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I have the pleasure of dealing with a mysteriously stinky fridge at home (I live in a rental, the fridge is at least 30 years old). 3 boxes of baking soda helps. I am sorry that this is the only input I have.

I'm too self deprecating not to have LORs backing me up: live on, LOR epidemic!!

I have the pleasure of dealing with a mysteriously stinky fridge at home (I live in a rental, the fridge is at least 30 years old). 3 boxes of baking soda helps. I am sorry that this is the only input I have.

Dating since you were 18, having a job, and going back to school does not mean you are entitled to a relationship. People have been telling you similar things throughout this 22 page thread. They have offered great advice and kind words, and all of it has been completely disregarded by you. For all the time you spend complaining about your lonely life on Grad Cafe, you could be cultivating a hobby or something. Seriously. Go do something to make yourself a better person.

Well, I'm an economics major, so I wouldn't know about sensitivity, but I definitely know that any feature of my kentish boarding-school education did not contradict the overall goal of becoming more knowledgeable and better educated. So sorry, sugar, but your angle that you have a European and therefore starkly original view on the issue is neither accurate nor original, and you can stop touting it. Stiff upper lip
 
I'm not entirely sure why you read my responses as "badgering", whatever that means in Spain. If Gnome says that fat people must be held responsible for their fatness because people from broken families are held responsible when they become serial killers, YES, he is comparing fat people to serial killers. I'm glad you're going to graduate school in Rhetoric and Composition this fall, where they will be able to teach you this astonishing bit of analysis. 
 
 
 
 
I believe you have been provided, prior in the discussion, with links to studies showing that the health scares you mention are quite weakly correlated with obesity and in most cases more contingent on lifestyle than on BMI. You will also have been provided with links that show that, in the majority of cases, people who diet gain their weight back within 5 years. This is old research, mate, but it makes for some fascinating reading.
 
But I will go back on a point. You will say, especially since health risks are contingent upon a healthy lifestyle, shouldn't we "build a framework around the ideal of being healthy"? No, your argument is completely impalatable to me, for two reasons. 1) you say you're promoting health, but you're actually promoting thinness. I understand that you're concerned that she can't walk more than 20 paces, but you don't even stop to consider why that is - whether it's a medical condition or a lack of physical conditioning. You immediately pounce on her fat. This whole discussion so far has centered on fat people, not unfit people. I have less of a problem promoting health, but your idea of health includes the idea fat person=unhealthy person, which is patently untrue. You say promoting an "ideal" like it's easy, but it actually involves a lot of measuring and defining of that ideal - because how can you promote an ideal if that ideal is not measurable? Inevitably such a policy would lead to the statistical discrimination of some population. 2) Whenever you're building a social ideal, you're engaging in social engineering. I'm not a libertarian, but I don't believe that creating a mythology of something is useful for anything but social control. People should 1) have access to information that shows that it is physical fitness that reduces the risk of metabolic disease and so on, and not how fat or thin you are, and 2) be able to choose if they want to reduce their risk of metabolic disease, or do something else with their lives. I cannot cede the last point. Body autonomy is a basic freedom, and basic freedoms are protected in the United States. Gnome will chime in here with something along the lines of, "but why must we make special accommodations for fat people, then?" - and you don't, actually. It would be, you know, decent of you to treat fat people like people (not patronize them, not talk down to them, not tell them what to do with their bodies, all of which you have been doing here), and not expressly hinder them from living their lives (you shouldn't be going to grad school if you're so fat!!!). Just do what you do with any other group of people you dislike. Step away and move on.
 
I'm pretty sure I haven't dissuaded y'all from being assholes, but I hope I have at least elucidated my position.
 
And now we can close this thread, because it is apparent that there is no such thing as a fat-friendly campus. I doubt there's even a fat-friendly morgue.

