#‘make another research paper’
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#mochats#my faculty orientation and major orientation gives me assignment#ft class assignments on the side#fuck it all#‘make a cv’#‘make a research paper’#‘make another research paper’#‘print these things’#(i have no printer so i need to go to a printing place)#‘write an 800 word essay’#‘make a presentation and present it tomorrow’#my past self thought uni will be more lax#WRONG
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a great way to combat genAI in the future would be educating kids (and teens and college students and all ppl) on art way more.
#i had art classes growing up but i know a lot of ppl didn't and even less kids get art classes nowadays#we need all kinds of art classes too! music and history and painting and woodshop and drawing and life drawing#i think art history is especially important bc it connects us to our past and shows why art is so important#and all kinds of art classes help kids develop different important skills#like fine motor skills and critical thinking and making choices and noticing details and how to really SEE things rather than just looking#and a lot of art skills like woodworking and ceramics and sewing are all very practical basic adult skills that we should all get to learn#there's reasons arts and crafts and other skill based electives are the first to go and its not just bc they're undervalued#its cause a population that feels capable and confident and skilled and knows how to think critically#is harder to make work shitty jobs for shitty pay#harder to control!#same reason they're banning so many books and trying to make education worse#damn maybe i should learn how to teach better#im already planning to at least try doing a workshop for adults but maybe if i end up liking that#i could work towards being able to teach kids#i feel like teaching kids would be harder cause idk what concepts they do or dont know at whatever age they are#id have to do research and maybe talk to someone who has experience teaching art to kids#but even a simple art class would be beneficial i think#like going outside to draw things in nature maybe#or portrait drawing#or a class on how to make comics or animate on paper to impress their friends lol#i would've loved that!#id have to do that with the help of another teacher maybe#idk#vague future plans#anyway the reason education would help combat ai is cause ppl would learn abt what goes onto making art#all the choices and skills and thought#and they'd be able to more easily see the difference btwn real art and ai images and understand why making art is important
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I don't know if I'm in the minority on this, but I love writing essays. The feeling of choosing something that seems fun, getting to research it, organizing what you've learned in a neat and tidy way, and now having a random pocket of knowledge that stays with you for the rest of your life is something that I can hardly ever replicate elsewise. Some of my favorite hyperfixations have come from essays and other research projects that I had to do for school (like when I learned about LSD for a biology project on cell communication, or when I wrote a speech on neopronouns for a public speaking class)! And I miss so much having a class where I can just... do what I love, for credit! I haven't had a research class since my first semester and I'm feeling it 😔 One of my friends asked me for advice about choosing a topic and I got so excited at just the mention of a research paper that I started happy stimming hard, lol. I really should just write a paper on my own time, but then I'd need some executives to function for once, *sigh*.
#Atlas on here can verify lol but when I get a project on something I love? I get freakin annoying about it#I have classes that are fun and classes that aren't and I try to balance my semester schedules between them#but because all my Spanish classes are fun I'm not taking another research class until almost when I graduate#I'm *suffering* over here#This is why I wanna do research as a job so I can just make papers all the time#also if literally anyone is interested in my neopronoun speech I formatted the history section into a research paper form#and am ABSOLUTELY willing to share pictures of it (minus my name and stuff of course)#(pleeeeease someone ask I am searching for an excuse to infodump even if my knowledge is a bit rusty)#actually audhd#actually autistic#actually adhd#adhd#autism#college things
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Trying to fix my resume ☝️🤓 Small problem: I sound like a loser no matter what
