psychopharmacology

A term often used to claim that one is doing science by doing drugs. Often used in places like erowid and bluelight.ru.

Mark wanted to justify his weed usage by saying that it was "psychopharmacology research".

AoPS

Art of Problem Solving. A forum for math enthusiasts, with a forum for an unusually large number of the best math students in the United States and the world.

If you go to AoPS and aren't an USAMO qualifier, prepare to be humbled. AoPS is full of them.

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REU

Research Experiences for Undergraduates - insanely competitive research programs funded by the National Science Foundation and held in university campuses all across the nation.

Bill got into a REU. OMG he must have had gone to RSI!

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Confucius

The man whose teachings are indirectly responsible for the pressures that Asian parents impose on their children

AznNerd93: omg my parents told me to break up with my girlfriend for the sake of filial piety due to this Confucius dude

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explorer.exe

It likes crashing on you.

Terry's computer desktop crashed. And since he didn't know how to kill and restart explorer.exe with the task manager, he had to reboot his computer

GRE

Graduate Record Examination. Yeah, even if you're done with high school, the Collegeboard will still torment you with the GRE if you want to get into graduate school. While the main GRE test is very similar to the SAT, there are also subject-based GRE tests. For inexplicable reasons, most graduate schools still require them even though research and GPA are FAR MORE IMPORTANT.

Grrr, Marie has to take the GRE Saturday instead of admiring the Schrodinger equation.

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the sims

An ingenious attempt by Maxis to make money by making so many expansion packs that people somehow cannot resist buying. Has a larger market than any other computer game as it's a game where both hardcore teenage male gamers and normal people can actually relate to.

Buying all of the expansion packs of the game individually would cost hundreds of dollars. Especially for those so impatient that they cannot wait for packs to merge the expansion packs together.

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