In Public Education, Student "Permanent Records" Are Referred To As "Cumulative Files", Or Cum Files

I was 36. I'd been married for 9 1/2 years at that point.

I'm old enough that I'm a Tom Swift, Hardy Boys and Robert Heinlein kid.

You were either a Magic Treehouse kid, a Goosebumps kid, an Animorphs kid, or a Babysitters Club kid.

Based on personal experience, I have to call bullshit. I have never seen a full professor with a lab/office that tidy. (Personally, I try to keep my classroom as close to a college professor's as I can. Just so my students can be prepared.)

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Studying entomology lately. Of course, I had to include the professor’s old lab. Hope everyone is having a productive summer 🤍

With a billion dollars, you could spend 34 grand a day for 80 years. It would take a person working full time at minimum wage 2 years to make 34 grand.

What if it turns out that you CAN take it with you? Those Egyptian pharaohs are still going to be living like kings, and the rest of us will be like "Well, shit!"

i feel it in my bones, i’m on F I R E

FUCK

In case you are wondering why they are so eager to get Kavanaugh confirmed as soon as possible...

Absolutely true.

We don’t understand the power of our jaws until we try to break an m&ms with our fingers.

Before the internet, librarians were the gatekeeper of knowledge. For your reading pleasure, the New York Public Library released a cache of queries and conundrums called in from the 1940s to the 1980s.

More... https://imgur.com/gallery/100MhvX

I have far too many collections to enumerate here, but I'll do the most interesting one: Radioactive materials, including samples of ores, Fiestaware, various dials and switches with Radium paint, and a Revigator, which is a water crock lined with extraordinarily radioactive Uranium ore that you were supposed to drink from, "for health".

if you don’t have @ least one collection of specific items i literally have nothing more to say to you. we will never relate to each other. however, you cool ass motherfuckers who do collect @ least one type of thing, reblog this post and say what that thing is. i’ll go first: clown dolls and good luck charms