#But hey that is all considering they don't know their counterparts from their respective universes‚ right?

[kyouka-supremacy]

Beast akutagawa x bsd Atsushi is nice and all but beast Atsushi x bsd akutagawa is where it’s at

Beast Akutagawa x canon Atsushi is your average shonen rivalry between allies that """hate""" each other and in reality constantly push each other to be the better version of themselves / are each other's only drive and reason to move forward but Beast Atsushi x canon Akutagawa is the dark slice of life adult manga that tackles into existentialism and the search of a meaning in the midst of a nihilist perception of the world and potentially even finding that meaning in each other but not before any less than 600 chapters of pining

[maharghaideovate]

Working Professionals' Guide to Distance learning MBA in India

Let's be honest, the daily grind can feel real. You've aced your way into a good job, but that nagging ambition keeps whispering – the itch to climb higher, to become a leader in your field. An MBA gleams like a golden ticket, promising prestige and career advancement. But how, as a busy young professional do you even consider fitting it all in? A distance learning MBA program is best suited for you.

This guide isn't a dry list of steps; it's your battle plan. We'll navigate the world of Distance MBAs, equip you with the knowledge to make informed decisions, and most importantly, show you how to balance work and studies like a pro.

Why Distance Learning is Your Best Friend

Remember those all-nighters in college cramming for exams? Don’t worry you don’t have to go through that anymore. Distance Learning is all about flexibility – the ultimate perk for busy young professionals like us. Imagine devouring lectures during your morning commute it’s a bonus for avoiding rush hour traffic , tackling assignments on a lazy Sunday afternoon after brunch with friends, or even participating in online discussions late into the night because hey, some nights you just can't put down that fascinating marketing case study! Gone are the rigid schedules and the "oh no, I missed a class!" panic attacks. You control the pace, catering your studies to your existing commitments.

Here's another secret most people don't know: Distance MBA colleges are typically easier on the wallet compared to their full-time counterparts. Since universities don't have to deal with the same overhead costs, the financial burden for students is significantly reduced. This is a major win, especially when you're managing real-world budgets and those weekend getaways you deserve.

Choosing Your Perfect Program: Don't Settle!

There is an ocean of Distance MBA programs available in India, choosing the right one is crucial. Here are some factors to consider:

Accreditation is King: This ensures the program meets the highest academic standards. Look for universities with UGC-DEB (University Grants Commission - Distance Education Bureau) approval. This is your quality check! Find Your Niche: Distance MBAs often offer specializations in areas like Finance, Marketing, or Human Resource Management. Choose a specialization that aligns with your career goals and helps you stand out from the crowd. Research is Your Weapon: Don't take a university's brochure at face value. Dive deeper – research the university's reputation, faculty expertise, and student reviews. Look for programs with experienced professors who can provide valuable industry insights. Remember, you're investing in your future, so choose wisely! Industry Recognition Matters: Make sure the program you choose is respected by potential employers in your field. Check if companies you aspire to work for value graduates from this particular program. After all, the ultimate goal is career advancement! Think about the companies you dream of working for and see if their websites mention specific MBA programs they favor.

Conquering the Application Process:

The application process at some of the best accredited online MBA programs is typically straightforward. Most programs require a Bachelor's degree with a minimum percentage (usually around 50%) and may have work experience requirements. Some universities might require entrance exams like MAH-CET (Maharashtra Common Entrance Test) or NMAT (Narsee Monjee Management Aptitude Test). Don't sweat these exams! Prepare accordingly – the internet is filled with resources for test prep and skill development. Utilize online practice tests, brush up on your business fundamentals, and remember, a positive attitude goes a long way.

Scholarships: Your Financial Ally

Let's face it – education can be expensive. However, numerous scholarships are available specifically for working professionals pursuing Distance learning MBA courses. These are offered by universities, government agencies, and even private institutions. Explore all available options to minimize the financial burden. Think of scholarships as your secret weapon to conquer those tuition fees!

Bonus Tip: The Power of Networking

Don't underestimate the power of networking! Once you've enrolled in your program, connect with your classmates online or even try to form a local study group. Not only will you gain valuable insights and support from peers, but you might also build lasting professional connections. Remember, your classmates could be your future colleagues or even business partners!

Remember, You've Got This!

Earning a Distance MBA takes dedication, but the rewards are worth it. You'll not only gain valuable knowledge and skills but also the confidence and leadership qualities to take your career to the next level. Network with your classmates and professors, utilize the resources available, and most importantly, believe in yourself. With hard work and a dash of perseverance, you'll be well on your way to conquering that Distance MBA and achieving your dreams.

