being cool is when you know algebraic topology and linguistic reconstruction and medieval islamic theology and the poststructuralists and quantum physics and old poetry and queer theory and chinese history and 3+ languages (real knowledge, not wikipedia shit). you can't be cool without learning all of that. but if you do, everyone will agree you're cool and you won't have to work on any of your negative personal qualities
90% of particle physicists give up on bigger colliders right before finally discovering supersymmetric particles #NeverStopBuilding
remember in fleabag when claire and fleabag were sitting at the cemetery and claire said "I can't wait to be old" like i don't know why but that line fundamentally changed my brain chemistry. she said it so tiredly but at the same time how fucking revolutionary is it to see someone on television express anything other than distaste for getting older, especially a woman? claire is my fucking favorite
“The corruption begins with the mouth, the tongue, the wanting. The first poem in the world is I want to eat.”
— Erica Jong, from “Where It Begins,” Fruits & Vegetables: Poems By Erica Jong (Holt, 1971)
i don't feel like talking so i write.
hey! it's mad's new blog :)
this is a stem enthusiasm blog with a focus in physics, and mathematics. i also have an interest in literature and foreign language. trying to stay more accountable this year- she/her pronouns are fine. <3
goals for the next year of school:
finish a novel each month
try to submit creative writing to journals
4s and 5s on my AP exams
achieve over a 4.2 weighted gpa :)
blood test came back i'm full of blood
Remedios Varo, «Tránsito en Espiral/Spiral Traffic», 1962
Brooch with hand forged fine silver lily of the valey flowers on a sterling stem. The leaf is a polished and sealed circuit board inlaid with opals.
studies at the Musée D’Orsay
Computers are very simple you see we take the hearts of dead stars and we flatten them into crystal chips and then we etch tiny pathways using concentrated light into the dead star crystal chips and if we etch the pathways just so we can trick the crystals into doing our thinking for us hope this clears things up.
| madge | usa | 16 | aspiring physics + maths major |
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