I don’t want to doxx myself either, but suffice to say that if you’re T.A.-ing then we’re definitely not in the same department. I’m in one of the schools that’s super insular and I split my time between the Evanston and downtown campuses. I have almost no connection to the greater NU community (and am laughing my…

The parts where she sounds like an academic are... not great. The parts where she writes in her actual voice make me want to get a beer with her so we can disagree amicably in person.

I’m a just-barely under-30, and I support the widespread use of trigger warnings and safe spaces. I do think, though, that not every space calls for it, and academia is probably one of those. I’m in a graduate program right now, and frankly, our entire curriculum would suffer immensely if we needed to hold everyone’s…

Read the whole thing, and yeah, you nailed it. She just gets more irritating in her arguments. I disagree with her (undergrads and profs should not be dating; NU gives appropriate leeway to grad students), but she does get in this sentence at the end, which is the only halfway sensible thought in the whole damned…

Is the essay linked to here representative of her usual writing style?

Another NU grad student here, and I have to agree with you: The article was off-putting, faculty should be banned from sleeping with undergrads. Graduate schools can figure it out for themselves what they want to do— the programs are generally smaller and those inside each department are able to better assess…

That’s what I keep telling myself :)

YES! I tried to find a GIF of Emperor Palpatine saying stuff about anger and hate, but I can’t so I’ll just toast you instead. Cheers, internet friend. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Honestly, it sounds like you’re in my head. I felt the same way for the first bit. Then I found out he was a cheating lying fuckwad even while we were together, and I immediately blocked him on social media and deleted his contact information from my life (even though, unfortunately, his number is forever burned into…

Yeah, nope. They pull that shit. I have to call my best friends like three times a day (each) to be like, remind me why I’m not talking to him? It’s been two weeks.

It’s not on you to reach out. It’s on him to take responsibility for his actions towards you. I don’t know why they do it, honestly. What do they gain from…

I know it’s hard, but I hope the responses from me and others has convinced you to get out before he gets any more hooks in you.

I am in a really similar situation, but I got the bomb yesterday that shows the whole thing to be a total lie. We’ve been best friends for years, but, given my experience, if he’s stringing you along, you’re probably not the only one. Even if you get together and it seems great, it’s likely that the role of “friend…

aaah. this is my life right now. i can’t handle it and i want mindy and i to run away and become gayle & oprah, because stupid men are stupid and don’t deserve us.

DON’T DO IT MINDY, IF HE BROKE YOUR HEART ONCE HE’LL DO IT AGAIN.

You are weird but I won’t throw fruit at you, since we agree that the performance was brilliant. :)

While Neville is undoubtedly the hottest, I feel like Draco might be the scruffy grad student I have a secret crush on.

Frank is so great! Also, I love that Michael Fassbender (sp?) is easily one of the most handsome guys on the planet but spends most of his role in a giant weird head and acts like boss even though we can’t see his face. Too bad Jon Ronson is kind of a tool

In 1996.

I wondered about the hockey thing for years when I lived in the Great Gray North. Years and years and years.

(Also, I’d just like to point out that while I appreciate your love for our currency, there are some major issues with how it is now— the biggest, in my opinion, that it’s designed poorly from an accessibility…

As someone who lived there in high school and as an adult, the last part of your comment is spot on. When I moved back with a tattoo, for example, I noticed I was one of the few friends with just one— most of them are covered. Which is cool, you do you, but I do think it has something to do with announcing that you…