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Can’t be purchased for the better?

Burning eyes. Those poor eyelids overworked. Bulbar conjunctiva dehydrated. Cornea abraded. Neovascularization. Cortisol raising. Blood pressure elevated. 7 courses x 3h, 6h of clerkship, 10h of labs, 6h of work, 5h of lab assignments, 1h of vision therapy = 49h of school activity/week. 2h to grocery shop, 2h for lunch and dinner x7 and 7h of sleep x7 = 65h of survival needs

168h in a week - 49h -65h = 54h reserved for studying.

If “time” can be purchased and hours were sold such that 1 hour = $25. The stock market would be booming. And so would procrastination and everything will just be delayed. The growth of a nation would slow and nothing would get completed on a timely manner. Things would fall apart and people would die faster. For better or for worse?

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ear sex

One of my favourite playlist on 8track. For those days when you wake up in the morning and you just don’t want to get up. Your tired as fuck and you don’t look forward to the rest of the day.

#JustMusic #justtalks #playlists

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The greatest parents

If you asked me a year ago when I entered optometry school what I would buy with my first paycheck, my reply would be a LV travel bag. When I was flying to San Antonio for my first optometry school interview, I saw a girl on the plane with this beautiful LV bag. I don’t own anything expensive but one day I would like to treat myself to something nice. So I became determined to shine in all my interviews and get into my dream school.

If you ask me the same question today, my reply would be a trip for my parents to Europe. Then a kitchen renovation for their house. Today I had lunch with a wise friend, she said “you only realize you are aging when money begin to matter more and more to you.” Wealth, before I didn’t care now I want every bit of it. Thinking responsibly, managing my finance, reaching another level of maturity, obtaining another set of life skills, one way or another, you will need to face reality. And the reality is that being rich is equivalent to being “well” off.

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Miami

In Canada, we don’t have this “spring break” that the college kids have in the states. So I went through undergrad without ever traveling to somewhere fun during March. Ever since I moved to Boston, the one place I wanted to go was Miami. I wanted to go in the summer time when I was off from school but I didn’t get a chance to. Now I have finally booked my trip! I’m so excited! Last time I traveled with friends was when I was 15 years old to Europe, I had the bestest time. Just 1.5 months of no life until the hot sunny beaches.

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10 Billion Documents, 1 Day at a Time

The United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has turned to Tumblr in an effort to make its collection of over ten billion historical documents more accessible. Since 1934, the Archives have protected the country’s most precious documents, including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Emancipation Proclamation. As “America’s record keeper,” the agency also keeps track of the American government’s daily business. Every federal office is required to report their activities in detail to the NARA, whose staff is then responsible for deciding which of these materials will be saved and made public. This means the Archives are continually growing. Only about 1-3% of documents submitted annually make the cut, and those that do can affect the shape of contemporary politics as well as historical memory.

Accordingly, the NARA faces the constant threat of politicization as an independent agency responsible for federal oversight. The Archives clashed with the Clinton administration when one of the President’s advisors, Sandy Berger, stole and destroyed NARA documents related to terrorist plots. During the second Bush presidency, the Archives were accused of weakness in their negotiations with the executive branch over access to public records; the New York Times said they could use some “spine-stiffening.” Bush’s administration defended their practices on grounds of national security.

More recently, on his first day in office in 2009, President Obama issued a letter to all federal agencies and departments calling for “transparency and open government.” He urged the use of “new technologies to put information about [goverment] operations and decisions online and readily available to the public.” Proclaiming “[i]nformation maintained by the Federal Government … a national asset,” this transparency memo prompted major internal changes at the National Archives.

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