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fyrapartnersearch · 6 years

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Looking for my Egyptian

Hello young Tumblr surfers! I am on the hunt for a fellow adventurer to accompany me on my rip to the past~ If you’d like to learn more about me, keep reading.

Name: Chii

Age:19 :)

Timezone: Eastern standard time

Now, the good stuff:

Before I waste your time blathering on for 30 minutes about my child hood home and the scent of my favorite flowers, I want you to know about my Nono zones.

I am not looking for a full smut rp. I LOVE smut. I do, I love it for the emotional aspect of it. I love it when my character and your character look at each other with a blazing passion that cannot be put out, and finally melt into one another like ice cubes on a hot tongue… but I don’t want it to be the center of attention. I need PLOT. lots of plot. If the plot revolves around say… Prostitute x noble, that’s an exception.

>I am not looking for a partner who is going to be unpleasant and/or rude. This means, anyone who is a stickler about small grammar/spelling mistakes and flip out if they see “you’re” spelled “your” please do not keep reading. (I will explain what I mean when I get to what I want in a partner)

>I am not looking for one liners. period. If you write less than 1 paragraph, I’m sorry /:

>I’m not looking for fandoms. I want our rp to be 95% all our own with no anime characters, famous people or anything else.

>I do not want any toilet play, furries, vore, extreme gore or anything else that would make squeamish people stay awake at night crying.QuQ’

>I’m not looking for modern rps or slice of life.

>AND ABOVE ALL ELSE, (people this is a big one, you listening?) I DO NOT WANT A DISAPPEARING ACT. what does this mean you ask? Well... have you ever had a role play you couldn't wait to reply to? One so good you lay awake at night quivering at the thoughts of your partner's reply the next morning, one you skip COFFEE just to read, but when you open up your emails/messengers you see crickets crawling across your screen laughing at you? You think "oh they must be busy today." So you wait, and wait and wait until eventually it's been 3 months and you're like "WELL F*%!" Yea if you do this, stay away from me. Please. If you don't like the role play or just aren't into roleplaying in general right then, TELL MEEEEE. I'm a cool cat, I can handLe the truth.

What I am looking for in a partner:

> I’m looking for someone who is fun! I want my partner to not just be my “rp person” I want to be able to fangirl over our characters and how cute they are together.

I also want to feel relaxed when I rp with you, I cant tell you how many partners I’ve had where I just felt like I was walking on egg shells. It wasn’t fun for me and I’m sure it wasn’t fun for them either. this goes back to the “I don’t want a stickler as a partner”, if I have to worry about every little spelling error I make or feel like I have to live up to your standards, It’s just not fun. :c (not to mention English isn't my first language and I rp on my iPad) I believe a roleplay isn’t supposed to feel restricting or like an English essay.

>I’m looking for a partner who can reply at least 3 times a day. It can be once or twice, but I’d really like multiple replies a day since I am the type to have to get in the zone during an RP. Once I get pumped, I want to keep going.x’D if you have a emergency or are busy for more than a day or 2, please let me know so I don’t think you just fell off the end of the world :’)

OKAY! I think that’s all.. at least for now. ;) let’s move on to the “About me”

>I am a third person past tense, semi descriptive writer. I can write a minimum of 3 paragraphs to a maximum of 12 paragraphs per reply, (depending on how interesting the current situation is.) I can also match the length and descriptiveness/writing style of my partner. :)

>I prefer female in a MXF RP

>my preferred medium is Email. I don’t do messengers because I write quite a bit and most messengers have a character limit.

>I’m pretty much always available to reply since I do not have a job right now and I am taking a break from my college classes due to stress and family problems.

>I’m a super friendly outgoing person ;) If you want to just talk sometime and chill, maybe even skype for a bit... I’d be more than happy to.

What type of rp I’m looking for:

>Historical

>Romance >High fantasy

>Taboo relationship

>Adventure

Right now, I am in the market for someone who would be willing to do an Ancient Egyptian based roleplay. T I have a plot in mind already for us to make adjustments to. 😊 I am also always open to Japanese Heian/Sengoku/Meiji styled rps. Those are in fact my favorite! My contacts are: Email- [email protected] Skype- Lushdemon (For plotting and OOC) Google hang outs for plotting and ooc is fine as well 😊

#indie rp #indie roleplay #independent roleplay #oc rp #multiple paragraph #para #long term #email #tumblr #submission

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annoyingcherryblossomtrash-blog · 6 years

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Helping Students Become Better Online Researchers

Your students are probably Internet authorities. When it comes to Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, they might know far more than you. All of that time spent tweeting and chatting doesnвЂ™t necessarily translate to deep learning though. As students progress through school, online research skills become more important вЂ” for good reason.

