Oh Beyonce!

Beyonce, you are so BA!

A good conversation.

Summary of my life/day:

Kara: haha
i see you are very confident about passing something
me: ahaha. still haven’t finished my papers
kara: oh geez
kara: i thought you only had 3 sentences
me: haha well i’m up to a page now!
kara: oh I thought you were telling me last night you only had 3 sentences left
me: OHHH hahahaa noo
me: i only had three sentences WRITTEN
kara: haha yea that makes more sense

Come on.

Come on, Daily Tar Hole. I know this is a letter to the editor, and I know this chump of a sophomore probably delights in all of the NC State anger he is eliciting, but I’m gonna get mad anyway. Implying that out of state students are smarter, right whatever. But sending your low-caliber kids to NC State? Sorry, we don’t want them either! NC State’s rankings HAVEN’T slipped in the last few years. Obviously it’s not “our kind” who make you suck. Maybe it’s all those undeserved A’s? Okay stopping. That’s too much from me already.

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Accept more out-of-state students in budget deficit

Published: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Updated: Tuesday, March 17, 2009

TO THE EDITOR:

I read on The Daily Tar Heel’s Web site that Gov. Bev Perdue plans to cut 5.5 percent of the University system’s funding for next year (“Governor announces 5.5 percent budget cut for University system,” March 17).

We should use this opportunity to our advantage.

When the state decreases its obligation of funding to the University, we should likewise admit fewer in-state students and admit more out-of-state students.

Already two other great public schools, the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, admit around 10 percent more out of state students.

If we were to increase our out-of-state student admittance by 10 percent of our student body we would be looking at an increase in tuition revenue of tens of millions of dollars.

Not to mention the academic standards of our University could increase dramatically because of this out-of-state increase.

This would generate more money to help offset our budget cuts and raise our academic standards by eliminating positions for the lower end of in-state applicants and admitting more qualified out-of-state applicants.

Even the less qualified in- state applicants will most likely defer to other great UNC system schools, like N.C. State University, thus raising their academic quality.

UNC has slipped a few places in national college rankings in the last couple of years. I think it’s time we corrected that.

Sophomore
Psychology

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

My gift to you:

FYI this is amazing/wonderful/great/my new love

ben-and-ti

I love Ben Folds. And I love Regina Spektor. And I LOVE T.I.

Yea.

Tonight’s Note to Self

Girl! You gotta get up!

Notey notes.

Lately I’ve had to write myself a lot of notes to get crap done. And I’ve realized the more funny or ironic my notes are, the more likely I am to accomplish said task. That’s weird, I know. But whatever.

I am not the least bit ashamed to admit I have real trouble waking up, and am the worst snoozer ever, sometimes hitting the button for one+ hours. To wake up, I’ve written myself such fantastic notes as:

- WAKE THE HELL UP! Do something with your life.
- WAKE UP YOU DUMMY.
- WAKE UP! You have to hike with Maggie. (sadly unsuccessful, but I think we at least made it to the Global Village part of our adventure.)
- WAKE UP AND SHOWER. You smell.

These are always strategically placed over my alarm clock so I can’t see the time. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t. Lately I’ve been really bad about forgetting to take my allergy medicine in the morning, and I end up sniffling and being miserable all day. You’d think I’d remember this in the morning, but I’m not the clearest of thinkers in early hours of the day, so I resort to:

I cannot forget the achoo’s and miserable eyes with that staring at me in the mirror!

Like most things in my life, including mix cd names, I don’t write my stuff anymore. I just kick it from my head you know what I’m saying, I can do that. No disrespect. But that’s how I am.

Hair update.

Mullet stage has begun. In my previous attempts to grow my hair out, this is typically the point where I throw the towel in. My ends are getting icky (I do need a trim) and this one spot, no matter how much I comb/straighten/brush, always does its own thing. However, I’m determined to stick this one out. I think if I can make it another month I’ll be set. Summertime, though, might make me go straight back to short. We’ll see.

Also, I’m going to dye it soon. A more brownish color. Woo hoo!

What a beautiful day.

It’s so pretty right now. It’s making it much easier to readjust to non-spring break life.