I love starting a new fantasy series because you'll hear a sentence like "they were cursed by the goddess" and....is it a metaphor? Superstition? Fantasy racism? Or an actual literal curse by an actual literal goddess? Who knows! Not me!
If I had a nickel every time a teenage girl essentially invented a literary genre I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
Last Saturday, I graduated with my MPH in Global Epidemiology from the Rollins School of Public Health with a certificate in Infectious Disease Epidemiology. It has been a truly amazing and life-changing 2 years, and I can't wait to see what's next!
@Wobbologist This is such a mood I don't know what's in the air this week but I have several major projects in the next week + thesis due in less than 2 weeks. Breathing and sleeping? I don't know them
“Starting Friday, the country is implementing a nationwide vaccination drive hoping to inoculate 3.2 million people and encourage residents to eradicate stagnant water sources, known breeding grounds for mosquitoes.” https://t.co/h6HhitmD7Z
academics: the market is horrible. do not go to grad school. I have 36 publications and the only job I got was a 4/4 in a county where the primary industry is racism. I am suicidial daily
22-26 year olds: wow, that is so bad. it's a real problem. luckily though, I am built diffe
Every year around Halloween I remember that as a kid, I always sorted my candy like a bar graph after trick or treating.
What I'm saying is, even 20 years ago, I was pretty on-brand 🎃
A while back I saw someone post about doing a community-science style acitivity with an undergraduate (maybe high school?) lab class, having students do tick-borne disease testing which contributed to real surveillance data (iirc)
Does anyone know who/where this was?
Wait I have more fantasy math those are like 2 of my favorite things
Consider: Fantasy math is when the first 700 pages take 3 months to read, and the last 300 pages take 1 night to read
I am So Normal about the Doctor Who 60th anniversary. I reacted very Normally to the trailer. I am a Normal level of excited about David Tennant.
So Normal about this