#Bachelor's Degree

[klirk-hammurton]

HEY LOOK GUYS, I MADE IT!!!!

After 8 long years, so many ups and downs, heart breaks, and other obstacles, I finally finished my bachelor's degree today!

[f1uckinghell]

it is done.

[sail-away-to-space]

[greyskiii]

College Main Character Syndrome

Two years ago, I've been stuck in a pace where there's a lot of paths in front of me. I was never certain which path I really wanted to take. But, just a few months ago, when I graduated high school, I had to wipe my tears and loosen up my grip of the past—my high school journey, my teachers, my class, and even my high school friends. Plus, I had to accept the fact that my lover and I have different dreams to chase, but at least here I am, giving him my love and support from afar, like he does to me as well. It was hard, but I had to do it. Now, here I am, on my own, facing the approaching challenges ahead of me as a college freshman from the field of Accountancy. I know it was gonna be a struggle for me, since this is far from my interests and I graduated Humanities and Social Sciences back in my senior year. But, I knew I had to do this, for the betterment of my life, for the sake of getting a degree in Law a few years from now, for the sake of the less fortunate people in my country. Honestly, as cliché as it sounds, everything only goes smooth and easy at first. Not really stressing much, I was still able to catch up with my classmates, my schedule, and our lectures. However, as times passes by, I'm starting to feel the real struggles. It was hard for me to the point that I spent my weekends crying alone or ranting to my boyfriend about it. I once thought that maybe this degree wasn't really meant for me because I slowly lost my grip and I couldn't understand everything anymore. However, Soleil (that's how I call my lover), insisted that this is just one big struggle and that I can still make it up to myself. One failure may affect me, but it could never define me as a whole. Despite doubting or hesitating to trust other people, he told me to at least once ask for help from my peers and professors. It may have been a bit difficult for me to accept all of Soleil's words, but I'm taking it crumb by crumb, step by step. From then on, I had to breathe deeply, and put all his words in my mind and heart, and let it serve as my inspiration. For now, I'm slowly trying to get up again, and pick up where I've left off. Hopefully, someday, I'll be able to say that I finally succeeded, and he, along with the people deprived of justice, are the reason behind my success.

[jellybeandrawsthings]

So here's my thesis. More specifically the trailer that played in one of the rooms in the art gallery kind of building in our city (dunno what to call it in English) where we were defending our thesis, as well as most of the slides in the slideshow I used during my Big Talk.

My project was a website about monsters from Slavic mythology - based on books about the subject ("Bestiariusz Słowiański, część pierwsza i druga" by Paweł Zych and Witold Vargas, and "Księga Smoków Polskich" by Bartłomiej Grzegorz Sala, Paweł Zych and Witold Vargas) - with an interactive map, an index with three ways of categorizing the monsters (name, habitat, or region), a quiz game, a customizable profile, and most importantly articles about the monsters. The general aesthetics of the website were inspired by medieval manuscripts. There's a lot I would change about it now, a lot I wanted to do then but didn't have time for or simply couldn't do with the somewhat limited options. Figma is a cool program but doing a web design thesis with the free version of it clearly showed me its limitations.

If anyone wants to click through my Big Thesis Project Website TM feel free, here's the link: Bestiariusz Słowiański Prototype

But fair warning it is in Polish and also it gets a bit laggy sometimes, at least for me.

[nando161mando]

Do people really go to college for this?

[softysofao3]

I just received the email confirmation that my application to graduate was approved! In three weeks I will officially have a bachelor's degree in culture and arts!!!

[apogejcustomgifts]

apogej.etsy.com

[void-galaxy-shenanigans]

Where do you see yourselves in the next 5 years? :)

Usually this question makes me/us glitch. The concept of being alive long enough to plan that far ahead is wild.

But...I have a few things I’m almost certain of now (combination of meds & healing that makes me start believing we’ll be alive to plan that far ahead).

