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The Webby Awards Gallery + Archive. True Detective: 13 Rust Cohle Quotes for the Ages. With True Detective's first season now behind us, the legend of Matthew McConaughey's Rust Cohle lives on.

True Detective: 13 Rust Cohle Quotes for the Ages

And thanks to Rust having a devil's share of unsettling, existential "McConaulagues," the actor's most certainly on his way towards an Emmy win for "Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Movie. " True Detective: Season 1 Finale Review Throughout Season 1's eight powerful episodes, Detective Rust Cohle - aka "The Michael Jordan of Being a Son of a Bitch" - could always be counted on for an unhealthy dose of nihilism with a chaser of unwelcome pessimism.

A trait that not only pushed everyone (friends, family) out of his life, but also helped marked him as a prime suspect in an widespread occult murder case. But there was a poetry to Rust's rhetoric that was undeniably cool. So, looking back at the grandeur of Season 1, here are 13 Rust Cohle-isms to cling to tightly when you find yourself desperately missing this show. Party Pooper "It's all one ghetto, man. Nature vs.

Sunday School. Best Albums of 2013. Deafheaven has the best-reviewed major album of 2013 While Kanye West's Yeezus 84 has been dominating critics' year-end top 10 lists, a slightly more under the radar release has quietly maintained its lead as 2013's highest-scoring album, where it has stood since midyear.

Best Albums of 2013

And with that stellar 92 score, Sunbather—the second LP from San Francisco's Deafheaven—is now officially our best-reviewed album of the year. It's the first time a metal album has occupied the #1 slot in our year-end rankings. In fact, out of albums with 15 more more reviews (excluding EPs and reissues), Sunbather is now the 7th-highest scoring album in our database, which includes releases dating back to 1999.

Of the 919 new studio albums released this year that received at least 7 reviews from professional critics, 117—or nearly 13%—received universal acclaim (with a Metascore of 81 or greater). The 25 best-reviewed albums of 2013 (min. 15 reviews) How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose. How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose Vince Gotera English Language and Literature University of Northern Iowa January 2006 The Statement of Purpose required by grad schools is probably the hardest thing you will ever write.

How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose

(Incidentally, the statement of purpose may also be called an Application Essay, Objectives for Graduate Study, Personal Background, Cover Letter, or some comparable title.) I would guess virtually all grad-school applicants, when they write their first draft of the statement of purpose, will get it wrong. How's that? The admissions committee knows you are applying to their MFA program because everyone in the stacks of applications they are reading is applying for the same thing. Let's assume the required length of this particular program's statement of purpose is 300 words. In fact, not only is this opening paragraph obvious, extraneous, and space-stealing, it's boring! Remember what you learned in first-year composition? That's 45 words too. Self-Promotion/Portfolio. World's Best Universities; Top 400 Universities in the World. International student enrollment is on the rise at U.S. colleges.

World's Best Universities; Top 400 Universities in the World

In total, 764,495 international students were enrolled at colleges and universities across the United States during the 2011-2012 school year, up 5.7 percent from the previous year, according to a November 2012 report from the Institute of International Education. The U.S. News Best Colleges rankings can help prospective American and international students refine their list of target schools in the United States, but some of the world's best universities can be found outside the U.S. as well. [Learn more about studying in the United States.] China, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and France all attract more than 100,000 international students each year, according to IIE data. Latin America, the Middle East and other parts of Asia have also seen an uptick in international student enrollment over the past decade, according to a study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Europe Asia. The 20 Best Small Towns in America of 2012.