actual college advice:

• if you have the chance to leave ur house/dorm, take it. i spent the majority of my time in my tiny dorm room because i was very anxious and sad and i pulled out a lot of hair, including the majority of my eyebrows. they have suffered because of my freshman year
• make friends. i didn’t make friends until this year and they are good ppl. hello friends
• DO YOUR HOMEWORK HOLY SHIT!!!!!! i failed 3 (three) classes my freshman year and i felt terrible because i had very good grades in high school. you can’t glide through college like u did in high school. do your homework, even if it’s shitty, you’ll still get credit.
• dont eat anything in the cafeteria. dont
• go to a frat party. kiss a person. or don’t. that’s totally your choice
• join a club if that’s your thing, if not hang out with ppl in your dorm and make friends that way. 
• actually experience things instead of sitting inside the majority of the time crying and pulling your hair out and thinking about how much fun everyone else is having
• spend less time on the internet
• do NOT overexert yourself. if you feel you’re taking too many credits, drop a class. you have plenty of time to take it again. 

:)

navigatethestream:

its the notion of boycotts

you wanna know why the bus boycotts of the civil rights movement were so successful?

because an alternative black run transportation system was created for those who couldn’t walk to work or whatever they had to go

they didn’t just tell people “oh the bus enforces racist policies so don’t take it and FUCK if you can’t get to work on time or where you need to be!” 

they said “hey you’re paying to get on the bus and not even being given a seat let alone being ejected if a white passenger needs your seat. here’s a potentially better alternative where you pay to sit down and get to where you need to go” 

all this “boycott Target, Walmart, Monsanto owned companies” comes from a notion of boycott located in the politic of privileged white people

and that’s why they are largely unsuccessful

its why Obama just gave Monsanto the green light to commit even more fuckery to your food

its the reason why cooperation are considered people

its the reason why Walmart is allowed to usurp safety and labor regulations in their factories, and underpay their American workers

because you say “don’t spend your money there” and that’s the end of the story 

you expect people to locate their survival in a politic of “abstaining from unethical choices”

and then from there those unethical choices are somehow supposed to magically disappear. when really only a small percentage of people are able to boycott so many things

there wouldn’t be a movement located around the “99%” if 99% of people could really afford to stop shopping at the unethical places and stop buying the unethical brands

good luck with your hocus pocus activist logic 

please dont send me snapchats of you doing fun things. youre really messing up my day of doing nothing and being miserable