If you’ve had zero reason to look back on your college application experience, you’re not alone. The whole thing was humiliating. Sure, I got into a couple schools, but there were several that rejected me. It still stings today, and I never really understood why they simply wouldn’t have me. If you’ve been wondering the …
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Chemistry Memes For College Students Dreading Their Chem Midterms
There are few things more dread-inducing than a sink or swim Chemistry exam. Chemistry is the ultimate weed-out class for basically all STEM majors at most American universities. It plagues students who are planning on studying subjects that have nothing to do with chemistry and stunts their GPA from the first semester. I was lucky …
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Former Students Share the Wildest Stories They Have From Grad School
Take it from somebody who did it — sometimes the most deranged thing you can do after racking up debt in college is to choose to do it all over again. There are many reasons why a person might go to grad school. Some just don’t want to stop being students, and others are genuinely …
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Female Student Faces Harassment for ‘Pretty Privilege’ After Acing Exams, Bullies Get Offended When She Reports Them
Academia can be one of the most vicious places about. There are plenty of insecure people out there trying to prove their worth through good grades and intelligent thoughts, and it can make for an unpleasant environment if you happen to be caught up in it all. The whole thing gets even worse when you …
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Parents Try to Blame Daughter for the Consequences of Their Own Bad Parenting
It’s not necessarily uncommon for parents to offload certain responsibilities to their offspring, but it’s important to ensure that these responsibilities are appropriate for a kid. When parents make one child responsible for their sibling, it can create an unfair and imbalanced dynamic that can lead to resentment and frustration. While it’s totally natural for …
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Grad School Memes For Student Inching Towards Their PhDs
Grad school is one of the craziest things you can willingly subject yourself to. You have to work 16 hours a day on one very specific subject, teach 3 courses, and live off of a $15,000 stipend. Sounds simple enough, right? Grad school is different for everyone, and there are many different types of postgraduate …
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Dude Throws Bike at Guy Engulfed In Flames Who Refuses to ‘Stop, Drop, and Roll’
There are two lessons you learn in preschool that trump all others: How to call 911 & Stop, Drop, and Roll. Like many 4-year-olds, I took it upon myself to call 911 one night in the basement just to see if it worked. Wouldn’t you know, a police officer showed up at our house, even …
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Surgeons Force Vet Students to Skip Lunch and Come to Lab Early, Students Collectively Refuse
Colleges and universities love to boast about how much they care about the mental health and wellbeing of their students, and yet often do nothing to put an end to cycles of bullying and punching down within certain intensive programs. u/Meekly-Enthusiasm gives a peek inside one such program in their recent post about how the …
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Boozy Memes for Party Animals Who Drink Like They’re Still in College Every Weekend
It’s funny how a beer on a Friday after work tastes better than a beer any other time of the week. We’re just rewarding ourselves for a job well done and we’ve earned to have a cheeky frothy pint at the end of it– or maybe 10 frothy boys and 4 shots of tequila just …
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Lawyer Memes For Fluent Legalese Speakers
I could never be a lawyer. This is partly because I do not care about the law that much. I have never wished I could spend the rest of my life engaging with legal documents. From what I’ve heard, law school is a terrible idea for people who are not passionate about it, so that …
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