We’ll be done with top surgery for sure, because we’re on the waiting list now so that should come around next summer (2025) or the one after (2026). We’ll also have done the Internal Organ Removal™ step because we’re on that list too.

We’ll also have at least one degree by then. Because we already completed all but 2 of the core requirements (equivalent of an associate’s; we now just need science labs, & have one this semester), that would be two to three years from now (allowing grace for disability).

We might do one degree at this satellite campus & then go to the main campus for the next, not sure yet. (We want to take language classes only offered at the main campus, & would also enjoy taking choir/theatre, which are also only at the main campus.) If we do it that way, it’ll be about 4 to 5 years of school & then we’ll have 2 main degrees (technically 4 total degrees, because one of those would be a triple/collective major), & if not it’ll be about 2 to 3 years for both/all.

We’d also like to be more financially stable then, & living either on our own entirely or with one roommate (likely our current roommate, who’s safe & we have a very (healthy) sibling relationship with). I want to have a service dog by then (to help make public ventures less overwhelming & to help manage tasks our disabilities make difficult to impossible), & I’d love to have the money to spoil our kitty Liliana and our service dog. Maybe we can even afford another cat, so Lili will have a friend/playmate 💜.

And I’m also hoping by then we’ll be much better at functional multiplicity. We’re currently getting better at the communication, cooperation, asking one another for help triad that’s necessary to get there. It’ll never be a perfect practice because we’re all people with different needs, personalities, & desires— but if we can semi (or even mostly) consistently get along enough for that triad to help us function together, then that’s a win.

☺💜

~Nico (he/they)

[oasisr]

I know time is speeding up, but I still can't wait to be done with these classes. Just wanna graduate w/ my BA already.

[diaryofahumanbeing]

When I met my first love.

When I first encountered Psychology, it seemed like a weird and odd subject. Whenever I went to a subject I liked like Biology or Music, there was Psychology nearby, whenever I met a new subject like Artificial Intelligence or Mathematics, there was Psychology. Eventually I started to learn more about Psychology and I was surprised. There was alot Psychology and I had in common, from the history of human development across generations to how humans react and learn about the world. Psychology introduced me to other subjects like Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Statistics, Forensics and some of its family members like Cyberpsychology, Forensic Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Evolutionary Psychology. Psychology had a finger in almost every subject and we had alot in common. I was surprised I would ever like a subject this much since I usually filled my time with certain subjects that acted more Black or White, right or wrong or set clear standards, but Psychology saw the grey in subjects, the spectrum of possibilities and didn't have a properly defined limit. Psychology even helped me talk and like humans, even though I am quite misanthropic and introverted. Then one day I travelled to the UK and I thought that was the end between me and Psychology. I got settled, explored the area and reconnected with family members. On occasion, I'd miss Psychology and our days in high school. After a year though, I bumped into Psychology in college and we reconnected. We spoke again and I had a renewed strength I didn't know I had. I think that's when I realised, I fell in love with Psychology. I loved their interests, I love how it was curious about the world, I love how it always tries learn new things, I even fell in love with its mistakes and history, always trying to be better. Psychology had stolen and kept my heart safe, so I began to pursue Psychology. I first began to pursue Psychology in college while I had taken the basic equivalent education for this new contry, then I began pursuing Psychology to University, after a year of working in Starbucks I finally pursued Psychology in university until I got my degree. In university though, Psychology introduced me to wonderful people and opportunities, the one person Psychology introduced me to was one of the few people I had ever crushed on, so far I had only fallen in love with subjects, this was the first person in a while I had fallen for, and although we used the same pronouns, we shared a student flat, we spend loads of time together and I even held their hand, it wasn't meant to be. Psychology told me it was okay to pursue more than one love if it was honest and true, after all Psychology also taught me about healthy boundaries, healthy relationships and polyamory, but I was not ready. I then I heard a devastating news, even though me and my crush were compatible, they told me they were heteroromantic. I was devastated, but I couldn't be angry at them, they didn't do anything wrong. They were just being their amazing and wonderful self and I fell hard, they had nothing to be guilty or sad for. I had to be a good friend to them, we kept talking and being good friends, we hung out, we vented to each other, we had some fun and Psychology was there to comfort me in my loneliness. Even though I was furious, and jealous and annoyed and frustrated, I was happy I met this person, and I don't regret Psychology introducing me to them. After a while, I got my degree, the results weren't as high as I liked but Psychology reminded me that I could still do a masters and that we could still be together and help people. Psychology now is introducing me to Counselling and the three of us are planning on helping people as much as we can, they will also help me through with getting my masters in the future but right now I want to get acquainted with Counselling, help people, save some money and maybe live a little more. I may have not found my happy ending but Psychology reminded me that it isn't the end and I can't wait to see what adventures we get into.

