Last I knew. I know Twitter is also passé. My high school kids aren’t into social media at all so I only know by the parade of friends/girlfriends who seem to be here all the time.
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Last I knew. I know Twitter is also passé. My high school kids aren’t into social media at all so I only know by the parade of friends/girlfriends who seem to be here all the time.
The thing I hate when looking at husband’s Facebook is that it sort of makes me dislike people I find perfectly pleasant in real life.
A nice lady at church becomes the crazy church lady on Facebook, being judgmental of those who don’t live up to her standards and professing her constant allegiance to PGOTUS. Kind of ruins seeing her at book club and cookie circle.
A nice lady at church becomes the crazy church lady on Facebook, being judgmental of those who don’t live up to her standards and professing her constant allegiance to PGOTUS. Kind of ruins seeing her at book club and cookie circle.
At least it lets you know who the jerks are that pretend to be nice. Probably another reason I don’t need Facebook, I don’t feel the need to be nice when I don’t want to when in person.
WSU (where the ex got his PhD) only had one graduation ceremony each year back in the 70s, after the spring semester. Ex completed his degree in the summer and we left for a postdoc at KSU in September. We were too broke (post-doc salary with two kids doesn't go very far) to travel all the way back to Pullman, so he never bought/rented anything.
That came back to bite us later, as he took a faculty position at ISU. When his first PhD candidate was ready to graduate, he realized HE needed a hood (thinking ahead was NOT a strong suit of his). Robes are all the same, but back then (and maybe now, still) the hoods had the colors of the school you graduated from. I had to scramble for him - found a faculty member in my department that had graduated from WSU and was not going to be using his hood for that particular graduation. It was either that, or wear the Purdue colors offered by a member of his department.
Yep, you need the hood from where you got PhD.
He actually had a masters hood he rented when he got his masters, but don’t think there is much future need for that.
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Although, just to be difficult because why not, would anyone actually notice the wrong hood when you're just sitting in a crowd of profs as students cross the stage?
Again, just to be difficult because it sounds fun.
I'd prefer to buy it, but that's a ton of money for our single-income (at the moment) family.
Okay, I do have people like that "blocked" so I don't see them. I don't care to listen their wingnut rants. Do agree that it makes you dislike them. Have a few alumni and HS friends that, while I didn't unfriend them, I could never really be true friends with cause they are empathyless ******** about everyone outside of their own little ideological or church group. If something bad happens to someone "like" them it is bad indeed. If something bad happens to someone not like them, well, those people deserved it or brought it upon themselves!
Most people in the audience probably wouldn't know the difference if they're all sitting together. Which is why he almost wore the Purdue hood, until I found the WSU grad.
Does the major prof still "hood" the new graduate?
I don't know anything about robots, but thanks for liking my post from 2015. I'd been feeling underappreciated for the past 2.5 years.
I don't know anything about robots, but thanks for liking my post from 2015. I'd been feeling underappreciated for the past 2.5 years.
He liked mine from exactly 2 years ago. Had to read it twice to figure out what I was talking about.
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Wife sent me a text saying she just had three different versions of "Sound of Silence" play back to back to back on her Ipod.
Ok, TIL a rural Iowa veggie burger and a Minnesota city veggie burger are two different things. Awful awful awful.
"veggie" and "burger" - two words that should never be consecutively used in a sentence...
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