[aeliii]

Understanding the world at large is not actually understanding much (and I don't mean this in the Socrates way)

Today after a night out with my friends, I ended up with a conversation about life and the beauty of existence with an older man who seemed to have lived a hard life (at least told us his last few years have been difficult). He told us about how he used to have it all, a pretty stable life with monetary gain but kept chasing numbers and how that chase always kept him dissatisfied. Everything was vibing, and we were getting real insight, until my friend mentioned about not being able to handle human contradiction and I started to ask him questions una genuine interest about how a man saw the world, how it was it for a man, specifically how can they live their sexuality so inhibited (“when you go to a bar with the intention to fuck, whether you do fuck or not, regardless of the outcome, do you ever feel shame at all for your action at all?”) he went around in circles and started talking about how we are all animals and we have instincts and mentioned how he does think I am hot and would fuck me. I paid this last comment as no mind m, seeing as I understood he was trying to further the point about how we’re both wired to reproduce, in our most primal level. This I understand fully, and my understanding of this led me to completely let slide the fact he especifícalo kept mentioning us in a hypothetical sexual scenario. Slightly offended, but for the sake of the conversation I understood. Then I asked, going off this point, if we’re both understood to be wired to reproduce, why is it then that men don’t feel shame and are so inhibited about their sexuality and women aren’t? Or if it’s a neutral process of just reproduction, why is it that the hypersexual outward expression of male is tolerated and rarely is questioned/censored whereas for women they’re placed in such extremes, but if they decide to be specifically outward, even in the slightest, this is automatically scrutinized and question by everyone. Since he kept mentioning how yes he would try to fuck and maybe men are mostly bad, and how sometimes he’s not as good and he’s the one to beat himself up and how he was raised as certain morals, which I agree are factors in all of this, he never answered my questions directly, do you or do you not feel shame or the need to self regulate your sexuality ? Then I decided maybe sexuality is just too sensitive of a topic, especially outside of a dive bar at 2 AM so I explain to him, if we all have masculinity and femininity and we understand that this is part of the wholesome of an individual, why is it that a the wholesomeness of a man is respected/acknowledged/taken more seriously/made in a higher manner than the wholesomeness of a woman? Why do women do not get taken as seriously as men, why is it that we don’t regard as women’s band in the same way we regard The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin (all male bands), and as a man, do you ever feel that you can’t accomplish your dreams, goals, that people question your abilities and integrity based on your gender?

Again, he couldn’t just give me that answer with that specific focus. It seemed his scope of perspective was focused on spiritually, money and morality at large, but he didn’t seem to begin to scrape the surface of what I was trying to ask hin. I was super respectful, very very calm and made my question and clear and concise as possible.

At the end our ride got there, and I said to him “I hope you understand I wasn’t trying to attack you because you’re a man or anything like that, but I simply am asking you your perspective as a man because I’ll never be a man and I don’t understand but I’m trying to” he said no worries and good night and that he loved us and it was all good and nice like when we first started the convo. But I felt feeling a combination of weird icky emotions.

For one, I felt like I just made this dude feel bad, when we started off the conversation on a very spiritual, hippie, “freedom come from acceptance of life,” and the general struggle of the highs and the lows, finding the mid point, how money and possessions can consume you, how you just learn to be yourself and appreciate yourself. He had called us beautiful and said he loved us and I believe his sentiment and I think it was genuine as I have felt those feelings and thought those things as well: the amazement at the beauty in each and everyone, in the world at large, how easy it is to love.

But when I tried to get into more specifics of understanding, I feel this is when the connection felt apart and led to us ending in a sour way.

Indeed, perhaps I used stereotypes and he used some women ones, but I feel I have seen this male behavior and I was able to accept the female behavior he described cause I have either done it myself or experienced it in my life, experienced it with people close to me and with people I’ve known. So there, I admit it, I believe, that as a gender, at least to some extent, I can admit to some wrong, I can admit to maybe having contributed to the catiness attributed to female dynamics, attributed to certain stereotypes, so if in wrong and you’re wrong, then we’re do we meet? But also, I felt I went as far as to say hey if I’m wrong, the alright, I admit it, but please let me understand from your male perspective how I am wrong. Meaning, if as a woman I am this and that then tell me with evidence. Or me, trying to relate to man, put my experience as a woman and ask “does it happen to you too?” If we consider we are more similar than different, then tell me so and be very specific as I will try my best to truly understand you?

And idk he said something about how men know they’re more similar to women than they like to admit or even let us know. I thought this was interesting but was not able to dig deeper.

I’m not really sure what I was trying to do, perhaps I shouldn’t have probed so hard a a single man’s view, especially since he could or could not be in a good place mentally, emotionally, physically, etc (he could or could not have been on a drug, idk), but the chance came to me out of nowhere and from the common ground that I have developed with him about the world at large and spiritually, I felt safe to even go there, in a genuine effort to understand, that it’s not about being angryfeminist and attacking and, and perhaps I could truly see where men are coming from and what can I do to better understand?

