ThatRamenGirl

Just a college student, trying to get by, sharing my thoughts.

[thatramengirl]

College Thoughts 02

Welp. My class starts in 5 days and I'm in no way mentally prepared for it.

So shit hit the fan at work. One of my managers got transferred to another store, the replacement manager we got only lasted about a month, and our area coach isn't doing her job (as usual). I'm stuck on 30+ hours/week and closing once/week when I told them I needed to be on 20 hours/week and no closing shifts. I know my assistant manager is doing his best given the circumstances, so I don't blame him at all. My hours should've been back to normal a month ago.

I'm burnt out.

I'm looking for a new job and saving what I can while still at this one, in case I can't find a new one. If I can't find a new one, then I may go jobless again while I finish up school. (I understand I have A LOT of privilege having that as an option).

Anyway. Because of the bs, I wasn't able to keep a schedule for myself. I'm just over it and really want to graduate...

[thatramengirl]

College Thoughts 01

So, here I am. The new semester is starting at college and holy shit do I need to graduate. 

My college decided, a few years ago, to make their classes shorter, so each class is only 8 weeks long instead of the usual 16 weeks. They wanted to do this to make it faster for students to graduate, or something? Idk, I’m not a fan, but it’s the cheapest option for where I’m at and moving for college isn’t an option for me (I’m 26 and married). 

This semester I’m only taking one (1) class and it’s in the second 8 weeks of the semester. This is a class I’ve failed twice already because of the stupid shortened classes and having to work to pay for college. I’m only working part time, but I’m neurodivergent and, admittedly, don’t have very good habits regarding balancing work, life, and school. I managed to pass 2 classes prior to this one, but I wasn’t working at the time, so I could focus better. (If anyone knows of any easy grants to apply for, please let me know, it would help, also I suck at writing essays so.... no essays are preferred LOL.) 

I don’t think I’ve mentioned what I’m going for yet... I’m going for Web Programming and taking all of my classes online. The class I keep failing is web design. I understand things, for the most part, but when I don’t, I have to ask for help IMMEDIATELY or I fall behind. And due to reasons, I have a very hard time asking for help when I need it. 

I did ask for vacation next week. I’ll be using that time, as well as this week (as much as I can), to get myself into a schedule to try and help me more strictly balance work, life, and school. Fingers crossed that I can do this this time. 

[thatramengirl]

Buttery Chicken Ramen!

It may look like regular Ramen, but it tastes better!

What You Will Need:

1 package chicken flavored Ramen

Water

about 1 to 2 tablespoons of Butter (more or less depending on your tastes/how much butter you can or cannot have. It’s partly used to get the flavoring to stick to the noodles.)

Garlic Powder

Minced Onion (I used the dried minced onion that you can find with the rest of the spices. I have not tried it with fresh onion, but I will include instructions on how I believe that would be done.)

Instructions!

Boil the noodles. LEAVE OUT the flavoring packet as we will be using that in a later step. 

Once noodles have reached desired cooked-ness, strain. If you boiled them on the stove, move noodles from stove to bowl.

Put 2 tablespoons of butter into the hot/warm ramen and mix. Once the butter is melted, mix in the flavoring packet and add a dash of garlic powder and minced onion, to taste. 

If using fresh onion, mince (or cut however you so desire) and fry in a pan with some butter. Once the onions are cooked to your liking you can either toss with the cooked ramen directly in the pan or pour them over the noodles and toss in a bowl.

Enjoy!