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While I wanted Rachel not to have to work both of her jobs today, her becoming markedly ill was not the method I envisioned. After seeing a doctor she ended up going to her second job regardless, leaving me to pick up her prescriptions.

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I’ve been threatening to clear my Facebook account for a while now, and with the EFF’s latest revelations of how the site attempts to “zucker” private information from its unsuspecting users, today seemed like as good a time as any. And so it is done: zero friends.

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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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Aside from the occasional mishap, my colleagues and I do rather well managing the everpresent hazards of working in a research laboratory. Every so often, though, something happens that’s particularly interesting.

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Preparing of the MCAT is difficult on an emotional level as much as it is on a purely intellectual level. Just as with the rest of the med school application process, my moods oscillate between courageous optimism ( “This isn’t that bad, you’ll get into a bunch of schools” ) and abject despair ( “You’re [...]

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