The root of which problem?

Yeah - we don't actually eat three balanced meals a day. Most high school / middle school kids don't eat breakfast at all (even if their families can afford it) (which some can't). I'd be kind of pissed if my lunches were limited to 600 calories.

I cannot even fathom what it would be like to have teachers deny you bathroom breaks during class. I would probably threaten to pee my pants.

I'm in college (at a great university which is definitely academically rigorous), and I look back with horror at my high-school-self's daily schedule.

This all reminds me of that scene in Girls. "No. I'm a lady. You're a lady. WE'RE THE LADIES." "But I don't want to be a lady!"

I don't choose the weather! The thermostat is something we have the power to change, taking into account the fact that not everyone wears like 6 layers to work every day. The weather is a totally different thing!

I took a class in college where we referred to EVERYBODY by "phe." Now it's my go-to when I don't know someone's gender (whether they identify as third gender or maybe I just read Dr. Smith on a business card and don't know phe's first name).

Brown has a conservative MAGAZINE. Every semester it comes out and the rest of us scratch our heads and look around and wonder where the republicans are hiding, but we respect their opinions too!

I go to a university that, according to Bill O'Reilly, "hates Christmas." And yet! We have a number of active Christian student groups, and I have never ever heard a professor try to disparage religion. Ever.

I do, however, need a blender to blend things.

My parents are planning my college graduation party (although I'm 21 and broke so maybe it's different), and they'll probably help me plan my wedding too whenever that happens. I don't think that's an unreasonable request.

Speaking as the proudest aunt in the world, my sister made her daughter her profile picture when she was born and I didn't see anything wrong with it. It was an easy way to say, "LOOK, I HAD A BABY" without having to actually say "LOOK, I HAD A BABY!" (she wasn't one of those pregnant moms who made a status every week…

Unpopular opinion: I don't think Frieda Kahlo was beautiful at all.

I'm totally like that. I wear deodorant when I know I'm going to be sweaty (working out, hot days, really warm sweaters, etc). Otherwise it's never been a problem.

I feel like the people who rage against Disney princesses are trying to find a simple solution to a complicated problem.

LOL that was my favorite part about all this. I kept looking at the pictures like, "wait... are they supposed to look different?"

So this frustrated me so much until about two years ago when I started dating a virgin and pretty much introduced him to everything. Turns out, as long as you stroke their ego a little bit, guys are SO receptive to advice.

I sort of imagine Connecticut to be FULL of towns like this - really beautiful and nice looking and upper middle class but not exactly Big's social milieu. Like, a place with really great public schools, so the parents don't send the kids to private school because why bother? really? but also because it's an…

I was bribed, and I turned out pretty okay actually.

Ugh. I grew up in Virginia (although I live in Rhode Island now, yayyy liberals!). I can't stand this shit coming from my state.