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		<title>2011 In Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I don&#8217;t think about the awfulness of graduate school 2011 was a really good year for me. For the first time in 5 years I am no longer in pain every single day.   An improvement in this one seemingly small facet of my life has helped me in other areas.  I am now able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slowly but surely there is improvement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think anyone can truly understand how depressing it can be to be in chronic pain until you have experienced it firsthand.  I spent several years suffering in silence.  When I did talk about it, no one really knew how much I was hurting.  I think the worst part of it all was when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Over!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first quarter as a PhD student, and it was&#8230; humbling. Being sick still made the quarter very difficult,  but I know it can be done.  Also I have a feeling next quarter will be infinitely better!  My final exams were on Tuesday and I came back home (to the DC area) on Wednesday.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The delete</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I got deleted as a facebook friend by a friend I had an argument with roughly two years ago. I can&#8217;t lie and say it doesn&#8217;t bother me, but the thread of friendship we had is officially over. I know what went wrong. I made a facebook status last week. It was a generalization [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rude Awakening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve taken two tests since I started the PhD program. The first I did alright, the second I failed (for me failing is scoring more than one standard deviation below the mean). I really freaked out. I began to worry about passing the qualifier in June. Then I realized June is 7 months away and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Typical Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just writing this down for my memory. I still think I have time management issues but I try to stick with this schedule. I am a first year PhD student. Monday, Wednesdays 8:00-9:30 Wake Up, Get ready, head to school 9:30-11:30 Class 11:30-1:30 Eat Lunch while studying 1:30-3:30 Class 3:30-4:00 Head home 4:00-6:00 Take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drinking&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ve mentioned this before but&#8230; I don&#8217;t drink. Not because I think it&#8217;s morally wrong. I think it&#8217;s perfectly okay when not done in excess. But for me, alcohol tastes like battery acid and vomit. Maybe it is an acquired taste. However, it&#8217;s not a taste I &#8216;m willing to acquire. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming Shyness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;ve mentioned it before in a blog post but I suffer from shyness. I wouldn&#8217;t quite call it social anxiety but I&#8217;m not very outgoing, I don&#8217;t really care for new social situations,  etc.  But over the past two months I&#8217;ve been making an effort to combat my shyness.  I&#8217;ve been coming out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slight Blog Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m starting to moderate comments on my blog. Over the past couple of weeks I&#8217;ve gotten a slew of emails and recent comments about previous posts.  While most of them don&#8217;t worry me, one particular post is getting a little out of hand. I don&#8217;t know why dozens of people are coming to my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intelligenceisacurse.com/index.html/2011/10/slight-blog-change/</link>
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		<title>School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is getting crazier and crazier. I put in at least 10 hours of work in today just so I can be sure I will have 10 hours to study tomorrow and each day over the weekend. I will be easily putting 70 hours this week into school possibly 80. So for all the blog friends [...]]]></description>
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