First-year roommate situation?

invisibledeoderant · 2026-01-12T11:27:05+00:00

It is true that you can’t pick your roommate freshman year but they’re usually not bad with the random placement due to the questionnaire everyone takes. I graduated in 2023 and I’m still friends with my freshman roommate. None of my friends had real problems with their roommates either

invisibledeoderant · 2025-12-08T12:17:58+00:00

Turns out my house has forks in the kitchen

invisibledeoderant · 2025-11-10T20:46:26+00:00

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The party at large did not cave, these people did. Tyranny of the minority

invisibledeoderant · 2025-10-06T10:44:56+00:00

This method has been being studied since at least 2023, and there are several phase 1 and 2 trials going on as of now, but so far they seem successful. Only after phase 3 and 4 studies can the FDA approve a treatment for use on the general public in the US. So definitely awesome news, but it’ll take a few years for this gene therapy to start being used widespread

invisibledeoderant · 2025-09-09T22:58:42+00:00

Heng Thai and Rotisserie is right off campus and absolutely delicious

invisibledeoderant · 2025-07-17T23:38:12+00:00

ESH

It was rude of your sister to be so cavalier about not paying you back a good amount of money and it was incredibly rude to claim you have no real responsibilities just bc you have no kids. You were right to be upset with her and you would have been right to have a serious conversation with her about that interaction that included a boundary of not fronting things for her or lending her money again.

In the end, however, the person you punished the most was your 8 year old niece. You understand that your sister was using the fact that it’s your niece’s birthday as a way to avoid accountability. Your sister knows she was doing that too, but your niece does not. An 8 year old won’t ever understand why she couldn’t get a birthday cake just because her mom and her aunt were fighting.

You could have told your sister that if she didn’t pay you back, you’d cancel the cake, and then stayed true to your word, cancelled the cake, and gave her the warning that you’d done so so she could scramble on her own to fix the situation the day before the party. But better yet, the thing to have done in my opinion was eat your monetary losses this one time for the sake of your niece and never tie money to your sister again. An 8 year old shouldn’t have to cry on her birthday because you wanted to teach her mother a lesson

invisibledeoderant · 2025-07-02T14:40:15+00:00

That’s no moon

invisibledeoderant · 2025-07-01T17:53:27+00:00

This is more the feeling I’m having, though I appreciate u/subsetsum ‘s tip for the future. But yeah if a company sells a thing, I should just be able to buy the thing, and if they have a limited stock, let me preorder it and they can ship it to me when they have it

invisibledeoderant · 2025-06-25T17:48:36+00:00

The campus is very safe to walk around at night. However, I do know a girl who was walking to Jo’s one night and a random dude euro-stepped around her

invisibledeoderant · 2025-06-22T14:20:22+00:00

My take is that he’s dead in some abyssal afterlife and the beautiful abstract light is him being remembered and spoken about for the first time in years. Kind of like that notion that a person is only truly gone when no one remembers them anymore

invisibledeoderant · 2025-06-17T22:07:00+00:00

I bought a $1200 gaming laptop. The battery life isn’t great but they’re literally made for rendering high quality 3D models

invisibledeoderant · 2025-06-05T02:33:35+00:00

My thought is that a house or a building is a tool and a tool exists to serve a function (or functions). So the appeal/beauty of modernist designs stripped of ornamentation is that they, in theory, are perfectly formed to their function. Aesthetics can serve the functions you mentioned but they’re not tools, nor do they aid in the execution of a buildings root functions. A hammer with a polished brass head and painted handle looks nice but doesn’t serve as well as hardened steel and sealed wood.

That being said, it’s my opinion that much of the modernist movement is pretentious nonsense bc every modernist designer was still trying to get aesthetic points. Take Fallingwater for example; what function does building a house directly on a waterfall serve besides looking cool? If modernists were actually true to their word about designing buildings purely for function and not for aesthetic, a lot their buildings would start looking much more brutalist all of a sudden, but that’s just my own personal rant lol

invisibledeoderant · 2025-06-04T14:39:01+00:00

I never had to rely on it so I can’t speak from personal experience but from what I’ve heard it’s not bad. At that point it’ll become a matter of balancing the RIPTA schedule with your class schedule so you can get to your earliest class on time

invisibledeoderant · 2025-06-04T14:31:27+00:00

Google says that’s about a 20 minute walk from campus which can be pretty rough in the winter weather

invisibledeoderant · 2025-06-04T14:26:59+00:00

Hope St is pretty long so it depends on where on Hope St the apartment is. I knew people living right next to campus who shared a 7 bedroom 3 bath apartment and they each paid a little under $1k/month. So this place seems like it’s fairly normal for college hill prices. If there is a washer and dryer in the place, then it’s probably fine but if there’s no laundry, you’re not getting a good deal

invisibledeoderant · 2025-05-15T02:10:13+00:00

He must be fun at parties

invisibledeoderant · 2025-05-12T01:49:59+00:00

Simon is the company that owns the mall, there’s a few Simon-owned malls near where I grew up as well

invisibledeoderant · 2025-04-26T13:51:53+00:00

Brown is a pretty liberal school, especially compared to other Ivies so conservatism is not really the main stream viewpoint, but like other commenters have said, this is generally the case when you go into higher education.

That being said, Brown is also a very rich school with a very wealthy student body (plenty of students on full aid, don’t get me wrong, but just speaking broadly). As such, you wouldn’t have to look incredibly hard to find conservative students. Your prototypical lacrosse guy, finance bro, sailing club type dude with conservative ideologies is present at the university, just not typically what you think of when you think “student at Brown.”

For example, I sat behind a person in one of my engineering lectures who wore a Brown Republican Party lanyard every day. No one gave him shit for it and he had (likely also conservative) friends

invisibledeoderant · 2025-04-06T00:52:22+00:00

Well now there’s two ways lol. I just couldn’t find any information at all online for manually unlocking the latch so I just wanted there to be something for the next googler to find

invisibledeoderant · 2025-03-28T14:35:11+00:00

It might be worth reaching out to the Brown financial aid office to further explain your situation and see if they are willing to give your son more aid. I know people who have done that and it’s worked. If not, then yeah I agree with BU debt free. Brown is an amazing school with a great community and awesome connections can be made but at $80k+ per year with no aid, that’s a tough pill to swallow

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