Recent content by jiarem

I agree with del, I go to a liberal arts school where I'm expected to take a bunch of GenEd classes, and while some are disappointing, I find that, with a little imagination and thinking, I can turn any subject into something interesting. I can find a way to make chemistry (sort of) interesting...

I think I wear it once every five years. If that. I feel no need to wear it, and I don't like how it usually looks, anyway.

The one about small talk, calculating path efficiency, collecting double takes, crypto nerds (ouch!), and a lot of the math puns ("Is this paper just a giant build-up to a pun about imaginary friends?") are some of my favorites. Also, I thought I was the only person who walked funny on tiled floors.

I began as a contented introvert. Well, I'll qualify this. At school, I was happy to roam the playground alone, lost in thought. At home, I was lonely since my parents were not present much, and I had no neighbors my age. Anyway, each year, I had a maximum of two friends, and in third grade, I...

Thank you guys. :) xkcd is awesome!

Agreed. I stay up for hours because my mind refuses to sleep. Then again, I've always been a night owl, and it seems that my mind is most active at night.

I'm not sure of the original reason. As a kid, I never connected with anyone, with the exception of one or two. I simply never felt compelled to interact. I could entertain myself, and the others were nothing like me, they had nothing to offer me, so why bother? Later on, introversion was...

So is this why the internal processing doesn't easily get externalized? For the most part, I agree that there is a lot of internal energy, for me. I just wonder why I don't readily translate this to the external world. The few exceptions I can think of are in discussion of topics I'm...

Now that I think about it, there was one time when I was a kid that I was watching some movie with my brothers. Some character went into cardiac arrest, so the doctors got out the defibrillators. I didn't understand the situation (person going into cardiac arrest and dying), but I thought it was...

:evil: Then let's burn this place!

Yup, sounds like something I'd laugh at. In fact, I was usually the one who was being laughed at for that sort of thing. I would sometimes stumble and either miraculously balance back out after some pretty dramatic flailing, or I would fall flat on my face, but spring up immediately, as if...

You asked for it. "It is common knowledge that the kinder sex, while quite naturally gentle and well-meaning, is incapable of higher-level, abstract reasoning, such as that required in mathematics. It is also well-known that Asians have uncanny aptitude in this same field of intellect. However...

There are aspects of my humor which might fly over the head of the other(s), but are not offensive (think of xkcd). Then there are aspects which are morbid, sarcastic, and/or generally offensive. I think I outdid myself on a stereotype joke, in which I concluded that Asian females cannot...

I can never decide a top five. For one thing, the list changes. Second, the languages are all in such a close tie that I can't order them. 1.) English. Native language. 2.) Hindi. I always thought it sounded exceptionally beautiful. 3.) Arabic or Hebrew. 4.) Korean. 5.) Finnish. 6.)...

The last sentence is especially true. Also, people say lots of things, plenty are less than sincere, or are not well thought out. When people flippantly use the word "genius," for example, I cannot help but mentally wince. Then they apply it to me, and I wonder if they even know or ever thought...