[fanfic-thesis]

Authors of Merlin BBC Fanfics needed (for my bachelor's thesis)

Do you write Fanfiction about the BBCs Merlin (2008) tv series, or have you written some a while ago? And have you – in the best case – published at least one of them on Archive of Our Own (AO3)? And do you have at least 30 minutes of time and are interested in an interview?

My name is Kay, and at the moment I am writing my bachelor’s thesis for “Media Science B.A.” at the University of Bayreuth. As a topic I chose fanfiction and fan communities in the context of the tv series Merlin (2008) with a focus especially on fanfiction authors for this series. And this is why I want to interview a few of them. It is not important whether you’ve been fan from the very first hour and wrote your first Merlin fanfiction back in 2008, or if you haven’t written any Merlin fanfiction at all for the last few years, or even just recently uploaded your very first one: Your impressions are still very interesting and important for me.

The interview should last about 30 minutes and would happen via Zoom. You need to be able to talk with me via microphone. It is not necessary for you to be on camera. And it can be held in English and German. I do need to record the interview so I can transcribe it later. But nobody besides me will have access to the recording itself and all recordings will be deleted after transcribing. Within the transcript, any data that could be used to clearly identify a person will be anonymised. So you are able to stay anonymous and your data is protected. Everything is in compliance with the european GDPR and the german BDSG (both are data protection guidelines) and participants will get full information regarding data protection beforehand.

Feel free to message me if you are interested. Also just comment or ask me via DM if you have any questions about this.

Thank you for reading and I am looking forward to messages from you! Feel free to repost this, it would help me a lot. :)

[such-g00d-luck]

I have to start writing my bachelor's thesis. First chapter at least. Even though the topic is interesting, this is just... tragedy. I haven't written a single word yet because of the thinking that it would be trash and not about the topic/plagiarism.

Just... PAIN.

I want to return here to see that I did it.

[ivycopper]

GUESS FUCKING WHAT! I might be able to study Latin again!!

Soooo basically, I gave it up after 4 semesters bc you have to learn Ancient Greek for it and I didn't really have the patience and I kinda decided 8 yrs at school plus 2 yrs at uni is enough Latin.

Turns out I really really reallyyyy miss it. Sure, I still study my vocab, still practice my grammar from time to time. But like,,, that's not enough.

So I contacted my old uni whether they'd take me back for a master's degree (there's an option of an instant master's without a bachelor's if you're doing a master's in another two subjects which by the time I'm done with my double bachelor's I will be doing!). And they gave me a preliminary 'yes', official decision pending.

I really don't know what I'm trying to prove to myself here. But I'm seriously considering it.

[fourdramas]

getting a B during your bachelor's degree: "really good work! there are some minor errors here and there but nothing significant :^)"

getting a B during your master's degree: "you have no clear argument and have clearly not understood the articles you are citing. you and your entire family sucks ass. i don't understand why you want to enter academia at all as you are clearly incapable of forming meaningful sentences. overall good job :)"