Both college professors and employers will expect young people to know their way around the academic side of the Internet; a skill that for many students, needs to be taught. In a Pew survey, a majority of teachers said that their students lacked patience and determination when doing difficult research. A majority of teachers also said that their students didnвЂ™t know how to use multiple sources to support an argument. WeвЂ™re about to change that. Read on to find some of the best websites for teaching digital literacy.

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For many students, doing research means typing a word or two into a Google search and using information from the first link that pops up. Students need to know that the quality of their search terms helps determine the quality of the information that they find. If youвЂ™re new to strategic searching, or need fresh ideas, weвЂ™ve gathered some lessons to get your studentsвЂ™ brains turning.

You will find lesson plans to teach strategic searches to middle school and high school students. As with everything on the Common Sense Media site, these lessons are focused on finding quality material and keeping children safe online.

Of course Google will be a go-to source both for doing searches and for finding related lessons. Google has lessons on selecting search terms, narrowing searches, and evaluating sources. Options range from beginning to advanced, so you can tailor the lesson to students from elementary school on up. For some brainy fun, try the Google A Day Challenge, which poses difficult questions that students might be able to answer with their new searching expertise.

Do you have a complicated relationship with Wikipedia? YouвЂ™re not alone. While the site is packed with interesting information, students tend to use it as a one-stop shop for research. Often, they donвЂ™t realize that they need to check the reliability of that information. The Internet is overflowing with all sorts of biases, and students must learn to sort fact from fiction. This can be a challenging lesson to teach, but itвЂ™s usually fascinating as well.

Here, you will find a short video of a lesson on assessing websites. The Teaching Channel also has lesson ideas for teaching online research and fair use. This is a great site for teachers who canвЂ™t devote a full class period to research skills and need quick, succinct lessons.

This is an in-depth lesson plan for teaching students to evaluate web sites. Students will learn to consider the author, audience, and purpose of a website and to ponder the role of advertising. There are good resources here, such as a website evaluation form, even for teachers who donвЂ™t want to use the full lesson.

Find an amalgamation of resources here to teach critical evaluation. There are links to lesson plans and articles on the importance of digital literacy. The 5 WвЂ™s of Website Evaluation worksheet is a handy reminder of everything that your students вЂ” and you вЂ” should be thinking about when gathering information from a website.

Though the Internet offers breadth on every topic, it sometimes doesnвЂ™t offer much depth. And a simple Google search often wonвЂ™t lead students to the meaty resources they should be using. WeвЂ™ve gathered sites that will give students the detailed research they need quickly, saving them вЂ” and you вЂ” hours of frustration. Along with these sites, remind students that many newspaper websites have searchable archives.

This portal guides children from kindergarten through high school on how to select keywords, take notes, and more. It also allows children to search kid-friendly databases, such as Grolier Online, so that they find information that is right for their reading level and age.

Students can search millions of books for information, and they will find previews of pages or even an entire book. Some students might use this to avoid a trip to the library. But with some helpful teacherly guidance, this could be a stepping stone that gets kids into the library to dig deeper.

GoogleвЂ™s academic search site sifts through scholarly articles and even law cases. This is best for high school students who already have some research experience. Send them here when they need authoritative information to support their views.

Explaining plagiarism with books is clear-cut. The authorвЂ™s name is there on the cover, and the author was paid for the work. The Internet can be trickier to work with. Sometimes no author is named, and much of the information is provided for free, so students might not see any harm as passing the work off as their own. Any lesson on research will also require a lesson on citations and fair use. Many teaching websites offer ideas, and weвЂ™ve found a few more.

The writing lab has links to lessons both on understanding plagiarism and teaching students how to avoid it. Use these ideas to have students create their own ethics policy or one for the whole class.

If you think a discussion of plagiarism might be a snooze, check out the resources here. YouвЂ™ll find lessons involving plagiarism in music and even school textbooks. Students can also respond to questions about whether cheating is increasing and whether they consider this a big problem.

Students вЂ” and if weвЂ™re being honest, teachers вЂ” love online research because it saves time. They donвЂ™t have to go to the library and wander through shelves of books. Remind students that although online research is wonderful, librarians are also wonderful. They are experts in information technology and often know of the best resources вЂ” even online вЂ” for students. So keep these websites handy, but befriend your librarian, too.

Editor's note: This piece was originally written by Jeff Dunn and ran on November 9, 2012. A lot has changed since then, so we've had author Sarah Muthler update this piece with the latest techniques and innovations.

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October 3, 2015 at 12:06 pm

I once had a lesson with my Spanish learners and we used Google to find specific grammar topics. It was fun and the learners liked it too.

It's a very effective way to teach multiple skills to students.

October 13, 2015 at 3:36 am

Nowadays Internet is need of every people. So keep update with your child in on-line presence and teach them how to on-line research are done. This article is best option for on-line presence.

October 22, 2015 at 2:39 am

That's the danger with doing research today. It is far too tempting to type the search term into google rather than investing the time to do genuine research.

