"This is probably going to get quoted in every publication just because I said it. And I’m not even saying anything. I’m not talking about my films, I’m not talking about my life, and I’m not talking about the world. And yet, the media will print it simply because I said it. And at this moment in time, I bet there is an artist around the corner of this hotel, on the street, with a mind far beyond ours, but we will never listen to him simply because he has not appeared in a movie. And that is what is fucked up about our culture."
Robert Downey Jr. (via whimsicalsun)
(via rdjsexy)
Dear Anxious Pre-Med People,
You do not need to get straight A’s to get into medical school. The world isn’t going to end because you got a B in something. I got a B in Biochem 1 and 2, and a B - in molecular genetics. Further more, I scored less than 30 on MCATs. Life goes on. Relax.
Sincerely Yours,
Dr. Baffled
I got C’s in organic 1 &2 and Physics 1, and less than 30 on the MCAT. And I got in too.
reblogging to remind myself that there is hope
"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills."
Chinese Proverb (via nirvikalpa)
(Source: lucifelle, via pyrrhic-victoria)
Submitted by captainoats84
This actually happened. I was not there but my mother described it and we had a good chuckle.
“How’s your daughter doing?”
“She’s going to jail!”
“Oh, I’m so sorry!”
“I wasn’t aware of the phenomenon myself until I heard about it from a couple of graduate students in my department, one from Yale, one from Harvard. They were talking about trying to write poetry, how friends of theirs from college called it quits within a year or two while people they know from less prestigious schools are still at it. Why should this be? Because students from elite schools expect success, and expect it now. They have, by definition, never experienced anything else, and their sense of self has been built around their ability to succeed. The idea of not being successful terrifies them, disorients them, defeats them. They’ve been driven their whole lives by a fear of failure—often, in the first instance, by their parents’ fear of failure. The first time I blew a test, I walked out of the room feeling like I no longer knew who I was. The second time, it was easier; I had started to learn that failure isn’t the end of the world.”-The Disadvantages of an Elite Education by William Deresiewicz
(Source: gifspixar, via littlewaffle)
(Source: mcqueen-ster, via being--human)