#not really lol. I have a lot of experience in this field#for someone my age anyway#but like. idk 😭 I wanna get out of journalism I HATE journalism#I’m applying for publishing internships and idk I just wish I had more publishing experience….#a lot of my extracurriculars are music related and idk if I should include them or not#just to fill space ig#bc I have only ever had one singular job#and one other piece of experience as editor in chief#idk maybe I just feel this way bc I’m using Harvard resume templates#and so I’m seeing everything that’s on a Harvard student’s resume 😭 like damn. I hope they’re not applying for this internship..#it’s based in NYC so I doubt I’ll get it? but like? idk how many applicants they get??? hm#there are also lots of different internships with the same company all listed rn so idk#I have until the end of the month to fix this shit hehahah#hopefully my cover letter will better demonstrate my relevance to this position#bc all of my journalism experience feels kinda irrelevant on paper. editing news is VERY different from editing communications research lol#ellyposting#🤓posting#<- kinda. it’s about work not school but I did start doing this (researching internships) for a class#and now I’m kinda invested bc I need an internship in the next year anyway… I could get it over with over the summer#idk. if I get a job this summer I will make a job tag like. jobposting. workposting. perhaps hellposting if it sucks really bad (again 🥲)#that’s why I’m scared of another internship. even though the last one was paid and so is this one… people are straight up abusive to interns#😅😅😅😅😅 AUGH. SCREAMS PUNCHES WALL etc#okay goodnight :3c
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Academia is so left-wing until you actually have to read research papers and then it’s just 20 different papers on why colonization was okay
#I swear to god I read a paper that said the Koreans should’ve thanked the Japanese#and another on why settler colonization was actually beneficial for North Africans#several others I should say#and it’s always like ‘these Africans were so eager to help their new rulers so many of them joined the military and showed theirpatriotism!’#and then you figure out by painfully piecing things together that no. actually. it’s just that the colonizers controlled the economy & jobs.#none of those Africans really had any choice at all— the only way to make money & keep their families alive was through military service#serving for a country you hate to help them suppress other groups just like you. and then the world asks for your *gratefulness*#like no! colonization is fucking bad!!!!#to delete later#was gonna write a fic to vent my emotions but I have neither the time nor the skills required for what I want to do#might try anyways but unlikely#academic discussion: slavery is the last stage and end goal of capitalism and the very principles of American society perpetuate racism#academic research: :( black people have it so easy whites are soooo overhated :( :( :(#also featured here: me vs the character count limit on tags
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just once i'd like to complete one (1) bigger project that i can actually be proud of
#hrrrrg met with my advisor for my thesis and it's Not Great!!#idk how i always manage to set myself up for failure#struggled so much with thinking of a specific thing to write about so now i have this super broad paper about everything which essentially#amounts to writing about nothing#cuz that's not how history works you can't just make a huge argument like that (at least not without much more extensive research than ive#done)#and im not saying anything novel or interesting anyway#but i already have a whole semester of work dumped into this thing so neither my advisor nor myself wants me to tear it apart and start fro#scratch#there definitely wouldn't be time to do that anyway#so now it's just gonna be yet another thing where i have no confidence in it while working on it and just eke out an end product thats#decent enough to satisfy others while i know inwardly that its really not good#the professor for the capstone class last semester said the paper was good and i was in a good spot to finish it this semester#but this is the first time my actual advisor has really looked at it and hes confirming all of the doubts i had about it :((((#agh itll ultimately be fine i just wish i could do something to justify the 'oh youre such a good student!' im really not!!!!!!!!#i have no idea what i'm doing!!!!!!#p
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Wait! Wait! No! I get it. Okay so. Toe WERE married. They divorced. Because remember she has a song about divorce? Then they got back together. And then he realized she's famous. And she dumped him. Sure. Makes sense.
