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07-02-2008, 04:58 PM
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#856 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 290
| Note to relapsed helicopter parent: He has to choose his courses himself. Just because he's running a bit behind schedule doesn't mean you should search the course catalogue for options. Keep it under control. You are acting like the parents you always complain about.
Sincerely,
Your Other Personality (the calm and rational one) | 
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07-02-2008, 05:37 PM
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#857 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dartmouth '11 (originally Washington, D.C.)
Posts: 1,765
| Dear Office of Financial Aid,
My family had a lower income and higher (unavoidable, not frivolous) expenses this year than last. Last summer, my parents' work forced my family to relocate to a city with a significantly higher cost of living than where we lived previously. My mother has no guarantee of employment past July. We have a mortgage and no savings. Our cars are from 2001 and 1994.
So what would ever make you think it was acceptable to reduce my grants by $2,000 per term, a $6,000 increase in our family contribution for the year?
I had to take out a $15,000 loan just to pay for freshman year. On campus, I work 10 to 12 hours every week. There is no money here. There never was. What more am I supposed to do?
With all due respect, I ask you to reconsider.
Cordially,
E. | |
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07-03-2008, 01:23 AM
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#858 | | New Member
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Australia
Posts: 4
| Stop being so critical. Just because my choices are different from yours doesn't make them wrong. Personally, I think your goals and priorities are kinda screwed up but that's your choice and I keep my thoughts to myself. It'd be nice if you could do the same. | |
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07-03-2008, 07:56 AM
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#859 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 881
| I can't wait for you to go to camp.  | |
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07-03-2008, 07:58 AM
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#860 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: USA
Posts: 894
| So your D "hates drama, and usually just floats above it." Classic Queen Bee's Mother comment.
This weeklong trip is a team event. Yet your daughter, the team superstar, has apparently decided it's all about her. Is she really oblivious to the fact that she keeps excluding half the team? Are you that dense, too? It's been going on all week, and even the girl most people think is Superstar's best friend has decided Star is a b*tch.
Last night was the most flagrant example. My d had wanted to visit a certain attraction since we got here. She and another girl made plans to go, then invited everyone else on the team to join them. Another girl suggested they all go "immediately after X happens at our tournament." But during X, d and 2 teammates couldn't find everyone else. Turns out Superstar decided to go BEFORE x was finished, and left with her friends without bothering to notify D (who had originally suggested the outing)! Texting to ask the speedy kids to wait up didn't help. When D and her 2 friends arrived, the others already had their tickets and Superstar actually BLEW THEM A KISS as they headed into the attraction without them.
So yeah, your D "floats above the drama...." | |
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07-06-2008, 01:12 PM
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#861 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 563
| It's only the beginning of July and I'm sick and tired of the "city people" coming here and trying to take over our town. They come here "to be seen". They purposely talk loud on their cell phones no matter where they are just because they want those around them to believe that they're important or famous. Oh, and these are the same people that leave their token accessory item of a pet (purebreeds of course) locked in their Lexus's, BMW's, Mercedes, etc. with one slightly cracked window when the outside temperature is 80+ degrees. And to that ass of a woman that left her toddler strapped in the car seat in her van as she shopped in the air conditioned grocery store, you have a hell of a nerve being ****ed because I took the time to report your license plate number to the customer service in the grocery store. I hope you were embarrassed as they paged you for leaving your kid locked in a hot van. It still took 20 minutes for you to get to your car after being paged. I waited outside your van to make sure your kid didn't die from the heat. The toddler was overheated, sweating, and crying. These people make me sick. | |
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07-06-2008, 02:32 PM
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#862 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 553
| Speaking of loud people talking on their cell phones: if you have the phone held up to your ear, you do not need speakerphone. Nobody wants to hear one end of your conversation: what makes you think we need to hear both? | |
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07-06-2008, 02:42 PM
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#863 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 3,101
| Went to enjoy the baseball game last night. Sadly, the team stunk, but so did your @#$%%^ cigarettes! Can't you smoke in the " designated smoking area" like you are supposed to?!?!? | |
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07-06-2008, 02:53 PM
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#864 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Georgia
Posts: 412
| Which one of you dummies at DD's now former HS was responsible for having a Football coach who has never taught ANY physics class teach her IB physics class last year? | |
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07-08-2008, 01:43 PM
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#865 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 2,145
| Auugh! I've marked these changes on the plans TWICE now! The deadline is in half an hour, you've already plotted all the drawings, and now what we've got are a bunch of plans with labelling errors in them that y'all didn't correct. So now we have to issue a bunch of addendums next week. Why couldn't you guys have gotten it right the first time? How 'bout when I marked it as being wrong? How 'bout when I marked it as being wrong AGAIN?
