#27829 I hate how fat I am. I have always been over weight even since high school. I have a twin and they have always been average to petite. Me..5'7" 170 (F). I do go to the gym 4 days a week for 1.5 or 2 hours. I still can't accept my self image....??

#27828 When you're here, in a new environment, find people who will stay by you as you fail over and over again. They're the ones who will do their best to be at your side even when you fuck up. Believe in the best of people, and expect from them what you think they expect of you. Are you dependable? Loyal? Trustworthy? Think about the last time you helped a brother or a sister out. If you can't, you need to get up and prove you're worthy of the love and support you want. You can be antisocial as fuck, but you will always need someone by your side. Someone who can hold you up as you go down. What matters is showing that person that you'll hold them up as they go down as well.

I fucked up. I threw away people who were close to me because they wouldn't give what I want. And you, the reader - you know you've done that to someone too. Whenever you're free, do what you can for your friends. Tell them you love them. Tell them you care about them. Ask them how their day went. Spend time with them. Take your significant other on a date. Get a job, earn some cash and buy something meaningful for your parents, a small token for all the effort they put in to raise you.

The people around you love you. They're just waiting for you to love them back. Just do it.

#27826 In response to #27824, you should probably talk to your friends about it. I don't think they would find you as a burden. Also if want to be in relationship with someone, may be you should show some interest in him/her and try to initiate some conversations.
Life is tough, many would be going through the same thing but won't tell it in open, but its good to talk to your friends about it rather than masking it

#27827 I worked my ass off to get a master's in Spanish at the Univ. of Chicago. I lived in Argentina for five years. Now I'm at Purdue getting a Ph.D. in another field. I went with my boyfriend (from Argentina) to Walmart to shop for the week. You can guess what happened. A redneck Duck Dynasty wannabe declared that "This is America so speak English." And so I did. I called him a dickhead and told him to leave us the fuck alone either now or when the police came.

End of problem.

#27825 Friendships don't work in groups of threes, one person always ends up on the outside looking in.

#27824 I think I should go to CAPS. I've had a lot of issues since I was confronted about being suicidal a while back and I've been mostly dealing fine, but it's all been hitting recently. My course load is extremely heavy this semester and I don't feel like I'm good enough for my major. Like everyone around me is so incredibly smart, and I'm good at being able to get good grades but I definitely don't have the understanding to back it up. On top of that I'm 20 years old and I still haven't dated and I get that I shouldn't be placing so much into another person, but it's kind of hard not to place some self-worth in the fact that literally not a single person has ever had feelings for me. I'm overweight and nag too much and I'm definitely not attractive or have a good personality, so if thats not the whole package right there, where are all the boys at?

I have really amazing friends and they've made it clear that I can talk to them, but you all see how ridiculous everything you're reading is, so obviously I'm not going to burden them with this crap. And I actually did schedule a caps meeting but I cancelled it because I should be able to deal with it just like I always have. Plus somehow my parents would find out and they would be furious at how crazy weak I'm being. I'm furious at myself, but here I am typing this at 3:20 in the morning so clearly something's not working out here.

Anyways, I'm not really sure what I'm asking for here or what I'm hoping to accomplish by posting this, but if anyone has some wisdom to impart on me, I'll happily take it, or just some good memes. Laughing is the best medicine after all, as told by Jack Handey's Deep Thoughts on SNL.

#27823 I have moved to Purdue two years ago after graduating from a community college. I met a guy back then and we used to hang out a lot and do road trips with other friends and all that... (but just as a friends). We were both international students. He went back to his country four years ago, but he came back last year to visit friends in the USA. We r still keep n touch Snapchating and sometimes text. I still have a huge crush on him and I don't know what to do because it's been around 4 years and I still have feelings, I haven't date any guy after he left. During the summer I encouraged myself to go visit him but I found out that he started a relationship from the beginning of the year (that made me not to buy the plane ticket ). What to do if you can't forget a person, even though you never have him? Should I buy the airplane ticket and go see him?

#27822 I wish Purdue would actually care about their students who commute and park in C lots. I hate when I can't get a spot.