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#the poetic license people are suddenly taking is wild#this is the kind of discussion i would hope would make the research papers#none of this oh look we found that gaylors and anti gaylors use similar tactics as other fandoms to harass one another conclusions#like come on#there are so many more interesting things going on rn
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#I’m a stupid stupid stupid person#last week when I went to Southampton (all curses be upon that place and its horrid uni) I saw in the papers of the amateur historian I was#looking at that he had the exact dates for the opening and closing of one my merchant figure’s account at the Bank of England#the BofE Archives have a really primitive search mechanism#so you have to contact one of the archivists to actually see if they have the material#and because I’m an antisocial nocturnal cave creature (ie a historian) I’d rather die than have to interact with another human#thus I put off emailing them until today when I was in the BL waiting for a request to be fulfilled#and they got back to me a few hours later to say that they do have what I want#and that there are open spots to work there from the 18th of July#which would be great#if I weren’t in Taiwan from the 13th#so I wrote back and explained that I’m traveling/researching/working for the rest of the summer and going back to my PhD program in Sept#the absolute angel of an archivist who I will love for all time told me that there was a cancellation for the 3rd-4th he would give me#and that he would ‘flex’ the 15 documents per day rule so I could look at everything#the 3rd is going to be a mess because I’m coming back from Bulgaria late that morning#but I will somehow get myself from Gatwick to Central London and make it work#(just praying they allow photography)#I guess the life lesson of this extremely long and boring story is that procrastination pays ???#me stuff#not the stones
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God that one lady's reaction is so insane. Acting like the reason people are getting upset at her for posting unsourced, bad claims is actually because they're angry at her for... Having sex? Her responses are genuinely unhinged 😭
Like. Please. I know that you're insane but can you please act like a normal person... She didn't even back down from the claim, just said if people wanted actual sources they should pay her. To source her own claim 😭😭😭
She keeps complaining about "tumblr virgins" that hate sex like... no one's attacking her for that lol
She also says that "her job is researching" so i'd guess shes pretty frustrated bc shes not good at her job 😔🙏🏼
#im making a research paper rn so i had already open my college's research tools and could find 0 claims like hers so. get another job baby♡#ask
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whats ur hw let us do it
ajksdfh 😽🤎
#this is so funny to me ty for this#its an essay on analyzing a street artist with the lense of marxism#but im so deeply baked into another paper already- the thought of researching for a completely different subject makes me wanna poke my#eyesssss out
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this presentation isn’t hard I just don’t want to do it 😤 I didn’t get to choose the topic and it’s a thirty minute lecture
#it’s actually a topic I’ve researched before so that helps but#I didn’t get to choose the sources for it my prof did#and I absolutely detest the second paper bc it’s thirty pages of the same damn thing rewritten over and over and over again#I’m lowkey thinking to make the first 20 ish minutes cover the first paper because I have more to say#and then bring the second one in at the end because I hate it and don’t wish to discuss it#grad adventures#I have five ish hours to finish it. should be enough time but I’m still gonna be at work for another 2
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bro i am straight up not having a good time
#sasha speaks#i wanna talk about me#too many emails. can't bring myself to answer any of them#rehearsal and class back to back tonight until 9:15. the only food i can bring w me is some matzo (gross) and pb#we have another debate in class tonight too. i hate them. i'm so bad at talking against a timer. i have too much to say girl#i still have to make my fucking invites for my recital and i still don't even know who my second is for the trio#i have to write still a full draft of my research paper for friday#and my french teacher won't email me back abt our homework#i'm so burntout. i'm so tired. i feel like i can barely get anything done#and the stupid rental co for my new appartment keeps being like 'give me the contact info for your last landlord'#and i've already told them like three times i don't HAVE a previous landlord. i can give you the phone number for the student housing office#but that's it. but they're still emailing me back like 'okay well what is the contact info for your landlord' M8 I DON'T HAVE ONE
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when the sweet professor offers to let you read alternative titles to what's in the official reading list because he knows you're interested in quantitative research and the whole reading list is qualitative studies
#it makes me feel soooo cared for#he's willing to put in a lot of effort for me#he's gonna talk to another professor to ask for good quantitative papers on literary history#so that i can focus on that and eventually do quantitative research for my thesis <3#i love love love that he's taking my interests into account#love him#shoutout to him#he's always been so nice#i regret being a grumpy first year in his classes when i was young#bc i always needed to pee and was always hungry#i hope he only remembers me for my good input during the years after that and not my bad first year self
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Thinking little thoughts about virality and infamy in the pre-internet age.
