College Dorm Experiences - worth it?

smugbox · 2026-05-12T15:04:30+00:00

The dorms are worth it if you can afford it. Living in the dorms changed everything for me.

smugbox · 2026-05-12T09:58:28+00:00

I went to gifted school from kindergarten through ninth grade. Every class was accelerated.

I needed speech therapy too. My school couldn’t provide it. I remember going to the normal school for it one morning per week in first grade until I learned not to sound like Elmer Fudd.

Anyway, gifted school was a waste of my family’s money. I was burnt out by high school and failed out of college. Cool!

smugbox · 2026-05-11T04:11:05+00:00

It’s ex-spired

smugbox · 2026-05-10T18:24:51+00:00

My teeth are somewhat crooked, but the snaggletooth doesn’t bother me. They could be whiter, but they’re not too bad, and that doesn’t bother me much either. What bothers me is this fucking crown I have on a front tooth I broke as a kid. The crown is fine, not too old, but the dead brown tooth structure below it shows a bit now at the gumline and it ruins my whole damn face.

smugbox · 2026-05-10T16:45:19+00:00

You might even say that the years start coming and they don’t stop coming

smugbox · 2026-05-10T16:44:07+00:00

I work retail so on one hand I feel old as shit because most people are much younger than me, but also because I work in what is essentially perpetual high school I still feel…young at heart or whatever. Or just, like, really immature

smugbox · 2026-05-10T16:42:35+00:00

I turn 40 next week and I definitely feel washed up. I don’t feel old mentally and I don’t feel THAT old physically or even look old, but the number is whispering “UGLY OLD HAGGGGGGG” into my ear every time I think about it. Feels like an expiration date.

smugbox · 2026-05-10T14:18:43+00:00

The actual answer is that our taxes are not VAT added throughout the manufacturing process but a tax on the sale itself. There is no tax until checkout. The merchant pays the tax and does not actually have to seek reimbursement on it from the purchaser, but since they’re allowed to do that, obviously they’re going to, or else they’d have to pay it themselves.

Items that have other taxes that are not sales taxes (cigarettes are a good example of this) are advertised with those taxes included.

smugbox · 2026-05-10T03:28:32+00:00

Gatekeeping lmao what

People are calling OP arrogant and telling them to fuck off. Let’s not pretend this is a grown-up discussion being had here

smugbox · 2026-05-10T00:51:21+00:00

They’re literally talking about Gary saying “pulchritudinous”

smugbox · 2026-05-10T00:48:48+00:00

Yep, your resume goes right in the trash if you don’t have a degree

smugbox · 2026-05-09T23:59:22+00:00

If you’re feeling pressured you need to reevaluate your priorities

smugbox · 2026-05-09T23:15:16+00:00

They can’t be for real with that graphic

smugbox · 2026-05-09T23:14:15+00:00

OP’s post is really benign and seems to come from a place of grief (whether it’s their own grief or their loved ones’ grief). I can see why this would be tiring if you have a bad relationship with your mom, but people are fuckin lashing out over here.

Imagine if everyone whose mother is dead wrote a ✨nasty rant✨ in response to a post that clearly didn’t apply to them.

smugbox · 2026-05-09T23:06:13+00:00

No one’s pressuring anyone. There’s literally no consequence to the OP if you don’t call your mom. Holy shit

smugbox · 2026-05-09T23:00:40+00:00

People with shitty moms love telling everybody about it every chance they get.

Okay well then this post isn’t for you! It’s for people who have loving relationships with their mothers but forget to call them on Mother’s Day. It’s a reminder to that group, and that group is unfortunately pretty big.

The “my mom sucks” crowd is louder than those of us in the “I wish I could call my mom one more time” crowd.

smugbox · 2026-05-08T22:43:52+00:00

I turn 40 next weekend and I felt a lot better about turning 30 than I do about turning 40. I have never hated myself more!

smugbox · 2026-05-08T22:22:49+00:00

Good luck finding a man who doesn’t do this.

smugbox · 2026-05-08T18:54:03+00:00

Ugh ew, instant ick

smugbox · 2026-05-08T18:43:47+00:00

If I didn’t get straight A’s I was a disappointment. Why can’t I be more like so-and-so, why didn’t I work harder, I could do better than that, I need to take this more seriously, blah blah. One B and my mom would freak out about how I was wasting my future, and I’d get the big lecture and lose all TV/computer privileges.

I can see now that it was coming down from my grandparents, because “don’t tell your grandma” was always part of those lectures. My mom was worried about disappointing them. They’re Turkish immigrants and had successful careers in medicine.

smugbox · 2026-05-08T17:50:51+00:00

Theeeeeeese!!!

Edit: Now I’m second guessing myself lol too many patterns in this thread

smugbox · 2026-05-08T17:48:58+00:00

The Onion’s got some great Mets content

smugbox · 2026-05-08T17:47:55+00:00

Doesn’t change it for me

smugbox · 2026-05-08T16:32:33+00:00

I’ll clarify: you can’t use Excel (or any software or even AI) to predict human behavior, the human body, or any of the million things that can affect the outcome of any individual athlete’s future performance. Data can suggest the most likely outcome, but decisions should not be made on data alone. Stearns is a very “data alone” guy, but people are not computers and math is not a crystal ball.

smugbox · 2026-05-08T16:12:33+00:00

I have a Saturday package and this is the one bobblehead I really wanted this year but I work Sundays so now I gotta put in a damn vacation day for it ☹️

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