I highly recommend it! I’ve done it thrice. Once I was a study abroad student, the other two times I just went for it and didn’t work for a few months. It’s a lot easier if you’re not earning income; once you want a work visa it gets a lot tougher.

JEZZIES, help! I made a Donald Trump Insult Bracket for March Madness. But I don’t have fancy posting privileges, so I can’t do a voting poll. Does anyone have any suggestions? I respect the official Jez bracket, but the categories aren’t really my thing. Making fun of Trump, however, I can do all day err day.

This was the obvious choice for Jez March Madness 2016 and it was suggested by numerous people and I’m pissed they didn’t go with it.

Lifehacker did a write-up of a plane crash recently that said the exact same thing. The pilots had drilled incessantly about what to do in an emergency, so when things went wrong, they already had an instinctive checklist for how to behave, rather than being caught off guard. They also talked about NICU nurses, and…

Thanks for all this information. I’m trying to make a career change and deciding what path to go down, and student affairs / higher ed is one of the options I’m considering. Could I ask you a question, as someone who decided to leave the field: What is the dividing line between people who love the profession & decide…

This is my surprised face:

remember to smile, you sound pretty

It looks like a better human being tried to crawl out of Trump’s psyche and Trump swallowed him back down.

Replying to promote, because holy shit! You’re one of the first commenters I can remember from when I started reading Jezebel in ... 2011? How the hell are you gray anywhere? There is no justice.

I’m a writer, I absolutely love folklore, and I know nothing about Galician folklore. Point me to your most obscure tomes! I can’t promise I’ll ever be an international success, but at least you’ll have one more person who knows how rad your culture is.

Thank you for this. I suspect a fair number of gun owners share this sensibility, but for every one responsible gun owner I hear actually discussing gun ownership in a responsible way, I see 10-20 comments about how guns should have no restrictions at all because gun owners are sooooooo responsible and bad guys will…

It’s definitely a touchy subject. Quite frankly, I’d take away 100% of the guns if I could, and only return them on a case-by-case basis. But there’s no way the US will ever get to that point, so here’s what I want and will push for instead:

I have a lot of love for Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and a lot of the other Disney movies of my childhood. I won’t go into the issue of messaging, but from the perspective of strong female leads who just happen to be princesses, I found this study eye-opening:

Truth. I hated being hit on while I was working retail. To the guys it was just “encountering a woman during the course of the day,” but to me it was “I have to be on the sales floor for the next 2 hours, which means I literally can’t leave this room without getting in trouble with my manager, which means my ability…

I’m 32, a virgin, and all those other things except Godly (atheist).

It’s great that you enjoy reading the comments on Jezebel (really! welcome! have some cake!), but if you are seriously posting a comment with the sequence of words not all men in it, you maaaaaaaaaaay want to read a bit more.

There aren’t many. I like Bridget Jones’s Diary, the relationship between Sidney and Vaughn in Alias, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, half of the relationships on Downton Abbey, etc.

Haha, you are not the first person to advise having a “party” that is “DEFINITELY *******NOT****** a wedding no siree!” in order to save money. No matter what I ultimately do, that’s absolutely going to be part of my strategy.

Yeah, people talk about Trump like he’d be elected in a vacuum. Like, hi, remember when we elected beer-buddy lightweight George W. Bush to the presidency? Remember how people like Donald Rumsfeld and Karl Rove and Dick Cheney lined up to use him as their puppet? Donald Trump only cares about lording his power over…

That final Deal with it is extra intense in the bold. I like it.