On Amusingly Horrible Things I Have Said: The Bracket
@Jaya I gained a bunch of weight from medication a few years ago and was really upset about it one night and my best friend said "it's okay though, you know, your face is still pretty." UGH. see also "you're fat for YOU but not fat for other people" (what?)
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On Beauty Disasters: How to Cover Up Almost Anything
@MoxyCrimeFighter MUFE matte velvet is nice. The hourglass matte mineral veil lots of adjectives is good too, but I felt like for $55 it wasn't better than the MUFE. Go to Sephora and get your sample on, girl! You can't really tell if a foundation is going to wear well in the store, so you need to try it out for a few days. Their return policy is great, so even if you buy something and don't like it, you can take it back (though I feel worse about doing this than asking for samples). I always find some sales girl around my age, say I like her hair/nail polish/whatever- boom, samples. Last time I went in to pick up a brush + a sample I wanted to try and I left with those things plus 4 other samples because the girl said "here, try these things too!" I used to work at a couple a different makeup counters, so, maybe don't go to a counter if you need a sample but might not buy, because some people are totally commission hungry and pushy (but also, if you figure out a product you like, hit up the counters and see if there are any Gift With Purchases floating around. Clinique and Lancome usually give out decent amounts of stuff with ~$30 purchases)
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On Ask a Humanities Grad Student
@celeec4@twitter squidsyy at gmail dot com (I don't really use this email that much, but I don't want to put my firstname.lastname email up for the world to tie to my username)
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On Ask a Humanities Grad Student
@angelan yes, most of the application fees range from $100-140 because of all the shuffling of scores and transcripts and the like. Also, if you are applying to two different programs at the same school (I was thinking of applying to some genetics programs as a backup incase I get rejected by neuro) you have to pay the fee twice. Which makes sense and all, but, ugh.
@celeec4@twitter can I ask where you are? Everywhere it's been suggested that I apply/schools that I have researched on my own have had fees (which I'm okay with, but if I can apply to some programs that have lower/no fees but comparable programs that would be great). My alma mater pretty much just pushes everyone to go to an Ivy, which don't get my wrong, I would be happy to go to, but I feel like only applying to Ivies would be taking a huge leap of faith
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On Ask a Humanities Grad Student
@MollyculeTheory Oh god, I was so hoping you would reply to this thread because YES, YES I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS. I am getting ready to apply to neuroscience PhD. programs and I am terrified/not getting a lot of help or advice. I feel, judging by the current candidates at all the schools I've looked at, they're going to look at my application and just laugh and take my $100 fee. Maybe not though? What if I get in nowhere?
My advisor's advice was "just take the MCATs and apply to medical school" ...but....I do not....she is not a very good advisor.
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On Meditations on 13 Bits of Graffiti in the Ladies' Room at the Pub Trivia Bar
My school library is overwrought with some pretty impressive bathroom graffiti (I take pictures of it a lot, don't judge me). Recently there have been a lot of passive aggressive typed notes being taped up that influence even MORE writing. The other day someone wrote "It's okay to look up at the sky sometimes" and under it some one wrote "only if you're wearing sunscreen" (truth!), but then under that it said "not if semen is shooting out of the sky!" It's a pretty prominent medical school, I would think that people would know the sun doesn't ejaculate at will, but maybe I missed that part of astronomy in undergrad because I was so distracted by the bathroom graffiti.
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On Timeless Advice From TLC
@Third Wave Housewife creep is one of my all time favorite songs even though I am not very pro-creep/snooping nowadays. I am, however, very pro TLC's silk pj choices. I feel like a scrub in my sleep sweatpants.
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On Saucy Hot COOOL
this looks sooo good. And with an egg? Put this in my face, now.
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On The First Time I Heard the Term "Helicopter Parents"
@The Lady of Shalott I had the best first job! Well, second job, my first job was at a bagel store when I was 15 and I worked there for a week because they didn't understand labor laws. After that I worked at a small, family owned (not by my family) exotic pet store that also did animal birthday parties. It was the best! When it was nice out, I would take the 11ft albino bermise python out to "sun" on my shoulders in the parking lot and people would take pictures with me. We also had a beautiful green wing macaw that would hang out with me at the cash register all day (he would try to "help" with coins).
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On Happy Hour: Happy Trails
@teenie Yukon jack? I did not realize that it was very high proof the first couple of times I had it. I got very drunk. I second this suggestion.