American universities are only accomodating if you make them be.

I wonder what's the source of the difference. I mean, having people here on reserve duty during their academic studies can't create such a vast difference, right?

[Edit: every class has two exams, term A and term B, and that's that. No more. If you missed term A or failed it, you can be tested again on term B.]

I like Indian, and Thai. I am trying to get more experimental about sushi. I know it's good, but I don't gravitate toward it. I need to hang out with more people who like sushi, I think. There's a Cambodian place here which is yum. I like pho. I like water chestnuts and greens.

Chinese food, I love, but have really had only American Chinese food, and like Nutty, I crave it like junk food. Going between Cambridge and Salem up rt. 1, we are always passing Kowloon, this gigantical hoooge Chinese place/comedy club and I SO want to go there, even though it's like, rt. 1 cuisine. I really want to get to Boston's Chinatown area for some dim sum soon.

TAR has scarred me. I'm glad to see that it seems to be back on track though. I didn't watch, due to aforementioned scarring.

I will have Thai food this week, I think!

I had Italian food last night and it was awesome.

I'd have abused the hell out of an accomodation like that

I requested this accomodation for midterms a lot. Only one teacher denied it. Didn't care about notes from doctors or anything. I aced her class the second time round, but I never stopped hating her.

The extra semester I took to accomodate retaking it was the most fun semester ever, and is perhaps responsible for me meeting my best friend even now, but I still hate her.

Oh, sure, but I didn't have any actual need for it. For me, it would have been accomodating my disinclination to sleep or study until crunch time.

But, as to Nilly's question about why, my feeling is there is a pervasive suspicion that students requesting accomodation are doing it for my reasons, rather than in response to real need. And that really sucks for the people who are not me.

I don't mind waking up briefly once an hour before my alarm goes off. However, every hour starting at 3:45 and roach nightmares? Can really do without. I think it is related to how warm I feel, but considering the apartment had been at a steady 65 for the past week .....mmrph.

FreshDirect is starting to install shared refrigerators in buildings, so that you don't have to be home to get your groceries delivered: [link]

Tep, good luck with the blood test today.

Oh, they took the blood 2 hours ago. Now they have to go through the process of separating the actual blood from all the butterfat in my veins.

Tep, was it you asking about the iPod Shuffle the other day? I meant to answer and then I got distracted. I have one and I love it.

Every time I plug it in it just pulls a random hundred and some songs from my computer, though I could specify if I wanted. You can play them in order or randomly, so there's a little more control than it seems. And it's really nice how tiny it is - almost no weight to it at all, and the lanyard makes it much easier to cart around. That'll be especially nice in the summer when you're not wearing a coat so pocket space is at a premium - for dog walking, errands, running, etc., it's nice not to have to cram it in with the keys and phone and shit.

Now that they've reduced the price, I'd say it's definitely worth it. (I got mine free when a friend upgraded to a Nano.)

FreshDirect is starting to install shared refrigerators in buildings, so that you don't have to be home to get your groceries delivered:

Oooh, not that my new apartment will be doing this anytime soon. I'd heard that certain buildings had already started accomodating storing FD deliveries-- what a great idea for FD to do. They can deliver once at a more convenient time for them, like the middle of a weekday.

Nora, any weekend you want to meet up for dim sum, let me know! That would totally rock!