Xaladin

Where is the location of this? JFSB? Where exactly?

Dr. Nielsen?

Last Halloween someone in my apartment complex carved an allomantic symbol in a jack-o-lantern. By the time I saw it, the decay was too much to warrant a picture.

When the following happens: 1. You attend a university forum 2. During the speech, the speaker stops to get a glass of water and drinks it. 3. You immediately analyze your emotions because you think they have been tampered with. 4. You look for the closest exit. 5. You realize the two actions listed above were both automatic and unreasonable. 6. Your next idle thought is of the Ten Fools.

Amaram: (WOR spoiler)

The thread title needs serious editing. I'm sorry, but it took me a full minute and reading of comments to realize you meant "many parts," not "man parts."

My technical writing professor said 60% of college freshman read for pleasure, while the percentage of college seniors who read for pleasure is negligible. And so he did us all a favor. Reminiscent of elementary school, one assignment for the term is to read 20 minutes every day. Imagine that! The only requirement is that the reading material is "book length." And so I started reading the Wheel of Time (this will take way longer than the term ... ) ...

The best one of these so far.

You do know those parentheses are unnecessary, right? <don't get me started on large numbers; I will derail even this thread if I start>

I highly doubt this, but I like it anyway. She probably married Roshone. No, the woman for Kaladin is Just watch.

Sescentretriginmilliamilliamilliatrecentretriginmilliamilliatrecentretriginmilliatrecenduotrigintillion. This is the English name of 10^1899999999999 No, it wasn't from memory. Yes, there is no limit to how long you can make a word, if numbers count.

The Tones? Such profanity. tsk, tsk.

You beat me too it. Too spoilery!!

You will be surprised how much you can learn from books. For example: I can suggest Logical Labyrinths by Raymond Smullyan or The Calculus Gallery by William Dunham And pretty much any book published by Springer will be worth your time.

After diff eq's (if you choose a pure math route) it's a little different (but super fun), because you prove everything, and you are never allowed to use anything you don't know how to prove. I like it this way because there is no magic, no "just believe." Only facts proven based on axioms and earlier theorems. Also, math programs don't really have "weed-out" classes (you could argue calc II is a weed-out class, but that's about it) because they don't get crowds of people who actually want to study math. The name "mathematics" scares away everybody who doesn't belong. I am the opposite of engineers and physicists. They find things easier or more worthwhile when there are applications in real life. I find things in real life hard to understand. The more removed from real life and the more safely embedded in clean logicland a topic is, the more comfortable I am with it.

It was more the "I'm so jealous, I wish I could be like him" sort of tangent. He also told how Robert Jordan's wife called to ask Brandon to finish The Wheel of Time, and how that was totally unexpected. They (Sanderson and my professor) were in grad school together.

So, I am in a technical writing class at BYU (very dry, boring writing, right?) and one of the random "assignments" is to read something 20 minutes a day, reminiscent of elementary school. I thought I would start The Wheel of Time (a risky move for me, since I know I will still be reading it when the days come that I don't have much time to read ... ). When the professor found out, he ended up going on a five minute tangent in class about Brandon Sanderson. It was hilarious. Even after we got back on track, the subject came up again.

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When you are Awakened by the mention of "spiritual DNA" at church.

Death isn't the worst thing that can happen to a favorite character. Worse is when they are forced to become something else in some unnatural way.

Ceramic bullets for Coinshots, Lurchers. Bullets with poison for Bloodmakers? Remote-control bullets? See the link in my signature for more details.

Exactly. Too bad it isn't May the 4th anymore for that post.

Sorry, that was a reference to Arabian Nights. I got that quote from a movie, so take it with a grain of salt (or a pinch of copper, or crem, or whatever you prefer).

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