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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014
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TEXT FREE FOR ALL
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Dear KU, Please make an app with a live map tracking the buses via GPS. Sincerely, it's been 20 minutes, and I'm freezing.
Imma have a wine and cheese lasting. It's gonna be Kraft singles and franzia
Is it sad that I'm addicted to the Game Show Network?
Everytime I come to school looking homeless all the hot guys decide to show up.
Composting isn't green or ecological, it just gives you good dirt
The current gridlock in Atlanta looks eerily similar to the scene in the first season of the Walking Dead...
I don't have bad hair days. I have,
"Maybe you shouldn't go out in
public" hair days.
SEC schools are closed because Georgia declared a state of emergency, not because it's 20 degrees. -A Georgian
You can have a plant or a cat, never both.
Smoking around someone with an allergy to cigarettes is similar to rubbing a cat on someone's face with a cat allergy. Please smoke responsibly.
IT IS NOT OKAY FOR BOYS TO GO
INTO THE PRIVATE GIRLS FLOOR
BATHROOM AT GSP AND NOT LOCK
THE DOOR.
Whether or not you believe leggings are "real" pants wearing them in below freezing weather does not show fashion but stupidity.
Shit. Just wondering if you can say that in the FFA's without it being somehow censored.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNA
We need a secret tunnel system all over campus!
Can the number of published ffa submissions go on my resume?
today's lecture in Budig 120 is when I discovered my irrational hate for hair on the back of men's necks.
Prof, Ima let you finish your lecture, but I just wanna say it's 2:51 and you're outta time. I have to leave. *shrugs and exits*
Heading down to Watkins for penicillin shots just like the wolf of wall street.
Wescoe smelts like garlic bread.
You, yes you, are a treasure.
Whether you want to believe it or
not
Learn to appreciate tech now, not later
TECHNOLOGY
If you lived 50 years ago, how would things be different? How would you be different?
Modern technology, especially social media, hasn't been around very long. There was a time before the Internet, even if most of us don't remember it. There's a lot we don't realize about how our world works, and as the first generation in the Internet age it's important we be conscious of the many things that were not that common in the past.
The most relevant and familiar example is the smartphone. I nearly always have a high-powered computer in my pocket. If I was to tell someone 50 years ago that this would be normal, they probably would have brought up flying pigs. Back then, computers filled up entire rooms, yet had only a fraction of the memory space we expect today.
I'm sure that most of us are aware that home and mobile computers have made advancements in the last 20 years. Did you know that wifi wasn't a popular term until nearly 2000? Did you know that 64-bit processors didn't hit PCs until 2003 and that only 10 years later they are now being offered in smartphones? The Internet has so much more potential, too. As Internet speeds flourish, coding spreads and social media use increases, some very cool things will happen. It's hard to explain all these changes without using tech-savvy jargon, but it's the difference between walking and driving.
However, there's more to the story than the power behind
our devices. Development has radically changed our cultural landscape. Video games were archaic before the Internet; a stark contrast to the 67 million people who play the online game League of Legends, according to the Riot Games official website. Online dating is becoming accepted and effective via apps and websites. Remember Blockbuster? Kids already probably think it's laughable that you had to go to a store to rent a movie.
Our entire lifestyles have changed. We're still humans, but because of the Internet we have been changed forever.I think it's really cool that we're among the first to experience this. At the same time,we need to be aware of how it's affecting us.Were the guinea pigs. There's some responsibility to that.As we become parents,we will have to raise our children around advanced technology, which will be new.
And that raises the question— just how different will things be another 50 years from now?
Dalton Boehm is a freshman from Merriam studying journalism and information systems.
Don't stress about the future
GRADUATION
This is the semester most graduating seniors love and fear simultaneously. This is the last semester of being a college student. This is the time when you have to think about the next chapter in your life. This is when you start applying for jobs, long term internships or graduate programs, etc. This is the time where you decide if you will stay in Kansas after graduation, go back to your home state, go to a new state or move abroad. It may appear daunting and stressful if you do not know what you want to do. However, there are beauty and freedom in uncertainty.
I graduated from the University of Kansas in May 2012 with a degree in Neurobiology with the intention of becoming a physician. Come May, I had realized medical school wasn't for me. Talk about an "Oh crap!" moment. I was scared that I didn't have a plan after graduation. I thought about getting my PhD in biomedical sciences, but I barely had research experience. I luckily had an internship that summer at Stowers Institute for Medical Research. When I realized I had an interest in craniofacial research, I applied for research assistant jobs that summer. The job outlook in Kansas for research assistants with a mere three months of research experience was pretty slim. Most of my undergraduate experiences
were clinically relevant as opposed to research oriented. I felt unprepared and was nervous I wouldn't find a job.
My parents and advisor encouraged me to apply outside of Kansas. I laughed at the suggestion. The truth was that I was scared to leave home. Everything I knew and loved was in Kansas. I was born and raised here. I wasn't hearing back from the jobs I applied to so I ended up applying to more than 20 positions all around the country. I received an interview and a following job offer for a research assistant position at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. I knew nothing about New Mexico except it was a desert and "Breaking Bad" was filmed there. I did not readily accept, as I was hoping to hear back from an interview in Kansas. When that did not happen, I took the offer. I moved to Albuquerque the day after my internship ended and it changed my life forever.
I discovered who I was and what I wanted to become when I left my comfort zone. I worked in an alcohol/memory behavioral lab which sparked my interest in drugs, pharmacology and academia. These were fields I never considered as an undergrad. I had the opportunity to travel around the country to places like Seattle, Chicago, Orlando and New York City for numerous conferences. I spent two weeks volunteering in El Salvador with an international medical delegation at UNM. I hiked my first mountain, I conquered Bikram's Yoga and I spent late nights dancing salsa and merengue. I learned to be responsible, independent and confident. This discovery happened because I left home.
We live in this society where you have to have your life figured out in the four years after you graduate high school. It's absurd. At that point you are only 22 years old. You are still developing as a person. Do not be afraid of not knowing what you want to do with life. Instead, embrace it. Use it to your advantage even if that means you have to leave the state of Kansas. This world is filled with opportunities and surprises and you'll never know until you set out for them. Columnist Harvey Mackay said, "If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it." This is the best advice I can give for students about to embark for the next chapter of their lives.
Moncia Saha is a PharmD candidate from Overland Park.
FFA OF THE DAY
That awkward moment when you work up the courage to ask a stranger if they have a tampon and they don't.
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