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I got accepted at Penn State University! This means that I now have choices for where I begin the next phase of my education this fall.
On a more trivial note, I live off of a road that desperately wants to be gravel when it grows up, and thinks that if it just accumulates enough potholes, [...]

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At long last, the good ol’ 1984 Toyota Tercel has been retired from the Castello household. It’s been through quite a lot over the years, from getting me through my driving test to hauling massive quantities of stuff to and from residences on the UMBC campus. The past year has been pretty difficult for it: [...]

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It’s been raining a lot around here lately, which means a lot of driving around with windshield wipers. A while back I replaced my broken wiper blades with new ones by Rain-X, followed quickly by replacing my blue windshield washer fluid with bright orange product also from Rain-X.

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My poor ‘84 Toyota Tercel is three years older than I am, and it’s really held up well. However, over the past several years it has been slowly falling apart. I try to hold it together as best I can but sometimes the most random problems occur. Last night I got in the car, got [...]

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Apparently drivers in the Baltimore-Washington area have decided to simply disable their turn signals to prevent accidently activating them when they are doing things on the road, such as, for example, turning. You’d think an action would be completely intuitive, but no – apparently it’s not a requirement, but a courtesy in the same vein [...]

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