#Academic Expenses

[mokeonn]

"But if college was free, then people would abuse that and get useless degrees" hell yeah I would! If I could go to college without debt I would make it my job to get a degree in every little thing that interested me. I'd get a doctorate in film studies. I'd have a bachelor's degree for every science I like. I'd try to learn at least 5 languages with varying results. I would learn something "useful" like coding and then follow it up with a ""useless"" degree like art history. I'd be the world record speed run holder for getting every degree possible.

But I can't afford college without going into massive debt, so instead I spent the last 5 years trying to figure out what I am passionate enough about to consider going into debt over, because unfortunately being passionate about everything is extremely expensive to pursue.

[toasedevelopment]

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[days-may]

Individuality will always be one of the conditions of real elegance.

[wasabi-gumdrop]

thinking about modern au Kabru

ivy league college student, probably studying law and political science on a full scholarship. first time living away from Milsiril so he has to promise her, yes mom i’ll call you at least four times a week, no mom i don’t need your amex black card, yes mom the normal credit card is fine i need to learn how to budget like a Normal Person (it has a limit of $20k — that’s not normal Kabru).

Milsiril insists for a long time that she’ll just get him a house off campus so he can have his own space (aka a place she can drop by anytime and possibly live a few months out of the year just to be close to him) but Kabru puts his foot down and tells her the best way he’s gonna make friends is by living with other students (bye mom).

his floor in the coed dorms is the party floor and he always makes sure to invite everybody (his nightmare is accidentally leaving anyone out and having them think that he doesn’t like them). somehow it’s always a good time, everyone leaves with more friends than they came with, it never gets totally out of control, and plenty of girls who are interested in him (and a lot of guys too tbh) bring tons of baked treats so there’s always free food. Kabru is the RA’s favourite person to have in the building (even though Kabru himself is messy but most of the people he’s friends with are nice and clean up after themselves).

he has a porsche (Milsiril gift for his 16th bday) but he’s adamant about not driving it unless he absolutely has to (because he doesn’t wanna look like a douche). BUT he never says no when his friends ask for rides (so he ends up driving all the time anyway). he actually contemplates selling the porsche and going for a more practical car but Mickbell is like ‘dude you are not taking this away from me.’ Kabru sighs and decides to keep it because his friends (Mickbell) like being chauffeured around in a fancy convertible (Rin, Holm, and Dia don’t care, they’re just glad they don’t have to walk to the grocery store).

he’s probably on a casual texting basis with most of his professors and you know he’s going to all their office hours, grabbing beer with them just to keep chatting about life outside of school. and that’s how he winds up in some super secret faculty group chat where he’s now privy to all the college administration gossip.

Kabru is elected for student council during his freshman year and he’s probably the favourite to be sc president one day.

he doesn’t really date (gets too in his head about how he doesn’t wanna ruin any friendships) but he does hang out one on one with a lot of girls and treats them all really well. he probably goes so far out of his way to be platonic that he flies a little too close to the ‘Just Like One of the Girlies’ sun, he kinda forgets that most people interpret it as flirting coming from him. which leads to a few awkward conversations. people feeling led on, a few angry jealous boyfriends, scathing dms about him being a girl stealing homewrecker.

it’s such a nightmare for him and he needs it to end right now. so he begs Rin to ‘date’ him for a week or two and then publicly dump him just so the entire student body gets the message that he is Just A Friend.

Rin stares at him for a few seconds. then she laughs. she laughs and laughs. she laughs for a crazy long time. and then eventually she goes, ‘wow you’re an asshole, Kabru. no i won’t be your fake girlfriend. you’re gonna suffer and i’m going to enjoy it.’

and that’s when Kabru has a moment of enlightenment. ok yeah. asking for that is probably really selfish and mean. maybe he needs to think about girls’ feelings more and that’s maybe more important than his deep seated need to be liked, and when has Rin ever been wrong about anything.

he apologizes. and so begins one of the more serious talks he’s ever had with Rin about being okay with not being liked.

he thinks he can really turn over a new leaf. the whole ‘not worrying about what other people think’ thing goes pretty well — up until Kabru meets the aloof professor for his Monsters and Myths class who keeps forgetting and mispronouncing his name.

