Ordinary Mer

The Truth is Out There

I think it’s pretty obvious by now that I’m a pretty big geek and that much of my geek-dom centers on science-fiction. I love the Star Wars movies more than I love some of my family members, I can make the “live long and prosper” sign with both hands, I have a star-covered teddy bear [...]

Three Cheers for Liberal Arts

“The most valuable skill anyone can learn in college is how to learn efficiently — how to figure out what you don’t know and build on what you do know to adapt to new situations and new problems.” I may be biased, seeing as I am on of THOSE liberal arts students who graduated with [...]

2011 in Review, Part One

Last December, I participated in Reverb, an online initiative that gave bloggers prompts so that they could reflect on the past year and look forward to the new one. Reverb wasn’t back this year, but I still liked the idea of reflecting on the past year, so I’m borrowing the prompts from last year and [...]

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