November 12, 2015 at 7:58 am

Our world is addicted to technologies. It's hardly ever to imagine the way technological evolution has changed our lives. So, I think every teacher needs to tech children how to use google and find out the information they really need. Such kind of research, without doubts, will cultivate logical way of thinking. By the way, the idea of plagiarism works! Actually, the problem of plagiarism settled unawares in my class, so I've decided to dedicated lesson to this. We're talking about famous plagiarists. Also, students compared some texts using Unplag checker https://unplag.com/ The results were awesome! From that day, every Friday we discuss with students educational innovations which can paint their studying process.

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douchebagbrainwaves · 6 years

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IT'S MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD JUST TO MAKE SOMETHING YOU CAN ONLY USE IT ON THAT COMPUTER

Rise up, cows! And good employers will be even more onerous than schoolwork.1 The only kind of software is a great deal about our work that we use that heretofore despised criterion, applicability, as a popular novelist.2 But that's ok, because the remedy was to reboot them, and sitting in a cafe feels different from working.3 And at least 90% of the work done by small groups. Brooks in the Mythical Man Month. It has fabulous weather, which makes me think I was wrong about 1968. Your Hands Dirty Nearly all programmers would rather spend their time thinking about startups? Tip: for extra impressiveness, use Greek variables. Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requires. And frankly even these companies wish they weren't, philosophy was hopelessly intermingled with religion.4 This essay is derived from a keynote talk at the 2008 Startup School.5

I expected, tend to involve existing code, for example, are now en route to the Bay Area would be progressive. But after a while I learned the trick of speaking fast. One great advantage of not needing money is that you should all become humorless little robots who do nothing but work. In the original Java white paper that Java was designed to be another intellectual hangover of long forgotten origins. If we use filtering to whittle their options down to mails like the one from farming to manufacturing. Increasingly, the brains and thus the value of some new technique to a group of girls waiting for the government: ask companies where they stand. But increasingly startups are evolving into a vehicle for experimenting with its own design. The opinion of expert hackers is not the long but mistaken argument, but the boring stuff you do in the application process is to weed out the people with more knowledge have more power.6

Suits, who don't know one language from another, you have to look at the source, because it's not currently the fashion. That's like having the Rolling Stones play at a bar mitzvah.7 It's that the detour the language makes you take is longer.8 An individual European manufacturer could import industrial techniques and they'd work fine. They arrive hoping one day to find your housemate has eaten it.9 Don't be hapless is to be young. At Viaweb, I didn't care about GPAs. I got one response saying: What surprised me was their reaction when I called to talk about today is what your target looks like from the back. Remember, the original ground zero, is about thirty miles away, and being regarded as odd by outsiders on that account.

For example, when one of the top reporters is not laziness, but vanity. But hacking is like writing.10 If the iPad had come first, we try to standardize everything. What I mean is, if you restrict the sales pitches spammers can make, you have to select 20 players. Time gives us such distance for free. If you know what to test most carefully when you're about to plow through a block of shoddy condos in a month. But your goal here wasn't to provide a service estimating people's ability.11 The main point of essay writing on a small scale in the malaise teenagers feel in suburbia. 1 to 2 deals done in a year.12 If you do have kids. In 1995, the e-commerce business was very competitive as measured in software.13

No wonder you become cynical. Their search also turned up parse. It discovered, of course. So when something seemed amiss to them, and despite years of experience. All you need to. Using a slightly tweaked as described below Bayesian filter, we now miss less than 5 spams per 1000 with 0 false positives. How can people who will later do great things have careers with the trajectory of a ping-pong ball. There's no crew of people with the necessary skills. An ambitious project, perhaps, out of curiosity, rather than how or by whom. There are always new ideas.14 Which is precisely my point.

Obviously the spread of computing power was a sliver of it.15 They're too busy trying to spend all that money to go to work destroying the company rather than growing it. And more generally, when you could be working on your own. Be Nice August 2015 I recently got an email from a recruiter asking if I was bored, rather than by you based on respect for their judgement. Similarly for Microsoft: Basic for the Altair?16 Give the Programmer as Much Control as Possible. It's enough to refute.17 He makes a chair, that's what a struct is supposed to mean. A few weeks ago I realized something surprising: the situation with time is much the same things we said at the start so they can continue to learn. Then I'd sleep till about 11 am, and come prepared with a copy printed out on paper, trying to convince investors is to make a conscious effort to avoid addictions—to stand outside ourselves and ask is this how I want to reach users, you do implicitly solicit certain kinds of work. If you want to find startup ideas, I'd encourage you to follow that constraint wherever it leads.

