Author Archives: Mark Egge

About Mark Egge

Transportation planner-adjacent data scientist by day. YIMBY Shoupista on a bicycle by night. Bozeman, MT. All opinions expressed here are my own.

All I Ask of You

Ah– what a wonderful day. I slept through my 10:00 class, not waking up until ~1:00. Once up I went and ate some food, and then eventually joined in a game of ultimate and played for a couple hours on … Continue reading

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Parallel Parking Skillz That Killz and Stuff

Parking is a bitch. Fortunately, I’ve mastered parallel parking. Don’t believe me? Check these pictures (these depict places where I’ve parked, not where I’ve been boxed in): A close up: Boo-ya. What ch’ya got on that? That’s what I thought. … Continue reading

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As I was stupidly killing time in the computer lab this afternoon, I happened to come accross this blog: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ It’s written by an English speaking girl in occupied Iraq, and provides a small portion of “the other side of … Continue reading

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A New Direction

I came to a realization tonight that my schedule for the following semester, which leaves my evenings and weekends largely open, allows for the addition of one more thing. As I pondered this, there came two thoughts of things to … Continue reading

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What a wild lazy Saturday

So… I got back from my meeting… and god only knows what I did with my time this afternoon. I went to the 4:30 showing of The Aviator– if it wasn’t 4:00AM I’d write a few words about it… and … Continue reading

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Life’s Recipe

Red Bull + Decongestants == God I’m going to be more sick in the morning, though– I can feel it already. Damn me!

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T & C Thoughts — The Role of the Unconscious

Ha. I’m excited. My T&C class rocks the house. Aside from “freak girl,” everyone seems intelligent and there’s such a good variety of different perspectives and ideas available, and Jeff, our facilitator, does an awesome job of bringing people into … Continue reading

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Resignation to Reality

There’s no way I can do it. I’m not Bovard, I’m not god, hell, I’m not even a good student. So to think that I could take 19 credit hours, work 20 hours a week, and still maintain something of … Continue reading

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Still a bad student.

Ah. Second semester. It finds me sitting at work, killing time on the internet, and wrestling with the realization that my study habit haven’t improved a bit. There are two facinating books full of assigned reading that are sitting all … Continue reading

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To a close: week two

In two hours, I’ll hop into my car with Sagar in order to get him to the Billings airport by 4:30AM to catch his 6:30AM flight. It’s been a wild two weeks– I moved in with Sagar almost exactly two … Continue reading

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