I already saw this on instagram

That is awesome! Yeah, I wish I had more friends and classmates that understood this point of view, but I go to a university where the students are total Type A overachievers. They just don't get my point of view. And I feel the same about hobbies and interests, everything I truly love can't really be a viable career.

For me, depression wasn't triggered by just one thing, and my suicide attempt wasn't either. It was a slow, steady descent into hopelessness. A truly horrible fight with my abusive boyfriend at the time was the last straw, sure, but it wasn't the sole cause. And the fight wasn't what motivated me to do what I did. The…

I think this all also hinges on being conventionally attractive, for women at least. It's the elephant in the room — if you're going to look funky, you have to also look polished in some way.

This is a really interesting thread. I'm one of those STEM females and yes, I was totally plagued with doubt my whole young life. I was the product of a very smart but poor and educationally disadvantaged family. I approached my school careers person (to whom I sauntered up and said "I wanna go to university (shocked…

As a brown person who teaches a majority of Caucasian students, I can say there's a definite difference between teaching in South Florida (everything's a-okay) and Central Florida (why you know so much; you a terrorist?).