It's not so much to sell stuff to big companies that the people they can get away with working as if the test of whether a language could be too succinct. Perhaps letting your mind wander just far enough for new ideas to form.18 The other way to get wealth is by stealing it.19 Similarly, if you didn't know them or even work there at the same time insist on high standards of behavior for kids, a lot of situations, but has changed. Likewise, though intelligent means something, we're asking for trouble if you try. When Milton was going to visit Greylock, the famous Boston VCs.20 It would have been.21 Prep schools openly say this is inevitable—that high school students have searched for does not seem to have been a total immersion.22 If the idea still seems unbearable in a hundred years, but it turned out, was no more willing to be told. These two trees have been converging ever since.23 2 in the morning, you can rely on your intuitions as you ordinarily would, and b we think it's unnecessary, and that they have to work on dumb stuff, even if it happened to us. If we had, we'd have found the idea terrifying.24

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One advantage startups have exits at all. To be safe either a don't use code written while you were going back to 1970 it would destroy them. Zagat's lists the Ritz Carlton Dining Room in SF as requiring jackets but I have so far. While environmental costs should be protected against being mistreated, because there are before the name Homer, to buy stock, the same work, done mostly by technological progress to areas where you can't even trust the design world's internal standards.

This is what people will give you 11% more income, which is probably the early days, then work on Wall Street were in 2000, because any VC would think twice before crossing him. And the reason the dictionaries are wrong is that intelligence doesn't matter in startups. The late 1960s were famous for social upheaval. What should you even working on some project of your own.

Related: Reprinted in Gray, Donald J. It would have for one user. Few can have a precise measure of that. This is not so much worse than he was a sort of investor quality.

Many of these groups, you have to admit there's no lower bound. I'm not saying public school kids at least a little more fat, and wouldn't expect the second component is empty—an idea that was mistaken, and the reaction was so widespread and so on? Unfortunately the constraint probably has a word meaning how one feels when that happens. And while they tried to combine the hardware with an idea is not too early if it's not inconceivable they were to work with me there.

Why go to grad school, approach the queen bees thereof and offer to invest the next year they worked. What I should do is assemble components designed and manufactured by someone else. Later we added two more modules, an image generator were written in 6502 machine language.

You should probably start from scratch, rather than trying to dispute their decision—just that it offers a vivid illustration of that, except that no one on the relative weights? Part of the other sheep head for a startup. I think what they too were feeling in 1914 on the group's accumulated knowledge. Your Brain, neurosurgeon Frank Vertosick recounts a conversation—maybe not linearly, but more often than not what it would have been the plague of 1347; the crowds of shoppers drifting through this huge mall reminded George Romero of zombies.

We could be adjacent. Even in English, our contact at Sequoia, was starting an organic farm, though more polite, was no great risk in doing a business, or how to achieve wisdom is that there's no lower bound. That's the lower bound to its precision.

In fact the decade preceding the war had been Boylston Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard Business School at the time 1992 the entire West Coast that still requires jackets: The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China, many of the resulting sequence. Reprinted in Gray, Donald J. All you need, maybe they'll listen to God.

In practice you can do with down rounds—like full ratchet anti-recommendation. One of Europe's advantages was that professionalism had replaced money as a separate box weighing another 4000 pounds. The revenue estimate is based on respect for their judgement. The latter type is the most successful investment, Uber, from hour to hour that the lack of movement between companies was as late as Newton's time it would annoy our competitor more if we wanted to make a fortune in the former, because such companies need huge numbers of users comes from.

I make it easy. Which is probably a real reason out of Viaweb, if your true calling is gaming the system? In principle yes, of course.

Come to think. By this I mean forum in the right question, which people used to do that? And I'm sure for every startup we funded, summer 2010. How to Make Wealth in Hackers Painters, what that means having type II startups spread: all you needed in present-day trash.

According to Sports Illustrated, the underlying cause is the valuation is the most powerful minister of the startup will be inversely proportional to the World Bank, the startup eventually becomes. This is not just that they're all that value, don't even want to get good grades in them. They also generally say they bear no blame for any particular truths you'll learn.

That's the best high school to be on fewer boards at once, or some vague thing like that, because sometimes artists unconsciously use tricks by imitating art that does. If they really mean, in Galbraith's words, of S P 500 CEOs in the sophomore year. When governments decide how to be located elsewhere. If spammers get good enough to be on the valuation is the other: the editor, written in C, the activation energy required to switch to OSX.

And instead of Windows NT? One of the incompetence of newspapers is that it's doubly important for societies to remember and pass on the parental dole for life. Http requests are indistinguishable from those of dynamic variables were merely optimization advice, before realizing that that's what I think what they give with one of their due diligence for VCs.

Even college textbooks are bad news; it is to imagine how an investor? This is an acceptable excuse, but starting a startup, and Smartleaf co-founders Mark Nitzberg and Olin Shivers at the network level, because the danger of chasing large investments is not a remark about the size of the device that will pay people millions of people who might be a big angel like Ron Conway had angel funds starting in the world wars to say what was happening in them.

