I'm rich, bitch!!

After several months of being unemployed and broke, I got quite the windfall recently. Last week I received a welcome letter from the PhD program I had applied to and they not only accepted me, but offered me a free ride for four years. Today, I opened my mailbox and there was a $2,000 check from an ex-roommate who lived with me about 4-5 years ago and who stiffed me on rent. And if that weren't enough, I also received a $200 check from my grandpa "just because" (which is wierd because he never gives out free money). Lastly, I started a new job this week for the Gender Equity Project and am getting paid a shitload of money to do social research (thanks Master's Degree!). I just wanted to share my good fortune as I usually only start threads to complain about bad shit that happens to me. Help me celebrate by having a few drinks tonight!

Sure, the next time you're in town.

Congrats to you, Judas!

Karma already dealt me a blow with the several months of unemployment. It's clear skies from here on out.

Thanks for the well-wishes everyone.

Gracie: Much of the money will go to paying off credit card bills, but I definitely plan on saving the rest.

That would've been freakin' hilarious if slater hadn't made the same joke about 6 posts before you.

I'm going to the CUNY Graduate Center, which is a very progressive program that seeks to teach students not just theoretical foundations of social psychology but emphasisizes the practical application of it to social issues and policy. Having worked for a not-for-profit for 7 years, I really wanted to continue to work in a profession that allowed me to fight for social change.

My two advisors are very distinguished. Dr. Michelle Fine, is committed to participatory action research in schools, prisons and communities, and her writings focus on theoretical questions of social injustice. She has also offered expert testimony in a number of cases involving race, gender and/or class discrimination, such as: Williams v. California (class action suit brought on behalf of poor and working class youth of color attending schools with structural decay; substantial teacher turnover; high levels of uncertified faculty, and inadequate instructional materials); Shannon Richie Faulkner v. the Citadel (sex discrimination at a public college); the school district in Wedowee Alabama in which the principal canceled the prom because of "inter-racial" dating; Newberg v. School District of Philadelphia (young women suing for admission to Central High School in Philadelphia).

My other advisor, Dr. Bill Cross, studies the psychology of African-American identity development in the United States. His groundbreaking book, Shades of Black: Diversity in African American Identity, is one of the most frequently referenced texts on black identity. His model conceptualizing the phases of black identity development has stimulated the growth of identity-development models for application to a wide range of groups, including gays and lesbians, Hispanic/ Latinos, Asian Americans, feminists, and white European Americans. It was this was this model that I used as a basis for my undergrad thesis which examined biracial identity development.

I am very fortunate to have the opportunity to work with such impressive individuals.

Hell, yeah. And I'll find a way to get national funding so I can live in Japan to conduct my research!

Shane: Thank God for affirmative action or I would never get ahead in life.

Thanks. Like I said in my first post, I'm working for a great organization that focuses on social research and they are letting me stay on part time while I'm in school. So I'll still be a poor college student, just not as poor.

Yeah well, I love that the CHUDmongers rail against me to take personal responsibility for my failures, yet when I have success they say its because of luck, or in Shane's example, a random crap shoot. I've said it once and I'll say it again, the hypocrisy on these boards is astounding.

Although many Chewers like to label them as such, people aren't just smart or not smart. They differ on amount of knowledge on a particular subject, but also on how many subjects they are knowledgable about. Saying I'm stupid because of a few threads (and let's face it, out of the thousands of posts I've made over the years only a handful can even be considered "stupid") is like saying a rocket scientist is a retard because he doesn't understand the plot of Memento. Generalizing someone's overall intelligence from a few specific examples is just faulty logic and has no bearing on whether that person is knowledgable on subjects other than the ones you've interacted with them about.

Of course that's faulty logic. There's a reason people should not judge a book by its cover. Sometimes there's more to a person (a movie, a band, whatever) than meets the eye.

The only people who remember and constantly bring up these "hilariously stupid" posts are a select few who enjoy taking jabs at me. The general Chewer population doesn't give a shit about me or those threads.

There are plenty of "absent minded professor" types in the world (Einstein was considered one), who are extremely intelligent people in regards to their specialty, but who are incompetant in other subjects or aspects of their lives.

Same to you.