Life

My Personality Test Scores
(updated periodically)

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[ Edited from a comment on Saboteur's blog ]

I totally agree with Napoleon227 that you must be careful to keep the focus on your future and how your history (however traumatic) has equipped you to face it. Focus on the strengths you gained from the trials you endured -- not the trials, themselves.

Your goal is to instill a sense of your capability, adaptability, creativity, tenacity, and perseverance in the face of adversity -- not to portray yourself as a character in a "sob ...

Physicists (Rationals) with May Birthdays

A correlation* story:

• In college I had an upper-level physics course with four other students plus the professor (6 total).
• All but one of us had a birthday in May (83%).
• We were all Math/Science nerds (Rationals, I'm guessing).
• Was it due to Zodiacal influence? My scientific nature seriously doubted it:

• Being an astronomer, I knew that the sun now travels through the constellations in the wrong months.
• And

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The Rules
of
Polite Discourse

Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths,
but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs,
that it may benefit those who listen. -- Ephesians 4:29 NIV

Address issues promptly. If you let feelings fester, that is just what will happen: They will rot you from the inside out.

Express your feelings and thoughts. How can you ...

SOME ADVICE FOR STUDENTS:

1. Not everyone should go to college. Some folks just aren't cut out for academic life. This is not an insult. Some people are just more "Doers" than "Learners" and want to get down to business right away.
2. You don't have to go to college right after high school. Some people aren't mature enough to do well in college at 18 years old. You can always go back to school after you have worked in menial jobs for years and are better

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