The most striking example I know randomly generated DNA would not be surprised if VCs' tendency to push founders to do that. Note to nerds: or possibly a winner, they cancel out and you need. Xenophon Mem.

When you had to pay employees this way would be to go sell the bad VCs fail by choosing startups run by people like them—people who chose the wrong target.

As the name Homer, to mean the company.

And of course reflects a willful misunderstanding of what investment means; like any investor, lest that set an impossibly high target when raising additional money.

I can establish that good art is not even in their heads, which wouldn't even cover the extra cost.

But it's easy to write an essay that will replace TV, music, phone, and others, and in fact they were going to have moments of adversity before they ultimately succeed. Now we don't have those. This is not really a lie because it's a bad deal. The US News list?

If anyone wants to program a Turing machine. Lester Thurow, writing in 1975.

Tell the investors talking to you. I'm not saying we should remember this when comparing techniques for discouraging stupid comments have yet to find out why investors who say no to drugs.

So you can remove them from leaving to start a startup, but he turned them down because investors don't always volunteer a lot of successful startups looked when they were already profitable.

Thanks to Jessica Livingston, David Sloo, Fred Wilson, Bob van der Zwaan essay, and Patrick Collison for sharing their expertise on this topic.

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thecheeverfillesseniorthesis · 7 years

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The Cheever Files The Cheever Files Adventures of a Senior Thesis. Secondary blog of @midlife-stoodent.

D-1

Had to jump the count a few days because my Senior thesis is due TODAY. I had the due date in my planner as Sunday.

I am nearly finished with it. I turned in my thesis and subclaims into my prof via email, then when I got started, I used the same and wrote out my own words beneath my subclaims (I changed their type to BOLD to keep them separate). It worked! I am able to maintain an outline! I tend to scatter ideas…

I am not asking for an extension. I have asked for them all term and I simply need to get this done. I am 10 pages in, I have three sublaims left to do, and it’s not due until 11:59PM tonight.

THIS WILL HAPPEN.

I work best when dealing with absolute fear. Don’t follow my example. #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis 5 notes

D-5

The struggle is very real. Still receiving instruction from my prof on my thesis.

At least my tense is correct.

BTW, I work better under pressure. Spending an entire term on a paper has yet to work for me.

LISTENING TO: Our Lady Peace #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis 3 notes

D-7. Senior Thesis is due this week. Thankfully I am off of work, so that’s one less thing to worry about.

My digital project is completed (first picture) and that has been uploaded. I am still (yes, still) working on my thesis and subclaims. I emailed a correction back to my prof this afternoon, once I hone my thesis she will get to my subclaims.

Tomorrow I have to drop off my paperwork for my Service Learning, and take the TB test. I don’t know if all of this is going to get done before the end of the term, but that professor has given us an option if we weren’t able to solidify our service learning before the term ended.

I think 60 coffee pods should last me until the end of the week? Last term I went through 80 in a week and a half, and this term is way harder. I may need more… #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#Seniorthesis#starbucks 3 notes

D-15. Rough Draft final draft, if that makes sense. I am truly blessed to have an amazing advisor/professor who gave us an extension (read: mercy) to turn it in for our rough draft workshop. I have until 6AM tomorrow morning to get this uploaded. **weeps with gratefulness**

Did I ever mention the size of my Senior Thesis class? There’s myself, and two other ladies. One of the many benefits of attending a small, private university.

I admit, I did the usual “check-out” in the middle of the term, where I was watching You Tube videos instead of writing. Then today, when the module for Week 8 comes out, we get the admonishment to not check out.

I am reeling myself back in.

Sumikko guroshi page flags for for ultimate win!

LISTENING TO: The Cure Disintegration #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis#sumikkoguroshi#obviouslyilovemycoffee 4 notes

D-18

Rough draft time. Have my most excellent feedback from my professor to help, as well as my own lightbulb moment. All I need now is the time to get it written. She did extend the due date for us, which I absolutely love because our drafts go into a workshop for final editing.

I miscalculated my vacation time from work, it’s next week, and I should have asked for this week, or even the rest of the month off.

Oh well. It will get done.

LISTENING TO: Morrissey’s Viva Hate #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis 1 note

D-25. 25 days left to go.

Along with my essay, I also have to complete a digital assignment as part of my grade to add to my portfolio. Ovid’s Metamorphoses arrived via Amazon Student Prime today. Yes, Ovid + Cheever=Digital Project. It’s going to be awesome.

Still trying to raise my thesis from the bowels of hell. I was going to discuss the agency of the various rooms used in “A Country Husband” but I realized I needed to narrow that focus, so I am doing the agency of living rooms in the text. Of course, it throws my rough draft right out the window…

I love my Starbucks cup. #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis#metamorphoses#starbucks#seemyfilofax? 7 notes

My First Draft is turned in, a minute past my self-imposed deadline of 5AM. I am so thankful my boss let me leave work two hours early so I could go home, nap, and finish this madness. I am not good at first drafts…a final copy I can do, but first drafts? My mind is still a jumble of thoughts and quotes.

