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There's such a great diversity of students here, as compared with the small, private, overly competitive school where I last worked. This morning, I've met with a student who is taking Algebra and struggling with General Chemistry, and one who came in with 33 AP credits and plans to graduate in 3 years and go to Med School, and is together enough for me to believe that he can do it.

I'm having a great time meeting with all of these students. It reminds me why I'm in the field. I've also reconnected with a couple of students from Grinnell (where I was prior to this), who do the same.

My Scrabble tourney is this weekend. I am such a geek.

Aside from that, life is, and will remain, hectic. I get home and have barely the energy to do anything. I haven't gotten my eight hours of sleep in awhile.

However, the trees are *beautiful* on the way to work. I do appreciate Maryland for giving commuters something to look at as they drive down the interstates. I wouldn't want to live somewhere where the colors didn't change. Now that I'm working peripherally in the sciences, I try to remember how the chemical processes work -- I know it's something with gibberellic acid, which I'm sure that I'm spelling wrong, and that the leaves falling is called senescence, which I'm also probably spelling wrong. This is another reminder that the most important things I learned in college had nothing whatsoever to do with my major.

The first things that come to my mind that I learned in classes for my major:
You can survive on bean burritos
Lack of Vitamin C causes scurvy
The Greek character delta works well as shorthand for 'change'
An egg left in Vodka for long enough with fry itself (the proteins denature in the presence of alcohol)
Sea squirts are nature's water guns.
There were some people named Watson and Crick, and they did something in the field of Genetics.

Sad, isn't it?

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Disorder | Rating
Paranoid: Low
Schizoid: Low
Schizotypal: Low
Antisocial: Low
Borderline: Low
Histrionic: Moderate
Narcissistic: High
Avoidant: Low
Dependent: Moderate
Obsessive-Compulsive: Low

URL of the test: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/personality_disorder_test.mv
URL for more info: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html

Narcissistic
Narcissistic personality disorder is characterized by self-centeredness. Like histrionic disorder, people with this disorder seek attention and praise. They exaggerate their achievements, expecting others to recongize them as being superior. They tend to be choosy about picking friends, since they believe that not just anyone is worthy of being their friend. They tend to make good first impressions, yet have difficulty maintaining long-lasting relationships. They are generally uninterested in the feelings of others and may take advantage of them.

Yeah, sometimes...