C’mon. Put on your diaper like an adult. 

So... DC?

Meh. Talk of a crisis is overblown, though, and I’m not convinced by outliers like myself (I owed $89 after graduation). Mean student loan debt (what most people think of when they say “average”) is basically the price of a cheap, new car (i.e., under $25k). It isn’t a popular opinion for liberals, but I fail to see…

Good point. I mean, that sucks, but your analysis is correct here. Same goes for Hillary. And Ronnie Raygun, if I recall correctly. 

I’m with you on Infinity War. It truly felt like a bunch of set pieces stitched together. Not really much of a film. I mean, it was fun to watch and nice to look at, but I wouldn’t call it a good movie. 

Put on some nice music and clean the house/apartment. Nothing brings you down to Earth like doing chores.

It’s a fair warning. “You sure you wanna do this? Alright...”

No there was definitely panic in his face for a minute. 

Snow has such a resigned look on his face, too, right before he draws his sword. “I’m just gonna own this bad decision and do this shit.” It’s an epic moment, and the battle is crazy, claustrophobic chaos.

They’re all watchable on a sufficiently wrong flight.

Truly you are the Ron Swanson of Westeros...

You gotta shit sometime. Or not. I mean, you do you. 

“increase wages and improve recruitment, training, and professional development of teachers throughout the country”

Definitely. I think the official demographic figure for African Americans in the U.S. is, what, 12% or so? I think at Harvard it’s closer to 8-9%. Asian-Americans and foreign students are the largest minority populations. They make up the difference. The same is true, I believe, at Yale, Brown, and a lot of other…

This seems to be the case in higher ed. Look at Harvard: now minority white (just under 50% of the student body), but that doesn’t mean African American students are proportionally represented.

It’s basically all about money. A Vice Provost at my alma mater (for Ph.D.) told me at a conference that they now recruit foreign students heavily, mostly from China, who can pay out of pocket and are not eligible for financial aid. That tuition makes up for shortfalls in state funding in other crucial areas. I…

“Adjuncts can’t do it because there’s 1,001 brand new, hot off the PhD’s behind’em ready to pick up the job.”

Yes, this. So much. College isn’t for everyone. I tell my students that they should become electricians. They’ll make far more money, and faster, than they will dicking around with a 4-year business degree. 

I can tell you that when I taught at Cal I never had to teach basic writing to my students. Yes, there is an appreciable and recognizable difference between the abilities of different student populations.

There’s a selection gap too. A place like UMass Lowell admits a broader swath of students of different levels of ability and preparation than a place like Harvard. The student bodies are very different and intended to be that way.