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On Helaine Olen on "Leaning Into the Past"
Maybe if enough people drop out, "society" won't be valid anymore?
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On Depression is Still a Thing in Springtime
I think I might be depressed, but I'm not sure if it's depression or if life just really sucks. How do you tell?
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On I Chose the Expensive Private University — And Got the Debt to Go With It
If your husband has UK citizenship, you should apply for UK citizenship, denounce your US citizenship and move overseas. You won't have to pay back the US loans--they'll have no legal recourse to garnish your wages, etc.
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On I Chose the Expensive Private University — And Got the Debt to Go With It
@aetataureate I think NYU actually looks over the financials of their accepted applicants now and provides financial counseling to people in similar situation to the author. But when you're 17 and dying to live in NYC you don't care. I was in a similar situation for a different niche-ish field, but I was lucky that there was an NYC-based SUNY school that also had the major. So I went there, applied for NY residency halfway through undergrad and was paying a bit more than $5k per semester for the second two years. However, if the two options were in-state school and expensive NYC school, I might have made the same choice as the author.
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On Should Your Wedding Gift Cover Your Meal?
@stuffisthings Two words: Kim kardashian
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On College Prestige vs. College Affordability
A few things: 1. NYU is only prestigious to out of town yokels. 2. Making connections is a skill that must be learned. If you go into college without it, a strong alumni network won't help. 3. Rutgers is pretty legit. 4. Less challenging classes = time to explore your interests, do internships and get entrepreneurial
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On I Don't Feel Entitled, I Feel Guilty
@vanderlyn "an upper middle-class echo chamber" is the best imagery/description of this phenomenon I have heard ever.
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On I Don't Feel Entitled, I Feel Guilty
@AitchBee basically an analogy proving that too much sheltering makes a person weaker, and that knocking all the problems/threats out of a child's way is not necessary beneficial in the long run.
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On I Don't Feel Entitled, I Feel Guilty
These are the kind of parents who never let their kid's ass touch a toilet seat, saturate them with antibiotics and then wonder why they get the flu 8 times a year. Sometimes a little exposure to stress/adversity/the other half is good for you.
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On Defaulting to Transparency
Engineers only make $60k? *blows raspberry in their general direction*