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WIth such a deliberately limited perspective of the world, and extreme prejudices, I'm genuinely curious: what is it that makes you think you could be a social worker?
 
I know this is harsh, but how the hell do you think you could fix someone else's problems, when you are completely refusing help (HELP YOU SOUGHT OUT) yourself?

Your soul definitely has brown teeth.

I worked for a very feminist company at one point. I have been exposed to it. I reject it. I don't like feminism I choose not to embrace it, it isn't that I haven't been exposed to it at all.

Your soul has brown teeth.

In the end it doesn't even matter, I'm going to keep dating, I am kind of broadening my dating the new guy I'm talking to who seems really nice is... Bigger. I don't know how I feel about that because it just isn't attractive to me but at the same time he is nice, wants a girlfriend and I want a nice boyfriend so yay that's fitting. He likes to shoot I like to shoot and he's country which is cool. He could always lose the weight, we could work out together that would be cute. So I guess I am picky and a little superficial but I just want what I want. I feel like its so unfair that I don't get to be a cute couple. My friends have attractive boyfriends, former college football players and baseball plays and athletes and I want attractiveness. Status is important to me in all aspects of my life.

Everyone is faking it. EVERYONE.
 
That said, it happens in stages. Yesterday, I was bemoaning the fact that I'm no longer a recent graduate (I'm 26), and I'll be older than everyone in my program, and I won't be out of school until I'm 30, and my 401(k) is just sitting there and won't really be growing while I'm going back to school, et cetera. And literally five minutes ago I was Facebook-stalking some people from high school who are now producers and architects and lawyers, and I'm thinking, my parents still buy me groceries?
 
You just filled out your W-4. In three months, you might sign up for health insurance. Then your parents might pay your parking tickets, and you have to hand-make everyone's Christmas gifts that year. And then before you know it, you're hiring your own interns at work, but still eating cereal for dinner because you're lazy.
 
I guess everyone just grows up at different times. And what really is growing up, anyway? What did we expect from adulthood? When I was a kid, I was looking forward to total independence, and the ability to make my own decisions. Currently there are 7 types of ice cream in my freezer. If that's not adulthood, I don't know what is.
 
 
 
My dad always says that when he was dating my mom, that's how he knew he'd get along with her family.

"Fine! I'll go make my own geophysics department! With blackjack! And hookers!"

I have noticed that too, I just started deleting a ton of people, I don't need the garbage on my newsfeed lol. 
You have a boyfriend that you live with.. you can easily get married and have a baby now if you actually wanted. I feel like you have no reason to not be happy. 

Everyone is faking it. EVERYONE.
 
That said, it happens in stages. Yesterday, I was bemoaning the fact that I'm no longer a recent graduate (I'm 26), and I'll be older than everyone in my program, and I won't be out of school until I'm 30, and my 401(k) is just sitting there and won't really be growing while I'm going back to school, et cetera. And literally five minutes ago I was Facebook-stalking some people from high school who are now producers and architects and lawyers, and I'm thinking, my parents still buy me groceries?
 
You just filled out your W-4. In three months, you might sign up for health insurance. Then your parents might pay your parking tickets, and you have to hand-make everyone's Christmas gifts that year. And then before you know it, you're hiring your own interns at work, but still eating cereal for dinner because you're lazy.
 
I guess everyone just grows up at different times. And what really is growing up, anyway? What did we expect from adulthood? When I was a kid, I was looking forward to total independence, and the ability to make my own decisions. Currently there are 7 types of ice cream in my freezer. If that's not adulthood, I don't know what is.
 
 
 
My dad always says that when he was dating my mom, that's how he knew he'd get along with her family.

Everyone is faking it. EVERYONE.
 
That said, it happens in stages. Yesterday, I was bemoaning the fact that I'm no longer a recent graduate (I'm 26), and I'll be older than everyone in my program, and I won't be out of school until I'm 30, and my 401(k) is just sitting there and won't really be growing while I'm going back to school, et cetera. And literally five minutes ago I was Facebook-stalking some people from high school who are now producers and architects and lawyers, and I'm thinking, my parents still buy me groceries?
 
You just filled out your W-4. In three months, you might sign up for health insurance. Then your parents might pay your parking tickets, and you have to hand-make everyone's Christmas gifts that year. And then before you know it, you're hiring your own interns at work, but still eating cereal for dinner because you're lazy.
 
I guess everyone just grows up at different times. And what really is growing up, anyway? What did we expect from adulthood? When I was a kid, I was looking forward to total independence, and the ability to make my own decisions. Currently there are 7 types of ice cream in my freezer. If that's not adulthood, I don't know what is.
 
 
 
My dad always says that when he was dating my mom, that's how he knew he'd get along with her family.

