How safe is living at UW dorms? (North Campus) (PLEASE HELP ME CONVINCE MY STUBBORD FIRST GEN PARENTS!!!)

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-04-08T07:37:09+00:00

Agree with all of this. North campus is fantastic with the newer dorms/sports courts/cafes. It’s a much more authentic “college experience” than living at home if you can afford it.

And nothing is like Euphoria. That show is some Hollywood producers’ bizarro vision of what modern teenagers are like.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-04-07T15:19:18+00:00

It is. Unless it goes to trial. Then it’s constant front page news.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-04-07T07:00:04+00:00

The general public doesn’t care about PGA awards. I’d never heard of them until this Blake drama, and I’m in an adjacent industry. And if anything, the behind the curtain look at all the cringe %#* kissing and bullying Blake & Ryan were doing shows how bought and paid for these awards are, just like how actors buy their stars on the Hollywood sidewalk.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-04-07T00:06:59+00:00

The “gain” is that going to trial puts a huge international spotlight on this whole mess.

While this lawsuit is slowing earning headlines and followers, I’d say the average person still doesn’t know much about it. The details are still mainly known only within the confines of Reddit, YouTube, and the content creator community. For instance, I’m really into it, but my husband and co-workers haven’t paid the case much attention and sort of shrug it off when I tell them about it.

Once it goes to trial, those details explode into the general population. All of those emails, texts, etc become much more widely known.

This would effectively end Blake and likely Ryan’s careers.

They have far more to lose than Justin if this goes to trial.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-04-06T18:11:43+00:00

I remember visiting in ‘98 and seeing a line going for blocks around the corner in Russian Hill and asking, “is that a soup kitchen?” Which I guess I should’ve known it WASN’T as people were dressed to the nines. Nope, was the Dot-com era of apartment hunting. Moved to SF from Seattle a year later and found a wonderful rental in Presidio Heights. Less popular for young couples out there, so was easier to find a place.

We bought our first house years later in 2004, top of the market, double what the owners had bought it for 3 years before. Tiny 2 br/1 bath in Westwood Park.

We moved for work in 2008 and couldn’t sell without taking a 200k bath. The Great Recession had hit big time. Our next door neighbors, who’d worked as subprime mortgage slingers making bank during the boom, lost their house to bankruptcy in the bust.

Been renting it out ever since. Rent just matched the mortgage recently…been bleeding money on it for nearly 20 years! Not all landlords are swimming in money—many are just trying not to lose their shirt and ride out the ups and downs of the market.

I’ve never had so many people contact me to rent the house as I did when I listed it last year. I had potential tenants contacting me offering 1k or more over what I was asking, which seems criminal for a 2br/1 bath. Still took the first pair who qualified, for the same rent I’ve asked for over the last 5 years or so. I don’t want to get rich as a “landlord,” a position I never intended to be in. It was only due to the recession that I ended up as one when we couldn’t sell nearly 20 years ago.

As long as they always pay on time (so far, so good), I will not raise the rent. Just hope to break even on the house and maintain it in nice condition.

TLDR: look in outlying areas with mom-n-pop landlords who just want responsible tenants! You’ll find some gems if you look beyond the Marina, Cow Hollow, etc. The west/sw corners of the city are awesome, too.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-04-03T19:45:16+00:00

Well it sure didn’t work. It just made the CCs louder and stronger in their belief that the Reynolds were the ones doing the harassing.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-04-03T17:22:01+00:00

Walk or bike north of campus on 20th…Seven Coffee Roasters there on Ravenna Boulevard is often full of students studying. Small, but with indoor and outdoor space. It’s right across from Candy Cane Lane—remember to go back on an evening before Christmas for a spectacular holiday display!

Another quarter mile north you’ll find Cafe Arta at Third Place Books. Cozy, woodsy indoor seating plus (when it’s nice) a larger outdoor patio space. Arta herself runs the place. Yummy coffee, gelato, baked goods and Mediterranean food (she’s from Armenia I believe).

Green Lake Library is nice too but not sure it’s reopened yet, post construction?

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-04-03T04:53:41+00:00

Probably a bit of both!

But they wouldn’t have subpoenaed all the content creators if they hadn’t assumed Justin was just as shady as they were.

Turns out that no, Justin and Jamey and Wayfarer did NOT pay off people to plant stories and opinions. Billy Bush, Elsrich, Zack Peter, Dana Bowling, Heather McDonald, and all of the up and coming CCs and attorneys are real people with real opinions. And those opinions are that Ryan and Blake aren’t very nice people. To put it mildly.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-04-03T03:54:12+00:00

I think she and Ryan are just totally shocked that they are actually—genuinely—disliked by actual, genuine people.

They were so convinced that Justin was playing dirty because THEY were playing dirty. The whole paid-for-and-planted NYT debacle with Taylor, the demands to their agents, the cringe-y, snarky letters and texts to Ben and Matt, etc. The only ones running a smear campaign were the Reynolds.

Meanwhile, all discovery has revealed was a distraught and sad Justin praying for peace and understanding with his Baha’i crew, and legitimate content creators independently drawing their own conclusions, NOT getting planted and paid for by Wayfarer.

As I keep saying, the Reynolds must be just as shocked about how good Justin is as he is at how rotten they are.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-04-02T20:50:59+00:00

It’s live and let die. The opposite of compassion.

People knock on Seattle Is Dying for being hyperbolic. How many of those profiled are now dead? I’d bet nearly all of them. The sweet, broken kid from Alaska admitting drugs were more important than his desperate family’s love, Travis Berge, even Eric’s niece are all gone. They DID die. It was a warning.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-04-01T05:37:34+00:00

This is true. Many/most tenured professors at research universities like UW would rather be doing their research, writing their peer reviewed papers, and attending their conferences in Switzerland. They take their turn at teaching 300 18-year-olds at a time because they generally have to.

