Haha! Two buck Chuck anyone?

So many of us I’m sure...sigh. Ad my period hormones are making me crampier/hornier/sadder than normal, and I have a job interview tomorrow. Off to eat chocolate and fast food, and sob into a cushion.

Seven Stages of Grief:

I just think this is funny because this relationship got more publicity and attention than Kanye’s Famous video. It probably makes him so mad, too.

This rings true to me, though I have never been pregnant so I can’t weigh in on that specific experience. But I can say that when I was getting married, I was driven mad by pressure to perform the process for others. I found myself forced to unnecessarily explain things that didn’t need an explanation:

I think she wanted her name to be associated with this because she thought she would win and be a hero. I’d love to say that she’s too fucking simple to understand that her case was worthless, but it isn’t that easy. This case went to the Supreme Court, where only complex cases go, cases that deal with issues that…

Some are “tech” for the technology we currently associate with that word, (computers, physics, engineering, etc.) like Cal Tech and MIT

I know, it’s super confusing. Some “Tech” schools are state schools (public universities partially funded by the state) and some of them are private institutions (Cal Tech and MIT are two examples) that get no funding from their state.

My sister and brother (the right side of the blanket ones, cuz I have others heh Papa was a rollin’ stone) were in Jack and Jill; my sister, the doctor, was a debutante, in AKA, and went to Spelman; my brother, the road construction guy (we’re all confused as to why, he’s not making any money) is an Kappa and a Mason…

yeah my dad comes from an old money east coast WASP family (my moms jewish tho and while i def benefit from my dad’s family but i didnt grow up as deep in it as he did)

It’s a fairly typical phenomenon. Like what we imagine all the old-money, WASP-y places (Connecticut? Rhode Island? Manhattan?) to be like. Tom and Buffy and Cord and Taffy - they all know each other and always have and everyone vacations here and goes to school there and banks at this place and only lives in these…

i actually don’t live in the south but youre pretty much spot on with what i meant. i never really thought about it in detail but i ‘know’ so many people ive never really talked to from our dads/grandfathers working together, going to the same places in the summer, belonging to the same clubs etc etc

I would say that it didn’t matter since 42 white applicants and 5 minority applicants that had lower scores were admitted. It came down to her extra curriculars and how they were weighted.

I don’t know the answer to that question, and I would argue it’s irrelevant because people aren’t numbers and shouldn’t be treated as such. Diversity of life experiences is important in any community, and a university student body is no exception.

I didn’t even apply to UT with a much better argument for admission - it’s the best school in Texas by a couple of leagues and even 15 years ago admission was pretty much a foregone yes/no conclusion for in-staters on the basis of GPA/class rank/SAT.

It’s not a little liberal arts college where a home run essay or…

I’ve said it before, but people like this really, really believe that there is a spot at the University of their choice with their name on it, and if they don’t get in it is because some brown person stole what was rightfully theirs. Not that they should have tried harder in school, or done extracurriculars that would…

This was fantastic, Jia. This sentence in particular really summed up the entitlement that exists among upper-middle-class, mostly suburban white people:

How is "extracurriculars" a "wildly subjective" criteria? If you have someone that has a slightly lower test score but is kicking butt in mountain biking competitions, or is amazing at basketball, or spends all their spare time helping orphans, why wouldn't you want them? There are a million people out there who did…

But there’s plenty of evidence to suggest those objective measurements are unreasonably skewed in favor of white kids. There’s a racial gap, and there’s also a financial gap.

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