What shade of bright red pen do I need to use in order to get you guys to notice my changes!?!?
Sigh. Deadlines. | |
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07-08-2008, 11:29 PM
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#866 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 278
| Get some sleep. I know the training is intense, I know there are deadlines, etc. but get some sleep. Do not tell me you are getting up at 4:30 a.m. and then drop the comment that at 3:00 a.m. you were printing out your materials. Stop thinking so much about what everyone else expects of you -- or of what your too-high expectations for yourself are -- and start taking care of yourself even if it means doing something less than perfectly. LOWER YOUR STANDARDS. And get some sleep. | |
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07-08-2008, 11:44 PM
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#867 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 655
| Stop talking to me/leading me on/leading me off/talking about it/playing games. You're smart enough to know how I feel, honestly. Either leave me alone or really, really don't leave me alone. Make the decision. And for chrissake do not send me another goddamn personality query so you can play more mind games and change the subject. | |
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07-08-2008, 11:53 PM
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#868 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: South Portland ME (born in Singapore) --> UVA 2012
Posts: 2,100
| I'm not really upset here. And you are a friendly and helpful boss.
But you have you really thought about the irony that you are so conscious of one of my colleague's minority-age status that she can't work a single minute above the state-mandated hours-per-week limit (even when school is not in session), but you don't bat an eyelid letting her as a 16-year-old exchange cigarettes and lighters with older colleagues and letting her go on smoke breaks?
Of course, I don't expect you to forbid her from doing so -- after all, I don't think the state ban on youth smoking is working, and to uptight about it would only unnecessarily hurt an employee not ready to quit, as well as her productivity.
Perhaps what I expected some sort of soft, elderlike chiding; that as much concern be shown for the youth smoking as for cumbersome state laws about youth labour over the summer. Of course you as a boss smoke yourself. And probably a lot of other bosses do this too.
Maye this is more of a small social observation that I can't make in public.
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07-09-2008, 03:06 AM
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#869 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 39
| just because i have a position of authority doesn't mean that im gonna abuse my "power" and how dare you think so. we were really good friends before,when i was below you grade-wise. you all have changed so freaking much and some of you i dont even want to call my friends anymore. i dont need you to constantly undermind me when ever i try to rise up in my leadership position. whats the problem? you dont think i can do it or something? or are you just jealous because he choose me instead of you?! i love you and your my best friend but sometimes i wonder if you feel the same about me, i fear that when i leave to go to college we wont be friends anymore and its not like im gonna just cut it off, but you're not trying to pursue the same things i am. i wish you would just recognize how smart you really are, you could go to a UC just like i want to but you wont even try, and i dont know why. but try to stick with me instead of against me, despite our unspoken differences. | |
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07-09-2008, 08:05 AM
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#870 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dartmouth '11 (originally Washington, D.C.)
Posts: 1,765
| Dear J. Crew, and other mainstream retailers,
At 5'6 and 115 pounds, I may be slender, but I'm not the smallest woman out there. There is no legitimate reason that a size zero should be baggy on someone my size. Stop with the vanity sizing madness -- or at the very least, add a double zero to your catalogue. Thanks.
Cordially,
E.
who has a small bone structure but a reasonable figure & shouldn't have such trouble finding clothes that fit | |
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