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By melis on A Friendly Chat With a Rich Person
"Truffles and Entourage at the boat house, thighs." "Multidirectional, disruptive weight-lifting." "Bootstraps." "I'm disappointed." "Roughly hewn." "More paths, also." "Eye contact." "Bootstrap polish."
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By Jake Reinhardt on Teach For America Burned Me Out
Actually, you still can't blame your students for all that. You really, really can't. They get saddled with a shitty new teacher who doesn't understand their culture, their background, or how to teach EVERY SINGLE YEAR. You were only one in a depressingly long line of terrible teachers, who will pass the students along because the administration tells them to, and then the next year, they will be even more resentful and angry and violently inclined. But don't worry! A lot of them will end up in prison if they're boys!
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By melis on How Do We Repay Our Parents?
The real takeaway from this article is that it's probably useless to attempt to preempt hypothetical criticism in your last paragraph.
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By steponitvelma on Why Aren't You Paying for Music?
@Saaoirse But this isn't the difference between buying a shirt at forever 21 and buying it someplace american-made, it's the difference between buying a shirt and stealing a shirt. I think that is an important distinction.
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By Nate Jones@twitter on Recollections of an Unpaid Intern
"If she’d remained quiet, she probably could have gotten a full-time job based on the “Hearst” on her résumé. Now, she’s likely blacklisted. For the Black Swan interns, I have an equal lack of pity." If you're being exploited, never try to change things. It will only make the people in power mad at you, and that's your fault.
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By Ester Bloom@facebook on Sugar at the Wedding
For a cautionary tale on ways these arrangements can go bad, check out this awesome and chilling New York Times Magazine story: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/magazine/how-my-aunt-marge-ended-up-in-the-deep-freeze.html?pagewanted=all
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By short shrift on Interview Questions, Answered Honestly
My first post-college interview was for a retail position (ball so hard) and at one point my interviewer and I had a long, painful exchange about my thesis, which only made sense to me later when I realized that I was talking about the Renaissance epic poem The Faerie Queene and he was talking about Dairy Queen. Incredibly I got the job!
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By CheeseLouise on My Last Hundred Bucks: Necessities, More Necessities, and More Necessities
@NoReally Are you Logan's mom? If not, it's super obnoxious to call people honey. If so, I apologize.
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By stuffisthings on Illustrating the Student Debt Crisis
Well if people were just more financially literate they'd be able to save up the full cost of college tuition in a way that generates a 1,000% return over thirty years. It's their own fault really.