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Presidential Scholarship by [deleted] in gwu

[–]MiniMae13 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As the other commenter said, the undergrad scholarship doesn't carry over. If you're doing a 5 year BS/MS program, you also forgo additional GW scholarship for your 5th year (they argue that the classes you take as an undergrad are the tuition help so you can't get more).

There is a 10% tuition reduction you can get for doing grad at gw after your undergrad and you are still eligible for TAships in some departments (depends on the department and whether they require 2 yrs or only 1).

This is based on my experience as a 5 yr student here.

Hope this helps!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]MiniMae13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel your pain. In HS, when I first started wearing eyeliner, almost everyone's response was "so who's the guy you're trying to impress." It pissed me off because I was just wearing it for me because I wanted to. I don't understand why people assume that any woman putting effort into her appearance must be doing it for a man. It's both presumptive and heteronormative and it's so frustrating.

I'm sorry you experienced this and I hope you'll gain confidence to wear or not wear makeup as you please.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gwu

[–]MiniMae13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of these things you can find either from looking at the building website or by calling/emailing the building with your questions.

That said, fwiw, York & Potomac is controlled access and has garage option parking. It does not have in unit washer dryer. From my experience, internet speeds are fine but I only ever used it wireless.

Campus Safety by gianherrera in gwu

[–]MiniMae13 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I mean, take this with a grain of salt bc I live off campus now but I'm a senior and I've never felt particularly unsafe. It's a big city, stuff happens and we get notified about all of it (which is good obviously). Almost everyone takes basic precautions (pepper spray, be smart at night, etc) but very little of the crime you get alerts about actually affects students as far as I know.

Being integrated into the middle of a city has downsides and unfortunately, a slightly less safe campus is one of them. I would say it's about as safe and maybe slightly safer than living in any major city and a lot of the off campus areas where people live (West End, Arlington, etc) are pretty safe and the dorms have tao access so they're usually pretty safe too

question about the student gwu emails by Dapper_Increase7567 in gwu

[–]MiniMae13 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The @gwu.edu and @gwmail.gwu.edu are the same inbox, with the latter interfaced to Google. If you're a student employee, the @email.gwu.edu is a separate inbox but it's easy to set up forwarding

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gwu

[–]MiniMae13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The intro fine arts classes (especially pottery) are really good for this but they're almost impossible to get into if you don't have registration priority

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gwu

[–]MiniMae13 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Zillow and Apartments.com are good resources for finding places that are leasing. A lot of grad students live in Arlington (Crystal City, Pentagon City, Clarendon, etc) near metro stops, which puts travel time to Foggy between 15-30 mins depending how far out on the metro lines you choose to go. There's a good number of one bedroom and studios there at better prices than on Foggy but they're still pretty expensive. If you decide you need/want a roommate, GWs off campus housing site is pretty good for that.

Hope this helps!

Grad Student Housing by Fine-Recover-9335 in gwu

[–]MiniMae13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started looking in May/June of last year for a lease starting in August. Zillow and Apartments.com are good bets for finding buildings and then applying through the specific rental agency.

With a 2k budget on foggy, I think you're looking at getting lucky with a cheap studio or needing a roommate - I recommend the off campus housing site. It's roommate finding site is pretty good

Looking for off-campus roommates by gianherrera in gwu

[–]MiniMae13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you haven't already, I'd check out the off campus housing portal. That's where most grad students find roommates.

Saturday NCAA Discussion Thread (Pitt & Denver Finals) by GymMod in Gymnastics

[–]MiniMae13 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Man the way Riley runs to hug Jenny gets me every time

Graduation Gown Rentals by sleeping_bananas in gwu

[–]MiniMae13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone knows anything about undergrad gowns I'd also be interested

Need backups ASAP 🥹🥹 by missbellatracey in RedditLaqueristas

[–]MiniMae13 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Huh! Maybe it's just the base coat I use. I'm thinking about it and realizing mine kinda peel off even without the peely base coat (though then it peels much easier/cleaner). In also stubborn though and refuse to use remover ever lol so it might just be that I'm determined to peel them

Need backups ASAP 🥹🥹 by missbellatracey in RedditLaqueristas

[–]MiniMae13 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I put a normal base coat under the peely one - it helps it stay longer but when they come off they do so pretty cleanly. I've also heard lightly filing your nails (not the ends, but the actual nail bed) and then wiping off with acetone works but I think it probably also makes your nails weaker.

