This is a guest post by Cara, a writer and disability activist currently living in New York. You can find her blog at That Crazy Crippled Chick. Logo via 3E Love. As a visibly, physically disabled college student, and one of the only mobility impaired students to live on my campus, I’ve noticed a few… keep reading
Tag Archives: college
ask that girl: college admissions advice
Hi, I’m Sarah, I’m 16 and I live in the UK. I’m looking to go to an American university. I’ve just officially finished year 11 (so GSCE’s) and I start my A-Levels next year. I came across your blog and was wondering if you could give me any advice on applying to university (i know… keep reading
freshman to-do list: know your drinking games
Ways I learned drinking games before coming to college, in order: Playing some version of drinking-Pictionary with my fifth grade class. Rather than take drinks, we were given a gumball. Gumballs are a great drinking substitute for 5th graders, because the first couple gumballs are really exciting, but after the third you try to avoid… keep reading
pros and cons of public transportation
Pros: Public transportation does not require much of your attention. When you don’t have to focus on driving to wherever you’re going, you can spend mental energy on other stuff like napping or learning to crochet or taking silly snapchats or writing blog posts. Public transportation is good for the environment! Or, rather, public transportation… keep reading
standardized testing is dumb so let’s give everyone extra time
Photo Credit: albertogp123 via Compfight cc So I was doing research for something else and I stumbled upon this article from 2007 about standardized testing and extra time and I feel so ugh about it. These kids, man. Whatever happened to solidarity? Pretty much every student quoted says something like “My parents are willing to pay… keep reading
we should be more narcissistic
Could the media calm down about how terrible millennials are? It reminds me of how, when you were in 9th grade, you would look at the kids in middle school and say “man, those 8th graders are SOOO much worse than we were. Did you hear that Hanna made out with Jack at the movies… keep reading