I was also at a high caliber private university, I graduated in 3 years at 21. But we're talking about Brown in the mid 80s, not 2013, and the actual timeline makes it so she moved to NYC 4 days before her 21st birthday.

Ahh yes, that is exactly how I always pictured Carrie! She's obviously a smart woman, but entirely incapable of managing her finances and displays anxiety around people who come from a substantially higher class background than her.

I don't know, there are plenty of times in the series when Carrie walks home because she spent her cab money, and I think a lot of her fashion was thrifted/vintage/gifted before she got her book deal.

Oh man, I really want to read your thesis! AnnaSophia just doesn't have that gritty, brash authenticity that SJP embodies as Carrie. She's too pretty, though at least they picked an actress of similar height.

I already explained the timeline problem in another response so I really don't want to type it out again, but I get that, and I graduated at 21 though my early graduation was due to being in an accelerated program. My parents didn't pay for my school either, they cosigned my loans but that was it, I had a fair amount…

Yeah, I moved out at 19 and graduated at 21, so I get that it's not unrealistic. But the timeline itself is.

I'm pointing this out as someone who DID graduate at 21 from university, even though I was 18 going on 19 when I started. Carrie was supposedly born June 15th, 1965. She would have been 18 when she started university, and just barely 21 when she moved to NYC (June 11th, 1986). That's why it isn't making sense unless…

Hahaha, well Charlotte's background is a little more clear cut than Carrie's. She is the daughter of Connecticut blue-bloods and went to Smith College. But I agree that the stripping of Carrie's backstory is obnoxious.

Oh man, I forgot about the edited/clean episodes!

Honestly, I even think Bushnell herself ruined it by saying that Carrie went to Brown for university. It screws with the whole timeline. Did she drop out? She says she moved to NYC at 21, a degree would have taken longer than that. How did her single, working class mother afford it? Carrie doesn't strike me as an…

This is brilliant.

I went and read that piece, and am now extremely creeped out by his ways of "convincing" a partner into receiving a facial. Dude, just fucking ASK, and if they say no, don't ever do it.

Haha, exactly. My partner is an artist/software engineer, I am an anthropologist/fashion model, which of us is the bigger asshole?

It's not a matter of relaxing, I have pain because I have hypoplasia of the introitus.

Heeeeeehe I remember teaching my mom to copy and paste! Cutest. Now she's very internet savvy except for using facebook.

I'm usually pretty good at styling my own hair (necessary model skill) but it never looks this smooth! Maybe it's the funky layers from my last hair job? I need a stylist too.

I think they often have order sheets there as well? So maybe he ordered all of the boxes? At least that's what I remember from my Girl Scout days.

I need to learn how to get my hair to look like that. Seriously.

I'm not bothered by the idea of a pelvic exam at all, really medical testing in general doesn't bother me. But I find the speculum to be painful, and that combined with how I've been treated at my last two OBGYN visits makes the entire experience unpleasant.