This just happened to me so I came here to see if it had happened to anyone else. Should have known it wasn’t a problem on my end.
This just happened to me so I came here to see if it had happened to anyone else. Should have known it wasn’t a problem on my end.
What it’s like being a TA
But schedules and calendars that go beyond "this has to be done on or by that date or you're fucked" stress me the fuck out.
Totally. They stress me out into overwhelmed, anxiety-riddled inaction, an d I know I'm not the only one
Sociologist Matthew Desmond has an amazing book called Evicted that talks about criminal act evictions and profiles people who have been the target of them. The book follows very low income renters in Milwaukee through years of their struggles to find and keep housing. It also follows individual landlords from the same neighborhoods. It’s technically an academic subject and is impeccably researched (the notes section in the back could be its own book) but it reads like a novel. It won a Pulitzer iirc.
He also just published Poverty, By America last year. I’ve only just started it, but it’s just as readable. He explains overly-complicated regulations and social services red tape in a way that’s concise and easy to understand, and he illustrates their consequences through his interviews with real people. His books should be required reading for every American.