Hey, the Irish weren't white once, that's the real racism!

This trivial pedantry aside, I fully understood your (stupid) point. My response was that the point was indeed stupid, and you're trying to lump Jewish people into a category that ethnically they don't belong in, which is what the author was trying to avoid, a "me too!" that is indeed not you, too. Mizrahi Jews are a…

LOL sorry, Jewish people are not "people of color". Stop. Just stop.

I think immediately jumping to "but what if she's in an abusive relationship and has to say yes because otherwise he'll abuse her when she gets home!" is a huge and unhealthy stretch. Of course, 99% of the time it's some guy trying to show the world how much he loves his girlfriend. Finding the entire institution…

Haha wow, this type of baggage is definitely going to cost you extra at check in.

Wondering if anyone else caught that too. When women embrace their sexuality they're accused of being traitorous to the gender. "Be sexy, but only if you want to!" "Oh no not like that, you're playing into the patriarchy!"

My lawn is 100% weeds and I don't water it, because I live in Florida. But I used to live in California, and your "nobody in California needs AC" thing is just such a weirdly stupid generalization.

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Same here. The orthos are usually pretty jacked and every one of them laughs when we talk about CF and how stupidly injurious it is.

Cool story, tell me about the other things you don't like. I'll be sure and update my plans.

Or tell yourself that $125k in loans is only going to be a good investment in an exceedingly limited number of circumstances, and probably not ones in which you repeatedly decide 6 months out from graduation that you 'hate' the subject?

Doubtful. Most people I have encountered with "PhDs people don't give a shit about" continued their education because the job market was shitty and they didn't want to begin paying off their loans yet. They also chose to rely on "sounds like a good idea" plus "if some education is good then even more is better". It…

I'm just fucking with you now, I don't really think or care whether your power is getting shut off or not.

Maybe you can burn your degrees for warmth when your power gets shut off?

LOL girl don't even start.

Nah it's cool, I'll just be over here with my normal quantity of degrees and manageable debt. Best of luck to you.

Getting a PhD has almost always been a pursuit limited to people who require it for professional reasons or for those who want to go into academia. Getting french tips is a good idea. Getting a PhD is a serious life decision that shouldn't be based on what nebulous "people" consider to be a good idea.

I guess the lesson of the day is that internet strangers don't have to provide new and interesting insights into your self-imposed problems while you sadface about FAFSA making a joke that reminds you about the bad decisions. I'm just constantly baffled by the people I encounter who act like they went from zero to…

Yeah it's too bad that you'd have to be a fucking psychic to know that taking on that much debt without a plan for earning enough to pay for it was something you should mull over before doing. Not like, a well-educated person with even a slight comprehension of financial literacy. Hope your degrees weren't in…

Were you a teenager as you started your graduate program? Or were you gradually maturing, finishing a BA, possibly an MA prior to your PhD program? Were you signing and applying for those FAFSA loans every semester like the rest of us, watching it rack up, with no plans for how this degree was intended to apply to…