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  • I woke up at 4 to finish a…

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    I woke up at 4 to finish a paper. Yay!

  • Those germans

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    A brief quote I got last night while reading the fervently devout correspondence between Charles Peirce -u.s. scientist- and Victoria Welby – english writer. Welby to Peirce Duneaves, Harrow, England December 4th 1903 I am going to send a type-written bit of my last night’s lecture as soon as I can get it done. We…

  • Fixed Response Lab Report

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    Yong Ho Kim March 10, 2003 1. Describe your rat’s progress during shaping. A mistake in the experimenter’s side must be firsthand explained in order to make sense of the rat’s behavior. I understood that the rat was not being given water until it pressed the lever by itself and assumed that the light was…

  • Woohoo! People click in dumb email attachments such as "Congrats!" or "Japanese girl play".

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  • Yongho's perilous adventures into Carnegie 3

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    So yesterday afternoon I was at the econometrics lab, hanging out with Mary and reading some more for the Marx essay. I need to realize this in a more frequent basis. Econ majors are humans, too. They are humans, and nice, and greedy, and neat, and sentimental, and humanly, and right-winged, and smart, and methodical,…

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    How sad… I worked for my essay for the last two days. It was a 1 credit course, pass/fail, but the deadline was earlier; so I thought “earlier first, later later” and worked on that one only.. and turns out I couldn’t make it! I might explain something to the prof, but now I’ve got…

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    I just realized that over the last 2 years at Mac, I have taken 12 intro courses and 4 intermediate ones. I ended up never taking Postcolonial Theory, Culture and Globalization, Organic Chem, Philosophy of Mind, Cell Biology, nor Multivariable Calculus. Heck. Intro:Calculus 1Elem GermanGeneral Chem 2EthicsIntro LogicIntro Cultural StudiesIntro SociologyCultural AnthroLatin American HistIntro PsychoContem…

  • Snow?

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    When I woke up, I first checked the weather report. In the middle of a fuzzy eye and blurry mind, I read “10:00AM: Light Snow”

  • So I took the super-hyped religion test…

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    So I took the super-hyped religion test.. and I came out as Mainstream Conservative Christian/Protestorant. Well, what a surprise, I couldn’t have been otherwise after 6 years of Baptist training. I read over the description and it said exactly what I had been led to think at high school religion classes. Sin is a bad…

  • life just goes

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    The week turned out alright. Thursday’s interview was smooth, thought it was more like “Oh my God, finally a volunteer! Please work for us” thing.. Irma invited for Coffee, and we talked about the kind of stuff done in the internship. It’s mostly white people (she calls them aglo-saxon, or aglosajones.. even though I thought…

  • Strange, strange policies

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    For withdrawing $10 from an US bank ATM machine, I got charged $3.50. Fees are fees.. but this doesn’t make that much sense to me.. 05/01/03 NON-WELLS FARGO ATM TRANSACTION FEE $2.00 05/01/03 ATM WITHDRAWAL – U.S. BANK U.S. BANK ST. PAUL MN 0207 $11.50

  • So now that I learned how incoherently schizophrenic patients express themselves verbally I might as

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    well imitate them and direct all accusation to a supposedly light-heardted imitation. It’s 2:00am. It’s not good to sleep little the night before an interview, but I also have an Peircean iconic logic systems (beta) presentation before it. I am worried. I need to pass this class, or I shall be suspended. I also decided…

  • Personality Assessment Assignment

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    Yong Ho Kim, April 29th 2003 1. What are some criticisms of trait theory in general? Possible criticisms include that subjects can falsify answers because the result of a personality test can be personally important to them, that very often the questions are culture-specific, and that subjects across different cultures don’t necessarily present the same…

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    nights like these, when I barely manage to finish work at 4:00am knowing that I got classes at 9am and won’t be able to go to bed until 10pm, I just want to kill myself.

  • Funny beard

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    The hairs in my beard are all turned counter-clockwise! Is it because of earth’s rotation?

  • Depth of Processing Assignment

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    April 4th, 2003 Yong Ho Kim Kalat (2002) summarizes the traditional consensus in the psychological community regarding short-term and long-term memory. Short-term memory is a “temporary storage of the information that someone has just experienced’ and long-term memory is “a relatively permanent store of mostly meaningful information”. Additionally, short-term memory stores up to seven (plus…

  • Yongho in arduous effort of explaining a 4th year girl how to solve the 1/4 inch on a map = 1 mile,

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    then 1 and 3/4 inch = how many miles? problem. Me: So, let’s draw a map. See, take the pen and draw a map.. something random like… *cough* South America *cough* Girl draws straight lines. Girl: So this is my room, here is my mom’s room, and this is the living, Me: What about doors?…

  • I want a bike!

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    Snow’s gone, and before it comes back again I will buy some cheapo used bike, hopefully mountain. $50 to spare on this things that should last till august 2003. My problems: are there any regulations? Is the use of helmets enforced by the law? What about the red stoplights, or the bells? In the town…

  • Shaping lever press behavior and fixed ratio training for water-deprived rats

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    Yong Ho Kim Macalester College Operant conditioning is a particular type of conditioning in which the subject associates particular behaviors with particular responses, and performs the behavior whenever it desires the response.

  • Reflective Essay on Readings of Marx’s Early Writings

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    Professor Peter Rachleff January 29th, 2003 Yong Ho Kim While at Mac, I got to hear of current humanities theories during my Intro HCST class. Under professor Kordela’s guidance, I was introduced to Zizek and his approach to Lacan, and followed a survey of western thought from ancient Greece to Debord and Derrida, and came…