How you respond in this situation is SOOOOO dependent on the support you receive from your superiors. I turn in every single instance of cheating that I have actual evidence for, but I work for someone who has my back in those situations. I’ve seen others get reprimanded by department chairs because “turning in so…

We can tell the difference between “oh it was a draft and that’s why I plagiarized” and an actual draft. Different fonts and weird asides in the text? Definitely a draft.

I do believe that there is such a thing as accidental plagiarism. You most often see this as a student who cited sources but doesn’t understand that that doesn’t mean you can copy and paste from the source without indicating that it is a quote. It’s still plagiarism, but the intent isn’t there. The “Oh, hey. I write…

I spent the entire (day? day and half?) of watching that thinking “can I make overalls work?” The answer is no.

But I’m going to be purchasing a pitch fork soon so I’m really close to buying overalls just for the photo op.

It pains me to know this about myself. I rarely give a shit about anything in a Dirt Bag, but I still need to see it so my stupid brain can accept that it’s night time.

Yeah, I’m also fair/blonde so body hair isn’t a big deal for me either.

It is a diaretic developed for hypertension, so there’s a chance that it will lower your blood pressure. I had low blood pressure already, so my doctor was concerned that it would get dangerously low on the spiranolactone. Luckily that didn’t happen for me. I did get really tired the first few days I was on it, so I…

Oh, you’re going to be so happy once this kicks in! And then angry that no one suggested it earlier. But then back to happy when you realize you made it through your period without any giant chin cysts!

The following combo works wonders on my (formerly) cystic acne/Rosacea skin:

I’m lucky with the Jamberry people in my life. The few who do post about it are all “hey, I hate this MLM marketing bullshit too so if you don’t want to buy any, don’t. I’m just doing this for the free set.”

At least you aren’t paying off a mortgage on your sexuality. You foreclose on that and shit gets ROUGH.

I like to think Littlefinger was making eye contact with me and we were both thinking “Jesus, this part is corny and embarrassing.”

Nearly wept? That was my first year of the night. Then angry Davos? Forget about it.

I was transporting bees in my trunk one day (as I am wont to do). Anyway, I had borrowed a real car with a trunk (instead of an SUV) for this particular expedition because I had been a little jittery on a previous bee jaunt when one bee was buzzing around inside the car but outside the box. So I was feeling good about…

I had a lab instructor allow everyone in a class of thirty to wear tank tops but I had to have my arms covered. In a 90F classroom.

I assure you, it wasn’t because there was something offensive about my arms.

Non-retaliation policies are so hard to enforce. I’ve already been penalized for being a whistle-blower in this institution, so I’m not ready to be one again.

I think the real issue is WHY grad school is so stressful that it hurts relationships. It’s still often gender inequality. Men who have female partners at the beginning of grad school mostly seem to stay in those relationships. You know why? Because their girlfriends/wives are picking up the slack at home. Women on…

I feel like part of what is so disappointing about this behavior at my school is that we are a science program with 50% female faculty. You’d think we’d have better acceptance of the “alternative lifestyle” of being normal women.

Of course, this woman even lectured a student for having a dog. Because if you have the…

Oh, I get that this isn’t a choice that a lot of us want to make. But this woman is one of the “I chose not to have kids my entire life because my work is important” types who thinks that anyone choosing differently is not okay. So she feels this way about the tenured faculty who dare to procreate as well as the lowly…

Ugh. So very this. At least half of the men in this department have kids and no one bats an eye when they leave early to go pick up the kids. In fact it’s like “wow, what a great dad.”