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As oxlin pointed out, we haven’t had a new one of these threads since 2009. Her description:

a place where people applying to college could ask questions of college attendees and I could ask questions about grad school.

They’re traditional, and sometimes they even work. What are yours?

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

01-01 Jadestone’s birthday (1992 – cerulean or green)
01-03 Kirika’s birthday (1995)
01-03 SilverLeopard’s birthday (1998)
01-03 Rebecca Lasley’s birthday
01-23 Kittymine’s birthday (1993)
01-24 Alice turns 6,000 days old
01-25 Purple Panda turns 7,000 days old
01-26 Glassboro’s birthday (1995 – rainbow)
01-30 The Skipper Nancy’s birthday (1992 – yellow or sea-green)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between April 25 and May 25, 1997.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between July 30 and August 29, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between November 3 and December 3, 1991.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

Known Muser birthdays this month*:

[LIST NOT YET UPDATED FOR 2010]
12-01 I-Man’s birthday (1995)
12-9 Pax the Hamster’s birthday (1994)
12-10 Ebeth turns 7,000 days old
12-26 SudoRandom’s birthday (1996 – bright orange)
12-28 Agrrfishi turns 6,000 days old

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between March 25 and April 24, 1997.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between June 29 and July 29, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between October 3 and November 2, 1991.

You have been on the blog for six months if you started posting in June.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

We wish you were here to enjoy it, and we’re sure you would have had interesting things to say about it.

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

11-02 Tesseract’s 6K Day
11-14 Mango’s birthday (1998 – green and blue and goldish-yellow)
11-16 Kiwimuncher’s birthday (1992 – green)
11-18 Cello-Playing Mathematician’s birthday (1993 – violet)
11-18 Enceladus’s birthday (1996 – purple, blue, and black)
11-24 peary moppins’s birthday (1997 – blue)
11-26 starr’s birthday (1996 – purple, pink, and silver)
11-27 Purple Panda’s birthday (1991 – purple)
11-27 Dodecahedron’s birthday (1993 – green)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between February 23 and March 24, 1997.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between May 30 and June 28, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between September 3 and October 2, 1991.

You have been on the blog for six months of you started posting in May.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

Jadestone posted a long message about her adventures in Collegeland. We thought the subject merited a room of its own, so we’ve moved her comment from the Random Thread. Other collegians feel free to add your adventures.
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Imagine there were no Beatles? We can’t begin.

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

10-01 Kiki the Great’s birthday (1995 – black and red)
10-01 Cliff Eagle’s 6K Day
10-09 Gimanator’s birthday (1993 – purple)
10-09 Bismarck’s birthday
10-10 Keiffer’s 5K Day
10-12 Ebeth’s birthday (1991 – blue or octarine)
10-13 Paul Baker’s birthday
10-16 Kagcomix’s birthday (1993 – green)
10-19 LittleBasementKitten’s birthday (1997)
10-20 Goldendoodle’s birthrday (1994 – evergreen and gold)
10-23 kokopelli #13’s birthday (1992 – camouflage)
10-25 Red-tailed HAWK’s birthday (1994 – blue)
10-25 Randomosity 101’s birthday (1995 – blue, green, orange, and black)
10-25 Nthanda the Laugher’s 7K Day

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between and January 23 and February 22, 1997.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between April 29 and May 29, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between August 3 and September 2, 1991.

You will have been on MuseBlog for six months if you started posting in April.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

The autumnal equinox takes place at 10:09 p.m. tonight (blogtime). To our European friends, it will be early Thursday morning. And down in the Southern Hemisphere, it’s spring! All very confusing, but that’s life.

Here’s how you’ve probably been told to study: Pick a special place for studying, and stick with it. Focus on one thing at a time. And remember your learning style (visual, right-brain, left-brain, etc.).

Wrong, wrong, wrong, say a couple of studies of studying, recently reported in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/health/views/07mind.html). When psychologists examine how people really learn things, a lot of popular, well-meaning advice turns out to be wrong. Variety, it turns out, works a lot better than repetitive, blinkered drilling. Vary the place, vary the material (as athletes and musicians have been doing for a long time). And so a new strain of well-meaning advice is born.

Now that you’re back in school and hitting your stride, we figured you’d have something to say on this topic. What have you been told about studying? What do you actually do? How do you like the results?

