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Apr. 6th, 2006 10:06 am
oceantheorem: (be brave Rory/life&deathbrigade)
On a gold strip:

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing you think you cannot do." --Eleanor Roosevelt

I don't have any deep thoughts this morning, partly because I'm not afraid of anything right now (except maybe my thesis, but mostly I just hate that), and partly because I woke up at 6 for an 8 am class.

But I agree. I am a better person for the things I have forced myself to do in the face of fear. Jumping out of an airplane and skiing black diamonds may not be life-changing events, but they do build confidence and courage. Maybe strength as well.


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In aforementioned 8 am photography class, I met a redhead named George. This quarter is starting out strangely.

I may not get into French, so I enrolled in a literature course that is going to study the concept of marriage in literature. It's a totally random class; I signed up because it was an open class taught MWF afternoons. Hopefully I'll get into French and then I can drop the lit class, but I do like the professor so far. This is definitely, definitely going to be an interesting quarter.

I shall now go to lab, for the first time since Monday, and try not to shoot myself in despair.
oceantheorem: (I love dorks)
On a teal strip of paper:

"The idea does not belong to the soul, it is the soul that belongs to the idea." --William Sanders Pierce

Well, it's an awfully self-explanatory quote. I thought about it while I was riding my bike along the levy this morning, and really, I suppose there's not much to say about it. But I did realize that the idea that education is the most important thing in my life definitely owns my soul and not the other way around. I could no more change that idea than I could change the weather. I suppose my soul belongs to it.

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