This student cited not a single source and followed none of the prompt (you can find the prompt and entire essay in the Yahoo article). They're just looking to get famous. Meanwhile the trans grad assistant been suspended. Absolute bs. /end

Everything you're feeling is valid. I have car trauma that gave me CPTSD, diagnosed. Even minor scrapes or near misses ruin me for days now. Take care of yourself, things might get weird but the people in your life want you there.

One of my professors did this; when we went on field trips or if I happened to walk by the faculty parking when he arrived I just had to stop and watch. It was a moment of nature's beauty, like a giraffe drinking.

I had simple sammich, turkey and cheese on bread with some ranch (I am also a southerner). When I feel like it I add lettuce tomato and onion but I am sick currently and did not. Earlier had soups, the chunky Campbell actually gives you good amount for cost.

Down here where I am (Oklahoma) we used to get snow...a lot, I remember as a kid. Now it's a dusting if anything and people don't think something's wrong. My dog got one good snow to play in 3 years ago, first in his life, nothing since. He's part Pyrenees so he loved it.

You might try through the graduate school of the university first, but I worked there and the department for a bit in my university and they usually encouraged students to contact the department themselves as well. There should be a department secretary.