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I have been gone for a while...

I am so sorry! Working 40hrs a week and taking 2-3 classes a semester is so tough😭. I failed one of my classes in the spring lol. Over the summer I took three 8-week classes and almost died, I passed those classes lol. Now for the Fall semester, I’m taking 2 classes which I’m really liking. Work is kicking my butt tho, I didn’t come back home until 8pm last night. With all that being said, I’m hoping to be back a little more regularly😊

polyglotfantasy

Daily Random Spanish #2

1. possibly - posiblemente

2. basically - básicamente/fundamentalmente

3. sunshine - sol

4. kiss - beso

5. daydream - ensueño

6. to daydream - soñar despierto / fantasear

7. to whisper - susurrar

8. to object - objetar, oponerse

9. to shout - gritar

10. to laugh - reír

polyglotfantasy

Daily Random Spanish #1

1. No hay branca - No problem

2. ¿Qué hubo? - What’s up?

3. ponerle los cuernos - to cheat on someone

4. A mí, me parece que - I think that

5. No estoy persuadida de que sea el caso - I’m not convinced that’s the case

6. por lo tanto - therefore

7. normalmente - normally

8. a veces - sometimes

9. de vez en cuando - from time to time

10. de menudo - often

bigforeheadgaaal

Useful information ! Reblog ASAP

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I always thought it was weird when I got a refill they gave me an entirely new one when it’s literally built so you can remove the actual medicine

chibird

Maybe some of you are in a place where you need to hear these things. Trust me, it does turn out okay. 💛

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owlmylove

they’re gonna pass their finals

feminist-rants

who?

owlmylove

the student reading this as soon they get off this goddamn website

shymagnolia

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

shymagnolia

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

studenting

hi all, here is a calendar for may!

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imageinsanity

My current employer once said to me, “I get the impression you work to live, not live to work.” Uh, yeah motherfucker.

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me after reading this:

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A boss once sat me down and said, I swear to fuck, that it was a bad thing that I was interested in leaving work on time. Like he said something like “I’m told that you like going home at the end of the day.”

I asked him what I meant. Like I point blank said “Are you saying I don’t work enough overtime?”

“…no,” he said, since we got in trouble if we worked OT. It was treated as a moral failing on our parts.

“So are you saying I should be working for free?” I asked. This is a trap question. It was a corporate job. Which meant he actually was limited in the shit he could pull.

“….no,” he grudgingly replied.

“So what is the problem?” I asked. And he had to admit that, technically, I had done nothing wrong.

But he tried to guilt me over LIKING TO GO HOME AT THE END OF THE DAY. After each 8-10 hour shift where I was allowed ZERO breaks, despite the law requiring I get a minimum of 15 minutes every 4 hours.

He also got pissed off that I was very open with telling people I had given my notice. I didn’t bad mouth the place. I wasn’t negative. I was just open that, yes, I was moving and had therefor quit.

GEE I FUCKING WONDER WHY I WAS SO EXCITED TO BE LEAVING.

onewholesleepyboi

Anyone who’s foolish enough to tell me that working is a privilege I should “live” for ought to be drawn and quartered.

I’m dead serious; people are dropping dead like flies because of overwork.

This is why we NEED labor laws, people.

ourladyofrebellion

Burn the capitalists.

elleroseblogs

Sometimes self care is studying for that test. Sometimes it’s cleaning your room. Sometimes it’s having that conversation you’re afraid of having, confront that person you’re afraid to confront. Sometimes it’s not just wrapping yourself up in a blanket and relaxing. Sometimes instead, it’s taking action against the problem.

materialsscienceandengineering

Ceramics Posts

In honor of reaching the end of the periodic table, and the fact that I’ve made over a hundred MaterialsPosts by now, I thought I’d share with you guys some of the facts.

At this point, I have posted about fourteen different ceramics, and the most popular posts were…

Ultra high temperature ceramics (incidentally my third most popular MaterialsPost overall)

Porcelain

Bone China

Lanthanum hexaboride

Zirconia

… in that order. So if you missed them the first time around, check them out!

