I’m embarrassed at how little patience I have now when it comes to family members and climate-change denial. I used to have energy and motivation to try to be thoughtful, receptive, and kind. But it seems I have none of that left now when it comes to this.
To my friends who will be evaluating grad school applicants for your programs: a less than perfect but still very good GPA achieved while working full time during college may in fact be more impressive than most perfect GPAs from folks who didn’t have to.
It's amazing how a party whose entire identity is predicated on fear mongering about the dangers of everyone ELSE - of immigrants, LGBT Americans, Jews, Blacks, Muslims - is ITSELF responsible for virtually all high profile acts of violence in this country.
Always projecting.
@ObsessedTeach Every time dress code is brought up in a faculty meeting I mention that it's weird that we teach elementary students "not to judge a book by its cover" only to kick them out of class when they get older because we don't like their appearance.
Thank you for being awesome.
@TheRealHoarse@ToddYoungIN "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
- Upton Sinclair
@Swilua THIS, THIS is why I don't get any work done. How can I be fully devoted, immersed, and imaginatively devoted to my research topic and writing about it when there are so many other minor-medium 'tasks' that need doing.