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Look out Kindergarten, here I come!

Ok maybe it's not kindergarten but another school year is upon us and nothing quite says awesome like the realization that you are 23.5 years old and starting you're 19th consecutive year of school. Forget "Super Senior"…
End of a crazy week

Monday feels like it was ages ago - the fact that it was technically a holiday and I spent it doing as little as possible probably didn't help my cause . But then again, I also spent the end of the week running around li…
What National Holiday??

Happy Labor Day!! Walking around Duke's campus, you would never know that today was a national holiday since all undergraduate and graduate courses were in session. Only the empty parking lots on Research Drive that supp…
0-21 and counting

Opening Day of the Duke Football Season. The UConn-Duke game was tabbed as Lou Holtz's game to watch this weekend on College Football Live. Of course, he was immediately reminded by Reese Davis that it is football, not b…
Grad School Week 1

My first official week in class as a graduate student - it's actually pretty funny because even though I know where all the building are, half the professors, and how to navigate campus, I'm really clueless and just as l…
Back from hiatus

Though I'm sure it wasn't too terribly heartbreaking, I am back from my month-long break of blogging. In my defense, I was "vacationing" at home from the 5th to the 19th (where my parents sadly still rely on dial-up as t…
Ok - so forever and a day ago was the last time I actually remembered to post anything on here. And since I'm sitting at work killing a few minutes before lunch I figured, what the hell. A lot has happened since that l…
So I know it's been absolutely forever and a day since I wrote anything in my blog but my life was an absolute mess after that perfect day at Jordan Lake back in September. Though I'm happy to report that things are defi…
You gotta love when you have the perfect day at just the right time. Today was that kind of day for me. It was Lab Lake Day at Jordan Lake for the Guilak Lab. There is absolutely nothing that a day of fun in the sun can'…
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." ~ J. M. BarrieThe fact that I'm a …

The_Beck

- Name: Becca
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- Birthday: 2/26/1985
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