5 Things I Assumed I’d Have A Year After Graduating College

Bro, you’re taking this article too literally, and WAY too seriously.

THANK YOU. but, to be fair, the author did say “things I assumed I’D have.” so if it’s a list teeming with privilege, and that’s the author’s experience, then so be it. it doesn’t say “things i’m so sad that i don’t have” or “things my life is too hard without” or anything.

but i always appreciate taking time to acknowledge where we each stand and what that means in the context of the whole…perspective is invaluable.

I suppose don’t find anything terribly humorous, insightful, or identifiable about one person’s overwhelmingly banal (and poorly written & edited) opinion of privilege  - sartorial (which I don’t feel is the case) or otherwise. 

Seeing as you’re so obsessed by grammar, she’s sad ABOUT a list not BY a list. Also “not depression”, otherwise know as happiness. Cretin.

I was using the absurdness of overwhelming tragedy to emphasize the humor of uncertainty and to (ideally) support comradeship. 

I’m not obsessed with grammar, but a publisher should be.

It’s not a publisher, it’s a blog. Give them/her a break.

“my life’s inevitably” – should be “life is” – it is not possessive in this case. 

hardcover is one word, not hyphenated. 

For your first point, it’s a contraction. It’s informal, but it’s accepted English. For your second point, that’s a stylistic choice, and it isn’t inherently right or wrong. Stop being a keyboard tough guy.

1: you got me there, but i suppose i’d just use “life is” to avoid the vagueness of the contraction (since it doesn’t have a “its” “it’s” sort of variant). 

Trying googling “hard-cover” and see what comes up. If it is style, then style to what end? And what else in this article supports that style choice? 

I can’t think of anything you could show me that would make me renege my point. The book has a cover. Said cover happens to be hard. Thus, hard-cover book. It’s not a stylistic choice I’d make, personally; I also prefer hardcover. Regardless, the point stands.

Not possessive but it’s a contraction… how is that wrong? ‘He is’ can become ‘he’s', ‘life is’ can become ‘life’s’. Or was that just another attempt to be overly obsessive about unimportant grammar problems? I honestly can’t even tell anymore.

tags are dumbbbbbb. it’s easy to fuck up.

Punctuate inside the quotation marks, please. Smug hypocrisy is not becoming of you.

A publisher should be worried about the editing of a piece. I’m not terribly bothered by an error in a comment. Granted, I’m a pessimist in general, but if I were the editor of this piece, I’d have serious concerns. I understand the importance of voice, but style shouldn’t cripple a piece of writing. Overall, I don’t think it really matches the quality or purpose of the material I’ve read on TC in the past (which is not much, so maybe I’m missing out on all the pieces by pie-eyed 23 year olds who think they know “the real world”). 
But, your point (and others) holds merit. I’m being an asshole. I need to take a deep breath. Sometimes it takes me a minute to come to this realization. I’m being picky, but overall, who cares? It is a fluff piece. I mean, I could debate the ethics of criticism all day long. Should I care when the rare shitty post appears in an usually fairly good quality site? I’m trying to glance through this writer’s other pieces and I think I just get more and more angry. And to that end, what is the point? Me yelling further at some writer who is trying to do something she likes (her telling the internet why dessert is awesome, the looming horrors of not owning an expensive shirt-blouse, the timeless wraps vs sandwich debate, etc), doesn’t really hold a lot of purpose in itself. Ultimately, I’ll probably never like this writer. It feels like she sneaked in somehow. But really, should I waste my time being mad about it? I was a shitty (shittier?) writer too when I was her age. I was equally as oblivious about a lot of things. I was fortunate enough to cut my teeth in a much less public (and significantly less read) venue. Ultimately, it was the editors and criticism that made me a better writer – I didn’t really realize how bad I was until people I respected took the time to tear me apart. Through that, I improved. In that aspect, while I may be an asshole, I think I’m being an ethical one. 

In all honesty, I’ll probably never make another comment on TC again. Though, I doubt I’ll really read that many articles in the future, either. 

I don’t usually make these kind of comments but man, get a grip.  You are stressing me out.

Wow. So, some people were nasty to you as a young writer and now you feel you have the right to do the same to other young writers? Poor little you. The point is, the people who “tore you apart” were your colleagues and editors. You are neither to this girl so it’s not your place to put her down so unnecessarily. I’m sure you feel much better about yourself now.

You are right on one thing, at least-  You are being a pedantic asshole and no one really cares…

Boom. 

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Roasted!