stu(dying)

queer | ravenclaw | psych major | philosophy minor

[stark-reading-mad]

And so it goes

[arearchive]

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[fraisesetextraitdevanille]

Monday, May 15, 2023

Spent lots of time studying in the library today, struggling to keep up with regular work while studying for a second set of midterms coming up next week. Someone tell me the secrets of optics in physics! What does it all mean!

[bobbysox]

[seashellronan]

i want to go home. i will always want to go home. even when i am at home i want to go home. but i’m not really thinking of a place, it’s more that feeling of everything finally being over, of seeing the light in the windows of your house on a cold night, of being safe, the relief of leaving a party you’re not enjoying, like when you felt sick at school and they sent you home, or when you got upset at a sleepover and they called your parents. i want my mam to come get me. i want to go home.

[seashellronan]

elizabeth wurtzel, prozac nation // lorde, ribs // maggie stiefvater, the dream thieves // billie marten, red sea blue sea

[ryebreadgf]

karen russell, st. lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves

[maryolive]

i like to fork myself by daul kim // road music by richard siken // art by beth fuller // sarah addison allen // why be happy when you could be normal? by jeanette winterson // poetry by @jonismitchell

[galina]

Louis MacNeice and fresh coffee this morning. My own autumn journal: I met up with some friends today and we went for a big walk around Nunhead Cemetery, bought plants at the nursery nearby and had a pub roast. This evening some friends we haven’t seen in a while are bringing a board game around for a games night. Sundays are such magic

[starrystvdy]

19.10.22
 revisiting some python, and increasingly orange walks around town 🍂

[bookmania]

Seven years after, I see you again 😚

[scripturient-manipulator]

Guys this completely changed my writing, heed it. I often do an entire draft just looking at sentence variation and oftentimes the results are absolutely transformative in the difference.

[officialleehadan]

This is very very good advice, and absolutely worth following. Read this. Read it again. Follow it. Your writing will get much, much better.

[afeelgoodblog]

Because Library is a safe place.

[soletyue]

late june - early july snapshots // currently playing: Gaël Faye - Taxiphone

i am now more than halfway done with my summer internship, and it makes me a bit sad. i'm really enjoying the work i've been doing and the routine it has allowed me to have; having responsibilities, deadlines, and a set schedule has really helped me maintain somewhat stable mental health. i hope i can maintain a routine once the school year starts, hopefully that'll make this academic year better than the last.

on a lighter note, eugene got all his kitty vaccines and the vet called him lovely!

i hope your summer (or winter for those in the southern hemisphere) is going well :)

currently reading: Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

recently finished: And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

[czardasm]

Studying a new Russian repertoire and getting crazy

[frenchiepal]

30.12.22 🌛 last post of 2022! i'm going through some lectures again while copying my notes from one tablet to the other, phew

[nietxsche]

mock revision

[learnelle]

some 'energy givers' for the new year :

glasses of water, sunlight, nourishing food - remember that you're just a plant with more complicated feelings!

reading, music, creativity, writing and setting intentions - things that'll cure the feeling of 'being alive but not living'.

laughter with loved ones and cuddles with a pet - do I really need to explain this one more?

[death-mogai]

intersex bodies are just as natural and regular as perisex bodies, the only difference is that perisex bodies are more common. being intersex is not a birth defect in the same way being a perisex woman is not a birth defect. nothing broke, nothing is "wrong" with us, we are just less common.

being a perisex woman or a perisex man isn't a medical condition and neither is being intersex. when our intersex conditions cause other health complications it is not because we are intersex, it is because of a medical condition associated with being intersex.

a person with a uterus who has endometriosis isn't experiencing a symptom of having a uterus they are experiencing endometriosis.

intersex bodies are heavily medicalized. they are treated as problems that need to be solved, but being intersex isn't a medical condition. we don't need to be diagnosed and forced through "treatment" to make us as close to perisex as possible, we need support, awareness, and acceptance.

tldr; intersex bodies are just as natural as perisex bodies. intersex existence needs to stop being medicalized

[sprinkledsalt]

I remember someone on here saying zoomers treat teachers the way boomers treat retail workers and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. Seriously, some people act like teachers are servants for their students and take “the customer is always right” mentality and turn it into “the student is always right”, when no, they’re not, especially when the attitude of some students boils down to, “I can’t believe this bitch Karen expects me to actually show up to class, read these texts, and analyze them 🙄 I’m going to speak to the manager email the department chair if you hold me accountable for missing class and not turning in work all semester”

[sprinkledsalt]

I’m thinking about college students because my mom has been a professor for +30 years and she’s like, clearly the first person to have ever told some of these adults “no” in their lives lol. She’s always willing to help students who are struggling but trying, but she has no tolerance for students who do things like *checks notes* literally laugh in her face when she told them they didn’t meet the minimum requirements for an assignment, and then act shocked when she kicked them out of her office for that lol. Or students who were shocked that they were marked absent for missing class because they went on vacation or decided to sleep in–literally, a student had a mandatory conference scheduled, missed it, and later sent an email saying, “Sorry, I decided to sleep in.” My mom was like “?? So you decided it was fine to waste my time??? And now you expect me to go out of my way to reschedule with you??”

