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‘Jog a little, you look […] sad’: Professor makes fun of student’s appearance in front of her peers, she immediately calls him out #Fun

unitedyam May 10, 2025

Professors sometimes need to be taken down a peg. Some of them walk around wielding unbridled power just because they have PhDs and a group of eager students trying to impress them. Some of them get a little high on their own intellectual supply and aren’t the nicest kinds of people to be around. But it’s hard as a student to call out your teacher. The inherent power structures are so strong that you often don’t feel like you get the right to criticize them. After all, though, you are an adult and they are a fallible individual. Even if they don’t make you feel like that is true, it is true.

Another thing that supposedly smart people sometimes do is dole out insults in the guise of intellectual language. They hit you with so much jargon that you don’t realize you’re being roasted. But that doesn’t make it hurt any less.

19-year-old college freshman faces pushback after declining to stay in family home because she doesn’t want to share a room with her 15-year-old sister: ‘She does not respect boundaries or personal space’ #Fun

unitedyam May 8, 2025

Every relationship needs clear boundaries, and this doesn’t become any less necessary just because somebody happens to be related to you. Personal space and time alone are things that everybody needs varying degrees of, and it is important for them to be respected by those around them.

When that doesn’t happen, it is understandable that tension can occur. Living with somebody, especially a family member, can only make this issue worse, and many people struggle with having the space that they need when they grow up with siblings.

While it is natural for younger brothers or sisters to look up to older ones, it is also vital that parents recognize that time apart can be just as important as time together. If this isn’t respected, nobody can be surprised when arguments and resentment occur. There is a difference between a close sibling relationship and creating an uncomfortable environment for the child who doesn’t feel like their needs are being met.

Laboratory Director Tawnya Plummer Laughinghouse

unitedyam January 9, 2025

“As a young college student, it was the first time I ever faced [this situation], and it buckled me. It set me back until I realized that I could do it and that my worth wasn’t based on what someone else thought of me or my abilities…If I had pulled myself out of that STEM major, I would never have been managing a technology demonstration program for NASA that launched ten technologies into space.”
– Tawnya Plummer Laughinghouse, Director of the Materials and Processes Laboratory, Engineering Directorate, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

‘She is free to go to her mother’: Stepmom kicks out her entitled 21-year-old stepdaughter after she demands to user her car over Christmas break and throw a New Years Eve party at her house when she has a 2 and 5-year-old #Fun

unitedyam December 26, 2024

When you’re a college student, it’s difficult to suddenly lose the level of autonomy you’ve grown used to when you go home for the holidays. You’ve spent the past 4 months being able to go anywhere you want and do anything you want, but come Christmastime, you have to go back to asking your mom if you can go over to your friend Meg’s house to watch National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. While I empathize with the struggle of the college kid, being an adult doesn’t mean you can get your way all of the time. You can’t throw a rocking shindig at your stepmom’s house (which has two kids under five living in it) the way you can at the Figi chapter house. That lesson was all too hard for this 21-year-old college student who can’t entirely accept that she’s not entitled to use her stepmother’s car over the holidays.

21-year-old college student boards plane without her sister and her 3 small kids after her husband was barred from boarding for disorderly conduct: ‘My mom was particularly mad that I didn’t stay and support my sister’ #Fun

unitedyam December 4, 2024

How responsible are you for the bad behavior of your family members? That’s a question we all have to ask ourselves at one point or another, and there’s no 100% correct answer to it. You might be the one who is always picking up the pieces when things fall apart with your family members, and that’s an admirable thing to take on. It’s equally admirable to stand strong in your conviction that you are responsible for yourself, your mistakes, your success, and nobody else’s. Most of us fall somewhere in the middle of this dichotomy, and our attitudes towards our responsibilities vary between family members.

The young woman in this story decided she wasn’t responsible for her brother-in-law’s rowdy behavior in the airport. When she, her sister, her sister’s 3 kids, and her sister’s husband were at the airport to fly to their parent’s house for Christmas, she decided to board despite her brother-in-law causing a ruckus so large he prevented himself from boarding.

Professor tells 20-year-old college student not to wear makeup in class, forbids her from reapplying lip balm during the lecture: ‘She told me I’m distracting everyone’ #Fun

unitedyam November 21, 2024

One of the best things about going from high school to college is that your instructors really mind their own business. In high school, there is a nonzero chance that your nefarious male theatre teacher will make you change into pants from the costume closet because you committed the major transgression of wearing leggings to class. In college, most professors do not care a lick what you’re wearing to class. As long as you don’t arrive in your birthday suit, they probably won’t bat an eye.

Unfortunately, the professor in this tale is not your typical professor. She asked one of her female students to “see her after class” in front of all the other students. Instead of scolding her for cheating or asking why she hadn’t turned in her work, she told her she shouldn’t wear makeup to class and criticized her for applying balm to her chapped lips during the lecture.

20 Student Memes to Help You Laugh Your Way Through Morning Lecture (November 7, 2024) #Fun

unitedyam November 7, 2024

Hello students! It’s time for a class on hilarious memes. What goes on in this class, you might ask? You look at the funniest of the funny on the internet and learn about why it’s so funny to laugh at yourself going through a tough time. The reason for this is likely because we as humans use our humor to cope, and there’s nothing better than making memes on the internet instead of studying for the big exam you have tomorrow (8 AM sharp)!

Seriously though: It’s difficult being a student, whether you’re in middle school or college or an institution somewhere between those two. You never know what you’re getting yourself into each day and which stressors you might have to face head-on. Luckily, the internet is here to keep you company in those moments of uncertainty. It helps to know you’re not alone, especially when the news is broken to you in a funny way!

Mom uses 16-year-old daughter’s college fund to pay for mental health treatment after she stole a car and crashed it, paternal grandparents admonish mom for using their late son’s money: ‘It’s favoritism by taking from her account and not her siblings’ #Fun

unitedyam November 2, 2024

College funds are different in every family. Some kids don’t get a cent for their education, and some parents put thousands of dollars away in a protected 529 Fund so that it cannot be used for anything other than education. I’d say that most families are somewhere in the middle, with some having their kids’ college funds stashed away in the stock market and others using a regular savings account that could be repurposed if college isn’t what their kid’s future entails. It makes sense that paying the mortgage is more important for middle-class families than being able to afford $70,000 per year tuition at Boston University. It’s not just broad-familial financial issues that can deplete a college fund. It’s also the actions of the prospective college student. One mother used some of her daughter’s college money (her late husband’s life insurance money) to pay for mental health treatments, and her mother and father-in-law disagreed with this choice vehemently.

unitedyam October 12, 2024

When I first watched My Best Friends Wedding, I was kind of shocked that the titular best friend was marrying a 20-year-old undergraduate, aka Cameron Diaz. I know it’s not necessarily unethical for a 28-year-old to marry somebody in their early 20s, but I can still think it’s weird and that Julia Roberts was a much better option.

Once someone is 18, they can marry whoever they want without their parent’s consent. Any schmuck can walk down to the courthouse and get officially “married,” but most people want a bigger production that costs a bit more than that. If a young couple is going to get their dream wedding with all the frills, they’re probably going to need some money from their parents to make it all happen. The dad at the center of this story is refusing to pay for his daughter’s wedding because she is Cameron Diaz in My Best Friend’s Wedding and he can’t accept a Dermot Mulroney husband just yet.