Pledgeship taught me how to tie a bow tie while maintaining eye contact with the crack where the wall hits the ceiling and I breathe in the bourbon-fueled breath coming from a drunk brother yelling at my face. Honestly it prepared me for more than I ever imagined.
Fellow grad student. We’re in a different world – nobody other than students and faulty wants to live in a small town in the middle of BFE, and landlords know how much students earn and receive through scholarships, loans, etc, so they’re forced to adjust their rent around those small incomes, which are usually about $5k-10k a semester.
Look at grad students in actual cities like Boston, LA, Chicago, etc – they’re all sharing houses and barely breaking even.
My ex’s father would send out a multi-page write up going over literally everything the family did that year, complete with multiple photos and a family portrait. And he’d mail it all in an 8.5×11 envelope.
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Enjoy it while you can. I used to be then late 20s happened
As it’s looking more and more like I’ll be in the mid-30s group… Pass the bottle
Pledgeship taught me how to tie a bow tie while maintaining eye contact with the crack where the wall hits the ceiling and I breathe in the bourbon-fueled breath coming from a drunk brother yelling at my face. Honestly it prepared me for more than I ever imagined.
Fellow grad student. We’re in a different world – nobody other than students and faulty wants to live in a small town in the middle of BFE, and landlords know how much students earn and receive through scholarships, loans, etc, so they’re forced to adjust their rent around those small incomes, which are usually about $5k-10k a semester.
Look at grad students in actual cities like Boston, LA, Chicago, etc – they’re all sharing houses and barely breaking even.
Your name is quite the misnomer.
Looking forward to the small get together with close friends. PGP.
Too much real life, Shibs.
There are lots of things that pound your butthole in ATX.
Just Friends?
My ex’s father would send out a multi-page write up going over literally everything the family did that year, complete with multiple photos and a family portrait. And he’d mail it all in an 8.5×11 envelope.
Sweet Eugene’s if you’re in College Station, otherwise Shipleys > all in Texas
Bagpipes are ALWAYS necessary.
And watching him get snubbed from Cooperstown is infuriating and depressing at the same time.
Destination wedding in the Bahamas during Memorial Day next year. Since it’s my sister I can’t dodge it.
*poors, fucking autocorrect
Christmas shopping like the plots. PGP
I’m not sure who has more bizarre time off policies – government or academia.
Just imagine running into her on Northgate
Our office party is a lunch scheduled on a Thursday before vendors show up. PGP
I’m going to create a startup that sells psychedelic/kaleidoscope ceiling fans to Silicon Valley startups.