I am a philosophy major set to graduate this upcoming semester and am looking to get a more specialized masters.
I am guessing I need to apply for a PhD in education administration, but should I do it after undergrad or after masters? How competitive are these six figure roles?
I am feeling insecure because I may not be as good at sex as other women are due to lack of experience and practice. How do I be confident in spite of this and keep having hope that someone wouldn't mind?
I'm on the $10 WiFI 30-day plan. I put it on for it to not auto-renew, but it auto-renews at the start of each month. What can I do to stop it?
I'm an undergraduate student considering going to OT school. I shadowed an OT today at an outpatient physical and occupational therapy clinic. It was a huge room with big overhead lights, and I got a headache by the end since I'm sensitive to light.
Is this kind of lighting a reality in the OT profession, or are there clinics/fields of OT that have more calm, neutral, homey lights? Would pediatric OT have less intense lights?
My mom just told me over the phone that a medical problem I'm experiencing isn't real and that I only got a referral because I was too stressed, and my doctor wanted to get rid of me.
How do I distance myself from her perspective and not feel shame?
A few weeks ago, I visited my friend who lives far away and stayed over at hers for 3 days. I had a good time and thought she did as well. While we ran out of stuff to talk about sometimes, I thought it wasn't a big deal since we haven't seen each other in a while.
Besides thanking me for visiting, she hasn't reached out since and did not reach out to me even on my birthday yesterday, even though she knows it.
I texted her today just asking if she was okay, and she wrote, "Yes! Ty. And u?".
Maybe I'm being sensitive and she's just busy.
I think our experiences as lesbians who were raised in Russian families is unique. I'd love to connect!
I'm female and had the following sequence of thoughts when watching a guy and a girl kiss in a romance show. The first thought I have is that I want to be the man, the pursuer and the one with the power. The second thought is that being the woman is worth trying and could be physically very pleasurable. The second thought is undoubtebly influenced by heteronormativity. Am I lesbian or bi?
When we were girls under the age of 16, it wasn't a problem. We all did similar things, and had similar lives.
Now that I'm 24, I can't relate to other girls anymore. Most of them are straight and living that life, so they have particular ways of moving, carrying themselves, and feeling that are different from mine.
Being gay, for me, is a very isolating experience and even feels like I'm not a woman enough.
On the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the page, "Writers and Authors," reports good prospects for writers: employment is growing as fast as average, and the median salary is (at least, for me) okay at $72k per year.
However, when I talk to people in my day-to-day life about becoming a writer, most are pessimistic. They say that writers need a second job to support themselves and may struggle to get published. To boot, the two career counselors I spoke to both have MFA in writing but, obviously, did not become writers.
Additionally, when I look at pages of MFA programs I'm interested in, they don't have data about their graduates and only list a few exceptional graduates on their page, with no information about what happened to most everyone else.
There is contradictory information about whether writing is financially secure or not. Where can I get an actual answer?
Due to mental health issues, when I am with friends, I sometimes get anxious. I understand that it may be offputting. How do I explain to them that they're okay and that it's just my mh issues without oversharing?
I feel confused about my sexuality because I get butterflies from women (and men). I get butterflies from some women, want to feel them, and cuddle with them. However, I don't want to have sex with them. I thought I was bisexual, but my attraction to women is not fully sexual? Is it even attraction? I feel confused.
I've been in college for 4 years and am entering my last year. Some semesters I was part-time, so it is taking longer. I am interested in changing my major from philosophy to economics, and I would be able to complete that degree in one year since I have already taken some economics classes.
However, my academic advisor is strongly against this. While I am technically allowed to do it, he strongly objects and appears frustrated with me when I suggest it. His reason is that I only have one class left in philosophy, and that it would make all the work I did mean nothing. Whether I make the change or not, I would still be his advisee because both majors are in the college of liberal arts in my school, which is what he advises for.
How do I not let his thoughts factor into my decision as much? I value his opinion, but don't want to be as affected by it. Should I value his opinion more?
I've been in college for 4 years and am entering my last year. Some semesters I was part-time, so it is taking longer. I am interested in changing my major from philosophy to economics, and I would be able to complete that degree in one year since I have already taken some economics classes.
However, my academic advisor is strongly against this. While I am technically allowed to do it, he strongly objects and appears frustrated with me when I suggest it. His reason is that I only have one class left in philosophy, and that it would make all the work I did mean nothing. Whether I make the change or not, I would still be his advisee because both majors are in the college of liberal arts in my school, which is what he advises for.
How do I not let his thoughts factor into my decision as much? I value his opinion, but don't want to be as affected by it.
I was bullied for years in school, so I'm scared of being bullied again. As I'm choosing a career, I'm very nervous.
I selected economics as my major in college but am nervous about it since for some reason I have an intuition that there is a lot of bullying in the corporate world, but I don't know what other work options I can have.
I'm in college and am choosing between majoring in economics and keeping my current major but doing prereqs to go to Occupational Therapy school.
The appeal in majoring in economics is that it's a versatile degree, I'm good at math, and it has high earning potential. However, I'm questioning it because it lends to jobs where you are working with peers, and I have a history where I was bullied by my peers a lot. I was bullied on-and-off K-12 and have been excluded a lot as a kid and even now, in college. I think a corporate environment may not be right for me.
The appeal in becoming an occupational therapist is that I'm great with kids and elderly people, have experience working with and caring for them, and am usually respected by them. It's a career where I would feel much safer. However, I'm worried that there's a low ceiling: you learn the skills and then just keep doing the same thing until you retire.
What do you think?
I struggle to make and keep friends. When someone wants to be my friend, I get very anxious and panicked. I can't control how I act, and usually I don't reciprocate when they are interested or react in a way that makes them lose interest. Even in times when I am able to control my behavior, the anxiety and panic feels overwhelming.
As a result, I don't really have friends.
I'm really sad. So far no one has really helped me with this.
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I'm a year away from finishing my undergraduate program and am considering applying to law school.
Here are the reasons I was interested in it.
I went through a terrible situation as a child and teenager, and the system failed me. I want to be someone who advocates for children and teenagers.
I'm good at reading and writing, so law fits my skillset.
Financial security.
Here are the reasons why I'm not sure if it's for me.
Terrible work-life balance. I talked to a family friend who has been a lawyer for the past 20 years. She said that lawyers "don't have a life" for the first few years of working "if they actually want to have a career". She said that lawyers that work for the government have better work-life balance but that those positions are competitive, with no guarantee of getting in, and call for not having a life during law school. Personally, due to anxiety, I haven't had much of a life to this point. I never been in a relationship or had many close friends. I fear that law school and then a law career would cause me to miss those chances.
Maybe practicing law to advocate for children and teenagers that were in my situation would be triggering and depressing.
Please let me know your thoughts. Thank you.