FoggyAnhinga
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Move-in day is when you really see the ugly side of these kids' parents. I had a hall mate whose mother took off every curtain in the room and decided to wash them in the laundry room for her child. They weren't even dirty but she insisted on basically sterilizing the room. There was this guy I'd see around campus a few times and he was always with his dad. I never questioned it but when it got to be the third week and his dad was still there, I did ask. Turns out his dad decided to spend the first three or so weeks of the semester near the university to make sure his child had settled in. The kid came from out of state.
There are kids who are babied all through college so it's easy to see why they get a certain kind of attitude. And honestly, some of the things they say to professors is embarrassing. Like, you're the adult now, please stop acting like this.
Oh helicopter parents, haha (completely forgot that term until just now!)... wow, three weeks to make sure his son settles in?! That's some dedication...
I often wonder how the kids who are babied through college survive in the real world (if they do survive that is)...
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Congrats katsharki3 and Enhydra! Now go celebrate
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I've had jobs where I had to deal with students' parents and I can see where they get the attitude. One time I was an office assistant at one of the residence offices in a dorm. I'd get calls from parents telling me things like, "X thing is broken in my child's room. What are you doing to fix this?" These kids would sick their parents on me despite the fact that they literally lived in the same building I worked in and could have just walked down a flight of stairs to tell me their problem. And their parents would call to make the most obnoxious complaints. The curtains were too dusty. The furniture wasn't nice enough, could we replace it? Their child wasn't getting along with X person from across the hall, could we do something about that person?
I also worked in the library and I'd get extremely nosy parents that wanted to know things like what books their child checked out, when was the last time they checked out a book, did they have fines, etc. Or they'd give me a list of books and ask me to find them and hold the books until their child got there. That wasn't happening. Also, students at my university only had active accounts if they were registered. So sometimes parents tried to be sneaky to figure out if their child had registered yet by asking me about their library account.
Sounds like a real hassle to deal with those stupid complaints... if I was making those petty complaints to my parents, their reaction would've been something like "you're not in a 5-star hotel. Suck it up and deal with it yourself."
I never worked at dorms but I've definitely seen some parents getting riled up over very minor things... one time outside my dorms, I saw a woman who was VERY upset that her daughter got a roommate. She was literally yelling and crying (because she could not believe this has happened) that her daughter must have a single, no matter what (I don't think her daughter had any social problems or anything... not sure why she was so hell-bent on her daughter getting a single room, which was not available to first-year undergrads except for very exceptional circumstances). I felt sorry for the RAs for having to take care of this.
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iced coffee
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birthday party
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He didn't say anything, but I once saw a student come to class 15 minutes late, sit in the front row, eat an entire McDonald's salad, throw the bowl in the trash, and leave.
In another class I saw a student eat an entire box of dry waffle ice cream cones. They are very crunchy.
Haha what the?!? It's amazing the lengths some students will go to be as disrespectful as possible...
"I hate JD Salinger cause it's his fault John Lennon is dead."
"The environment will start to get better when all the old people are dead."
"I know he's smart because he uses big words."
I've had one hell of a week.
What in the... I am seriously hoping whoever said these don't run for a presidential election in the years ahead...
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compound element
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rear pain
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Whenever a POI says "thank you for your interest", that always sends chills down my spine... not that it's a harmful statement or anything, but since I've always associated that sentence with concluding remarks in most rejection letters in the past...
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An anxiety before receiving an interview offer is scary enough, but I wonder how much more severe a post-interview anxiety will be while I wait for the final verdict...
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White sheet
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I once slammed into the back of a parked car, when no one was around.
I wrote them a note and gave them all my details.
Turned out to be a rental car so it would've been covered even if I hadn't left a note!
Years later I witnessed a hit-and-run..... and decided to chase the jerk myself while on the phone with 911. Not my smartest moment, no, but it sure felt good to do the right thing!
Haha wow! I wonder how that ended up? Did the jerk get pulled over by the cops?
Of course they didn't leave a note. Personal responsibility isn't taught in schools anymore.
People evading responsibilities... *shakes head*
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Walked up to my car and realized the driver side mirror housing (cover I guess) was dented and scratched. It is weird because it couldn't have been a car due to where I was parked. Car has less than 1100 miles on it too :-(.
I went from being stressed about admissions to just feeling dejected about everything. Going to have to pay money to fix something some jerk did.
Sorry to hear that about your car. Sounds like it's super new! Gah, that brings in another thing to vent: hit and run drivers
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Wow, probably just had the worst dream so far of all the admission nightmares I've had... last night in the dream, somehow I managed to access my POI's email (I have no idea how that happened haha), and I noticed that another competitive applicant for his lab has been exchanging emails with him like best friends (far from being professional). To make matters worse, the POI was also responding back in an equally friendly way ("yeah man! that's sweet").
I remember my reaction was devastated and somewhat enraged since I knew I was not going to be selected at this point, even though I tried so hard to be as polite, enthusiastic, and professional as possible (without saying "What's hanging professor X!").
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loser trouble
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High employment
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complicated grief
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I used to be VERY intense during my master's since I was pretty much hell-bent on completing my degree within a limited time-span, even though many students in my department spend as much as 3.5 years on master's (I worked out my timeline backwards and I was astonished at how much work I will have to accomplish within a few weeks or even within a month to accomplish this goal). I did finish the degree as scheduled (after countless sleepless nights), and was personally proud of my accomplishments (I also established some solid connections with other prominent faculty and colleagues).
However, that intense personality kind of killed my social life during those two years (my social life during then could be graded no higher than C-, if you can say that haha). I wasn't rude or gruff with other fellow grad students, but I turned down a lot of invitations for social events, couldn't attend my friends' post-defense celebrations, had to bail out of parties, etc (yep, it's horrible). Looking back I still could have completed my work on time while maintaining a chiller attitude. I guess I regret my intense personality, though fortunately since then I have learned to turn down a notch or two.
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good team
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Shoveling snow is one chore to keep my mind off the waiting game haha...
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Waste product
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I really wish the one schools that accepted me (with funding) wasn't being such a prick about making me decide whether or not to go in there in 6 days. I think funding works weird there so I'd be risking loosing it. I dont wanan burn bridges but it's not my 1st choice, so it's possible i'd end rescinding the acceptance in the end.
Six days?!? That sounds extremely rushed! And unreasonable too... how are your admission prospects looking for your others applications?
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