one student got married within a year of graduation... in some parts of the country, she would be the rule, not the exception.

My friend told me that in 9th or 10th grade. A few years before, I would’ve taken it as a compliment. At that point I was like, “you know what? You are correct.”

German immigrants DID face a lot of hate when they got here. Nativism and the Know-Nothing Party of the 19th century, anyone? The United States has a time-honored tradition of being a nation of immigrants with a whole lot of assholes who hate immigrants despite the fact that their ancestors from just a few generations…

That is the worst. What a douche. Can we please get together and hate everyone on Valentine’s Day? I don’t have this kind of experience with dating because I’m like 10 years younger than you (assuming late 20s), but I’m in a situation right now where everyone is being fucking shitnuggets just in time for the annual…

I just fried some fish and made rice for dinner. This is the second day in a row I’ve been responsible for cooking (not atypical; it’s usually been a Friday/Saturday/break from school thing for the past two years). At least today I didn’t really do anything. Yesterday I came home from volunteering and my grandma said…

That former U.S. president was a shitbird in every possible way. He duped the masses into believing he was a ‘common man’ when he actually came from privilege. He denigrated the office of the Presidency by turning his inauguration into a raucous clusterfuck. He participated in duels and even killed a man in one…

I was OBSESSED with Groundhog Day as a child. Like, all I could look at on the Internet was the Punxatawney Phil website from January 20th or so until February 2nd.

All the stars for you!

Yeah, I think I’m that person with easily damageable hair. Heat styling didn’t really do all that much for me as a kid (especially when I started doing it myself) because it was like a 5d kink (not curl) pattern, but it still managed to weaken the strands in the process. So I got single-strand knots and breaking hair…

Thank you so much! I just started using Wild Growth Oil on my braids yesterday. I’ve been taking Nature’s Bounty gummies. Someone on YouTube grew two inches of hair in a month using that combination, so I’ll see what it does for me. I’m looking to stop protective styling and wear my hair out around college acceptance…

I’m just over here thinking about her pregnancy body looks like my high school body #Goals

Question (to you and all naturalistas on Jezebel): last week I went to get my box braids taken out and redone and lost most of my thin, useless relaxed ends. I was left with six inches of 4b-ish hair. (The stylist told me my hair was a mixture of 3 and 4. I was like, GIRL WHERE? When I was a kid my hair wasn’t even a…

LMFAO. No. Ulta is just slightly less of a “fuck you, peasants” store than Sephora. Well, at least the one where I live in New York* is.

No. I wouldn’t either. But I’m also a high school virgin who’s on a Would U column for some stupid reason, so that influences my answers, I think.

Let me tell you a story about an old white guy from Long Island who teaches at a middle school in Queens. Four years ago, there was a little black girl in his class who was his favorite student. Her average was consistently a 95 or above in that class, just one year after a sudden move and an ill parent meant she…

If, after years of teaching, they have yet to wonder why students who get 65s on tests (which I don’t) get 100s on labs and do something to stop that?

which the kids pass around and grade themselves

Wow. What could have ever inspired a crime like this. I have no idea.

What can I do? I really want to know. I can’t just lie around in terror while the world burns.

I’ve been lying around eating and listening to music and sleeping until 10 for the past week. I came down with the flu on the day of the inauguration, after making it through an academic fair, a performance, and an awards ceremony that week. I was off from last Tuesday until tomorrow because of testing. I didn’t do…