I had federal loans (many moons ago) and I paid them early and did not suffer any penalties. Pre-payment penalties are typical on sub-prime mortgages, but not on government student loans. My rate way back in the day was %8.5, but thankfully the principle amounts were much smaller then. College tuition rates are…

I think my mom was just trying to prevent the massacre that occured when I first tried to shave my actual knee.

The practitioner I saw always took them out of sealed sterile packages and then threw them out. I wished they could be autoclaved to be reused instead of wasted. I don’t have any tattoos so I am not sure about the sterility of those?

I had a positive experience with acupuncture and my practitioner also did moxibustion. I never found that part to be relaxing, but the acupuncture(even just acupressure) felt like I’d had a massage. I wish it wasn’t so expensive or I would do it more often.

How is “do you have/are you planning to have children?” not on here? As a female engineer, that is the one question I have read numerous articles about being on alert for. I know that in “lean in”, Sandberg advocates being honest, but her experience is not necessarily the norm.

Sorry for your loss.

His dog Whisper was not with him and is being looked after.

There is risk inherent in rock climbing. Even if you are roped, if you are on the sharp end, it is always safest to not take a fall rather than rely on your gear. There are many, many ways to be safe. One way is to get to the top as fast as possible, since weather is also a risk (hence all the new “light and fast”…

Just to clarify, while Dean Potter did amazing solos, he didn’t die climbing. He died doing a wingsuit jump which involves even more uncontrolled factors than a solo climb. There have been several deaths recently of the pioneers in this relatively new sport of wingsuit jumping, I suspect it is more dangerous than…

Mono means one.

Don’t fear it, every woman carries differently and gaining weight at a moderate clip means you are doing a great job growing a baby. All pregnant maladies retain wate, but some retain crazy amouns (hhhihh hi lee out like crazy those first few days after giving birth). If you are like me, stay off the google or you…

Yes, I am sure car manufacturers are going to wade into this maelstrom and expose themselves to more liability.

I have done the same when I needed to grab cash at the ATM (not drive thru kind obvs). I get where the other folks are coming from, but I think if you use some common sense, it’s all good.

Or you could go to a more expensive spot where you know the person is being paid fairly and is not slave labor and just tip normally? It would probably come out the same cost wise.

Haven’t even read the article yet, but as an eczema sufferer this image will haunt me tonight!! Thanks Tara/Obama!

If he didn’t, he definitely should have!

That certainly beats the time I saw him at the Gap in the Danbury Fair Mall (post fame and it was the blond one).

Scrolled down, came back and I’m still laughing. Nice work, I can skip the gym today.

I was in college when he was still playing local venues on a weekly basis and he was not married. The first time I went to a show with a friend who played guitar we arrived crazy early because we didn’t know any better and he chatted with DM about local gigs and the music scene. There were definitely rumors then that…

I'm with you. I had them up until 2011 and I have no idea if I should be worried or if my data was already purged from their system.