I find this claim to be highly dubious. NBA players, for example, tend to come from two parent households with slightly above average income. At the 2012 Olympics, 37% of British medalists attended private schools (the bastions of the upper and upper-middle classes), compared to 7% of the general population. Elite athletics is, and always has been, dominated by people from middle or high income backgrounds.

Update: I got a sizeable offer from Pitt ($23K per year with a tuition of $33K).
 
As noted above, most jobs straight out of school are going to fetch between $50-60K in the field in which I am pursuing the degree. Just something to consider if you are not familiar. 

So, what I think is a really good option is buying fresh ingredients to make something that will last a little while in the fridge.
 
Like...
 
 butternut or acorn squash, carrots, turnips, apples...
 
squash in the microwave for a few minutes, then put everything on a cookie sheet, sprinkle with EVOO maybe some salt, pepper, cinnamon, roast for 10 min.s
 
heat up some chicken broth
 
put all the roasted stuff in a blender with a couple pieces of ginger, pour into the chicken broth and there's soup for the week!
 
Last Sunday I made some turkey chilli which is basically turkey, tomatoes, peppers, onions, a little bit of garlic, and spices and, again, good for the week!
 
It's an inexpensive and easy option that is also healthy.
 
I think the most important thing is not eating anything processed.  What, 70% of our immune system is in our gut? People don't realize the damage they do by ingesting all the chemicals in the majority of our food. It's why there's so much food allergies now a days... and cancer, and most other illnesses as well. 
 
I mean, I'm not a nut about it... I just ate an entire pack of graham crackers... but starting TOMORROW, no more processed food. Startiiiiing... now!

My experience is that while it's good to be well-rounded, it can be hard to sell these things.
 
Indiana had an "individualized major" program while I was there (still does, as far as I know) but it was kind of a joke.  The whole point was to challenge traditional ed, which I think could be good, but it really didn't "do" anything.  This guy was in my year (graduated with me) and he was in my dorm freshman year.  Apart from being incredibly weird, forcibly hitting on me and all my friends, and showing up at odd times to stalk my next door neighbor, I didn't know him much but BOY did he get a lot of press when we graduated.  Despite that, he's apparently a bartender and does gigs at TGI Fridays.  Far be it from anyone to tell him what success looks like because he's allowed to be happy regardless of what anyone thinks but it's not like a magic major provided him a whole lot else.  Even the press on graduation didn't make him super famous.
 
So, I think these sorts of programs should have limits and should also allow students resources on "marketing" when they graduate.  This kid was an out of state student, paying about 30-grand per year base price (not sure if he had aid or anything, obviously) and now he has debt. What did he get for it?  I am sure the programs you are talking about aren't this off-the-wall but there are reasons you take certain "core" classes and learn certain methodologies and ways of reasoning to prepare you for grad school and jobs.

It has since been revealed that the OP is a psychotic stalker type who has wrapped herself in a thicket of lies and has been going on a 5-ish year tirade against a professor who didn't write an LOR for her. I'm out of breath. Lifetime movie in the works.

.... Yeah ha good luck with that.

I don't know why but it bugs me when people who get rejected post on the results board stuff like:

"I didn't put any effort into this application" or "I didn't want to go there anyways"

Why did you apply?! Or pay the application fee? Or waste your letter writer's or everyone else's time?!

I have the pleasure of dealing with a mysteriously stinky fridge at home (I live in a rental, the fridge is at least 30 years old). 3 boxes of baking soda helps. I am sorry that this is the only input I have.

Well actually I said my THERAPIST had an ideal situation. My point is if you don't want a kid then we all know what it takes to make a kid. If I was in a PhD program I wouldn't get pregnant if I didn't WANT to. Just saying. What I said was honest. I mean HE created his complex situation did he not?


Anyways whatever I'm not going to argue about it.

harboring a botfly larva in an unspeakable place on one's body

harboring a botfly larva in an unspeakable place on one's body

I think you really have to do an honest assessment of yourself. What ARE your strengths, as it relates to counseling? Why are you applying for the program? Why did you pick to apply to the school? What conflicts have you encountered that you've learned from? What other experiences have prepared you got grad schools? Why should they pick you over someone else?

