My mom just sent me a text message telling me to go to school tomorrow. She knows me too well.
January 2012
SOMETIMES MY LIFE HAS CUTE MOMENTS
U JELLY?
We’re watching Ponyo in my Japanese class.
Run and tell that!
I just want to make out and eat nachos.
New life goal: Buy something something from Knickerocker on Etsy so I can be a hottie.
“White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant.”
—Jane Elliott (via becauseproperteaistheft)
Moments where you think, “Hmm… what is that smell?” so you check your armpits and your only reaction is “Oof!”
“It sounds like you had the time of your life, Coochie Mane.”
—Kevin calling me by my rap name
Such a good night.
Whining ahead
My sister closed a savings account she opened for me when I was little and it turns out that there was over $400 in it. I really want to get another tattoo with that money but my mom told me after I got my first one that I’m not allowed to get another until I move out forever.
WAAAAH MAJOR FIRST WORLD TEEN PROBLEMS
So worn out.
Business casual will be the death of me.
For the track “Throw It Up”, Lil Jon worked with the leitmotif (“Lux Aeterna”) of the movie “Requiem For A Dream” which was composed by Clint Mansell.
Fan-fucking-tastic.
Fucking pissed, so I’m listening to Waka Flocka Flame.
Vegetarian bacon mixed in with ramen noodles will change your life.
She chops! She chops!
She looks like a flower, but she stings like a bee, like every girl in history, She bangs! She bangs! An old Ricky Martin song, She Bangs, tells of the power that women have. In Lizzie Borden’s case however, she chops.
Fact: White students receive more scholarship money than non-white students →
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Do minority students get more than a fair share of college scholarships? That myth reared its head earlier this year after a Texas nonprofit, the Former Majority Association for Equality announced plans to give scholarships only to white males. The group claimed that white males are disadvantaged because they don’t “fit into certain categories or ethnic groups.” So Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Fastweb.com and FinAid.com, put that idea to the test, and found that white students actually “receive a disproportionately greater share of private scholarships and merit-based grants.”
Kantrowitz crunched data (PDF) from both the 2003-04 and 2007-08 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, which showed that white students are 40 percent more likely to win private scholarships than non-white students. And Kantrowitz finds several college-specific scholarships only for white students, like UCLA’s 66-year-old Werner Scott Scholarship, worth $4,000, which is “restricted to Caucasian students from Hawaii who are not of Polynesian blood.”
Even when a scholarship doesn’t explicitly note a racial preference, white students are still at an advantage since scholarship sponsors “select for characteristics, activities and talents of interest to them.” Black students, for example, are much less likely to participate in equestrian, water, and winter sports than their white peers, which makes them ineligible for scholarships related to those areas.
White students, even those who “have no demonstrated financial need,” are also at an advantage when it comes to receiving funding directly from universities. Kantrowitz found that they get more than 76 percent “of all institutional merit-based scholarship and grant funding, even though they represent” less than 62 percent of the student population.
I finally saw the German Shepherd photo on Facebook.
FUCK!
