Comments on: Dear Uncle Ezra… http://dwarfpriest.com/2008/10/02/dear-uncle-ezra/ I melt kneecaps! Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:53:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: MK http://dwarfpriest.com/2008/10/02/dear-uncle-ezra/#comment-822 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:09:54 +0000 http://dwarfpriest.wordpress.com/?p=885#comment-822 @ Mugglebane – Wow, my spam filter hates your messages. However, it loves those by spambots selling pills. Doh!

Oh yes, and go Big Red!

]]> By: mugglebane http://dwarfpriest.com/2008/10/02/dear-uncle-ezra/#comment-783 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:24:26 +0000 http://dwarfpriest.wordpress.com/?p=885#comment-783 Hi MK! Ah those were the days. I remember a computational theory class which had three questions: basic, somewhat hard, and mind numbingly profound.

You were expected to finish the first 2. Your grade was ultimately determined by your partial progress on the third. oy!

I was a computer science and math double major and I nearly finished off my degree in French lit.

Go Big Red!

Mugglebane
The Sacred and Profane
http://priestlyendeavors.blogspot.com/

]]> By: MK http://dwarfpriest.com/2008/10/02/dear-uncle-ezra/#comment-772 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:54:20 +0000 http://dwarfpriest.wordpress.com/?p=885#comment-772 @ Mugglebane – My spam filter ate you comment for a while there. Sorry about that!

Cornell is the only place that really is uphill in both directions, I swear it. Getting a 40 on an exam, you clearly must have been engineering or sciences. I remember getting a 32 on a physics prelim once and being happy that it got curved to an “A.”

]]> By: Mugglebane http://dwarfpriest.com/2008/10/02/dear-uncle-ezra/#comment-759 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:40:32 +0000 http://dwarfpriest.wordpress.com/?p=885#comment-759 Ha! I used to remember reading that advice column as an undergrad. You could always count on good ol’ Uncle Ezra for wise often funny advice.

http://ezra.cornell.edu/

Ah I can recall the days when we used to trudge up as 30 degree slope in 20 degree weather to get a 40 on an exam. Woot!

Mugglebane
http://priestlyendeavors.blogspot.com/
The Sacred and Profane

]]> By: Sxcpriest http://dwarfpriest.com/2008/10/02/dear-uncle-ezra/#comment-750 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:45:11 +0000 http://dwarfpriest.wordpress.com/?p=885#comment-750 This is how it was for one of my friends… But that’s pretty awesome article none the less!

]]> By: Suspiria http://dwarfpriest.com/2008/10/02/dear-uncle-ezra/#comment-748 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:47:40 +0000 http://dwarfpriest.wordpress.com/?p=885#comment-748 Well, i ll try to explain something on brain functions. I ll stay on basic facts. We all have the analytical part of brain and the primitive one. The latter fixes upon a small area on hypothalamus, called reward center. The reward center is responsible for any action we take about food, sex, drugs and general pleasure. Dopamine (=neurochemical) rushes on reward center when engaged in a pleasurable activity. Actually pleasure is dopamine. BUT, after this dopamine rush on brain, a drop follows. This creates a hang over. As a result, possible withdrawal symptoms appear. To get ourselves out of these symptoms, the most simple action is to engage again on the pleasurable activity. Addiction eshtablished.

]]> By: MK http://dwarfpriest.com/2008/10/02/dear-uncle-ezra/#comment-746 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:11:55 +0000 http://dwarfpriest.wordpress.com/?p=885#comment-746 @ Anon Ivy Leaguer – Safety School! :)

]]> By: anonymous ivy leaguer http://dwarfpriest.com/2008/10/02/dear-uncle-ezra/#comment-744 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:10:03 +0000 http://dwarfpriest.wordpress.com/?p=885#comment-744 State school!!!

]]> By: Mirabi http://dwarfpriest.com/2008/10/02/dear-uncle-ezra/#comment-743 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:48:12 +0000 http://dwarfpriest.wordpress.com/?p=885#comment-743 Hehe, this reminds me of my undergraduate days. I went to a tech school where it was completely valid to complain to the IT department that the network was horribly laggy for playing WoW. And the IT guys would try to tell you it wasn’t the networks fault because WoW doesn’t have to send much information (oh really? so I should have 2000+ ms latency and be outrun by a character on foot when I’m in travel form?).

But oh, it was a dark day when someone severed the university’s main backbone out with a backhoe. No connection to anything off the campus network for 3 days lol.

]]> By: Ess http://dwarfpriest.com/2008/10/02/dear-uncle-ezra/#comment-742 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:33:07 +0000 http://dwarfpriest.wordpress.com/?p=885#comment-742 For some reason, the symptom “becoming disheveled” is particularly cracking me up. That’s very amusing. :)

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