I've learned that you can't Google these answers. You have to answer then from your own perspective. That's what the admissions committee is looking for anyway. Nobody wants to hear the same googled answers over and over again.

I'm too self deprecating not to have LORs backing me up: live on, LOR epidemic!!

Current students wave.
Their red flags have me wary.
Decisions will come. 

I don't understand how your oral surgeon implying he wouldn't go into social work makes him an "uneducated tard." 

WTF
Makes five syllables out loud.
WTF?

I'm too self deprecating not to have LORs backing me up: live on, LOR epidemic!!

I know I am a little late to this discussion, but I thought I would add something about saving on food costs.
 
I'm not in grad school yet, but one thing I do that really helps is meal plan and prep food in advance. I go grocery shopping every Saturday and then I do a big cook on Sundays so that I can put all my lunches in tupperware containers for the week. I started doing this about a month ago and my life has gotten so much easier. It is also easier to see how much money I am spending each week.
 
Here is a link to a video that helped me get started: I hope this helps
 

I'll try to be nice...
I think you're discounting the advice you've gotten. You nonchalantly push it off as if you've gotten some okay advice here and there, when in reality, after 30 pages of advice from a smorgasbord of brilliant people, I wouldn't be surprised if Oprah tried to patent this thread as her next best-selling self-help novel. You've gotten some fucking excellent advice. Have a little bit of respect, please.

My next point...

You say once you find a man, "none of this will even matter at all." Yet, you started another thread about anti depressants. Well, as some very intelligent people noted in that thread, depression is not dependent on circumstances and truly depressed people will remain depressed despite what happens to them. So if you really would get over everything if someone would just accept to be your boyfriend, then clearly you do not suffer from the crippling disease of depression. Your happiness is simply contingent on your relationship status. Once again you're creeping on the lines of disrespect. My mom killed herself because literally nothing of this world could ever make her happy, so when some little girl like you window shops for medication like it's fucking Forever 21, yes, it's a little offensive.

I'll tell you one last time. Have some respect. You did an excellent job in your academic life. You applied to four schools, got accepted to all four schools, and got a full-funded fellowship to the highest-ranked school you got accepted to. Not to mention, you got a job that pays well at the perfect time to start saving up to move away from home for grad school. You hit the academic grand slam. Yet you attack other people for having a boy/girlfriend, call them so lucky, and claim to be the most unlucky person in the world when many of the people you envy academically struck out, got no acceptances, have no job offers, no money, and are trapped in a truly desperate state.

You're an adult (I think). Even if school is not your top priority, since you're on a message board for grad school, at least try to pretend it's your top priority and have some fucking sympathy for people, and pretend to not be completely envious that they have a boyfriend, even if he's a complete fucking loser. You're gonna fail in the adult world (another thread you started) if you can't pretend to sympathize with people. Want a little truth? I can't relate to a lot of these people. I haven't been a lifelong student, I've seen my fair share of shit, I'm not dependent on an acceptance, and I'd be perfectly content with no acceptances and no options (the best time of my life was when I slept in a car for a year when I was 19). But you know what? I'm not a fucking social retard and I can at least pretend to relate to people.

You know why you don't have a boyfriend? Because you're neurotic, obsessive, psychotic, oblivious, immature, ignorant and a few other things. You're so caught up on looks and rankings. Let me tell you that relationships aren't completely looks-driven. I'm an okay looking guy and I've dated girls way more attractive than me because they were into my arrogance and my bullshit. I've also been shot down by girls who I "outranked" because they had half a brain to see through my bullshit.

Get over your fucking self. I don't care if your tits pop out of your turtle neck-- your personality is ugly enough to turn any man off.

Rainy day today
Rainy todos los dias
I am growing mold