Posts by Megan Wegan
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Does that make polytechnics "P-techs"?
Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology will always be, to me, CPIT. Pronounced spit.
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Do you ever read your old work and have a strange feeling you are reading something written by another person?
Frequently. And that person can't write.
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"How I learned that my most significant contribution to science was being people's friend in grad school, with 'offering useful feedback' a close second", by Amy Gale aged thirty*mumble*
At least you made some impact. I appear to have made none at all.
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Or searched Google Scholar for any citations
Excuse me, I just have to pop away and do something....
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But wouldn't that require constantly keeping the balance exactly right, which seems like it wouldn't be that easy?
You mean like training constantly? :)
Well, no, I meant medically. Drug regimens are pretty hard to keep straight at the best of times, let alone for people training/travelling/competing etc constantly, I'd have thought.
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I loved uni. The degree at the end of it did seem kind of irrelevant.
Same. Up to and including my Masters.
Which makes it doubly ironic that almost 10 years after completing it, the topic of my thesis has just become immensely relevant to my professional life. Not something i ever expected.
So of course, I am using the opportunity to make many "Well, thank God that $15k wasn't wasted" jokes.
I've always enjoyed being able to look my thesis up in the university library though. Made me feel all brainy, like.
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[Megan's Boyfriend The King Captain Tackles McCaw doesn't count 'cause if you called him that, he wouldn't turn around until the McCaw part].
I think you'd find he'd turn around well before that.
And not to be all fan-girl, but he does have a nickname, apparently the Canterbury boys call him fluffy. Though I've always wondered if that's to his face.
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What if a runner was on natural steroids when they took the baseline? Then they just have to monitor their levels so they don't move significantly out of the range.
But wouldn't that require constantly keeping the balance exactly right, which seems like it wouldn't be that easy?
I might be naive, but I would like to believe there are people in the world who are just freakishly good, and not cheating.
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Humans will also win over really long distances. Which may just be because we're the only species dumb enough to invent the marathon, and also isn't much comfort when the tiger's already eaten you, but I guess it's something.
Well, it probably should be to Mr Bolt, because by the time the tiger has eaten Messrs Patton, Burns, Chambers Thompson, etc, he'll be long gone.
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Without anyone looking over their shoulders, they spent at least a year falling down, throwing up, and smashing letterboxes. Any course-work handed in would be done in a blaze of panic; a couple of hastily-typed pages thrown together and sprinted across campus to be flung in a submissions box seconds before the deadline.
I can attest to the truth of this statement, and you are right, my parents should have kept me home. If they had done that, instead of sending me to boarding school and university, perhaps I would have amounted to something by now.
Anyone know a good lawyer? Surely I can make them pay for their mistake?