I did a first-time homebuyers program, like others are saying, and as long as I put down 3% of a downpayment (which ended up being less than 5K) I wasn’t charged any PMIs...the difference was rolled into my monthly mortgage payment. 10/10 would recommend doing.

I tried the diva cup and it got stuck. I’m sure my panicking made it worse, but there’s nothing like being a sobbing bleeding mess and having your SO have to fish it out of you to put you off something. You don’t say what kind of pads, but I made the switch to cloth pads for environmental/cost reasons, and they’re…

I mean, that’s a broad generalization. I had unpaid internships and was supporting myself. I worked nights/weekends and shared an apt with 4 other people so I could afford rent and bills.

Not concurrently, but I had 2 unpaid internships. My weeks usually looked like: M-F 10am-5pm at the internship & 6:30pm-11:30pm at my PT job; Sat 12pm-11:30pm (with a 2hr break) at the PT job; and Sunday 12-4pm at the PT job. I saved on money by living with 4 other people and sharing food. It wasn’t fantastic living…

A friend & I were v. excited to see Swiss Army Man...and we almost left halfway through. 10/10 did not enjoy. Reminded me too much of navel-gazing senior Film projects at Emerson.

That’s the exact same thought I had!

As someone who doesn’t think your autonomy ends once you have kids, I’m reading this as The Baby Boomers once again make it all about them (haha, I kid. Sorta). In the 2yrs between my mom going back to work and before I started kindergarden, my grandparents practically raised me. I don’t plan on having kids, but my…

I feel like in general people aren’t inclined to—for lake of a better term—problem solve.

This weekend at a BBQ we were talking pop songs and when “Work” came up a few of my friends were like, “Oh, is that the song where she doesn’t actually sing words?” I had to tell them it was patois, and they were surprised. It never occured to them she was just speaking a dialect they didn’t understand.

I grew up in Philly and lived there for 18 years. Family is from Kensington & Port Richmond respectively, but sure, question me because of an autocorrect my phone made while quickly typing out a casual internet comment. Yes, I know it’s a song by the American Dream—one of my aunts dated a bandmember back in the…

I don’t know anybody who likes SEPTA and now that I live in Boston I extra don’t like SEPTA.

As a Philly native I just commented the same!

This blows my mind. As a Philly native was call it: Service Every Person Tries to Avoid...SEPTA. As an adult I live in Boston and 10/10 as fucked up as the MBTA is I would take it over SEPTA any day.

I am a Philly native and curious which commuter town of which you speak. Abington? Jekintown? Wyncote?

As a counterpoint, I just want to repost my original respose to this:

Full disclosure: In a past life I was pursing a career with the ultimate goal of editing YA novel, so I’m predisposed to like tehm.

THAT SAID, I had to put down the book after the blank chapters because it hit waaaaay too close to home for me. I had a few breakups where I considered getting out of bed in the morning…

I was super thrilled there was no tepid, shoe-horned romance.

I mean. I think both can be true. The rumor mill seems to think Calvin Harris cheated on her, but—whatever—they broke up. A short time before that Tom & Taylor met at the Met and seemed to hit it off. If I’d just broken up with my bf who might have been cheating on me, I’d ABSOLUTELY live my best life in his face with…

I think there is in general a misuse of AC that leads to a movement of no AC ever. There are days when it’s 90° with 1,000,000,000,000% humidity and I get on a bus with no central air and I’m like, “WHAT THE EVER-LOVING FUCK” as the drips of sweat roll down my back into my underpants . . . but also days where it’s a…

Somehting somehitng ethics in journalism something something