I took a Lyft the other day and the driver insisted on logging into facebook while driving to show me pictures of his children. wtf?

Also...wouldn't a more accurate depiction of palo alto be a bunch of kids studying frantically for the SAT and taking like four AP classes a year? Cause...that is all the kids from palo alto i have ever met. and i grew up in a very similar suburb in the east bay!

that is hilarious

I am with you, and do not understand the snark attacks on Kim for this. If, for example, someone had a child with a disability and then wrote about their newly-emerging thoughts on ableism, would the reaction be the same? Nope, not at all. Don't get it. People just want to hate on her cause it's easy.

Has anyone ever gotten to the point where they absolutely cannot bear rejection? I mean in terms of dating, friends, professional opportunities, everything? How did you get out of that, and how did you continue living a life that consisted of doing things besides hiding away in bed? I have troubles with self-esteem…

I would go for the math/science side because I think structured learning is important for most people in those fields. My attempts to teach myself higher-level statistics recently have been sort of a failure. But I did great when I was in an applied math program in college. Actuarial science and chartered…

YES we are being MAJORLY trolled by someone.

Your friends will probably agree with you in a couple of years too! I am just a couple of years older and many of us have undergone quite a transformation in thinking. Basically, there is nothing thrilling about sitting at a computer all day which is what most "professional" jobs do.

I just really don't understand why people care about this stuff. If you don't specify a dress code, most people will dress formal for graduation anyway. Either because they want to or because their parents make them.

OMG SO BAD I HATE IT. Also, the people need to not be sexy, because the community is an asexual world.

You know...I'm fine with loungewear in public for school-age kids and computer programmers and whatever. Basically I'm fine with loungewear in public being a slobby thing that people do sometimes because (1) they are feeling slobby, or (2) they want to project an i-don't-care-i'm-a-slob image. Sometimes I'm that…

Haha yes. Well, this is not related to the thread at all, but I'm applying to MS programs for speech language pathology, and that is EXACTLY what one of my professors told me. She told me to apply anyway, because I wanted to attend a program that has tons of clinical placement options in a diverse city. Apparently…

yeah, I would never tell undergraduate women how to dress, because they are adults. (Unless, for example, I was leading a clinical practicum sort of class - and then it would be a brief and impersonal statement on dress code).

I agree. I wear leggings as pants too. But your point exactly - I am grown and can decide when that's appropriate for me (gym, groceries, going out) and when not (meetings with my advisor, teaching). And other women can set their boundaries elsewhere and wear leggings to meetings and that's just peachy with me.

Yes. Thanks for bringing this up. I think its unfortunate that math departments, when training their TAs, don't really talk about the transition to college and what that really looks like for many students. It can be very unforgiving, even if they are bright and hard-working.

This is a known thing within the Indian community - that Indians in India of the same educational background or class are often more liberal than their American counterparts. I lived in Delhi for a while, and there was a pretty big dating pool of liberal-minded guys. And yes, the community is extremely diverse even…

Yeah, that is SO inappropriate of the school to blame girls for the bad behavior of (some) boys. And the teenage years are the time to have purple hair. Let them enjoy it before they have to go to job interviews!! (Adults with purple hair are awesome too, it's just harder to get away with it.)

I think leggings are cute and not particularly "sexy" unless one is sexualizing them. But I'm old school. I think its still okay for adults to tell children what to do.

I want you to know that I empathize with whatever ways that you feel society has minimized you as an Asian American man, because those are real problems and real pain. However, male privilege still exists; it is not minimized. Ask, for example, the many Asian American women trying to hack it in STEM careers. Also ask…

I just always think its weird when the parents get outraged over their special snowflakes not being allowed to wear leggings. Come on. You live in Evanston. You can afford some cute long shirts/sweatshirts from Target.