String Theory

physics. music. books. funny stories about life.

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topology just seems so pointless sometimes

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why am i 16 and already looking forward to retirement

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throwback to that one time I told my parents i wanted to work at European Wax Center because I thought it was a place that made candles.

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xc vibes

runner's high

there's no such thing as tmi

if you forget your water you WILL DIE

sweating like, a LOT

coming home from practice and inhaling the entire pantry / you cant stay on a diet for more than a day because you NEED FOOD

random singing when the cooldown is over? like frozen and staying alive typa stuff

flexibility and speed are inversely proportional unless you really work on it

random safety pins floating around your house from your race packets

everyone running past you and telling you good job / like, 1000 high fives at the end of a race from all your teammates

telling good job to random people you see on the trail bc it's ingrained in your nature. this gets awkward fast.

dirty tennis shoes

people with spikes are pretentious but also like, faster somehow.

tan lines from your socks

your teammates will cry during a difficult run or before/after a race. it's normal

add your own in the comments if you want!

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concept:

a makeup store that's organized by product type and not by FUCKING BRAND

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this is a little reminder that those moments you think are embarrassing and that you keep replaying in your head at night do not matter.

in the past year, i have

tripped coming up the stairs on like my second day of school

tried to put books on top of my locker except they slid off and crashed right into my face

gone to school with lipstick in my teeth

took a football to the face in PE because I CAN'T CATCH TO SAVE MY LIFE and proceeded to cry about it

cried in chemistry class because my theology teacher yelled at me

and that is not even all of it.

no one remembers stuff like that. they remember your kindness, your confidence, and your personality, and the sooner you realize that stuff like this happens and that people who judge you based on this typa stuff are shallow and stupid anyways, the happier you'll be.

embarrassing stuff happens to everyone. you shouldn't let it affect who you are and how amazing you can be.

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gum is like my version of cigarettes i will literally go thru a pack a day

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You know you’re a physics nerd when your computer autocorrects “neutral” to “neutrino”

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so I was babysitting this 8 year old today and out of the blue he asks me "is abuse a word?"

and i was just like oh you sweet summer child

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the married version of "let's go to the beach, drink spicy margaritas, and make bad decisions" is "let's go to IKEA, eat Swedish meatballs, and make bad decisions."

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one thing you can expect from a fourth of july celebration is american serving sizes

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ok so we canonically know that in SoC Nina is chubby, even after her battle with parem. Matthias describes her as "indecently round."

but the most important part of this is that even after Chapter 40, when Genya tailors her and alters her very bone structure, she doesn't ask Genya to make her skinnier.

we know this because when Hanne helps her onto her horse in King of Scars, she asks "you don't like to skip meals, do you?" Nina replies, "Not if I can help it."

She becomes a blond, but she stays the size she is because she is CONFIDENT.

how many people, when faced with the option of completely changing their body shape / weight, would choose to remain exactly how they are?

Nina is a QUEEN.

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my biggest pet peeve is men

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When it comes to marriage I don’t think that girls should always take the guy’s last name (or even vice versa), so here are some alternative options:

—they pick a new last name that sounds good with both of their first names and potential baby names they might have in mind, symbolic of the start of their new life together.

—they decide which person has the coolest-sounding last name and they go with that one.

—they make a mash-up of their two last names (like a ship name kind of) and use that as their new last name.

—they gather all their friends and relatives for an intense competition. Friends and relatives are divided into 2 teams—Team guy’s last name and Team girl’s last name (they can be divided randomly, they can pick their teams, it can be based on which person they know—as long as the teams are equal it doesn’t matter). This competition lasts over several days and includes both mental games (like chess or trivia) and physical games (like a shooting range and rock-climbing). Games are arranged in a tournament-like style, so each person has to participate in each game, with staggering levels of points based on who is eliminated first. The team name that wins becomes the last name of the engaged couple, and you get some family bonding in too.

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So I recently got a haircut, and it really did not look good—I looked like that one Justin Bieber photo.

It was really bad.

So I told this to my mom, who proceeded to protest in lowercase “no! you’re beautiful! just like…winged victory!”

It took me a second to realize that winged victory is HEADLESS

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Writing is like having kids because both involve

vicariously living out your life through characters of your own creation

PAIN

more often than not, multiple attempts before you actually produce something

the nurturing of something you would die for, or throw into the fire with your own hands, depending on the day

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Do you all count the prologue for the first line of a book?

I just started reading Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, and the first line of the Prologue is “The small boys came early to the hanging” and the first line of chapter 1 is “In a broad valley, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside a clear bubbling stream, Tom was building a house.”

And those sentences just set VERY different vibes for the book.