My Guy(tm) (a local personality of note circa 1920-1940) wrote this letter, probably having a terrible day, with a demonstrably bad take. From all the evidence I have about him, this take didn’t even align with his own opinions and was more an expression of frustration and rage in what was meant to be a private letter to a friend. He sent thousands of letters to correspondents across the country and probably even the world. Why would this one be any different?
Unfortunately, his “friend” was not so much one. Later that week the contents of said letter appeared, front page, in a local newspaper—the one that My Guy(tm) was subscribed to. It gave his full name and post office of residence, which in those days was enough to get a letter exactly where it needed to go.
Due to the outrageousness of the bad take, newspapers across the state picked up the story. Somebody even complained about it, without his name, to a national magazine.
I don’t know whether My Guy(tm) received anything in the mail, but based on the defensive tone of the 3 things he sent to the paper following the article, he did, and it wasn’t very kind. Granted, the take was a bad one, but not the kind that deserved almost six months of bad press and a serious blow to a pretty good reputation.
Privacy today is such a complicated topic, especially with the emergence of the internet and social media. Things shared are often assumed to not be in confidence, and we build public versions of ourselves to project to the greater world.
In many ways, though, things haven’t changed much at all.
#I’ll leave this here for now#but this whole saga is very interesting from both a modern and historic perspective#This period of time was generally not a good one for My Guy(tm)#I have good evidence that he was having a period of bad health#debts were descending yet again#and his lover/partner recently died suddenly and unexpectedly#in addition to his other mental health struggles#I can’t imagine venting in a letter#probably just half-seriously#only to get the paper next week#and discover to your horror that it’s been printed#on the FRONT PAGE no less#history#local history#historic research#Letters to RTE#finding this latest national magazine complaint was a gut punch#seems this person was just being petty to no detriment of their own#another letter lower down literally comments#‘the majority [of these letters] present attacks other readers’ views’#well#CORRECT#Thankfully I don’t think My Guy(tm) was subscribed to this magazine#but also it makes me wonder#where the hell else did this breach containment#newspaper research#20th century history
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playing science telephone
Hi folks. Let's play a fun game today called "unravelling bad science communication back to its source."
Journey with me.
Saw a comment going around on a tumblr thread that "sometimes the life expectancy of autism is cited in the 30s"
That number seemed..... strange. The commenter DID go on to say that that was "situational on people being awful and not… anything autism actually does", but you know what? Still a strange number. I feel compelled to fact check.
Quick Google "autism life expectancy" pulls up quite a few websites bandying around the number 39. Which is ~technically~ within the 30s, but already higher than the tumblr factoid would suggest. But, guess what. This number still sounds strange to me.
Most of the websites presenting this factoid present themselves as official autism resources and organizations (for parents, etc), and most of them vaguely wave towards "studies."
Ex: "Above And Beyond Therapy" has a whole article on "Does Autism Affect Life Expectancy" and states:
The link implies that it will take you to the "research studies" being referenced, but it in fact takes you to another random autism resource group called.... Songbird Care?
And on that website we find the factoid again:
Ooh, look. Now they've added the word "some". The average lifespan for SOME autistic people. Which the next group erased from the fact. The message shifts further.
And we have slightly more information about the study! (Which has also shifted from "studies" to a singular "study"). And we have another link!
Wonderfully, this link actually takes us to the actual peer-reviewed 2020 study being discussed. [x]
And here, just by reading the abstract, we find the most important information of all.
This study followed a cohort of adolescent and adult autistic people across a 20 year time period. Within that time period, 6.4% of the cohort died. Within that 6.4%, the average age of death was 39 years.
So this number is VERY MUCH not the average age of death for autistic people, or even the average age of death for the cohort of autistic people in that study. It is the average age of death IF you died young and within the 20 year period of the study (n=26), and also we don't even know the average starting age of participants without digging into earlier papers, except that it was 10 or older. (If you're curious, the researchers in the study suggested reduced self-sufficiency to be among the biggest risk factors for the early mortality group.)