(And just because I was interested in the answer, here’s the least popular ceramics post (so far): Aluminum nitride.)

Thanks to every who’s following me and thanks for everyone who’s said how much they enjoy these MaterialsPosts!

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When your flask looks more like a petri dish

While evaporating the solvent from her reaction product, Nuray Altinolcek saw these circular crystals, which reminded her of bacterial colonies cultured on a petri dish. Altinolcek, a PhD student at Uludağ University in the lab of Mustafa Tavasli, is looking for new materials for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). She plans to use the compound in these crystals as a ligand to form a transition-metal complex. Small amounts of these phosphorescent complexes can be added to OLEDs to allow scientists to control the color of light that the devices produce. In other words, putting different ligands on a transition-metal atom can change its luminescent properties. —Manny Morone

Submitted by Nuray Altinolcek

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mobeenhakeem

You notice everything. The body language. The tone of voice. The choice of words. The change of topic. The reactions. The timing. The eye movement before speaking. The twitches after hearing your calculated words that deliberately sound thoughtless. They hear only what you let them. You plant your speech like seeds, knowing it will expose the truth. All the while, it seems so careless. You lay out harmless traps to let them expose their inner selves, and what they really think. It all paints a big picture, while they think you heard just a few words. You learnt what you wanted to. They think you just have too many uncontrolled opinions and not enough wisdom. They think they know better. That is where you want them. That is where you want everyone. The truth would be revealed by an inevitable checkmate.

— Mobeen Hakeem

materialsscienceandengineering

Glasses: Cranberry glass

Cranberry glass, also known as gold ruby glass, is glass that has been colored red with the addition of gold. This type of glass has been produced for over two thousand years, with varying types of glass and varying amounts of gold and other elements. Over the centuries the knowledge of the methods involved of making cranberry glass have waxed and waned and it wasn’t until the early 1600s that a description of how to make ruby glass was first published by Antonio Neri (The Art of Glass). A German glassmaker, Johann Kunckel, later improved the recipe in the late 1600s, and ruby glass is also sometimes known as Kunckel glass.

In the modern era, cranberry glass, or rather, any red glass, can also be made with other colorants, such as copper, selenium, or select rare earth elements. But with gold itself, the chemistry of this type of glass is actually rather complex. The gold in the glass is in the form of nanoparticles and the size of these particles, as well as the way the glass is processed and the temperatures used to create it, have large effects on the color of the resulting product. Often, Cranberry glass as a term is specifically used to refer to gold ruby glass that is annealed at low temperatures or for shorter times, leading to a pale pinkish color, rather than the deep red of other gold ruby glasses.

This red glass is relatively very expensive, and as such it is mainly used for decorative and craft purposes and is rarely mass produced.

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Order hidden in disorder

Partitioning space into cells with optimum geometrical properties is a central challenge in many fields of science and technology. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and colleagues from several countries have now found that in amorphous, i.e. disordered, systems optimization of the individual cells gradually results in the same structure, although it remains amorphous. The disordered structure quickly converges to hyperuniformity - a hidden order on large scales. This is reported in Nature Communications.

No matter whether you search for an optimum foam or for a method to pack spheres as closely as possible - ideal tessellation of three-dimensional space, that means complete partitioning into cells with special geometrical properties, has been studied for a long time by scientists. It is not only of theoretical interest, but relevant to many practical applications, among others for telecommunications, image processing, or complex granules. Researchers of KIT’s Institute of Stochastics have now studied a special problem of tessellation, the quantizer problem. “The goal is to partition space into cells and all points in a cell to be located as closely as possible to the cell center, intuitively speaking,” says Dr. Michael Andreas Klatt, former staff member of the Institute, who now works at Princeton University in the USA. Solutions of the quantizer problem can be used for the development of novel materials and may contribute to a better understanding of the unique properties of complex cell tissue in future.

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