There’s a great article today about how the MIT Dean of Admissions wants to reduce admissions anxiety in teenagers. How about parents getting off of their kids’ backs? That would help. But I do admire her for trying to create a friendlier system that might just ease the pressure enough to not give parents such reason to push their kids so hard. Too bad it probably won’t happen any time soon. And go ahead and try to tell Asian parents to stop pushing their kids to the point of insanity. I dare you.
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Sadness. Mr. Wizard, who taught me that you can’t eat more than three or so pretzels because the salt on them dries out your mouth making it hard for you to swallow and inspired me to pursue science as a career died recently. 
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Darth Vader had borderline personality disorder. If only he had gotten psychotherapy.
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