I'm doing a Master's, and it's worth it for the field I'm getting into, but yeah. The debt and time commitment are pretty serious.

Congrats to you, too! I'm in full-on hermit mode with Netflix tonight, because yeah, emotionally and physically wiped out.

I'm in behavioral health science, and I have already decided that I can't commit to the extra super bonus years of school that attempting a PhD would entail, so... I guess it's not the worst thing. But holy anxiety, batman.

Yeah, I really feel that I want to be there and comment regularly, because part of the problem is that the minority doesn't speak up, but holy hell. It is like running face first into a wall.

So I just finished my first semester of grad school, and it was rough. Apparently it's not a great idea to try to work two jobs and take a full course load. Whoops! So my grades are not what I would like them to be.

If it helps, I care about this. Does my anecdotal experience get to trump your anecdotal experience? Also, lots of women write about this. You can start by googling geek feminism, if you're curious.

My impression is that you actually agree with the premise of the article, but are choosing to argue anyway. I think, though, that you're arguing as though your opinion is the norm, and it's really not. I wish it was!

Yeah, I see what you're saying, but his personal belief became very public when he aired a Super Bowl ad about it.

And just in case anyone, by some miracle, missed them, baby goose comes in biostatistics ([biostatisticsryangosling.tumblr.com]) and librarian ([librarianheygirl.tumblr.com]).

Yay! To make this post a little more on topic, I would buy the shit out of a GTA with a female lead, using my perfectly good lady dollars.

Bacontinis for everyone!

I agree on the adoption thing, especially when faced with infertility. I can't imagine spending thousands of dollars trying to conceive, not even knowing whether it will work, when there are so many unwanted pregnancies and kids in crappy foster care situations.

It's been said before, but isn't there enough suspension of disbelief going on when you play games that playing as not-your-gender shouldn't rip apart the fabric of your personal universe? I don't understand the mass freakout that occurs when anyone suggests that a lady be allowed a nuanced and realistic character…

I get it. She's Hilary Faye! The sequel is happening before our eyes!

Snort. This is brilliant.

I'm just recently getting into this legislative advocacy stuff, which I happen to find pretty intimidating. However, my training suggested basically bugging the shit out of your representative. Write a letter, call, fax (I know, I was surprised too), the works.

I just called the governor's office, since I'm still registered to vote in PA. I basically said I didn't understand why the government was legislating the conditions of a medical procedure AGAINST the advice of medical professionals. You can too! At 717-496-9866. Unless he already signed it or something.

I loved Newlyweds! So shameful. It actually made me like JSimp, and years of evidence suggest she is not faking the dumb blonde thing. In her defense, idioms don't make a lot of sense on the surface, so it's hilarious in the way that it's hilarious when kids misunderstand things. Of course, most people learn to…

This is so delightfully appropriate for Jessica "Chicken of the Sea" Simpson. I think her misuse of idioms is kind of endearing at this point, thanks to its consistency.

My third grade teacher blatantly told me that as a girl, I couldn't be as good at math as boys. I believed her, because I was really close to my teacher, and because verbal tasks came very easily, which meant that math required actual effort. So I completely let myself off the hook, and I still struggle with math.…