I use Google Calendar to organize my daily schedule. Some of the options for events include color-coding, sharing them with other people or inviting them, adding a reminder for the event, and making it repeat weekly. There are much more options, but I use the more basic ones just to remind myself of what I have going on on a certain day or to plan…[Read more]

Your post makes me think of the Bechdel test, which evaluates films based on three rules:

1. if it has at least two women in it,

2. if they talk to each other,

3. and whether or not they talk about a man.

The rules were written by feminist Alison Bechdel, who points out just how significant our culture affects our media. I think we’ve grown up…[Read more]

Archivists: We created a new document in our Google Docs folder to help us figure out what we want to change/ add/ remove on the website. We’ll use the list to pick out which parts we want to prioritize. Our goal is to make the site more efficient and add more about Thoreau’s personal life. We need to know how to edit the site.

Corinne and Kevin…[Read more]

I think it has to do with the phrase, “the third time’s the charm.” If you think of other fairy tales, the number three is pretty significant. For example, Cinderella goes to the ball three times but the third night is the night she decides to stay late, which results in her leaving her shoe and him finding and marrying her. In The Three Little…[Read more]