And that’s the thing. A lot of these zoomers are mentally stuck in high school and think teachers aren’t people and have no lives of their own outside the classroom, so they should have to bend over backwards to accommodate students who feel like they have no obligation to meet the requirements of courses they signed up for. It’s the same thing when students are outraged that they face penalties for missing deadlines (when they don’t have accommodations from the university for a disability, of course), but teachers don’t make deadlines because they hate students, it’s because they have deadlines, too, and need to have the assignments turned in to give students grades! You don’t have deadlines because your teacher is a bitch, you have deadlines because that’s how the adult world works, and it doesn’t revolve around you.

Some of these zoomers even lie to get out of their responsibilities, too. Recently, again, a student emailed my mom like “oh I’m late to your class every day because I have a class before that, which ends in the first 5 minutes of your class, and my professor won’t let me leave early :(” And my mom was like, “….The university’s computer system literally would not let you register for a class with a scheduling conflict like that. I double-checked this with the head of the department.” And then the student got real quiet 🤡

Like, ya’ll are supposedly adults lol, fucking act like it instead of acting like rude, entitled, overgrown 9th graders to teachers 

[sprinkledsalt]

@wingsy-keeper-of-songs I don’t get why zoomers think it’s okay to act like this at all. I would have had my ass handed to me if I pulled anything like this.

Some people are just dicks, of course, but my mom thinks the increase in this behavior is from the pandemic. Her colleagues have been lamenting similar behavior in their classes, too, like students refusing to turn on their cameras for virtual classes and just not doing in-class activities online. They really just sit there with no microphone or camera all class, do nothing all senester, and expect to get full participation points or whatever.

My mom is seeing a really academically behind group of students this year, but again, she’s willing to work with the ones who try. For the ones who miss class and don’t do assignments and lie in their excuses, her theory is that these are students who got away with not doing much work for two years and just lied and didn’t face any consequences from their overwhelmed high school teachers during the pandemic. So they came to college thinking they could do the same minimal amount of work, miss class whenever they feel like it, and still skate by with a C, and they’re shocked when professors are like “no, you missed half of our classes by the midway point of the semester, you need to withdraw or take the F.” It’s a generation used to having their parents call up their high school teachers and complain whenever they get a bad grade. Once again: very “I’m going to speak to the manager.” There’s usually an appropriation of the language of social justice, too, like people saying deadlines are ableist because they have anxiety. In my mom’s experience, the students who actually have accommodations from the disability resource center aren’t doing this—those students work hard—it’s the ones who do nothing all semester and are outraged by their bad grades at the very end. And for the record, my mental health was in the gutter in college, but I never acted like this lol. Maybe it was because I knew teachers are actual people, idk

[synille]

I’m definitely going to second that pandemic point. I work as an RA, and my primary purpose is to help out students and make sure they get connected to campus resources. I have a lot of good eggs, but I will say, this year’s batch of freshmen is by FAR panning out to have some of the most flagrant displays of inconsideration than I’ve seen in my whole career.

It’s to the point that me and my whole division had a long meeting discussing the sudden influx in immaturity and disrespectful behavior and how best to wrangle it. There’s no pattern or predictable measure for who’s being troublesome—any income, any race, any gender, ALL of those categories have at least two or three individuals that are overwhelmingly destructive and unmindful. The only common factor is that it’s THIS year’s batch—the one fresh out of over two years of pandemic high school.

We have a crackpot hypothesis that the individualism that came from pandemic isolation was truly detrimental to students’ social and empathic development. We have no proof but we seriously cannot think of any other explanation for this. Please be kind to people who work with college students—this year in particular, we’re being put through the wringer.

[sugarchains]

ooo, i’ll chime in from the middle school perspective! so not this current year of 6th graders, but the ones from last year who are now in 7th grade, and some of the 8th graders

we saw some of the wildest levels of entitlement from both the parents and students. it was absolutely the kids whose last in school year was in 4th grade, and now they were in school, being expected to do 6th grade work

we have the kids who literally delight in telling teachers oh im gonna get you fired since you wont let me copy from my friends, who lie on teachers saying that we dont offer help, or explain things to them-meanwhile, when you try to sit with them to do the work or explain further, they spend the whole time speaking to their friends or cursing you out for asking them to focus

like, ok we knew that k-12 teachers were being used to raise a lot of these kids, but WHEW that entitlement that is being instilled in them from some parents is gonna really hurt them

[hello-delicious-tea]

I’d like to add that a bunch of this is school board policy - I was teaching high school at the beginning of the pandemic, and you weren’t /allowed/ to give a failing grade even if they turned absolutely nothing in despite you working your ass off in tutorials that their bodies were present for. Sort of. One kid played video games in tutorial. And I still had to give a kid who got 11% on his final a passing grade. HOW? Why did anyone think that was going to end well? You have to ACTIVELY TRY to get the wrong answers to get a grade that low!