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...coverage of last night's election was projected onto a big screen in Loker Commons, but only a handful of students seemed to care. Most were seeking assistance with their math homework, trying to focus as occasional shouts from party faithful broke their concentration. Many were first-years...
Working through a calculus problem set while keeping a watchful eye on the screen, Sammy Ford '04 of Texas, said that he was "motivated...because I would not trust George W. to make life or death decisions about our country...
Staring at these types of things has done nothing for my thesis. My mother, who shakes her head at how much time I spend staring at my screen for a moment's worth of inspiration tells me that I need to stop staring and get a life, instead. She assures me that, in a month, no one will ever stare at my thesis, again. She calls this encouragement...
...next week, of course, I really can't afford to stare at anything other than the blank spaces on my screen where words are supposed to be for the thesis I should be writing. But I've used excuses like that a lot over the past four years, and soon, they won't work anymore. I'll have to account for what I choose to spend my time staring at. And when I see terrible things like the ones halfway across the world, I'll have to stop and think about what I spend my time staring at. Then...
...King-like notions of horror and human frailty. It's hardly a major killer in the global scheme of things. Even when compared to other flash-in-the-pan outbreaks, Ebola epidemics cannot, by virtue of numbers of people killed, be considered a top concern on the health radar screen...