Where It All Meets

For several years I've been chasing a dream. The reasoning behind the dream would change, but the dream never did. When this happens, it really confirms in your mind that this is something important to you. You really think it is something you should pursue... strongly. I did. At every turning point I would stumble. I would get so frustrated at every wall and give up, even when the walls were easily torn down. After a while I realized that these were walls I was building. But why? I found the answer and it was more simple than I'd thought....

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Domo Arigato, Pool Roboto

In robotics club, we made a robot that "swims" around in water. The intention was to test it out in a swimming pool, but we made do with a pond. This is the frame for the robot. (As you can see, it was difficult to assemble. Just kidding!) It just required a pool noodle, some pvc pipe cut into sections (with holes drills into parts of the pipe.) The...

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Full Swing

Grades came in and I've managed to get an A in each and every one of my classes. So.... that puts me on the Dean's List. That paired with the $$$ from on my my articles going viral in May have given me great cause to celebrate. On another note, I'm finally writing again. I've only just published my first article for the month. It's a humanities piece. I always love writing those. :) Things have been pretty awesome lately. I've been doing some traveling (not happy about an upcoming 21 hour layover in Helsinki :( murrrrrrrr....), my cats have...

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Alligators? Sweet!

I was away in Florida and couldn't post for the lack of interwebs. I flew out there on a quick red-eye so didn't have time beforehand to warn ya'. :P So, without internet what is a girl to do? With rumors that the woods/swamp near could have an alligator, I made it my mission to find it. I went out there alone a few times, but walked the top of the wall around the swamp to be safe*. I found that from this point that I could see quite a bit of the swamp, but wasn't close enough to see anything. I'd heard what I was told were alligator grunts,...

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Foreign Language This Summer

I made a goal of working toward learning a foreign language over the summer. Obviously, I won't be fluent by the end of the summer, but I plan on learning enough to get by. I was hoping to learn French since I have a few French books (and already know some French), but unfortunately, they're all packed away in the furthest reaches of the attic. I was able to find some fabulous foreign language learning resources, but they are for learning Italian. I played around with the resources and found that I'm actually really cool with learning Italian....

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Fibonacci Script in Ruby

I wrote a small script that calculates fibonacci to the nth number. The script doesn't use recursion, but it's still awesome. It's, of course, written in Ruby and it looks awesome. I've decided to make this a part of a series of math related scripts that will do a few things for me:      a. Teach me better math skills     ...

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Logic Puzzle in Ruby

I wrote a puzzle that kind of takes some skill in the area of logic. It's essentially a word puzzle that does a small bit to introduce a little bit of Ruby syntax. It's a string made up of characters. There is one letter for each character given and one character for each letter. Meaning that if { = z, { ALWAYS = z and z ALWAYS = {. Line 1 is the puzzle string. Do not edit this line or you will mess up the puzzle and you may be unable to solve it. Line 3 shows syntax for inputting symbols (in this case it's "|") and inputting letters (in this...

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Writing for May

I've chosen nine topics to write articles on this month which I'm really excited about. They're topics I'm really comfortable writing about, so they should be cake! I've also got a bit of editing to do on articles I wrote last month. (I was in a HUGE rush due to finals.) Just got done with a little CS schtuff. Now I fear it's just time for bed. I drew a picture of a kitty that I was going to post, but I don't have my phone with me to take a pic, so it'll have to wait until the next time I post....

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"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh" + "h" = "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Holy cannoli! A grade came in. I got the HIGHEST A in Speech class. I'm feeling awesome. I should totally have an F since I'm uber shy. (Although I'm getting less shy and I did give an awesome speech.) Yesterday I was taking my Geography final when my prof said I hadn't turned in an assignment. I told him that I promise I had. He said I could redo it, which I promptly did. When I was just about to email it to him, I saw that he'd emailed me and said he'd found it and that I'd received a 96 on it. I should have an A for the course, but that...

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