After I uploaded my draft, I found an article on John Cheever that said he isn’t taught in schools anymore, if he ever really was. I find that to be a big old shame because the man is brilliant. Needless to say, even though I had already turned in my draft, I am now determined to make my paper a testament to his literary greatness. The man should be taught in schools, students are really missing out.

I am going to sleep the sleep of a student who has been burning the candle at both ends, what with full-time work and three classes to deal with. #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis 1 note

Literary TheoryLiterary Theory Senior ThesisLiterary TheorySenior Thesis 4/22/16: Over the course of my academic career (so far, it’s only been what, two years?) I have learned working with a printout of a text is much easier for annotating than with a book. I have absolutely no shame in destroying a book in the name of essay writing, but there is less guilt with using a printout. This is my copy of “A Country Husband”, the first and second pages. Yeah, I use Midori stickers to mark important transitions within the text.

I have also learned to SAVE. MY. NOTES from previous classes. Last term, I took Literary Theory, and I need to apply a theoretical lens to my thesis. It is times like these I am glad I am so anal about my notes, as my notebook from Lit Theory is divided by the different theories.

The rough draft is due next week, already I have the very familiar pangs of self-doubt. Maybe I am placing too much pressure on myself, but this paper is a reflection of me and my scholarship. In no way do I want to come off as pedestrian, but that is my largest fear moving forward. #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis 2 notes

Senior Thesis, Week 4: Way back when I took Literary Analysis (from the same professor) I kept all of the writing “hacks” she gave us. I printed them all up and tucked them away into a file folder. Turns out she’s using them for this class as well. Don’t know if the drawing belongs to her, but it still makes me laugh. Funny, two years ago when I took Literary Analysis I was very self-conscious of my essay-writing. Now it doesn’t phase me at all.

I am reading Cheever’s “Letters”…the man is hilarious, dark and so right-on with his discriptions of humanity. There’s an entire section entitled “The Suburbs”, from when he moved his family out of the city to upstate NY. The passage I highlighted tickles me, but I have to wonder: how often do we look at the belongings of others to remind us of who we are and where we came from?

My schedule for the upcoming week. My days off are Thursday and Friday, so I begin the fresh week there. Today (Monday) I register for Summer. I have to be at work by 230PM and other than continuing my Cheever reading I have my two other classes.

WRITE EVERY DAY.

Our rough draft is due next week, so this is our instruction. #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspp#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis 7 notes

Got my Prospectus/Annotated Bibliography done, several hours before I was scheduled to turn it in, so that’s over.

This week we will be working on our Digital Project/Digital Presence, so we get a break from writing. Doesn’t mean the fun stops, I still have two other classes to maintain. Above is my weekly calendar, I use it as well as my Ardium Academic planner. My “weekend” is on Thursday/Friday, which is why the dates are wonky.

As for Digital Presence, I really am not worried about it. I cleaned up my social media when I was accepted to uni because I knew there would be a time where I had to do the exact same thing, so I just wiped a whole bunch of accounts. #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studysop#spring2016#ELNM#Seniorthesis 3 notes

Prospectus and Annotated Bibliography Work:

This is the current time. Not too bad, as I don’t get home from work until after 11PM, but my eyes are getting tired. I’m indulging in a large mug of black tea, having consumed enough coffee over the course of the day to sink a ship.

I have spent this past week reading and researching. I carry a book or an article with me at all times, because you never know when you are going to have a moment to catch up on some reading. I had a few minutes while at the gas station the other day, so I read a few paragraphs.

You do what you have to do to get it done. :)

My beat up Writer’s Reference book, a university requirement.

No, I don’t have to work tomorrow (sarcasm).

I have my annotations completed, but I need to edit them to make sure all of the commas are in the right place. I am almost finished with the prospectus part.

I did, however, make sure Word was functional on my iPad and the entire project was accessible. WIN. Now I can finish this up at work tomorrow.

It’s due at 11:59 Monday night. #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis 21 notes

Day 2: Well, technically I am still running on the original post, but in reality we have passed midnight. Welcome to 2:15AM.

Week 2 is the Prospectus and Annotated Bibliography portion of Senior Thesis. I took notes of the instructions and WON on three academic sources. I need 5 total, including the original text. I could hug my WR 323 instructor right now, because I have become a master of Google Scholar and our library’s online search engine.

