BONDING OVER TINY CUPS !!!

And they're counting past October 31st this year so RIP my friend.

I post so infrequently on here but WHAT

I really am. I don't know what's wrong with me.

idk why I do this to myself Dani

Unfortunately, this happens. Big RIP to all my fellow people with art AND science degrees.

I spent a YEAR on a project my senior year of undergrad, the teacher KNEW, and then he basically said "you didn't invest enough money on props" and gave me a C because it "should have been on film not DSLR."

wait have we come full circle on people forgetting they hated on people for liking avocado with breakfast/brunch ???

I think another part of the problem is a lot of people return closer to family (like my Mom did going back to NY from FL). And a lot of people have MUCH bigger families who are Boomers/Gen X. Something that a lot of Millennials just flat out don't have. We don't have those ties or we're estanged.

Yeah I can't do it a 5th time - I really can't. I mean I could move somewhere within the UK and probably be fine. But I genuinely think moving back to the US would wreck me because I'm marginally okay socially now.

It is what it is - no one wants hire someone 20 hour a week on a student visa so 🫠

She like just absolutely cannot connect the dots between "I will be incredibly bad off mentally" (I mean, outside of having to be back in the US lol thanks to my dept not even giving me enough teaching to pay my visa) and "I've literally started over 5 times and don't have it in me to AGAIN".

Tried to explain this to my Mom in the face of maybe having to finish writing my dissertation from the US and, inevitably, having to just accept staying there because she just literally doesn't get how devastating it is to constantly have to start over and be a continent away from everyone.

I'm not 100% sure if that hurts or helps you.

Exactly, babes. Exactly.

BUT ARE YOU OKAY? THE TRUE QUESTION?

They've never been okay, Dani.