#post-secondary

[sarebearcares]

Hey. *Cups your face in my hands* It's ok if you had to drop out because of your Chronic Illness. You're not "wasting your potential" or some shit like that. You are a human, not some battery filled with capitalist potential, and I'm proud of you for resting and taking time to recover even when it's hard.

[modestflamboyance]

That privilege post that's been going around got me thinking about the Wheel of Power/Privilege. I came across this a few years ago at a workshop for Black LGBT+ educators, where we acknowledged the ways we are marginalised — but also the ways we are privileged.

Reblog this and put in the tags what power/privilege you have according to this wheel:

White

Post-secondary

Able-bodied

Heterosexual

Neurotypical

Robust

Slim

Owns property

Rich

English

Cisgender man

Citizen

[painted-doe]

Mutuals, what’s the nicest thing your best university instructor ever did for you?

[thefoxburyinstitute]

Some lighting tips for renders!

[hopeless-aboutyou]

I don’t get the discourse on STEM vs Liberal Arts. 

STEM majors are helping cure diseases, inventing new technology, understanding the world around us (and beyond), and bringing us to new places. 

Liberal Arts majors are keeping us up to date with current events, running countries, making changes with our society and making sure the next generation don’t fall back on old mistakes from the past and preparing them for the future. 

Yes, one does make less than the other and austronauts will (unfortunatly) be forever cooler than teachers. But they’re both still beautiful and important to the function of our world. (And you can romanticize the heck out of them too!)

It’s just as crucial to look at the past as is it to look ahead.

[vanillabat99]

I think I've finally figured out what I wanna do for post-secondary stuff!!

There's a bachelor's degree program at a local university for "Early Learning & Child Care" which is for like daycare and preschool type stuff. I really enjoy working with kids and I think it would be lots of fun to do that as a job!! The class description provided sounds really interesting and I think I'll ask my guidance counselor at school for more info, if she has any.

I've never really had future plans like this before and it's exciting ^-^

[anothercupofstudying]

A list of tips from my first year of uni

The first word I can think of to describe this year is “yikes,” but it actually went pretty well grade-wise, so I thought I’d share some tips.

1. First, understand you’re probably not going to do as well in uni as you did in highschool, at least at the beginning. That is okay. The first year of uni is basically just learning how you learn in university, which you’ll hear a million times in your last year of highschool. If you’re like me you’ll also snort and assume you’re going to be fine, because you have methods that work for you. Except you don’t, because now you’re completely autonomous and the prof is teaching 1000 of you over three sections.

2. University is a money-grab. You’ll be buying lab manuals, lecture workbooks, textbooks, whatever else the school wants money for. Don’t pay for things you don’t need to - most universities have ways for you to get behind paywalls without paying (if not use sci-hub). Remember to get your free Microsoft Office as well. My uni also has free math help and physics help for first years. Talk to your librarians and find out what resources you have available.

3. Have a place where you compile all the due dates for your courses. I don’t care how you do this, use an agenda or google docs, but have something.

4. See that desk that is covered in everything except school work? Clear that off, dump it on your bed if you have to (prevents you from getting back into bed). Studying in bed is bad for your posture and sleep. Also, you’ll be less distracted if you get out of your bed. Trust me.

5. The closer your study environment is to the testing environment, the better you’ll do on the actual test. This includes internal and external factors, so if you’re drinking coffee when you’re studying, you better be drinking it when you’re in the exam. Similarly, music while studying isn’t the most fantastic idea because of context dependent memory - you’re not going to have music during the exam, don’t listen to it while studying.

6. That being said, if you can only study with music, that’s better than not studying at all. Try to listen to music with no lyrics.

7. The spacing effect: the tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice. That is to say, don’t cram. Spacing out your studying means you’re more likely to actually learn something, not just memorize it.

8. Have one place where your lecture notes and textbook notes are compiled. For me, this means having one notebook for each course and writing notes based off the textbook and lecture notes in the same place.

9. As my psych prof last semester pointed out on the first day, writing is better for memory than typing. Write if you can. If the prof is fast, print out their notes and write on those.

10. You can use bus rides for two things: staring out the window listening to music or doing readings. I tend towards the former. You’re allowed to make bus rides your down time, you don’t have to be the person doing flashcards if you don’t need to be.

11. Find out where the cheapest coffee is. It’s probably in the student union building.

[factoidfactory]

Random Fact #3,117

Women weren’t able to get a Harvard degree until 1977 because they weren’t allowed to enroll as Harvard alumni.

Although Harvard was founded in 1636, women weren’t allowed to attend Harvard in any way, shape, or form until 1879, 242 years later. They could be maids or secretaries, but not students.

From 1879 to 1977 they could attend classes at Harvard but their degree had to be issued from Radcliffe College (aka The Harvard Annex), a women’s college.

It’s worth noting that on top of not being allowed to have a Harvard degree women had to attend segregated classes from male students from 1879 to 1943.

According to rules from 1953 they were also not allowed to smoke or wear blue jeans in public.