I am a 24 year old high school teacher and I can tell you its messed up. This past year I even taught senior boys, many of whom turned 18 when I had them in class, and I still saw them as little kids and felt more maternal over them than anything else. I cannot IMAGINE being attracted to those boys, let alone a 13…

I am sorry to bump this from a few months ago but I just signed up for this app in the article and I remembered Jezebel writing about it, so I looked up the article again. Your last line “kinda sucks to be doing really well in my professional life but have my personal life suck so bad” freaked me out because I have…

I am so sorry about your loss. I am a teacher as well, and it is such a hard profession. Having to be “on” after going through personal struggle is so difficult.

Calling Atlanta jezzies! Or anyone who visits the ATL. :-)

I’m tall, so I never wore heels in the first place, and now that I have a real, big girl job I still just wear ballet flats every single day. *shrugs*

I dress very professionally, as I prefer to dress that way at work and I am a young teacher so I feel sometimes like I have to go above and beyond a little bit. I always wear skirts and dresses and I had a coworker ask the same thing! She asked if my attire was a religious thing. Its not, I just feel like I look…

For sure. I am 24 and as of this month it has been two years since I graduated college. Professionally, things are great, but social life has kind of been a wash for the past two years, lol. But I’m adjusting.

My best friend and I went to high school and undergrad together. We used to hang out constantly, but she started to get really overwhelmed and stressed halfway through undergrad, to the point where she started always flaking out and never leaving her house. I think we hung out twice all of last year. I eventually just…

I feel this. I finally started living alone just recently, after living with three friends for a year. I hated living with friends. I used to be the type to hang out with friends constantly, but after cohabitating with them, I never want to do that again. I am just fine with seeing a friend once or twice a week now.…

I just want to thank you for leaving this comment. I am a young adult, been working full time for two years now. Most of my friends in college graduated and then moved, so I lost those friendships, and my remaining friendships have melted away due to general life differences. Now, I’m realizing how difficult it is to…

I didn’t get to read the original full piece because its been deleted, but that’s really terrifying to me. I have a few people in my life that I am not on good terms with at all, but if I found out they died the last thing I would do is write an article about how it impacts me. I would probably pay my respects in…

Yup. Life ebbs and flows, and I’m still very young but if there’s one thing I feel like I’ve learned between high school and post-college, its that life keeps moving on and you find yourself in new situations all the time. I try to remind myself when I’m sad that its temporary, and I try to remind myself that when I’m…

I try to tell this to my students all the time while still being sensitive to the fact that for them, high school IS their whole world. I pretty much forgot about high school about two months into college, lol.

Maybe this is why Americans are all in debt and have no hope for retirement savings.

How is “sleeping with a married director” slut-shaming? Do you even know what slut-shaming is or do you just throw the word around because you’ve heard it a few times in the past couple months? Sleeping with a married person who is in a monogamous relationship is morally wrong and no one has to support that.

My boyfriend and I listened to a lot of Interpol in the beginning of our relationship, and it was sooo romantic and sexy. I will always have my favorite memories of spending weekends in his apartment with the discography of Interpol playing in the background.

Agreed. Babes in Toyland, another seminal, amazing band from that scene, reunited last year. I would love to see them, and I’ve heard they still rock, but there’s just something different. They’re older ladies now and it just can’t capture the magic of the 90s.

I’ve been waiting for a Hole boxset. They have soooo many demoes and B-sides, it would be great.

I know right? Right now I’m on the couch watching The Office, snuggled in my blanket, eating cookies. The most I did today was fry a few steaks, about 10 feet from where I am right now. My sister-in-law is the type to get out and do things all the time. She works an incredibly high stress job and is always busy, but…

I am starting graduate school in two weeks!