Random Facts

Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave. 

Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.  

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired" 

Before astronomers realized solar eclipses were caused by the moon, the Chinese thought an enormous dragon swallowed the sun, and they made as much noise as possible to scare the dragon away.   

Scientists suggest that most people will fall in love approximately seven times before marriage.

You cannot snore and dream at the same time.

In general, pregnant women remember dreams more than other populations.

 People who are born blind report no visual imagery in dreams, but they experience a heightened sense of taste, touch, and smell. Those who become sightless between the ages of five and seven may have visual images in their dreams, while those who lose their vision after age seven continue to “see” in their dreams, though images tend to fade as they grow older.

For reasons that are unknown, males dream of males more often than females dream of males. This sexual asymmetry is universal and has emerged from at least 29 different comparisons of male and female dreams—and it holds true for children, adolescents, and adults in all parts of the world.

Major Mystery

It really bothers me when people compare their college majors to other people's. It seems like whenever I tell someone I'm a psychology major they automatically think that it's an easy major. This is completely untrue. The reason we all pick out our majors is because we take what we do well in or what we like doing. I bet if people in other majors tried to take the psych classes I have to take they would not do very well with them because that's just not the way their mind works. Just because you may understand matrices and know the fancy names for the bones of the body does not mean you know how people work.

I will admit that certain classes are harder than others. But that's not the point here. The point is that people degrade other majors which is not cool. I admit that even I've done it but I was thinking about this and now I realize how wrong it is. You say English is easy? Try taking some of those writing classes and realizing how awful your writing is. People don't choose the so-called 'easy' majors because they're lazy; they choose them because that's their passion. I know someone who is an anthropology major and even though she knows how hard it is to find a job with that, she chose it because she likes it and that's the way I think it should be.

Some of the worst people are the ones who are doing pre-health or law or nursing just because they want the high salary. When they complain about how hard their classes are I just think about how much easier it would be for them if they were just doing something they actually enjoyed doing. If they were working towards a goal they truly wanted for themselves besides just for the money, the hard work they were putting in would mean more to them. I'm not saying that salary shouldn't affect your decision of a major, but doing something you hate just to make more money just doesn't seem logical to me.

Sometimes when I tell people that I got good grades for the semester they will say things like "well you are a psych major". Like that means anything? It's not like I didn't have to work hard to get the grades I get. There's no such thing as an 'easy' A unless it's one of those pointless gen ed classes.

The bigger point here is that we each have things that we do well at, we each have different things that we want to do, and we shouldn't be putting each other down for pursuing what makes us happy. (But we can put down the people who are doing something literally just for money those people are the worst [going against my hero Liz Lemon who says graduate students are the worst])

So you science people go on dissecting animals, you math people keep on somehow using both numbers and the Greek alphabet to solve your problems, and I'll just continue on watching people like a stalker