Friends of Captain Awkward

(in addition to staff, faculty, etc.) I am thinking of taking some online versions of MIT courses and was thinking it'd be cool to have a thread for people who are taking courses or tutorials in some nontraditional way. Would 'academia' be a good place for that or should I put such a thread elsewhere?

Oh thanks, that helps somewhat.

I've had a couple times where I have tried to search for a Support Group thread and get an error saying "(search term) is too common." This isn't just for words like "and" or "the," it includes words specific enough to be the only good descriptors for the thread I want. Is there a way around this? A...

I'm thinking it would be helpful to me and others to start an "accountability buddies" support group. The idea would be that you post some goal you need help following through on and people who are interested in checking in with you start a correspondence via private message. I wanted to ask to make...

Congrats ruby, I'm so excited for you!

I have a question about how to handle this. What do we do when the reference to the triggering thing is no more detailed than the words necessary to describe the trigger? Do we write the word twice, which seems weird and unneccesary? "I was walking down the street when I saw a (fluffy bunny) fluffy ...