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Create a blog: Done!
Most of my friends know that I love doing little projects that utilize no particular skill except creativity. While I was writing my dissertation, these projects were put on hold. To keep myself...
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I still don't know what an Arduino is. I've been told that it's a microcontroller, but I don't know what a microcontroller is. All I know is that people do cool projects with it. I'm sold.Because I...
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Start a blog called "The Poll Vault": Done!
Whenever I organize an event, I create a Google Form. Whenever I create a Google Form, I come up with a random, multiple choice question. I think I started asking these questions several years ago...
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Make candy corn: Done!
Happy Halloween folks! This task wasn't actually on my list of things to do, but I saw an article in Lifehacker last week that showed how to make candy corn. I have no kitchen skills at all, but this...
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Be a wet lab scientist: Done!
People usually imagine a science lab to be full of bubbling flasks, petri dishes of bacteria, and lots of expensive, heavy machinery. My degree is in the sciences, but my lab looks like an ordinary...
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Make mittens: Done!
I had a nice red sweater, but there was a hole on the side that kept growing every time I wore it, and unless I decided to follow a drastic calorie-reducing diet, there was no realistic way I would...
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Donate (a full bag of) blood: Done!
Over the past 10 years, I have tried to donate blood 3 times, but failed each time.In high school, I never got past the initial eligibility questionnaire.In college, I got to the point where I had a...
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Read a book: Done! (Part 2 of 2)
The early Harry Potter books were only a couple hundred pages each, so I was able to stick them in my bag and read them while I waited for the shuttle. However, the later books were insanely thick, and...
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During college and almost all of grad school (a total of more than 10 years), I finished exactly two books: Freakonomics and Walter Cronkite's autobiography. (And then he died a week later at the age...
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Win a Lifehacker MacGyver Challenge: Boom. Done!
Well, my work here is done.I submitted a project from an earlier post to Lifehacker's MacGyver Challenge: Hack Something With LEDs. Lo and behold...I won!As a longtime Lifehacker reader (as evidenced...
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Play fantasy football: In progress
Happy Waiver Wednesday!While a common Thanksgiving tradition is to have football on in the background while prepping for the massive feast, my family didn't partake in such traditions. In fact,...
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Make a science-themed Spot it! game: Done!
This May, I am walking in the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's Walk MS in Newtown, PA in support of my scientist friend, GZC. I met GZC in a cancer class at Yale over 10 years ago. Since then,...
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