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Cryptonomicon

by Elizabeth March 5, 2012

That’s the name of this book I’m reading, and it’s by this guy named Neal Stephenson. I’m kind of obsessed with it at this point: it’s 1400 pages, and I’ve been reading it for a month, so I’m getting to know these characters pretty well, and I’ll miss them when the book’s over. The reason [...]

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Happy Lent!

by Elizabeth February 27, 2012

Yessir, it’s that time of year again (provided you’re a (practicing) Catholic (and I think other Christian denominations celebrate it, too) (I’m really hitting the parentheses here, no?)) : Lent. Last week, we had an Ash Wednesday Mass in the Chapel, and afterward, there was a soup-and-bread “meal” where faculty and staff members dragged in their crock pots and offered everyone bottomless bowls [...]

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Choosing a Major

by Elizabeth February 21, 2012

Howdy, readers! I wanted to write a brief post about last week’s blog topic, choosing a major. I had first approached this problem from the “Well, what subject do you like best in school?” angle, and that had initially led me to history.  I figured I could teach high school with it, and all would [...]

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Leaders Have Lots to Learn

by Elizabeth February 14, 2012

Hi all, This past weekend, I attended a great conference put on by Maryville University and Fontbonne called the Summit on Leadership Development.  It was open to any school within “drivable distance” according to the keynote speaker, Tracy Knofla, a leadership trainer, and that meant there were students from as close-by as Saint Louis University [...]

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My Rationale For Choosing Fontbonne

by Elizabeth February 8, 2012

Hi all, For the first time ever, I’m going to write along the lines of the weekly theme, which for this week is “Why Did You Choose Fontbonne?”  (Proud of me?) Honestly, it all came down to, as the real estate agents say, “Location, location, location.”  I knew I wanted a school in Saint Louis [...]

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And If It Takes Forever, Forever It’ll Be

by Elizabeth February 3, 2012

I hate to use a quote from a song as a blog title because that seems to encroach on the territory claimed by a fellow unmentioned blogger (cough…Carly), but I’m listening to a live album from Ok Go, and there’s this song called “Last Leaf” that is super cute, so I thought I’d pull that [...]

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What? You’re Telling Me I Have To Study?

by Elizabeth January 23, 2012

I’ve only had three days of classes so far (my schedule works out so that I don’t have any classes on Fridays!), but I’m exhausted by school already, and the (admittedly weak) enthusiasm with which I came into the new term is swiftly dimming. (Geek-out time:  if you graphed on a Cartesian plane the change [...]

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Aaaand We’re Back!

by Elizabeth January 17, 2012

“So, didja do anything fun over break?” Five dollars says at least one person’s going to ask me that in the course of the next few days, and I’d better have an answer ready! I didn’t go anywhere – my whole extended family comes into Saint Louis for Christmas  – but I had some great [...]

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With Honors

by Elizabeth December 1, 2011

Yesterday, at approximately 9:16 am, I handed in the grand finale of a rather intriguing semester-long experiment involving Fontbonne’s Honors program. See, to be in the Honors program, you have to take 13 credit hours of honors-level classes by the end of your sophomore year, and because I wanted to complete this requirement ASAP, I [...]

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The E-Book Experiment

by Elizabeth November 28, 2011

Over the summer, I got it into my head that an e-reader would be an awesome thing to have for school because it would save me from having to carry around a bunch of paperbacks for class.  (You know, because I take so many incredibly reading-intensive classes as a computer science major…) Before school started, I purchased [...]

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