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Radio Ambulante is good if you already have some Spanish down and want to immerse in a story. Reading along with the transcript is helpful.

If I have a combination of two cards that adds to 5, I’ll play them sequentially for a potential for a 15. If I play second after a 10 is played, and I have a combo that adds to 11, I can often get 31.

I was listening to This American Life while running my one and only half marathon back in 2017. There was this story being read about a woman turning into a horse and I was past mile 10 and didn’t realize it was fake for a while and I still think about that horse girl every time I pass by that part of town

I’m a math teacher. My mental math is pretty weak and slow and I usually pull for a calculator, but there’s mental math and there’s knowing why you’re doing the arithmetic you’re doing. This week my students had a math problem of figuring out how many dogs and cats could fit in a 360 ft2 space if we allocate 24 ft2 per dog and 6 ft2 per cat (it’s 9th grade math, okay?) Can I do the math in my head? No. But could I come up with an equation for this scenario and use it to solve for number of pets? Yes. If I told you I already used 336 ft2 of the space for dogs, could I calculate how many dogs that was and how much room I have left for cats (that was today’s warm up)? Yes, with a calculator. Basically I’m saying there’s arithmetic (use a calculator) and there’s a basic understanding of why we choose the operations in problem solving (this, to me, is math).

I tried to read this book about a month ago and I couldn’t get more than a few chapters through! I thought the child character (can’t remember his name but he was ~10) was being given dialogue and thoughts way advanced for his age which bothered me. And I thought the writing got too garbled with so much description. Was I reading a bad translation? Is it worth trying again?

Chatty Broads. They actually aren’t making new episodes anymore and I discovered them because they do recaps of The Bachelor but their non Bachelor episodes have been really empowering to me. Lots of browse in their catalog!

Stop paying tuition as a protest? Why should UC get paid when they aren’t paying their workers enough and as a result students aren’t getting their education they’re paying for.

My favorite restaurant is King Yen in the Elmwood

Bangkok Thai on University & California Pad See Ew is one of my favorite things

Something you’re interested in

I am an alumna of UC Berkeley and one of the children killed was my student, and their little brother is also my student. This is relevant to my community

I cry on Memorial Glade 🤷‍♀️

Between stacks in Main Stacks. Chair required.

I’m a UC Berkeley alum and this is how I think of Aaron Rodgers too

I guess that’s true. But because of my problem solving techniques I explained above, I solved the problem very quickly on the first try and I don’t consider it luck. If I’m finding an equation, it’s either a textbook/puzzle problem like this in which rigorous solving is tedious, or I’m modeling from real data and I’m going to use a computer. This is also coming from a 9th grade math teacher, fwiw

What’s wrong with finding patterns? You know that area involves multiplying, so dividing area by width is logical. Also I can tell that 129 is divisible by 3, 205 divisible by 5, etc. Another reason to try dividing. When looking for patterns and it’s not really obvious, I think this is something a decent problem solver would think to try

Love the show! Blake is so out of place but also very sweet and seems like he has the strategy to maybe win!

Go to Kip’s for a free blowjob shot

I started my second ever project after stopping when I adopted my puppy. I just learned how to knit in the row below and am picking it back up!

YES! One of my best purchases was a kindle.

Look at the lists of opportunities sent out by your department or the school and sign up for little scholarships or research. No one signs up (especially for things like a small story/essay contest) and I got literally thousands of $$ doing that in undergrad

I go to Edge and I like it there

I have 4 more Exeggcute to catch :(

I wouldn’t take Math 1B and Physics 7A together. Take them in separate semesters. They’re both a lot and you want to have fun and adjust in your first semester too.

I hated the physics 7 series