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		<title>Do you know your life story?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been around longer than 20 years, you&#8217;ve done a lot of things, a lot of things have happened to you, and it becomes hard to remember why you chose one path and not another. In my case, I&#8217;m in my second year out of school and working, and I have to admit that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.saadhasan.com&amp;blog=6803264&amp;post=1299&amp;subd=nanobysaad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Wish I&#8217;d Written This: Excerpt #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of skyscrapers in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Nor was she thinking of squaws and portages, and the Yankee fur-traders [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.saadhasan.com&amp;blog=6803264&amp;post=1270&amp;subd=nanobysaad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Goal for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Improvement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[working out]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You might be wondering why there&#8217;s a photograph of a rain-drenched car at the top of this post. I&#8217;ll get to that. But first&#8230; 1. A quick look at 2011 on this site Which, really, is a look at only November and December since I didn&#8217;t do any writing in the prior ten months. Total [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.saadhasan.com&amp;blog=6803264&amp;post=1156&amp;subd=nanobysaad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If I Could Write to My 16-year-old Self&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.saadhasan.com/2011/12/21/if-i-could-write-to-my-16-year-old-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The idea for this post comes from Dear Me: A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self discovered here. Dear Saad, Take a break from that Ludacris song to read this. I&#8217;m going to tell you what the next ten years hold for you. I&#8217;ve got your attention? Good! While you&#8217;re sitting pretty right now with first semester classes, you&#8217;ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.saadhasan.com&amp;blog=6803264&amp;post=1117&amp;subd=nanobysaad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why am I recommending a beauty products blog?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On the web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[blogs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[skincare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[style]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was introduced to a blog called FutureDerm, where one Nicki Zevola reviews beauty products. And I want to recommend her blog to anyone who cares about hair and skin products. I will use three of her recent posts to illustrate why I&#8217;m recommending it. 1) In this post about SPF makeup, she explains why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.saadhasan.com&amp;blog=6803264&amp;post=1076&amp;subd=nanobysaad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Plus One Equals Three</title>
		<link>http://blog.saadhasan.com/2009/07/27/one-plus-one-equals-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nanotech]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[flexible materials]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I visited one of my scientific mentors last week and she gave me this advice: Become an expert in two areas. We did not pursue the topic further, discussing particular areas of materials research, for example, but her words remained in my thoughts after the visit. Being knowledgeable in two areas certainly gives me more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.saadhasan.com&amp;blog=6803264&amp;post=97&amp;subd=nanobysaad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science is supposed to be challenging.</title>
		<link>http://blog.saadhasan.com/2009/06/08/science-should-make-me-feel-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journal club]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This sentiment is the key point of an essay by Martin Schwartz that I found. Titled &#8220;The importance of stupidity in scientific research,&#8221; the piece explains that unless one truly delves into the unknown (thus feeling &#8220;stupid&#8221;) it is not possible to achieve great, groundbreaking discoveries. Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice.  Focusing on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.saadhasan.com&amp;blog=6803264&amp;post=91&amp;subd=nanobysaad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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