Monday, February 4, 2013

My World Politics professor was not in class today because, as the TA explained, “She was at a conference over the weekend in Europe, and some high-level people asked her to stick around for a few meetings. We actually don’t know exactly who they are or where she is because it’s classified.”

Only in D.C.

Friday, December 7, 2012

What a stressful week. (The library cafe ran out of coffee Wednesday night, you understand.) Only nine days until I get on a plane back to California and no longer have to worry about classes and cold weather and mediocre dining hall food.

I’m choosing to put off dealing with the five finals I have next week until tomorrow morning.

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Home: where I don’t need to run the dryer twice every single time.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Those of you who have been through college know that the educational system is very highly geared to rewarding conformity and obedience; if you don’t do that, you are a troublemaker. So, it is kind of a filtering device which ends up with people who really honestly (they aren’t lying) internalize the framework of belief and attitudes of the surrounding power system in the society. The elite institutions like, say, Harvard and Princeton and the small upscale colleges, for example, are very much geared to socialization. If you go through a place like Harvard, most of what goes on there is teaching manners; how to behave like a member of the upper classes, how to think the right thoughts, and so on. Noam Chomsky, What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream 

(Source: nec-plus-ultra)

Monday, November 26, 2012

If the kid from Two and a Half Men is so ashamed of his presence on the show, maybe he wouldn’t mind sharing some of the insane amount of money he makes from it.

ONE EPISODE OF THE SHOW WOULD PAY FOR FOUR YEARS OF COLLEGE AND THEN SOME HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE

Sunday, November 18, 2012

clair-etc:

so how do you tell your parents that, despite what you’ve told them repeatedly before, you are in fact adjusting poorly to the major life change for which you are making them pay large sums of money?

haha college am i right

(Nodding grimly.)

Saturday, November 17, 2012
special-agent-melissa-mceagle:


EAGLESECURE THIS IS THE FIFTH TIME IVE HAD TO DOWNLOAD SAFECONNECT TODAY I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD IT’S INSTALLED JUST LET ME BROWSE THE INTERNET IN PEACE


! It’s getting ridiculous.

special-agent-melissa-mceagle:

EAGLESECURE THIS IS THE FIFTH TIME IVE HAD TO DOWNLOAD SAFECONNECT TODAY I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD IT’S INSTALLED JUST LET ME BROWSE THE INTERNET IN PEACE

! It’s getting ridiculous.

(Source: melissamceagle)

Friday, October 26, 2012

Things I want

  • this election to be over
  • my seven-page term paper not to be due on November 8
  • my laptop to be unstolen
  • to see my family and friends from home next week not next month
  • to acquire good study habits and not fall asleep on the library couch again
  • an actual winter coat

Friday, October 19, 2012

So it’s Parents Weekend this weekend, which would be awesome except that unlike a lot of people here, my parents aren’t coming. It’s just not practical and not a surprise, but it just sucks seeing everyone here with their folks knowing I won’t get to see my own family for another month. Because, you know, I miss them and stuff.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Yeah, so midterms basically suck the life out of everything.