Not the neck 😭 my cousin has the Husky on her lower back, do something like that lol

Where do I send the money? Sign me the hell up

I’m on the student senate at one of the CT community colleges (don’t wanna dox myself and say which one). For the last month or so we’ve been debating whether or not to fork over $11,000 of our student activities budget to pay for insurance so we can start a basketball and soccer intramural league for the students. We were going to do flag football too but it would have been too expensive.

There’s a massive demand for sports with the students that have been polled, and the coordinator has referenced some data that athletics programs can be huge for retention. Remember, we’re talking about community college where keeping kids showing up is a massive deal. One completed semester can give someone who thought they had no shot at college the confidence to get their degree.

The money we’re thinking of allocating would represent about 20% of our semester budget. This budget is the money that pays for all student activities, every single club or event is funded by this money. Hopefully the fact that we’re about to use 20% of that money just to cover 11k, which would be pennies for most schools, so we can have something as fundamental to a school like UConn as an extremely modest athletics program (kids wearing reversible jerseys twice a week and playing in the high school gym down the street) can give some perspective at the gap in funding here.

Just today the faculty advisers were lamenting that class sizes are being raised from 25 to 30 students in the fall, and that classes will be canceled more quickly if not enough students have enrolled before the semester.

Honestly the complaints you’re saying UConn is making sound painfully tone deaf. I graduate this semester and have applied to UConn, so maybe if I go there I’ll start to understand why their president needs two mansions. But for now, yeah seems kinda shitty.

My 69 year old mother just took a train that arrived at Union station around midnight a couple of weeks ago, she was fine. The police station is right there and you can get a cab/Uber/Lyft right outside.

I drive down that part of the blvd almost daily and still somehow forget about this everyday (still) and wind up in the right lane and have to merge back over. This isn’t helpful for the conversation, I’m just dumb.

Btw if you’re in a situation where you’re not paying rent or have an address, I don’t think they ask for any proof if you don’t currently have a home. That might be outdated info too though.

I can only offer 3ish year old anecdotal evidence, but the last time I had to apply for SNAP and Husky I just went in person without doing online first. I was there for a few hours, but once they brought me in it was super easy and I left with everything activated on the spot (just had to wait for my EBT card to come in the mail since I had lost my old one).

Now, that was pre-Covid so I have no idea if it’s all different now. Just a tip though, if you do go in, make sure to bring ID and a couple pieces of mail with you, plus if you can find something showing what you pay for rent (I think a letter from your landlord works).

Once you get all that up and running it’s really easy to do your reevaluations online. I just renewed my insurance a couple months ago and the website was pretty easy to deal with.

I just went to a great GI guy Westport if you can make it down there. He was at the Yale Digestive Health center there, not sure if it’s ok to give the doctor’s actual name on here though. It was like a month and half wait for the appointment though, I tried calling every number I could find on Google and that was the fasted I could be seen by a GI specialist, but I have state insurance so you might be luckier if you have private.

I don’t live in RI but this came up in my feed so I just have to chime in. New Haven, CT, the one on downtown Whaley is horrible, I’d rather go hungry.

I found the place I’m living now (been here a year and a half) on Roomster. They were literally the first guys I messaged, there’s been essentially 0 issues with any of the 5 roommates, and since we’re splitting 5 ways my rent is obscenely cheap - 370 a month plus utilities in a decent neighborhood in New Haven proper. Obviously not everyone will get as lucky as me, but worth checking out the site. The one downside was that I did have to pay for a subscription to send messages on Roomster, I think it was like $12 a month, but I only needed the one month.