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quality over quantity, imo. come on, if most of what you read are those fatass epics/classics which could be used as a weapon, it's unlikely that you'd get through 10-15+ a year. but having said that, i'm not particularly hot on having to use a dictionary for every nth word. so far this...

viva la vida - coldplay Með suð * eyrum við spilum - sigur ros the slip - nine inch nails lycanthropy - patrick wolf nfs carbon - eagles of death metal

stay all day if you want to

nowhere near their usual standard. premature ejaculation?

chemistry is usually a prequisite. go look at some degrees and look at what they want in assumed knowledge.

tess of the d'urbervilles and paradise lost for english.

some of the nomenclature in there are so blatantly intertextual it'd be hard to not pick up on them, prior knowledge of revolutionary russia or not.

i want in and out of the meat grinder as fast as possible. maybe because i'm resentful of my subjects deviating from my original plan and any affinity i have for certain subjects is negated by the fact that i would not trust many of my teachers with my hsc [which really is the...

monica bellucci. even my mum would go lesbian for her. but out of that list, halle berry and ziyi zhang.

dust mites. violently, incapacitatingly* allergic. *not a word

you'll understand when you're older, son.

When that happened to me they gave me a box to stand on and it made almost no difference. The most annoying thing is that I have a 6ft cousin. Liek wtf mate?

"trans" is also a very common prefix.

the best anti-ageing cream is sunscreen. my mum's 56 and all that's changed about her is her hair and clothes in the time that i've known her. she can also get away with skinny jeans and i can't.

innovative expression can get you some extra marks and can augment the value of good theses/evidence - armed with a good vocab, you can find that you can encapsulate an entire phrase in one word and everything just flows well. this is where some creative writing skills help. what i sometimes...

i adapt my reading patterns to the book the lovely bones [a good, simple break from thomas hardy which i devoured] took <4 hours; the book thief took a few days because i wanted to give some sort of discourse time to zuzsak's sparse expression; stuff like the fountainhead and anything by elie...

156 cm. fucking asian-ness

+1 perfect. i am totally foisting that onto my school.

i'm a sucker for writing notes out with colours and bullet points because once you've got a system going [i use a 4-colour bic pen and 4 highlighters in whatever's on hand] it's really good for quick referencing. colours really help because in larger blocks of writing you can highlight the...

39 hours last year science research assessment started the night before it was due missed first block the next day doing the bibliography was feeling hardcore so went out that night oh how i regretted that