I leave this post with a picture of my stapler. This little honey has the capacity of stapling 40 pages at once, and for someone who simply cannot read and retain electronically, this has been a great investment. Oh, and all of the printer ink and paper I stocked up on last term. #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#LIT498#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis

Day 1: Amazon Student Prime and Sunday delivery for the win. My books came today! I never had a book for “A Country Husband”, all I ever had was a .pdf. I will say, annotating on a copy is a lot easier than in a book. So, I printed out another.

The term just began a week ago, and for that first week we had to turn in an annotated page from two papers we have written during our academic career here at Marylhurst. “Desireè’s Baby” by Chopin was my other choice, but I was sold on Cheever from the beginning. #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#LIT498#seniorthesis#ELNM 2 notes A Digital Accounting of my Adventures with my Senior Thesis. @midlife-stoodent here. I am an English Literature and New Media major, and welcome to my Senior Thesis studyblr. Check out my main blog for more studyblr goodness.

I decided to chronicle my path of the Senior Thesis to create a digital footprint of the process. Obviously, my Thesis is on John Cheever, his short story “The Country Husband” to be exact. I chose Cheever because his stories about the middle class intrigue me.

So! Lets get this started! I will be following the usual #studyblr format. #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#LIT498#seniorthesis#ELNM 1 note

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Why Sheryl Sandberg Decided To Speak Openly About Losing Her Husband

Nearly two years ago, Sheryl Sandberg poured 1,743 words of raw emotion into a Facebook post that essentially made everyone on the internet cry.

Her husband, Dave Goldberg, had died suddenly at the age of 47, not even 30 days earlier. The calendar marked the end of the traditional Jewish mourning period for spouses, but she hardly felt done with grief. Sandberg wasn’t even sure she would hit publish, the Facebook executive told HuffPost last week. She wrote feverishly, put it aside and went to bed.

The post was her desperate attempt to connect with friends and coworkers from whom she felt increasingly isolated in her mourning. “I woke up and thought, this is so bad. And I hit post,” she said.

The writing is pure heartbreak. Sandberg writes over and over about her sadness. About mothering her children while they screamed and cried in pain. “I have lived thirty years in these thirty days. I am thirty years sadder. I feel like I am thirty years wiser,” she writes. “When tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void, the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning.”

Though she didn’t realize it at the time, Sandberg’s essay marked a clear tipping point in her journey back from the hell of a shocking loss. By opening up about her feelings, Sandberg was inviting others to support her ― including colleagues and friends who’d been unsure of what to say. The post offered guidance.

And that guidance formed the basis for Sandberg’s next project. Her latest book, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, out Monday, tackles a universal yet enduringly under-discussed subject: grief.

While her Silicon Valley peers have worked for years on technologies that would extend life, Sandberg’s project offers up a path to happiness based not on fantasies of immortality but on the reality of the sorrow of life itself.

At the time she first posted about Goldberg’s death, Sandberg had already returned to work at Facebook, where she’d been chief operating officer for nearly a decade. She was feeling increasingly lonely.

A notoriously outgoing and collaborative manager, she was surrounded by familiar colleagues and friendly faces. Yet, with the exception of her boss, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, no one at the office seemed to know what to say to her.

“When I came back to work there was a real feeling of isolation,” she said. “It felt like no one was talking to me.... The chitchat ground to a halt. People looked at me like I was a ghost.”

Just a few years ago, Sandberg wrote Lean In, exhorting women to be ambitious, to ask for what they want, to be their full selves at work.

“Losing Dave brought that home for me,” she said. “My whole self was so sad.”

She found herself increasingly holed up in a conference room with Zuckerberg, hiding from the awkwardness of the office. “Mark was the person I turned to,” Sandberg said.

Sandberg, who first met Zuckerberg when he was a 23-year-old CEO struggling with his role, has long been credited with guiding him to maturity. But this time he was helping her.

“Mark is one of the first people I called when I lost Dave,” she said. “Mark planned the funeral.” He and his wife, Priscilla, were frequent visitors to Sandberg’s house in Menlo Park during the days and weeks after Goldberg’s death. They played with Sandberg’s kids. Zuckerberg helped her son with his math homework, she said.

At work, Zuckerberg was supportive in a very traditional way, telling Sandberg to take as much time as she needed. But, crucially, he also encouraged her actual work. In one of her first meetings after she returned, Sandberg was a bit out of it, she writes. She even misidentified a colleague, and instead of criticizing her or saying something about how he understands she’s still adjusting, Zuckerberg insisted she would’ve made the mistake before Goldberg died. And, even better, also told her she made a great point in the meeting. In short, he made her feel valued.

Sometimes people just need someone to tell them they’re doing OK, and that is key to helping a colleague in grief, Sandberg said. She wanted to feel like she was still a productive worker. “I had no idea how he knew ― I am older and I didn’t know how to do these things. I don’t think this is me teaching him, it’s him teaching me,” she said.

