I was very good at math in school, but I hit a wall after calculus and my real talents fell in the humanities. I was lucky to go to schools as a kid where most of the teachers liked smart kids and wanted to challenge us, rather than resent them. (this happened to my little sister, whose English teacher picked on her…

Early PhD student here and I can say that Impostor Syndrome is very real and seems to affect most people in my department (we skew female, but are fairly balanced). It’s funny because I think it stayed subconscious last year. I was so stressed out with my classes and *knew* I was good at my subject and have it in me…

already gay, but that movie makes my heart go pit-a-pat so hard that I think it made me gayer? I could watch it over and over.

I complained about this to my social media (and also to Delta) back in March. I’m glad one of the big lesbian sites picked up on it, though I’m surprised it took this long and I’m annoyed that I didn’t think to write to any of those sites about it back in March. I was so excited they had the movie, but what’s the…

You put the words in my mouth. I was an exchange student in Siberia in high school and the first time someone waxed poetic on this philosophy (probably a drunk middle-aged dude who was friends with my host parents) I realized I had found the language I wanted to study forever (grad school in Russia related stuff now,…

Believe me, i’ve lived in Germany, where they have amazing healthcare and single payer would be great, but do you honestly think, with our congressional system in the complete shambles that it is, that it would be easy to push that system through the legislative system? Healthcare isn’t something that can just be…