Known Muser birthdays this month*:

09-01 Ambystoma Maculatum (1996 – purple and green)
09-03 SudoRandom’s 5K Day
09-04 Kokopelli52 (1997 – clear turquoise)
09-05 nolagirl7’s 5K Day
09-06 Beetles
09-06 Lizzie’s 7K Day
09-11 POSOC’s 6K Day
09-15 The Man For Aeiou’s birthday (1995 – Muse Shirts)
09-17 Iamisthebest (1996 – blue and black)
09-17 Castle’s birthday (1997 – blue/rainbow)
09-18 Sweet Melpomene’s birthday (1990 – black-and-white)
09-19 marfwarrior’s birthday (1995 – green with multicolored flecks)
09-22 qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm (1999) [a.k.a. dimond and Catkopelli]
09-24 Zinc the Sorceress’s birthday (1997 – black and “highliter”)
09-24 Piggy’s 6K Day
09-29 Zoe’s 6K Day

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between December 24, 1996, and January 22, 1997.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between March 30 and April 28, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between July 4 and August 2, 1991.

You will have been on MuseBlog for six months if you started posting in March.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

Spun off from the “do you remember?” discussions on the August random threads.

Here’s how the instigator, Cat’s Eye, describes it:

Relating our own experiences of “I remember I was” for 9/11, Michael Jackson’s death, Katrina? How it was for us when the Internet and iPods first started happening? Sort of pooling our remembered history?

It’s that time of year again in the Northern Hemisphere. Another milestone for Musers of the Septentrion!

Known Muser birthdays this month*:

1 August – MuseBlog (2005), Armada (1996)
2 August – mas0n (1996 – blue, red)
7 August – Koppar
8 August – small but fierce (1998)
10 August – gingerkid (1996)
13 August – pie girl
21 August – Alice (1993), Adeia (1996)
22 August – Mikazuki (1998)
27 August – Nthanda the Laugher (1991), Errata (1996), Kiga (1997), Rainbow*Storm (1997)
28 August – Sunrunner Bramblewood (1993)
30 August – Witchneko (1998)
31 August – Quintessentia (1992)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between November 23 and December 23, 1996.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between February 27 and March 29, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between June 3 and July 3, 1991.

You will have been on MuseBlog for six months if you started posting in February.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

For times when you need HELP!!!

(You can read the 2009 edition here.)

For times when someone else’s words are better than yours.

Continued from Quotations, 2010.2.

This thread is a place for careful, clear, respectful discussions of difficult topics. It is not a place for having two-fisted no-holds-barred discussions.

MBers should be able to express their opinions without attacking others personally, and be able to listen to people who disagree with them without feeling personally attacked.

Easier said than done, of course. But MuseBlog is a good place to practice trying.

Continued from version 2010.2.

Continued from Dreams, v. 2009.1.

There never was a 2009.2. Apparently one “Dreams” thread a year is all we need.

The cuddly Beatle and veteran of “Shining Time Station” notches up three score years and ten today (Wednesday, July 7).

Known MBer birthdays this month:*

July 03 Kokonilly’s birthday (1996 – light blue/lime green)
July 05 shadowfire’s birthday (1996)
July 07 TNÖ’s birthday (1993 – green)
July 09 Lizzie’s birthday (1991)
July 13 Rosebud2’s birthday (1998)
July 15 Birthday of EAP (a.k.a. The Mole)
July 19 Birthday of Fio (a.k.a. La Mort) (1992 – black, silver, and red)
July 20 Silver Lining’s birthday (1997 – lime green and silver)
July 22 IBCF’s birthday (1993)
July 26 Agrrrfishi’s birthday (1994 – sky blue, navy, and bubblegum pink)
July 27 Enceladus’s 5K Day
July 28 Amelia Peabody’s birthday (1992 – charcoal)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between October 23 and November 22, 1996.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between January 27 and February 26, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between May 3 and June 2, 1991.

You will have been on MuseBlog for six months if you started posting in January.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

What would we do if you sang out of tune? Sing along and help you out, of course!

A place to note things you think other MBers ought to own, use, or experience.

Continues the original Musers Recommend thread launched in 2007.

The National Spelling Bee is this week in Washington, D.C. No MBers are in it this year as far as we know, but we still like it enough to give it its own thread.

Known MBer birthdays and “K Days” this month:*

06-09 Beetles’s birthday (1999 – purple)
06-12 TreeCafe’s birthday (1997 – green and brown)
06-13 muselover’s birthday (1997 – green)
06-14 Grant O. turns 7,000 days old
06-19 Raynpho’s birthday (1994)
06-19 Elwing (formerly Sam)’s birthday (1994)
06-26 cellogirl26’s birthday (1996)
06-29 Selenium the Quafflebird’s birthday (1996)
06-29 bluefire27’s birthday (1997)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between September 23 and October 22, 1996.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between December 28, 1993, and January 26, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between April 3 and May 2, 1991.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.