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“It’s ridiculously expensive and not worth insane debt. Nothing is worth insane debt. If you can more or less afford it, or if you get get good financial aid, you’ll be fine.”

represents my view of BU

I think it’s great for people to apply here and all, but it’s not worth going out of your way to attend, if you can’t afford it, unfortunately.

But they are pretty good about financial aid, kind of, I think, maybe.

academically, whenever it’s mattered, I’ve always felt motivated and in capable hands and I’ve always had good professors who really care about what they teach and whom they teach it to.

but it’s a bummer that it’s expensive

it’s a bummer that all colleges aren’t 100% affordable, really…

america, i’m looking at you

seriously though, the number of attractive people in the world is overwhelming

i’m considering writing a story of some sort where people have gotten to the point where they can not communicate at all and only have thoughts to themselves within their own semiotic frameworks (somehow) and they interact with each other as 100% Other all the time

take care of your bodies

bodies do a lot to keep your mind all cool and spiffy

and we have to feed the master of the willing servant

do you ever just combine all the annoying people on tumblr into one giant annoying person on tumblr because all annoying people on tumblr are the same?

beyoncebeytwice:

i don’t think we’re using this site the way it was intended to be used

a metaphor for human experience

clementinesandcathedrals:

lurkskywalker:

One for holding burritos and one for touching butts.

consensually, of course. 

douxmaradoux:

jamesishollywood:

cashooo:

rubywhiterabbit:

My little brother got into outer space and stuff so my step-mom bought him a place mat with all the planets on it. When I first saw it, I was upset, because it was newer and so Pluto wasn’t labeled. I was about to say something when I noticed something…

Pluto is there.

The artist remembered Pluto.

Guys…

The artist drew Pluto crying.

Is this really overly dramatic or am i imagining that
Guys…
Is the pluto fandom an annoying one?

Yes, the Pluto fandom is as terrible as any other.

P…Pluto fandom? Really?

sigh

tell me when you start the pale king cause i want to too

i will try to start it sometime this summer

it looks like a book that will need some effort and time

(which, technically, goes for every book ever. what does it mean to “read,” to have processed every word of a thing???)

• the way of all flesh, samuel butler
• zeitoun, dave eggers
• the pale king, david f wallace
• everything by james joyce
• lolita, vladimir nabokov
• everything by william faulkner
• everything “important” written after 1900
• everything “important” written after 1800
• lists are hard

edit: also

• brief interviews with hideous men, dave fw (v. important)

sharksareawesome:

foolishoptimism:

uberhipster replied to your post: there needs to be a new word for “horribly petty injustice”

I guess you object to the term “first-world problem”?

let me rephrase: I think it’s bs when people get unironically frustrated over things that are almost objectively unimportant. the thing is when people act AS IF the world should care about their own problems.

I love “first-world problems,” but at the same time I resent the kind of attitude driving it, that some laughably simple problems are exclusive to a certain class of people, as if people in third worlds don’t get annoyed about having to pee but at the same thing not wanting to get out of bed. obviously this isn’t what people mean, but it’s kind of the implicit, passive assumption behind the concept.

people should just stop classifying things that don’t need classifying

people should just stop speaking

arka i told you to stop blogging about me

well it’s not like I can cite tw—

http://www.mla.org/style/handbook_faq/cite_a_tweet

oh

sorry

fais-ce-que-voudras:

SOMEONE NEEDS TO GO TO A CON DRESSED AS PHIL COULSON DRESSED AS CAPTAIN AMERICA AT A CON

GO GO GO

second half sounds like a ij dfw thing

i stole it, i mean, i creatively borrowed it, from broom of the system…

“Lenore soundlessly invited one to play a game consisting of involved attempts to find out the game’s own rules. How about that. The rules of the game are Lenore, and to play is to be played. Find out the rules of my game, she laughs, with or at.”

sorry dave

I guess you object to the term “first-world problem”?

let me rephrase: I think it’s bs when people get unironically frustrated over things that are almost objectively unimportant. the thing is when people act AS IF the world should care about their own problems.

I love “first-world problems,” but at the same time I resent the kind of attitude driving it, that some laughably simple problems are exclusive to a certain class of people, as if people in third worlds don’t get annoyed about having to pee but at the same thing not wanting to get out of bed. obviously this isn’t what people mean, but it’s kind of the implicit, passive assumption behind the concept.

people should just stop classifying things that don’t need classifying

people should just stop speaking

because people need to stop complaining that getting a sprite instead of a 7-up is an “injustice”

and to tell them this would make them rave on about how their problems are as important as unquestionably Big Problems in the world

i’ve been thinking a lot about how relationships are portrayed in books and on tv and all, and imagine if the friendship-dating boundary were just a really simple thing and you could go in and out, so to speak, without any obligations, considering each person’s preferences and all, instead of the boundary being a kind of gradient threshold that you have to build up and eventually overcome and then you’re kind of stuck on the other side, with nowhere else to go but the exit.

but then human beings decided to be all emotional and crazy and stuff and made a mess and now there are crayons all over the restaurant table

Education is turning into a…

CLASS struggle

I really want to learn Latin, but I’m afraid of the freaking cases.

cases are really hard but apart from the weird uses of dative/ablative, you can mostly somewhat get a sense of them. really you just have to train yourself to think about those functions of nouns in totally new ways, though.

but latin is fun

if i were a classics major

that would be the perfect senior thesis

a trilingual edition of a work of antiquity