Due to my status as a National achievement Finalist, I received a letter today for a $1 500 scholarship to WPI. I am a very happy camper. There is another scholarship that I should be able to get for $12 500 because of the National Achievement thingy (although I haven’t gotten a letter for it yet). That alone is an entire third of the tuition, renewable. I will, however, happily commit suicide if I am rejected from WPI at this point. Update: That last was a joke. Some nut tried to contact me via AIM and talk about this. Also, when someone named “GOD JESUS ETC” tries to talk to…

This isn’t a bitch or a rant. It’s a little more introspective. I’ve always known that I’m a lazy bum. Not a bum in the sense of that kid that never has his school supplies when they’re needed, but in the sense of that smart girl that always cramming for tests and completing homework the minute before it’s due. I had a four day weekend, due to the inclement weather here in Charlotte, NC (I love that word “inclement”), and what did I really do with my time? Saturday and Friday have been amply explained in previous posts. Saturday night, Sunday, Monday, and today I have done not much else…

Yes, I am feeling like quite the guru right now. It’s silly, I know; all I did was hack a little code. Since I have been reading through the archives of NP.com, I have realized how truly irritating the idea of having the archive pages in reverse chronological order is. Yes, Michael complained about the confusion before, and yes, I thought I understood where he was coming from, but until you read 50 or so slightly more than a screenful posts while having first start near the bottom of the page, then scroll down a little to read the post, then scroll up a couple of Page-Ups to read the…

I’m still working through the NegroPlease.com archives, and en passant, I took a philosophy quiz. While many of these names are recognizable to me, I don’t really know their philosophies at all… I think I may have found a new obsession interest… 1. Sartre (100%)2. Hume (91%)3. Nietzsche (88%)4. Aristotle (71%)5. Hobbes (68%)6. Aquinas (62%)7. Plato (60%)8. Mill (57%)9. Rand (57%)10. Spinoza (57%)11. Kant (55%)12. Stoics (54%)13. Cynics (43%)14. Epicureans (43%)15. Bentham (43%)16. Prescriptivism (40%)17. Augustine (37%)18. Ockham (36%)19. Noddings (29%) The results page has a link to a page with descriptions of all the possible philosphers, with descriptions, book links to Amazon.com, and recommended websites for each philosopher. Interesting…

I’ve been reading Negro Please for about the last month or so, and finally decided to work my way through the archives. Where to start? The beginning, of course. His second post, about being black rather than Black. It’s been a whole week since I’ve genuinely laughed this hard (hey, if people can’t tell my fake laugh from my real laugh, what does it matter…). It feels good. The first, the third (which is as far as I have read so far) are good as well; I can personally identify with much Jason says. And who doesn’t need a good laugh, right? By the way, Sean Paul’s “Get Busy” is…