All good times come to an end...

Hello fellow human beings!

Unfortunately the day in which we part ways has come. This is the last blog update that I will post this year, but who knows, this might be the last one indefinitely.

This last blog is basically my opinion on the course and what have I learned of it. The course only covers poetry and short fiction, the latter being the topic that I tolerate. When it comes to the fundamentals of the course, the only difference that I noticed that separates it from high school English courses is the fact that I had to take the discussion further. In high school we were asked to write about a literary device and how it is developed through another two, or create an essay comparing two characters from two different books that the writers never intended for them to be compared. In ENGL-1080, there are no comparative essays (thankfully), but the same ideas still apply. But the course takes the discussion in the essays a step further by relating everything to theme. Basically, we were supposed to suggest a message (or reason for writing the piece) hidden in the form of the piece analysed. Which in my opinion is much better than the bitter high school English courses.

The blogging assignments are the best part of the course. They force you to squeeze every molecule of creativity contained within your brain at 11:50 Friday night (I was zzZZzzzZZzz last night from a tough week). The assignments were varied and neat, from the very typical High School English assignments to the creating an internet meme. They let me experiment with different topics and even pretend to be someone who does not hold much resemblance to myself (I’m a Human after all). I would also like to add that the instructor was very helpful and enthusiastic about literature. The amount of help the instructor offers on the out and in classis essays is (with respect to my previous teachers) unrivaled.

I have to say however, that this course and the instructor who is teaching me should be held as a benchmark for the high school English courses. This course is truly about critical thinking , you have to understand the significance behind every element in the story

So farewell to thee,

Fellow human beings!

Till next time,

In future errands.

How to Clean Your Windows Computer from Temporary Files

*PERFORM AT YOUR OWN RISK*

Many of us experience degrading performance overtime when we use our computers. Many factors contribute to the degradation of performance, they range from computer viruses to corrupt driver files. One of the easiest ways to fix this problem is to delete the temporary files.

Some temporary files store information like your login information on some website for example. It is ok to proceed if you are ok with losing that type of information.

Step 1:         Log in to your desktop and press the windows-key+r. that will open the “run” window.

Step 2:         In the white box type in “%temp%” without the quotation marks.

Step 3:         A window will open with many files and folders I it. Press the ctrl-button+A to select all the files in the window, then press the delete button (some files will not be deleted because they are in use).

Step 4:         Close the window.

Step 5:         Go to the desktop and open recycling bin.

Step 6:         Empty recycle bin.

And you are done! This does not mean that your computer is free from temporary files. There exists on the, market some programs that are made for removing these files, however, their usefulness is not something that I know of. 

Meme

Hello fellow human beings!


I always loved representing real life situations in a single picture that embodies the whole story. For today's post, I created a meme for a problem that I face almost every time I enter the chemistry lab.

It just happens that my chemistry slot is filled up and that because of that I use the one of the worst benches in the lab, but that is tolerable. It just happens that one or more of the people that I share the lab bench with don't clean their glassware properly, often leaving chemicals in the glassware.

It sucks because the cleaning takes so much time and I always leave the lab last because of this. I almost messed up my lab exam because of these people. Ironically I leave the glassware as clean as I could get it to be, the instructors often tell me to not focus on the cleaning much. I hope that you treat me the same.

Quotes

“War is sweet to them that know it not”

– Pindar

Pindar was an ancient Greek poet and politician from Theban origins. He is known for his brilliant poetry that often challenged who ever read it. On the news or social media we always hear about warmongers wanting to erase an entire ethnicity or religion. World War II happened about 75 years ago, not very far in to the past. Do they remember what horrors and misery that it brought to others? How a land of many trees and singing birds gets turned into a lifeless and grey battlefield? What joy exists in killing the other people? Maybe we should leave our media in its raw form to the young and old, show them what true misery is. Because it is reality that warmongers don’t know anything about war, as Pindar the Greek poet said.

“The future depends on what we do in the present”

– Mahatma Ghandi

The majority of us know who Mahatma Ghandi is, the reason for India’s independence. He is widely known for the fact that his movement for independence was completely free of violence. The reason why I am sharing this quote is because it is our reality. India’s independence is a great demonstration of this quote. Had not Ghandi started his movement, India would’ve still remained an English colony.  I personally determined my future through my actions, but sometimes the boats have to sail the winds way.

“The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you never know whether or not they are genuine”

– Abraham Lincoln

Now this quote does not hold any historic accuracy in it. Its purpose is to inform others that “quotes” found in “the internet” are not necessarily “genuine.” It uses Abraham Lincoln, the president of the United States during the 1860s, to demonstrate how some quotes are attributed to the wrong persons or are completely made up. I personally did encounter this problem previously, where I have read completely made up words and quotes credited to the wrong person. Even in my search I have found a quote shared by the infamous Adolph Hitler and Mahatma Ghandi. The problem of verifying quotes is easy to overcome with a little search effort though.