When they stop carding you. 

I used to think about this a lot. In a purely fantastical and reductive sense, there really can't be a "One". How would anyone account for widows and widowers remarrying? You had a life and kids with this amazing person, and then after some freak accident or something, they're gone! And 10 years later, you're remarried to the new love of your life? It just doesn't jive, poetically speaking.
 
Also, I've read somewhere that people can be compatible enough with about 1 out of every 100 people they meet to spend the rest of their lives together. If there are 3.5 billion men in the world, and a third are within your prime marrying age range, and half of them are single, and you are compatible enough with 1% of them to get married, then you're looking at about 6 million potential suitors. I'm terrible at math, but I think those are decent odds.

Bad. 

And then there's that 50% divorce rate.

I used to think about this a lot. In a purely fantastical and reductive sense, there really can't be a "One". How would anyone account for widows and widowers remarrying? You had a life and kids with this amazing person, and then after some freak accident or something, they're gone! And 10 years later, you're remarried to the new love of your life? It just doesn't jive, poetically speaking.
 
Also, I've read somewhere that people can be compatible enough with about 1 out of every 100 people they meet to spend the rest of their lives together. If there are 3.5 billion men in the world, and a third are within your prime marrying age range, and half of them are single, and you are compatible enough with 1% of them to get married, then you're looking at about 6 million potential suitors. I'm terrible at math, but I think those are decent odds.

I think your best plan of action is to show him this thread as soon as you meet.

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In your other thread, you express your desire to be married, like, yesterday, and your desperation for finding a partner in grad school. And here you make sweeping generalizations about just how awful people who are in relationships are.
 
So are you going to be the exception to the rule, and be the only person in a relationship ever to be a decent human being who maintains relationships with your friends and roommates? Or are you going to be proud to join the ranks of all the other jerkfaces who only care about their boyfriends and girlfriends?
 
After reading both of the big threads you started (from beginning to end, no less! Really good stuff!), I can't figure out if you're either the most brilliant troll ever, or someone in desperate need of perspective.

Why? They continuously irritate one another with their relationships. Carrie constantly ditches her friends for her boyfriends, Miranda hates hearing everyone whine about their man problems, and Charlotte is always repulsed by and judges Samantha's relationships. This is basically the antithesis of what you're looking for. 

"Will I get into my first choice?"
 
I just kept refreshing until I got the answer I wanted, "Yes Definitely".
 
That's how magic works, right?

Or why someone going into social work would use the pejorative "uneducated," "tard," or "uneducated tard."

Sometimes this is the first question you get in an academic interview. If so, I would begin with undergrad education and keep the content mostly academic. I would say where I went to undergrad, what major, what research projects I've done, who I worked with, what methods I am familiar with etc. Usually, they will ask follow up questions to what you say during this phase (in my experience anyways). Once I am done with my academic journey, I'll also talk about other aspects of myself--where I grew up, some things that I enjoy doing etc, but this part doesn't need to be in chronological order. 
 
If you get this question later in the interview (after you already talked about your academic self), then I think you should focus mostly on the personal stuff. 
 
I would say that you should not be giving a biography in response to this question!!

I definitely agree with fuzzy that the current graduate students will remember strange behaviours from prospective students. Even though you are already admitted, this is your chance to make a "first impression" on all of your future colleagues. It's almost prospective student season for us again and as we prepare for it, we remember and retell stories of "memorable" interactions with prospective visits from years past. For example, [details changed to protect privacy], there was one person that told everyone they already were accepted to and were planning to attend another school, however, they just wanted to go on the visit to our school just for the free food. Obviously, this left a very bad impression as many current students do work very hard to provide a fun and informative visit for the prospective students. 
 
From the point of view of the current students, we are looking for people who we can see as future colleagues and/or friends. There will be "business-like" meetings (mostly with profs) where you discuss research as well as formal and informal interactions with the students. We'll probably ask you some things like where you're from, what did you study before, what do you study now, who do you want to work with when you get here, where else you are visiting. We'll be able to provide our impressions and thoughts on various profs and it's likely we visited some of the same schools you did so we can share notes too. Useful questions to ask us are stuff like "why did you pick [this school] over the others?" etc.
 
But also talk with us about non-school things. We're looking for friends too! When meeting with us, I think something like a 50/50 split of personal/research or even a 60% personal / 40% research. Research is a safe/easy topic to introduce yourself with and it helps us know you academically. But when you are having lunch with us or dinner or drinks etc. tell us about yourself! What do you like? TV shows? movies? music? books? sports? We want to get to know you as a person too, maybe even more so than as a researcher.

I think it's just wishful thinking/panicking.
 
I do it like, twenty times a day. Because WHAT IF I MISS IT?