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I study nuclear science
I love my classes
I got a crazy teacher, he wears dark glasses
Things are going great, and they’re only getting better
I’m doing all right, getting good grades
The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades,
I gotta wear shades
(Timbuk 3)
Let me just say for a moment that I have the best job in the [...]

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Here are some tips for people who are trying seriously to learn a new language. These come from my experience teaching English, and learning Bahasa Indonesia.

If you are speaking your 2nd language and you can’t remember or don’t know a word, don’t “get stuck behind it”. Use other words that you do know, [...]

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I’m not in the habit of posting random quotes, but I thought this one was funny:
Life sucks, but death doesn’t put out at all. — Thomas J. Kopp
… and this one was interesting:
Nothing is as simple as it seems at first, or as hopeless as it seems in the middle, or as finished as it [...]

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