Recent content by grrrrrrumpy

I know that this post is going to get me labelled as a whiny baby, and I've embraced this. Throughout my ~4 years of undergrad, I've had a solid stream of roommates; I've lived in houses, dorms, apartments, with anywhere between 1 and 5 roommates. Most of them were fine: clean, nice, respectful...

@Choppy, thank you so much for the list of conversation pieces. I'll be sure to keep these tucked away in a corner of my mind... This is common? Well, now you've got me scared.

Hi guys, I've been visiting the forum here for months now and really enjoy some of the discussions that go on here. I'm hoping you can help me out with this issue which is a huge source of nervousness for me. I know most if not all of you have gone through this so I'm hoping to get some advice...

Grad school apps are due next Tuesday for me, and my letter writers offered months ago to write me a letter. I again made sure they were still willing a few months ago, and over a month ago put their names into the systems (14 schools). I emailed them a reminder this past week and haven't heard...