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I have a couple of ‘research for credit’ classes this semester and I’m spending a lot of time with my TAs. Teaching Assistants (grad students) are essentially approachable professors with longer office hours, faster response times and a willingness to spend a little time walking me through options, so I understand the material and don’t charge-off in some crazy direction. I have a flawless record of wasting time on the wrong things at the wrong times, so I never feel silly or dumb asking questions. AM I having fun yet? Yeah, I am. A bell dings. Let the fighters enter the ring. There’s a gathering of things, then we rush for the wings. Students are bolting from classes, like riders out of rodeo shoots. Focused faces, off to the races, phones appear from a hundred places. Outside, a cool, brisk breeze moves paper-mâché clouds, across the blue-dome sky. Squirrels freeze from their thieving, and watch this sudden, noisy invasion of their world. There’s a bee-like buzz of conversations, from ahead, behind and in doppler passing. “Question six - was that right - what are you wearing to the thing tonight?” My tummy growls for some lunch time relief - a plea for a snack - or coffee’s appeasement. I glance at my watch, there’s no time. I leave the path for the grass; I have an immediate class! Why are people so slow? I get heinous looks - it’s grass people - kiss my a$s people. I squeeze sideways in the crush to enter the Kline Biology Tower, atop science hill. In the hallway I find Lisa, we share the next class. “Do you have a granola bar?” I ask. “I’ve got two,” she brags, fishing one out, as we drop our bookbags. As I moan with pleasure, she chuckles at the relief on my face. The TA announces, ”You should have papers, pass ‘em, please.” . . Songs for this: Home by Luke Chiang No Other Plans by Sunny Levine

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Date: 9/22/2024 11:10:00 PM
That granola bar (sounds like) better be home made. . . Also hope you both are learning to trade stocks using a simulator.
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Chris Conn
Date: 9/23/2024 3:29:00 PM
HUH? Bitcoin is the best financial investment in modern history. $50,000 investment in 2012 and do nothing but wait until closing today would be $316,500,000.00.
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Anais Vionet
Date: 9/23/2024 11:09:00 AM
I agree (stocks). The fools who think they have some edge with their unregulated investments - aka bitcoins, NFTs, ICOs, AI Investment Algarhythms. Sure, SOMEONE's making money but it's not you, sucker. I guess they've never studied economic history.
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Chris Conn
Date: 9/23/2024 10:01:00 AM
Stock are the easiest way to make a fortune, large or small. Colleges rely heavily on stocks and the stock market. Why not just call (and advertise) them: Dorm Bars - Made with REAL elbow grease.
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Anais Vionet
Date: 9/23/2024 6:04:00 AM
Most residential colleges (dorms) make their own granola bars of peanut butter cookie bars - it's really the only reason to GO to Yale. Why stocks?

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