....There’s no such think as “entrance exams for Cornell”... or any other American university that I know of. Are you talking about standardized tests?

I have two, both revolving around my best friend since high school (we’re 40 now). Let’s call her J.

Wilco played at the University i went to grad school at about... lord, 15 years ago now. Its an Ivy, and Tweedy definitely had a ‘fuck these spoiled rich college kids’ preset from the get-go. The show was fine, but he insulted the crowd after almost every song. I get where he was coming from, but at the same time if…

Keanu! I used to resent his wooden acting, mainly because I was so viscerally attracted to him (Gen X yo) it made me feel awkward. But everything I’ve heard about him as a person is so positive, I now find his flat delivery endearing.

Squirrels, man. I get you.

I guess it’s unfortunate that so many people have anxiety and depression, but what actually makes me sad are negative attitudes about meds. They very likely saved my life, and what’s better, allowed me to have a life actually worth living.

1. If the US really needs more workers, open the damn borders and stop being so xenophobic. Many European countries (also facing low birth rates) realize this is the path forward.

Ugh, me too. With the exception of my aunt (by marriage), she’s both evangelical and the nicest, kindest, most accommodating human (in person at least) I’ve ever met. She’s also dumb as a brick though.

She’s been largely disappointed online, but now that you mention it, I do think I’ve gotten her sports bras (?) from Freya. I’ll pass those brands along to her!

My little sister has a very weird size - she’s thin with a small ribcage but to everyone’s surprise grew huge (relative to her frame) boobs in her late teens/early 20s. So she’s something like a 30H... She finds a local specialist place that will custom fit and build her a bra, it seems to be the only way to get…

I’m so so sorry. This happened to me in May. It wasn’t a total surprise or anything, but it hurt like hell. I don’t know your situation of course, but for me... I was angry, obsessive, crying for a couple of months and it was awful but I tried to just let myself grieve and remind myself that if he didn’t care anymore…

Ok, that is something I hadn’t thought about, and you’re probably right. Definitely complicates the situation... though I really wasn’t saying that rich people got ripped off (I don’t care), just more pissed that the whole fiasco undermines my (already not taken very seriously) field. Ugh.

Sorry, my original comment wasn’t very nuanced. I am an early modernist, but not an Italianist, so I am definitely not *the* expert here, but one of the top Da Vinci people is in my department. Yes, it’s a well-known composition (there’s an early modern print of it that serves basically as our visual knowledge of it).…

More likely a nineteenth-century Neoraphalite painting of a woman with a bunch of overpainting to make it look like Christ, and more overpainting on the face to get the whole Leonardo sfumato thing. But the whole thing’s so f’d up it’s hard to say.

I’m an art historian. This is NOT a Da Vinci painting. Even my first-year Master’s students could tell, and named about a half-dozen reasons. The art market is a world full of fakes and people desperate to buy them for the status, but that Christie’s even allowed this to go up for auction as a Da Vinci really, really…

I totally get being wary of people who (mis?)use the poly label, but there are plenty of ways to be ethically nonmonogamous. My ex-husband and I had an open relationship because I wanted it when we got together (I’m bi and felt that I needed to explore that part of my sexuality at that point). We were always honest…

No. First of all, the two things you name are totally different. Asking a woman out at random can be ok - if you’re really, truly polite about it and in the proper setting, like a bar. Personally, I would not like it because there’s no way I’d want to get stuck on a date with a random person without knowing them *at…

Breakthrough role it isn’t, she’s been a successful actress for decades. But this role is probably why younger people know her and it has allowed her to show off her skills to a huge degree.

lol it’s uncomfortable because I don’t want random strangers talking to me, and certainly not with any heteroromantic intent. i don’t care who they are, i don’t want any guys approaching me like that period, ever again.

:) sometimes teachers make mistakes. I’m an art history prof, I totally had to pull a retraction in class last week because I’d said a portrait was of Philip IV instead of Philip II. It happens.