Kabru has never needed someone to like him So Bad, he needs Prof. Touden to like him as a matter of life and death, and he’s willing to look stupid for it (fails a midterm on purpose to justify begging for one on one tutoring)

[wri0thesley]

truly think that dottore would invent the teyvat equivalent of the first hitachi magic wand just so he could overstimulate you until you cried

[wheatormeat]

Maybe it's cause I'm surrounded by art people all the time but I feel like math as a school subject gets a bad wrap. Like now that I'm not forced to take classes for it, I just start doing it on my own for fun. It gets my brain stimulated. I'm doing calculus like it's a word puzzle; it's a stress reliever and it's rewarding. It's encountering a problem I already know all the steps to even if I've semi-forgotten them. And there's minimal consequences if I get the answer wrong. I think it's fun to go to town with a ballpoint pen on some dirty scrap paper, just letting the scribbly numbers flow.

[alexis-royce]

I do not require anonymity to encourage my friends to engage in their passions, slow brain day or no. Draw your scenario you funky little artist man. Today, tomorrow, next week, whenever you find the energy to manifest your brainwaves and render this scene into great and terrible reality. The lines, like the words and the water, want to move. Time is not the object, They are patient, They can wait.

How dare you engage me in the classic Mortifying Ordeal; receive one (1) OC warmup scribble composed with sincerity for your efforts:

[pratchettquotes]

Rincewind was a coward and an unwitting clown, but he had several times saved the world in slightly puzzling circumstances. He was a luck sink, the Archchancellor had decided, doomed to be a lightning rod for the fates so that everyone else didn't have to. Such a person was worth all his meals and laundry (including an above-average level of soiled pants) and a bucket of coal every day even if he was, in Ridcully's opinion, a bit of a whiner. However, he was fast, and therefore useful.

"Look," said Rincewind, "a mysterious urn turns up and suddenly it's all about football. That bodes. It means something bad is going to happen."

"Come now, it could be something wonderful," Ridcully protested.

Rincewind appeared to give this due consideration. "Could be wonderful, will be dreadful. Sorry, that's how it goes."

Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

[angiospleen]

I just got the keys to my very first apartment!!!!

[sarasade]

The local librarian when they see the same fujoshi mf (me) filling out acquisition proposals for BL non-fiction lit once again.

[wyfy-meltdown]

Kinda vent post maybe(?) not really any tws tho

As much as I love things like Vocaloid, Prosekai, and Vtubers I can't help but feel super jealous. It's a pretty silly dream, but ever since I was very very little I've wanted to be an idol and that dream has only grown and evolved overtime. It's rather unrealistic since I don't have much talent, nor confidence, or any real opportunities but I want to make it come true so bad that it often makes me sad.

[riverstories7]

Can I rant for a minute? Authors, if one of your characters is an academic, do some basic research. Your adjunct professor will not suddenly get tenure if they publish their magnum opus. Your associate professor probably already has tenure and isn't at risk of being fired unless they commit misconduct—in which case their rank doesn't really matter. Job titles vary from country to country: professor means something very different in the US and the UK. I've been thrown WAY out of immersion in at least two books this year by stupid errors that might have been fixed if ANYONE involved in the writing or editing had done a Google search or talked to an academic.

[roxannarambles]

So, some of the characters in Scarlet/Violet are shown to favor a specific kind of pokeball, and it reflects on their personality. Eri is very concerned about others not getting hurt and uses Heal Balls, Mela is impatient and uses Quick Balls, Ortega is used to a life of wealth and has the expensive Luxury Balls, etc

It's a cool idea. This is prob over-analyzing but thinking about Nemona, it's interesting all hers are just regular pokeballs, considering they made it a point that her family is fairly wealthy, AND a point of the fact Nemona is not very good at catching pokemon.

So, she has money, she could buy pokeballs with a better catch rate, but she doesn't.

I like to think maybe she doesn't want to rely on her parent's wealth, and wants to prove herself by her own worth, so she's using her own funds to get those pokeballs.

[silverislander]

the arcane artbook is EIGHTY fucking dollars canadian...

[mistninja]

The strike is over :/ but I don't want to go back to uni

[cn-alastair-lite]

locked in on commisions like a crazed ancient scholar while the second volume of svsss taunts me from the shelf. you know it's bad when you wish you were studying instead of drawing