Episode 156 — Acceptance

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On today's episode of Professor Blastoff, Tig is on pills due to tooth problems, and the gang talks about Kyle's nutritionist, Celiac disease, Amy Schumer, and worship jams. Then, Becky Popelka from DePaul University comes to the hatch to talk about the process of accepting students into college, student reactions, and she recounts the story of how she got to her current position. Also, Tig talks about some of her old high school friends including Leopard Larry.

[kopello 204]

Kyle's Christian song had me in tears. So funny.

[jughead 189]

Kyle's Christian song had me in tears. So funny.

 

He was killing it in this ep!

[earpanther 451]

I most enjoyed the subject of Leopard Larry.

[action52 554]

First of all, congrats.

[NameThatPunky 804]

So glad there was a pic of the fridge bag.

[CharlesKuske 1]

Do they eat through the whole episode? I stopped listening after 10 minutes.

[followercredo 29]

Thanks so much for the shout-out and the great episode. It made my day!

[EVT 2]

Do they eat through the whole episode? I stopped listening after 10 minutes.

 

Same here.

[solareena 6]

Tig -

 

Regarding GEDs...

I left high school one month before turning 16. A few years later, I took my GED and went to a community college for one semester. I then wrote a lengthy admissions letter to Connecticut College, and scheduled an interview. I was accepted with 95% of my tuition on scholarship, and graduated with a triple major. I took tooooo long of a time off to paint and wander, then I applied for the PhD program at Brown. I come from such a poor, nonacademic background, that I didn't even know Brown was an Ivy League university. I was accepted - rec'd my MA, then had a huge issue with my homophobic, sexist advisor who refused to acknowledge the persecution of gays during the Holocaust. I promptly taught my own section on it, had a screaming match with him...and alas, walked out for good. Phuck dat. Anyway - this rambling is all to say, you, too, can get your PhD and maybe quit before your last few years, and hey maybe even become penniless from student loans, and drive a '95 Miata with metallic KISS stickers that cover up all of the rust spots.

[imhatch 271]

tig negged the hell out of that eighth grader

[Kickpuncher 5012]

Any topic that lends itself to stories from the childhoods/adolescences of Tig and Kyle is A-OK in my book.

[Iguana Gonna Wanna 4]

A really great episode guys. Those worship jams made me laugh harder than I have in quite some time. On a much more somber note, I was listening to this episode while I was driving home from Santa Barbara the night that the outcast kid carried out his grisly revenge fantasy in Isla Vista making the subject of this week's podcast eerily topical.