There are few things more dread-inducing than a sink or swim Chemistry exam. Chemistry is the ultimate weed-out class for basically all STEM majors at most American universities. It plagues students who are planning on studying subjects that have nothing to do with chemistry and stunts their GPA from the first semester. I was lucky enough to get out of college without having to take a Chemistry class, but most aren't so lucky. Freshman in college gets packed into a thousand-seat lecture hall li…

A strange place

Grad school is one of the craziest things you can willingly subject yourself to. You have to work 16 hours a day on one very specific subject, teach 3 courses, and live off of a $15,000 stipend. Sounds simple enough, right? Grad school is different for everyone, and there are many different types of postgraduate academics. There are the people who are in it for the long haul and for the love of the game, aspiring to be academics forever. There are those who go into grad school straight after un…

It's that time of the year again: the absolute worst three weeks of the year for every college student . You don't even have to say it to know that finals week is upon us, and students at universities around the world are super bummed out about it. This is the first December I haven't had to deal with finals week since I was a mere preteen, and I'm incredibly stoked. You're telling me I no longer have to kill myself for 4-6 classes during the most depressing time of the year? Sign me up; being…

Grad school is one of the craziest things you can willingly subject yourself to. You have to work 16 hours a day on one very specific subject, teach 3 courses, and live off of a $15,000 stipend. Sounds simple enough, right? Grad school is largely different for everyone, but there are certainly different types of postgraduate academics. There are the people who are in it for the long haul, and for the love of the game, aspiring to be academics in school forever. There are those who go into grad…

We're not equipped

Older daughters are often forced to be third parents for their younger siblings. Many parents have more kids than they can reasonably care for, putting excessive pressure on their older children during their teenage years. Teenagers already go through enough stress, trauma, and anxiety without the element of rearing children. They didn't ask to be parents, yet they are forced to perform that role as if it's their duty. Redditor u/Dangerous-Host9819 is one of those eldest daughters. Her mother e…