I’ve wondered about this too. Maybe it’s a red state/blue state thing? I grew up Catholic in CA in the 70's and 80's. There was a strong Jesuit influence, as well as a lot of social justice stuff. Even though the anti-abortion movement was gaining momentum at the time, I don’t remember hearing anything about it in…

As a member of the rabid feminist from Stanford club, I apologize on behalf of my alma mater. Strangely, I never went to the women’s center either, mainly out of laziness, although I did take a few women’s studies classes.

As a former Stanford student, there were abundant opportunities for office hours with the calculus TA’s and profs. Also, virtually everyone takes it eventually, so she could’ve asked friends for help too.

Nothing says ‘affirmative action for rich white kids whose parents made a big donation or are alumni’ than a community college transfer who has wealthy parents and is having trouble with calculus as a junior or senior. I went to Stanford a few years before she did. Nothing against community colleges - I took a year of…

I agree. The wealthy kids didn’t do work-study, but everyone worked during the summer and dorm room decor was pretty similar for everyone. Same with the beater cars. Some women had pricier clothing, but I feel like the multiplier was 2X or 3X the basic level, not 10X like you see now. I was a lower middle class kid at…

I work at Cornell now. I’m kind of shocked at the amount of money some of the undergrads have. That is an absolutely shitty thing to do. Unfortunately I’m not completely surprised that they published that.

I am so paranoid about stuff like this! My fucking iphone pranked me a few days ago and made me think I was a senile old biddy. I’m flying to SF tomorrow. It started showing the flight reminder on my home screen except it listed me as flying out of a different airport about 50 miles away. I freaked out that I had…

I’m 48. I have gorilla-like arm hair, so I’ve been shaving my arms since I was in my 20's, but was the outlier back then. I didn’t realize it was a thing now.

We got married last summer in a casual affair. We didn’t want gifts, but got cash and gift cards, plus some things.

I feel like I missed about half of the lessons on how to be a trendy white person, mostly the ones about spending more money than necessary.  

My nicer water bottles are all dollar store ones or ones that other people lose.

I do this too. I like the shape and large size, and it’s my excuse to get Gatorade once in a while.

Yum! That all sounds delicious, especially the maple peanuts.

This. I’m a run of the mill mid-career scientist. I have no clue who is student body president at my two alma maters or at my current university, much less write an op-ed about it. Even when things are normal, I have trouble finding the time to write a run of the mill blog post because I still have to do adulting, try…

Watch a few episode of Jackson Galaxy’s show “My cat from hell”, or look on his website for ideas. He’s the cat whisperer and I’ve learned a lot even though I’m a life long cat person. Oftentimes, much of the advice is to play with the cat a lot/tire it out, give it safe spaces where it can go (usually elevated/away…

I’ve been calorie tracking and monitoring my heart rate with fitbit, and noticed my heart rate would spike up right before my period, and these were also the days when it was hardest to stick with my diet. Now that I see what my heart rate is doing it makes more sense that I’m hungrier. Sadly, I’m old and this month I…

OMG - another chemist jezzie! Yay! I’m an inorganic/organometallic chemist.

I’ve lost 20 lbs since the beginning of the year. I am also feeling a lot healthier and less achy. I’d gained weight and my bloodsugar was up when I went in for my physical in early Jan. My Dr. told me to work on losing weight and to come back in 3 months for a followup. She just wanted to see progress on the…

I don’t have kids, but one thing that has helped is to introduce my husband to the concept of emotional labor (see the wonderful link the someone else posted.) I called most of it ‘adulting’ since that is something that most people already understand, and left ‘emotional labor’ for things like remembering to send…

I’m seconding the batch cooking suggestion - we do this a lot. You can even do it after dinner to have stuff ready for later, or set up an overnight crockpot meal. Sometimes I get jonesin’ to make one type of food and oldfogeybadger is jonesin’ for something else. Last week he was all about making country ribs and…