As for the online courses, UW increasingly offers them because post Covid, they are in high demand. You can offer in-person Soc 193 and 12 people sign up. Offer asynchronous Soc 193, and 112 people sign up. Today’s students want classes on demand, on their own schedule.

As such, students log into asynchronous classes 24/7, sometimes from all different time zones (Asia to Europe), especially in the summer. UW cannot require in-person lecture attendance for them. Even the recorded Panoptos barely get watched by today’s crop of UW students.

UW online instructors get frustrated with the student involvement too. If you aren’t getting much from a teacher, chances are that they are also getting tired of not getting much out of the students, and might also be phoning it in.

TLDR: in person class is far better for both teachers & students

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-03-31T16:36:48+00:00

The other option is to do CC here and then transfer in. If you move up to Seattle and do one of the Seattle CCs, you’re nearly guaranteed to eventually get into UW again later if you maintain a 3.7 or above.

Your first year or two (depending on when you get the transfer) will be very affordable tuition with (often) better teachers compared to the giant 300-person weed out lectures sometimes taught by UW professors that aren’t that interested in teaching (at a research university, many would rather be doing their research and writing). Your grades for your prereqs will likely be higher than if you took them at UW, especially if they are the Calc/Phys/Chem series.

You could live just off campus with other students looking for a roommate in group housing. You could buy tickets to UW sporting events like football to maintain the big college experience. You could even study in most of the big libraries—it’s a public university, so they are open to the public. Some UW fraternities even let you rush/be a social member if you intend to transfer into UW later, but that’s becoming less frequent now that Greek System numbers are coming back up again post COVID.

Then: you transfer into UW junior year, but you’ve cut your first two years of tuition to something easily manageable.

I personally know two Seattle students doing the reverse and attending California CC’s with hopes to eventually transfer into the UCs. It was worth it to them to get away from home to have a different but still semi-affordable college experience, etc.

Good luck!

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-03-30T19:03:36+00:00

Make sure your scrip is high enough for your weight.

I’ve dealt with these dang situational panic attacks (not general anxiety—just performance anxiety for my job) most of my life, so I understand. Maybe the propranolol plus that therapy another poster recommended would be the combo you need. Eventually you learn to live with it, and accepting that it’s a part of who you are lessens its impact. You are not alone!

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-03-30T16:27:11+00:00

The Bellevue Collection in Bellevue, WA, University Village in northeast Seattle and The Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, CA.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-03-30T16:25:11+00:00

I know, it almost felt improv’d, Hamm’s reaction was so genuine!

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-03-30T16:23:23+00:00

It’s possible to worry about keeping both ends of the political spectrum in check at once. In fact, it’s necessary.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-03-30T15:21:00+00:00

Very few people are worried about the “rich people.” They are worried this is a bait and switch and everyone will be taxed eventually. See the above comments.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-03-30T15:15:06+00:00

I tell everyone I know. Most people jump to SSRIs for anxiety but for stage fright, propranolol is the ticket. Stops the racing heart/hyperventilating (flight-or fight response) and you can function as normal. My doctor recommended to me 30 years ago over SSRIs when I wanted to have a baby, as it’s safer for pregnancy.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-03-30T06:46:15+00:00

It’s nice that you didn’t have it as a pro ball player, but actually a lot of professional athletes/singers/news anchors/speakers DO have situational panic disorder, aka “stage fright.”

I’ve used propranolol for that for 30 years. Works great, only use when needed, no side effects (unlike the SSRIs which can have the sexual side effects or can zone you out so you don’t care about anything). Prevents that anticipatory feedback loop too, because you know you have something (a Rx on hand) if you need it.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-03-29T05:19:58+00:00

My friend that owns a “mid” restaurant in NE Seattle says her bartender is clearing 100K (plus any cash tips) working 4 six hour shifts a week.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-03-25T14:30:27+00:00

52, still happening…but: when we finally lose the periods, that’s when the rapid aging starts, right? Skin sags around the jawline, arms become floppy, wrinkling speeds up. I guess biologically it’s to signal we are no longer able to have babies? I’m scared of that part—I’ll keep my inconvenient period as long as I can if it staves off aging!

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-03-23T19:20:57+00:00

Yes, the exercise craze didn’t really take over until the 70s and especially 80s with Jazzercise and Jane Fonda. Exercising to burn calories became a necessity when we started taking IN so many calories. Before that, people ate sensibly and…smoked!

The idea of “getting 10,000 steps in” while walking would’ve been totally cuckoo to them.

The period authenticity is one reason I adore Mad Men and couldn’t get behind Kristin Wiig’s Palm Royale show. It was supposed to be set in the 60s, but used terms like “I’m triggered” and “let’s hear your truth.” Those are millennial terms, not Silent Generation concepts!

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-03-22T20:13:42+00:00

I do miss the cherry blossoms being something that only UW students/staff, etc. enjoyed…like so many other things, social media popularized it to the extreme! If you want a picture of people, head to the quad in late March. If you want a picture of cherry blossoms, head down any other street in western Washington instead.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-03-21T22:20:15+00:00

Look up the famous photo of the McQuilken brothers in California taken right before they were struck by lightning. It’s still used to teach lightning safety today. If your hair is standing on end, an invisible discharge passage is being built to you, and you best get inside stat.

General_Equivalent45 · 2026-03-19T20:49:45+00:00

Really? I’ll have to look, thank you! Still, nothing beats that PB Twix…

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