Your tinfoil hat is too tight, sweetie.

Thanks! It was both easier and harder than I thought it would be. The academic bit is easy - scheduling study time around my life is nearly impossible!

EXACTLY YES on “wanting it.” I am in that seat because I want to be there, not because my parents are paying for it and think I should be there or because I don’t know what else to do so might as well go to college. I want to be there. I want to know all the things and everyone who says a bachelor’s degree is “just a…

It has been AMAZING. After two extremely failed attempts, this time I truly WANT to be there, I have a handle on my ADHD, I have my family trained to look after themselves while I’m studying, and I’m so much more invested in the whole thing, mostly because I’m paying cash and that’s a LOT of money to waste if I spend…

Step #1a: don’t go back to college at age 41.

School. School is when you might have to do that. When you’re doing the reading for 5 separate classes, sometimes you have to let things go until the last minute and you end up reading an entire book in one day so you can barf out all your knowledge about it the next day via exam. Even with the best intentions and…

When I’m confronted with that sort of thing, I try to find the Cliff’s Notes and read those first so then I kind of know what to expect. It’s sort of like going on a boring drive but you can handle it because you know where you will eventually end up. It helps to keep you from going “wtf is this shit” while you’re…

Home tattoos.

I’m a speed-reader, too. I learned that skill when I worked in a bookstore and could plow through books on my breaks and in my spare time (and when I could hide in the kids’ section where the security cameras couldn’t see me under the guise of “straightening” it). I regularly got through about 8 books a week.

I just upgraded to Amex Platinum and the card is metal which is almost the coolest feature of it.

I just upgraded to Amex Platinum and the card is metal which is almost the coolest feature of it.

As a 42-year-old undergraduate student, I can relate to this first-hand. I drag my phone around with me everywhere but in class, it is on silent (not even vibrate) and in my bag. I also take notes by hand because I agree with the research that says you retain information better when you write it down because you have…

I’ve read 1984 five or six times in my life, and I desperately want to go see this play. The book itself is uneven and at times downright terrible, but the core concept is fucking terrifying and I cannot wait to see it played out in this way.

NO wedding is drama-free, and anyone who claims theirs was is a filthy liar.

On the other hand, making a list of people to invite to a wedding can be so fraught and full of bullshit and drama, so to be included on that list is kind of a nod toward the fact that you’re important enough to the couple that you made the cut. Of course, if they’re inviting 300 people, that may not be the case.…

I gotta say, I had massssssive teenage crushes on both Johnny Depp and Kirk Cameron and I’m a little surprised that Johnny Depp turned out to be a bigger disappointment. It’s a confusing state of mind, and 1987-era MadPiglet is really upset right now.

You maybe missed that the OP is talking about....

The people with the Disney font are the true war criminals in this world. Just... do not do that, everyone.

Apparently, hating Comic Sans is “ableist.”

THIS RIGHT HERE. He is a grown-ass man who chose to do this. Whatever shit lands in his mouth belongs there.

I have. The Green Party in my area is weak and disorganized and full of petty in-fighting and bullshit. They will NEVER get off the ground here in any meaningful way if they continue on in this manner. It’s sad and my time, energy, and money can be put to better use elsewhere. I wish them much joy in their…