getinloserwerehuntinghorcruxes:
Al-Qaeda =/= all Muslims
WBC =/= all Christians
Amen. WBC makes me so mad.
DIY project du jour:
Use discarded books to refresh old lamps. (Thrift store or yard sale finds, perhaps?)
For a how-to/tutorial, see: ReadyMade: Literary Lamp.
Find other creative new uses for books here, and previous lighting-related posts here.
Only badasses eat parts of sashimi at 10 pm at home. (Taken with instagram)
I CANT BREATHE IMFGASBFAS
I AM SCREAMING OH MY GOD
Omg
It’s funny because I can envision the scene in my mind from the audio, but then I look at the picture and my innocence is dead.
LOL the end killed me holy crap
It hasn’t really hit me until today. As I glanced through the Penn FB page and read over comments filled with funny quips and remarks, I truly realized, “Holy shit, these are the people with whom I’m going to spend some of the most important years of my life.” Before today, I regarded this group more like any other internet group or forum, “It’s filled with people that I like, people that share some similar motivations, and people that I’ll probably never meet in real life.”
But what? They’re going to play an integral part of my life? Really?
Okay. Holy crap things are about to change.
goosebumps.
For two months last fall, Eric Simons secretly took up residence inside the Internet giant’s Palo Alto, Calif., campus, eating free food, enjoying gym access, and building a startup in the process.
This is crazy.
Ask any new college graduate about her immediate goals, and chances are she’ll tell you she wants a job. But it turns out today’s students aren’t going to be satisfied with any job. According to the latest survey from Net Impact, making a difference through their work is essential to young people’s happiness.
The survey found that 72 percent of graduating college seniors believe being able to make a “positive societal impact” through their work is essential to their happiness. Making a difference is so important to them that 45 percent say they’d take a 15 percent pay cut to work at an organization that makes a social or environmental impact and 58 percent say they’d take a pay cut to “work for an organization whose values are like my own.”
» via GOOD
Helping my sister’s campaign like a boss (like a redditor)
Just… just saying.
Good week :)
First Penn pennant! (Taken with instagram)
I heard an interesting story this morning and I wanted to share it with you all.
Years ago, mental institutions used a simple test to see if one of their patients was ready to be released. They had a room with a sink in it and not much more. They would plug the drain, turn on the faucet, and…