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Heidi Eckert urges young women to get politically active (by mikewstagg)

My speech from the April 28th Unite Women rally in Baton Rouge. I hate watching myself, but I am also proud of myself for speaking out. I never would have imagined I’d have the confidence to do that. And the microphone is too high ;)

The thing about being scared to go to your professor’s office hours… so, so true. I usually wait until a friend can go with me, but that’s so limiting.

So proud of you, Heidi!

Sony execs are giving a talk on campus today

So tempting to go and demand Dan Harmon’s reinstatement. 

Just to piss them off. 

Writing a paper for my women’s studies class

I’ve seen/read the word “gender” so much that it’s starting to look funny. 

Fuck fuck fuck I forgot one of my textbooks in class. 

I think my roommate and her boyfriend just broke up for good (they’d previously been “taking a break”) because she seems rather downcast, sniffly, etc.

I don’t want to ask in case she doesn’t want to talk about it. But it’s such awkwardness in the room because we all know it happened. 

So I’m just rambling about how much I dislike my Italian film professor and wish I could’ve seen David Newman and I’m sure she hates me and wants me to shut up because my problems seem trivial compared to her heartbreak but I don’t know how to deal with other people’s emotions.

Today, my mom sat in on my women’s studies class

Later, she was all, “Of course, I don’t really agree with a lot of that stuff, but at least it’s interesting to see how they conduct classes.”

Me (half-jokingly): …What if I chose that as my major?

Mom: 

I know she’d support me and all, but I feel she’s secretly wondering what went wrong with her daughter. I’ve been considering making women’s studies a minor, and now it’s extra tempting because I know it’ll freak out my mother. 

But maybe I should decide on a major first. 

One of my friends is a Sherlock fan but refuses to watch it online, so she’s only started to watch the second series since PBS began airing it last week. 

Wouldn’t be a big deal except that she looks down on me for partaking in illegal activities and keeps going on about how she’s got the “moral high ground.”

It’s funny when people think I’d care about such things. I’d much rather watch a show than have moral high ground. 

Sometimes I see people around campus and we’re both just like

But when they’re advocating for USAC candidates and want my vote it’s like “Hi Celeste, how are you?? Ohmigosh, have you voted yet?”

Suddenly you know my name? Suddenly we’re friends?

Honestly, it’s my first year and I already deeply dislike USAC elections. It all seems terribly predictable. 

One of the essay questions on my philosophy midterm

“You find out that your father is an anarchist and wants to bomb Congress and various U.S. financial institutions. His plan involves being a suicide-bomber, but he has an alternate plan that does not involve suicide but does require your help. What would Antigone, Jacob (from the bible), Helen Burns, and Jane Eyre tell you to do, and why?”

I think I had… fun? 

I feel like I just wrote fanfiction for a midterm. 

Sometimes my roomie is nice and links me to tumblr posts she thinks I would find amusing

The really amusing part is when this is the first note on the post: