but like aesthetic/ subculturally. does she lean vintage, clean girl, alt, etc?

what’s your gfs style?

now? You need an Ivy League degree, a stint at a top bank or consultancy, and a spotless resume just to afford living somewhere that doesn’t suck.

no wonder we’re more straight-laced than our parents - anything less than perfection, and it’s a one-way ticket to exurban wackness.

real estate and compliance costs got so insane that places like the Chelsea Hotel that used to be havens for artists, drifters, and dreamers can only survive today as a luxury hotel, because that’s the only way to stay afloat.

that is so true.

clock it

they’re lucky that their zoomer fanbases are perpetually in search for cultural identity and thus will gag over anything

they’re really skilled at reheating nachos, but i want to see them make nachos with their own fixings.

exactly. a lot of these internships pay in prestige and future opportunities, which is valuable for exit opportunities.

but that doesn’t mean much when you can’t hold on long enough to get to that place

As a person who majored in STEM, I was shocked to learn that in the liberal arts, “internship” was frequently short for “unpaid internship.”

Engineering summer jobs have paid good money for quite a while now.

liberal arts folks will hate to hear this, but STEM/business are much more accessible career paths for non-wealthy students because they actually pay their interns / entry level employees livable wages for the work location.

dyed armpit girlboss feminism is shallow, but it’s inevitable when the lena dunhams of the world are the only ones getting opportunities.