I have a title. I have a plan. This is the year of community. I will take some risks and meet some people. I will make friends who live in in the same state--maybe even the same city--as me.
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The Wonder of It All
When I was returning to school, I took a Biology course just to get my science requirement out of the way. Little did I know that I would fall in love with life itself. Understanding the process of photosynthesis was like decoding a high modernist poem. It was complex and simple and glorious. And then I took Geology. It wasn't just the nature of breathing things that was amazing--it was the rocks themselves. It was life itself. "We are all connected," says Neil deGrasse Tyson, "To each other, biologically; to the earth, chemically; to the rest of the universe, atomically." Yesterday, a friend of mine found out that her brother had died. I do not know about god or the afterlife or anything of the sort. But I know that life is a miracle. I know that energy does not end. I know that we "are the stuff of stars." And I thank these good men for reminding me.
Actual Student Sentence
Most of the time the female is insecure about herself and thinks having sex with the most popular guy in school will make her feel better about herself and will not make her feel like a social leopard. --I cannot make this stuff up.