And like I said perhaps this was just this particular man, and I’m not going to put this universal all men judgement based on this sole encounter, but once again, when I tried to talk about gender differences with a man, especially the topic of sexuality, I simply feel like I am not being listened to, or at least that there is not as as much amount of effort in them to understand me as a woman in the same way I’m trying to understand them as a men? And in no way do I ever perceive them admitting to their wrongs, that perhaps, just perhaps we’re not just all angryfeminists but that we have legitimate arguments and valid views that are actually observable and are things that as individuals MEN NEED to take accountability for and perhaps don’t feel so self-assured in continuing such behaviors and being so fast to point the finger elsewhere and be in complete denial about the whole thing.

I don’t know how I feel, I feel conflicted cause for one I felt it pointed to the limits of my empathy, and felt narcissistic that I felt sad because it showed that I am actually shallow. Second, I just felt so confused as to why isn’t anyone explaining things to me when I’m communicating in a very neutral, objective way, based on your experiences, as in trying to understand very specific angles to this whole confusion in gender politics. I was so confused that blanket statements that kind of related but not entirely, were used to answer me. I was so confused that I was saying HEY I COULD BE WRONG, I just wanna know how it is for you, I was not receiving answers. If I’m asking you how and why, it’s because I don’t understand because my experiences did not give me true opportunity to see through those lenses, but you bet that I will try my damn best to come to that understanding regardless. So please, literally explain this to me as you would to a child. Be fucking specific, give me evidence. Say it all, I want to know.

I feel better now talking about it. I think perhaps I approached it wrong but now I feel like the whole “the world is a beautiful place, all is love” universal hippy feeling is just shallow and as self-congratulatory and useful as its opposite racist, hateful and all-phobic counterpart is. What good is universal understanding if you just overlook the specific context ?

I feel that that universal understating and love is the first step, and probably a feeling that drives you, feeds your soul and overall is amazing and should be respected. It’s necessary and it shows the genuine kind heart of the human soul. Nevertheless, I do not think this is enough. You cannot say you love everyone and accept everyone and tell me you know absolutely nothing about who everyone is. Can you truly love someone you don’t understand, much less someone you don’t even try to know?

I know I know, this is probably exaggerated as it is impossible to know everything, and of course that includes knowing everyone and knowing everything about everyone. I know my gender discussion excluded other individuals and experiences from queer folks, non-binary people, LGBTQ+, and I didn’t even touch upon class or race. With this man I saw someone who was more or less similar to me, middle class, cisgendered, straight, I disregarded race because I was interested to see what this man had to say as a man and what could I do with those views to better my understanding of women and how society views them (and like I said, consider the possibility that perhaps just maybe I was being too sensitive or I’m not being judged as harshly as I feel, or I’m just in one way or another wrong, and holding a faulty view that came as a result of a faulty belief.

But I feel frustrated. And at this point I don’t think I ever saw any worries in this man to self-regulate and take personal responsibility of himself than I do as a woman. And nowhere did I feel my questions were truly being answered even as I stood there with open arms, ready to accept any answer, as long as it was his truth to what I was asking him.

No. So now I don’t know. I just feel like saying a big NO. Not even in anger, not even in a fuck men or fuck the patriarchy type of way, but in a NO I will not tolerate this any further. no.

I’ve tried so hard, crossing so many times beyond the point of naiveness, but I just feel so frustrated that the weight of actions inflicted upon me are placed UPON ME. Meaning it is I as a woman who has to self regulate my primal instincts and emotional, expressive needs and be understanding of the outside world when the outside world does absolutely nothing to understand me and regulate its negative actions it has on me based on my gender.

And sorry if his parallel is wrong, but never did privilege seem to click, and white privilege, and rape culture, and the inability to truly understand another based on the fact that it has never and will. Ever happen to you (tell me, do white people truly understand the extent in the historical pain felt by Native Americans and Blacks? Do men truly understand the extent in the historical pain felt by women? Do the rich a wealthy ever understand the extent of the historical pain felt by disadvantaged countries that came about as a result of capitalism ?)

Idk but this conversations touched upon a lot of subjects and it truly cemented the fact that this society doesn’t make any sense, and that’s not just a nihilistic wushu-washy “but fuck it we all try to live the best way we can’t without ever knowing wtf we are doing” but in a more concise and extremely revelaba point that it makes no fucking sense to marginalized groups people, it makes no fucking sense to place money above life, human life and nature, hell planetary life, that it makes absolutely no fucking sense to continue in such a consumerist hyper-anything never ending gaping hole of an existence with no absolute regard, true regard, to the life and the people that have been long before us and that are directly affected negatively by all these absurd systems and ideas we all hold so dear a mighty as a way of living.

NO.