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...just see myself as someone who has to have medicine to concentrate better. I will tell my friends straight off that I am ADHD; if they don't like that, well, then too bad. In eighth grade, we were given nicknames ("most likely's," actually) and mine was Miss Hyper! It didn't bother me. I think it showed my classmates are cool with it. My teachers are very accepting of my condition, but I find it difficult when a teacher does not know I am allowed extra time on tests. I used to feel guilty about getting extra time...
Some of us still remember the first time we saw a computer. I saw mine in 1977. It was a Commodore PET 2001 (a Personal Electronic Terminal). It was squat and beige and not particularly personal, and its sole function was to play a game called Hunt the Wumpus, which seemed like a fair and adequate justification for its existence to a second-grader. As the year was 1977, the PET was kept in the school's fallout shelter, which otherwise was unoccupied owing to a lack of fallout...
...more than 800 crew. The vessel was only days into a tour of the Mediterranean when the virus struck. Miner Threat RUSSIA Rescuers saved the final 11 miners trapped for six days in a shaft 800 m underground by drilling a 50 m "tunnel of hope" from an adjacent mine in record time. Twenty-five of the 71 men who were in the mine when it was flooded by an underground lake had earlier managed to make their own way to the surface. Thirty-three more were rescued after two days and one was found dead. The search...
Album: I Gotta Get Mine...
...begin this rant of mine with the intention of lambasting recruiting. I actually started thinking about the different roles that we play in the context of our everyday relationships and friendships, something we have also been discussing in my Psych class...