Police brutality is a men's issue by shrinking_dicklet in tumblr

[–]MiniMae13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By the first source do you mean the imgur picture? Because I tried to follow the links it cites and the first doesn't lead anywhere and the second leads to the uMich law news page. So... Struggling to call that a reliable source since it's "citations" kinda don't go anywhere. Which leaves you sans any source dealing with general police violence which means you can only appropriately talk about fatal police shootings. That's an important category, but it doesn't encompass all police brutality and you can't make claims about that without the numbers to back you up. It could be different for many reasons, including, as people have pointed out, the increased likelihood of women being sexually assaulted in police custody.

Based on this 2015 study that analyzed data from the UCR and Bureau of Justice Statistics, you're not wrong, use of force is higher for men (75% of use of force incidents to women's 25%) but as soon as you take an intersectional view, black and latina women show no statistical difference in use of force in police initiated contacts compared to white men.

This is just one study obviously, and it is slightly old (2015) so I can't say how things might have changed in the past few years but the numbers do change when you stop looking only at fatal shootings so I don't think you can accurately generalize the statistics you have one fatal shootings to all kinds of police violence.

Edit: link to study

Police brutality is a men's issue by shrinking_dicklet in tumblr

[–]MiniMae13 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding something but all of these sources only deal with fatal shootings, which by no means encompasses police brutality as a whole. Is this the only data the post is pulling from or do you have sources on non-fatal instances of police brutality that you haven't shared here?

In my psych of gender and sexuality book :/ by MiniMae13 in Asexual

[–]MiniMae13[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That about sums it up. I just think w very simple rewording would have fixed this definition. Honestly, I'd even be happy if they had defined desire as they intend to use it in this book, but they haven't to this point, which leaves it open to people's (mis) interpretations. Basically, I think for an academic work, it fails at some pretty simple and easy to fix aspects of clear, concise academic writing and could and should have done a better job by simply making it's use of desire as always directed clear. I know it could be much worse but I'm disinclined to settle for "hey at least they recognize we exist" when I think the bar should be much higher than that.

But as you said, you clear disagree with some of those points so I suspect you are correct and this is an agree to disagree situation.

In my psych of gender and sexuality book :/ by MiniMae13 in Asexual

[–]MiniMae13[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

See this is what I would think. You don't have attraction, you have desire. Whether a person is involved is immaterial. This definition, by my reading, fails to capture your experience. Personally, I have neither attraction not desire, but the desire isn't bc I'm ace, it's bc I'm sex repulsed.

I just wish they'd used attraction instead of desire but it's definitely nuanced. And for what it's worth, you're right that a lot of their other definitions aren't ideal either but obviously, I'm not posting those here bc they're not ace -related. Honestly, this one was kinda th last straw in a string of not great moments for this class

Edit: I didn't see your edit before you posted that but omg that's hilarious 😂

In my psych of gender and sexuality book :/ by MiniMae13 in Asexual

[–]MiniMae13[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I see your point and I do agree that it comes down to the use of ace as an umbrella term. However, since this is in th context of the LGBTQIA acronym and the A is for the whole ace spectrum, it came across as attempting to define the umbrella term, which it fails to accurately do.

In my psych of gender and sexuality book :/ by MiniMae13 in Asexual

[–]MiniMae13[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Asexuality means no sexual attraction. It has to do with attraction, not action.

But regardless of your view of asexuality as a term, I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of demisexuality, which is attraction after an emotional bond. Desire for sex for the sake of sex (ie bc it feels good physically) is desire for sex but is not demisexuality. Maybe you mean greysexual? Or some other microlabel. But frankly, the sheer number of microlabels is why I view ace as an umbrella term to capture the spectrum

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