#college fail

[mourningstarboy]

Was only moved out of my moms house for one year after graduation and when I moved out of that apartment there were genuinely beads of reclaim wax condensed and stuck to every wall and ceiling.

needless to say I had to pay the 400$ cleaning fee

[berserkbookworm]

So I was on the phone with my mother the other day complaining like I always do. I told her that my dishwasher was broken, and I was putting in a maintenance request for a new one.

A little background for this story. Now this is the first time I have ever used a dishwasher in my life. I'm in my fourth year at college living on campus, so I have had access to a dishwasher for at least a year and a half by now. I've always avoided the dishwasher and hand washed my few dishes instead since when I do cook, I only cook for myself. I also never used the dishwasher growing up because I hate the way my parents so the dishes, so it's always been the chore I avoid.

Well my roommate last semester used the dishwasher as a drying rack, and we never ran it. Boy did it get a certain smell, and I was like I should run the the dishwasher. So I run the dishwasher and bubbles are just spewing from the bottom, and I'm like, why is there a hole down there in the first place for bubbles to leak out? Yeah no I need a new dishwasher. I'm in the middle of putting in a maintenance request for a new one, but I put a hold on submitting it since I wanted to get pictures of something else wrong with the dishwasher. (Pretty sure it got knocked loose since it sometimes tilts forward.)

Well I luckily called my mom before I sent the request in. Now as soon as I mention the bubbles, my mom starts to chuckle just as I'm sure you people who already know how a dishwasher work did. And she asks me a very important question. Did I use dawn dish soap to clean the dishwasher? Why yes mother, what else was I supposed to use to clean the dishwasher, regular soap? My mother starts to full on belly laugh at this point, along with the rest of my family because guess what? I'm on speaker while they all ride in the car together. My mother is trying to get some semblance of sanity to tell me that there is a specific soap that people use for dishwashers, but it's kind of hard for her to talk since she's gotten to the "I'm gonna pee my pants laughing" stage.

Then you have little dumb me just SO confused. The name is dawn dish soap. It got put in the dishwasher. What do you mean it doesn't go in there? It's literally in the name! Dish soap to go in the dishwasher! Like I know there are little pods that you put in the square in the dishwasher, but I thought it was an optional cleaner that could be replaced with dawn. You know, sort of like when you do laundry? Where laundry has detergent or the little laundry pods? But no apparently you don't fill the little square in the dishwasher with dawn dish soap.

At least I never submitted that maintenance request. I don't know what I would do if they came in to replace the dishwasher only to find out I used the wrong soap.

So long story short, I learned that dishwashers aren't like laundry machines, and you have to get specific little dishwasher pods to avoid a bubble apocalypse. But hey, at least I gave my family a good laugh?

[lefthandedgoldfinchh]

Currently

✨heartbroken✨,

failed an exam 🥺

and craving a whopper 😗

[not-mandip]

Can someone open a gofundme so I can have a decent pen??

[justcolledgethings]

College Hack #2

Why not all emails should be “professional”

My personal experience with emails and professors

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Not really a college hack but if you don’t know how to do it... well you’re gonna die

The most important thing I’ve learned about emails is you have to know when to be formal and when to be casual.

My first semester I would email professors and ask them a question about their class or whatever and the first few times I did this I would always get horrible responses from them. I’ve literally brought certain emails to my advisor before to see if I was just misinterpreting what these prof were saying and my advisor legit said “yeah no they’re being unreasonable for no reason.”

So what I would do is I would look up the professors office hours and go talk to them in person. Now this has happened to me a few times and I’m telling you all about this bc it’s really frickin important.

I would go visit them during their office hours (and yes ik it does sound scary but like just do it, I’ve become friends with so many professors this way) and I would just be me. I would introduce myself, tell them what class I was in and help them put a face to the name. And then when I would ask them why they were so rude to me in the email when I just wanted to know about an assignment or whatever the fuck my question was I would always get the same response.

(Also don’t just show up and be like “hi I’m Karen! Why the fuck did you write me off and not even have the decency to answer my question” bc they won’t know what you’re talking about that that’s rudeee man. Just be like, “hi professor____, my name’s ____\ and I’m in your chem 101 class at 9:15. I was just wondering about this assignment....” and then after the convo seems to be taking a steady pace then you can be like “thank you so much. I tried emailing you but I might have come off as a bit harsh and just wanted to clear it up.” )

So the reason I kept getting rude responses was because my emails were too professional and came off as too cold and they immediately dismissed me. But once they met me in person they were like wow that was so not their intention, they’re just a first year who can’t send emails

Idk why high school doesn’t teach kids how to write a proper email but like fuck them, it’s important.

So obviously when you first email a prof you shouldn’t write “hey what’s up Bryan, I have the flu and won’t be in class today. Here’s a copy of my paper that’s due I’ll give you a printed version on Monday” but that is essentially what they want (after you cultivate a relationship with them).

I think the hardest thing to remember is that professors are people to, so don’t treat them like some big scary untouchable entity.

Okay so how exactly do you write an email to a professor? Figuring that out is the hard part. If you can ask the question in person, just do it. I can’t tell you how much a professor appreciates it when you talk to them in person. It’s truly worth it.

If you can’t see them in person and it’s your first time emailing them, be casual but don’t act like you’re besties. Start off simple with Hi Professor _____, and then just go for it. Try to avoid run on sentences and always thank them in the end. Also know what they like to be addressed as. Most of my professors hate being called professor_____ and want to be called Toby or Tiffany. Also make sure you put your name and your class in the subject so they know wtf you are talking about. Most professors have so many students and emails that they’ll skip right past the ones that don’t make sense.

So for example your subject could be

ENG304 - Tom Holland and you could also add something more specific to that like

ENG304 - drop class request - Tom Holland or whatever the fuck you’re writing about

Hope this helped! Sorry it’s kinda long and feel free to add in your experiences! This is just mind and obviously it might not work for everyone but I feel that it’s important for me to retell my first year email horrors lmao

[justcolledgethings]

During my Spanish 102 class we had to do oral presentations

And my prof assigned everyone a partner and ALSO assigned us a scenarios (which honestly we all thought was messed up bc not only were we working w strangers but some people’s topics were SOOO much harder than others) it wasn’t even a big class there were maybe 20 of us and it was a small interactive lecture

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Anyways this manz straight up told us we had to memorize this shiTE and could only have one flash card as an “aid” in case we “forGOt hOW to PROnouNcE SOmThINg” and my friend and I were like what complete and utter bullshit is this

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So straight up, no fucks given, I typed out all my lines, printed them really fucking small, and just taped it on an index card...

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I nailed that shit

[television-overload]

My World War I History professor is lecturing about Beersheba (AKA Be'er Sheva!!!) and I don't think I've heard a single word of his lecture since...

There's a map on the screen... it has all sorts of spots that trigger a Tiva fan. Haifa, Amman, Be'er Sheva, obviously.

And instead of paying attention, I'm having flashes of Past Present Future.

[abi-is-personal]

This is my life XD