But the number in the study has been removed from it's context, gradually modified and spread around the web, and modified some more, until it is pretty much a nonsense number that everyone is citing from everyone else.
There ARE two other numbers that pop up semi-frequently:
One cites the life expectancy at 58. I will leave finding the context for that number as an exercise for the audience, since none of the places I saw it gave a direct citation for where they were getting it.
And then, probably the best and most relevant number floating around out there (and the least frequently cited) draws from a 2023 study of over 17,000 UK people with an autism diagnosis, across 30 years. [x] This study estimated life expectancies between 70 and 77 years, varying with sex and presence/absence of a learning disability. (As compared to the UK 80-83 average for the population as a whole.)
This is a set of numbers that makes way more sense and is backed by way better data, but isn't quite as snappy a soundbite to pass around the internet. I'm gonna pass it around anyway, because I feel bad about how many scared internet people I stumbled across while doing this search.
People on quora like "I'm autistic, can I live past 38"-- honey, YES. omg.
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tl;dr, when someone gives you a number out of context, consider that the context is probably important
also, make an amateur fact checker's life easier and CITE YOUR SOURCES
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Sometimes college professors like to hop on my posts lamenting the sorry state of syllabi these days and joke about how they haven't thought that far ahead in the course themselves, or talk about how they struggle to complete a schedule for their students.
With all due respect, that's your job. If you can't do your job, you should have a different job. If you need help, ask your colleagues or your department chair or *someone* because I know that professors aren't given a hell of a lot of education on how to educate, so you probably *need* help.
But every single time I make one of those posts I get anywhere from ten to thirty messages, replies, reblogs, and asks say "oh man, that's exactly why I had to drop out of school; I couldn't keep up with the assignments because I didn't know when they were due until the week they were due."
I have been a college student in three separate decades, and "not having a schedule of assignments in the syllabus" is new to my experience. That shit didn't fly in the 2000s or 2010s and I think it likely has to do with professors being overly reliant on apps.
AT A MINIMUM your syllabus should have:
Contact information (including preferred method of contact) for the professor
Office Hours
Grading Policy
Assignment schedule.
Your assignment schedule doesn't necessarily need to have the exact page numbers of every reading or a full assignment sheet for each project, but it should have things like:
December 1st - Major Project 3 second draft due December 9th - Quiz 10 December 12th - Major Project 3 final draft due December 15th - Final Exam
If you end up presenting a more thorough schedule with readings and homework later, that is acceptable to present a week or two into the semester but it is absolutely insane to me that students these days don't know what homework they're going to have to get done over Thanksgiving break during the first couple weeks of class.
If I had three professors at once who didn't give me a schedule, how on earth would I know if I was going to have to read three chapters of a novel, take a midterm and turn in two stats homework assignments, and complete a history research paper the same week that I'm planning to travel to see family? If I'm aware of this from the beginning of the semester I can make sure not to pick up extra shifts, or I can plan to leave a day later to accommodate the midterm, or I can start working on the paper early to complete it before the due date but if I don't know what's going to be due when, I'm going to have a big problem.
If you don't give your students a schedule you are communicating that you don't care about their schedule, and that you think it's their responsibility to contort their life (and their job, and their other classes) around your class, and honestly my advice to students in that situation is "drop in the first week and pick up another class". That's actually part of why I recommend signing up for one more class than you can really manage - if you get a professor whose class looks like it's going to be a disaster because they don't have a schedule, you can bail before the withdrawal period and get a refund for the class.
I'm only in one class this semester but the professor's response has fully dropped me into "Fuck it, I guess I'll fail" mode and I don't even know if I can pull myself out of my current D grade because I don't know how many assignments we have left in the semester.
This is a shitty way to run a class. If you can't do better than this, you shouldn't be running a class.
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