>Doctors sign away their 20's to develop the skills to save others' lives.

Well, I guess I would say that while putting elements of your personality on a spectrum doesn't tell the whole story, it still tells a lot, nonetheless. Type A/B is pop psych crap, but Myers-Briggs on the other hand is very useful for determining and analyzing the innate personal preferences that drive personality. …

I'm an ENTJ, but I am very, very marginally an e, and while I've been taking the test for years and always get the same result, my E percentage has decreased. I'm like you and have to have some alone time every day. I super look forward to days when I don't have anything to do after work and can just stay home and…

I see your point and I've addressed this in several other posts. Introvert/Extrovert is also a spectrum (i.e. you can be anywhere between 50-100 percent introvert), but I would add that needing to recover from the "high" of socialization suggests that you're not an introvert at all, just as M-B has told you. Myers…

Now, ironically, the money she's made doing porn has disqualified her for what little financial aid she'd been getting.

I don't know that I necessarily agree that it's straightforward. I'm an introvert in that I get my energy from being alone, but I'm also very social and can be loud and talkative, and can absolutely work a room at a party. So I think there's a lot of confusion around what it means to be "introverted" or…

Cute couple!

I'm getting a little verklempt over here.

This is where his severe problems come in (the mental illness and possibly behavioral problems that stem from them). I don't know if he resisted therapy (though I suspect that he did), and as such, really couldn't/didn't work on what would have created the outcome that he wanted.

That's just it. From the videos I saw, he gave off a distinctly creepy vibe—hollow eyes with no warmth or emotion expressed, just like his flat tone of voice. If he weren't clearly a fucking psychopath, he would have undoubtedly gotten laid. The irony is that a huge group of angry young men (who I'm sure are NOT all…

Fair enough. I was more or less pointing out that there are more jobs in which built-in resumes are not emphasized. Just, in general. If you're an engineer, that's what the fuck you are and that's the only jobs you can apply for. I recently decided to switch fields and with something as broad a sociology, I can and…

If you want to spend four or eight or twelve years of your life educating yourself because you're passionate about a specific subject or interest, then that's what you should do.

Now, I teach at the college level, and so am biased. But I think two major variables that are undiscussed here are the ways that institutions of higher learning are continuing to elevate their tuition because there is always going to a certain subset of the population that will pay full freight, and as such colleges…

It looks too blended and jellified. I want pieces of parsley, and butter consistency, not aspic consistency.

I recently started shopping almost entirely at Nordstrom. There is a range of quality sold there, but the store's return policy is excellent. I stopped shopping at JCrew this year, after a snap ripped off a very expensive puffer coat a mere two months after purchasing it, and they refused to refund my money. I went…

Where IS the quality ship docked these days? Can someone point me to some cute, good quality clothes? I USED to get things from Anthropologie, J. Crew outlet and other places and I have clothes from them from years ago that are still great. But everything recent is stretched out, misshapen and holey. Where have all…

I read some fashion blogs, and from what I can determine, people who were hardcore JCrew fans 5-15 years ago no longer shop there because they're ripping customers off in a major way. Their prices used to be high, but still affordable, and the tradeoff for that cost would be a classic piece that lasts YEARS. Now, you…

Yeah, I've been pretty annoyed lately by poor quality from both J. Crew and Banana Republic. If I'm going to pay $40 or more for a t-shirt, it should not get holes when I wash it! Meanwhile, I have stuff from J. Crew from the early 90's that has held up fine.

This cannot be a surprise to people.