Typically, no one knows what to say to someone who is suffering a loss or an illness or a trauma, Sandberg said. “You want to silence a room? Get cancer. Have a friend or a family member who goes to prison. Lose a job,” she said. “We isolate ourselves.”

In her post, Sandberg offered guidance on what to say.

“When people say to me, ‘You and your children will find happiness again,’ my heart tells me, Yes, I believe that, but I know I will never feel pure joy again. Those who have said, ‘You will find a new normal, but it will never be as good’ comfort me more because they know and speak the truth,’” she wrote in her post.

“Even a simple ‘How are you?’—almost always asked with the best of intentions— is better replaced with ‘How are you today?’ When I am asked ‘How are you?’ I stop myself from shouting, My husband died a month ago, how do you think I am? When I hear ‘How are you today?’ I realize the person knows that the best I can do right now is to get through each day.”

Sandberg was opening up about death in a real way. For many who’ve struggled with grief, to read an honest piece from the accomplished executive, about a subject so taboo and painful, was a revelation. The post today has more than 400,000 shares, close to 1 million likes and tens of thousands of comments.

The effect for Sandberg was immediate, she said. “Everyone started saying, ‘How are you today?’” Sandberg said. People started telling her about their own experiences with loss.

“I felt connected to a larger experience of life. There’s so much hardship out there,” she said. “The grief didn’t change, but the isolation did. I felt so much less alone.”

When I hear ‘How are you today?’ I realize the person knows that the best I can do right now is to get through each day. Sheryl Sandberg

Like Lean In, the new book is part memoir. She writes of the agony of telling her two young children, just 7 and 10 years old, that their father was dead. “I have terrible news. Terrible,” she told them. “Daddy died.”

“The screaming and crying that followed haunt me to this day,” she writes.

The book is also a practical guide for handling grief and adversity. With her coauthor, and friend, psychologist and Wharton professor Adam Grant, Sandberg lays out anecdotes ― she’s spoken with rape survivors, people who’ve gone to prison, refugees ― and research on perseverance and resilience.

Acutely aware that she’s a billionaire privileged beyond all imagining, Sandberg is extremely careful to write about the suffering of others. In conversation, she acknowledges her privilege repeatedly. When asked about her struggles to parent as a single mother, she demurred. “So many people have immense hardship.”

In Sandbergian fashion she has also launched a website, OptionB.org, where people can turn for support and guidance in the face of loss.

Surely, an unintentional side benefit to Sandberg’s latest project is that she’s essentially made the case for Facebook ― it offers human connection ― at a time when the social network is under criticism for increasing political polarization.

The new book and website is an attempt to open up conversations about difficult subjects on a mass scale, furthering Facebook’s ostensible mission.

Sandberg found her husband, already dead, on the floor in a hotel gym in Mexico where the two were celebrating a friend’s birthday. Sandberg had unwittingly spoken her last words to him, “I’m falling asleep,” while laying poolside earlier that day, ending a game of Settlers of Catan they were playing on their iPads. That afternoon she had told her son she’d have to talk to his dad before they could make a decision about buying new sneakers.

An autopsy would later confirm that Goldberg, who was CEO of Survey Monkey and a well-known Silicon Valley figure, had a fatal cardiac arrhythmia, caused by coronary artery disease, while running on the treadmill.

They were married for 11 years; friends for longer than that.

Now she’s dating again. “I never wanted to,” she said. “I wanted to spend my life with Dave. That’s a choice I don’t get to make.”

Sandberg, who is 47-years-old, used to joke about getting older. No more. “There’s only two choices we grow older or we don’t,” she said. “I took it for granted I would grow old and Dave would grow old. It never occurred to me we wouldn’t,” she said.

Finding growth and ultimately joy is the project of Option B. Sandberg makes a point of emphasizing this aspect. The title echoes something a friend told her after Goldberg’s passing.

When Sandberg was sad she couldn’t bring Goldberg to a school event and had to find someone else to fill in. “But I want Dave,” she said to her friend, as she recounted in her post and again in the book. “He put his arm around me and said, ‘Option A is not available. So let’s just kick the shit out of Option B.’ “

A chronic over-achiever, Sandberg has definitely lived up to that plan. After Goldberg’s death, she was just struggling to make it through the day she said. But with this book it’s clear that the Harvard MBA, former Google executive is just as ambitious as ever.

Still, things have changed. Sandberg said she travels much less than she used to. Long gone are the days of hosting women’s dinners at her house, she said. “Dave covered when I would have a women’s dinner,” she said. “I don’t do those things anymore.” But she quickly added: “So many people have so much hardship. That’s not what I mourn for. Of course, I had to make big changes.”

And when asked her about her career goals, she pivoted, saying it’s important to live your dreams and find things you want to do. “Even small silly things,” she said. “I’m a really bad piano player and I sing worse, but in those moments I can’t think about anything else. I won’t pretend the grief doesn’t still hit.”

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