"Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you." - Fran Lebowitz

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Someone: "haha the convent girl is the symbol of a man's deepest darkest desires right? wtf :P

haha my boyfriend always wanted an IJ girlfriend i think HAHA
but he is a dork

and he thinks its damn kinky to wear an IJ uniform (not him, i mean his girlfriend)
so i donned the [a dorky boys' school name] uniform"


Someone else: HAHA I GOT A FOR MY [USP "Writing] PAPER1
so true man all those who can write dont score well HAHA


Someone: we are required to do an english portfolio
and in that portfolio we have to have a reflection on one of our best works we did in the year

someone above eighteen is supposed to see it and make a written response of 300 to 500 words

Me: haha
wth
why got age discrimination

Someone: age discrimination, cos it's supposed to be an 'adult critic'

Me: aiyoh
I feel old


Someone else: But I still feel asking pple's CAP is like asking their salary, or for women, asking their age...

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A group in one of my tutorials was giving a presentation on corruption in Papua New Guinea, and they contrasted it with a slightly non-conventional view of a country widely perceived as non-corrupt, but which paid a senior statesman US$12 million a year inclusive of benefits, which works out to $6000 a day (I did the math and this is wrong, so either their maths was off or I didn't copy down the figures correctly). For all we know, the cost to the country may be more than if there was the conventional sort of corruption.

Apparently logarithms were invented to aid the multiplication of large numbers. For example, 12345 x 54321 would've been tedious before a calculator, but with logs one could log both terms to get 10^XXX x 10^YYY = 10^(XXX+YYY).