#Week 7 Discussion

[themoderatespeaks]

"Israel's actions in Gaza are genocide and need to stop immediately."

"Hamas started this war. Return the damn hostages immediately."

....

Why is it so hard to say those two things at once?

[dasketcherz]

headcanon that Varian picks up on a few ingavarrian swears solely cuz he hears Hugo mutter them all the goddamn time. Does he know what it even really means in slang terms? Who knows—but it totally takes Hugo off guard to hear the other alchemist say it out loud directly at him one particular time when he was exceptionally pissed at his lil shit antics. He truly never fails to surprise the blond

[meirimerens]

do you simply email French colleges, and they take you in? no admission exams? no scores competition?

i mean i guess some people would prefer it go that way but can you imagine how much of an administrative bloodbath that would be?

in order to get into higher education in france you have multiple options. if you're going to specialized med, engineer, business, vet schools, you will need to pass an entrance exam. to do so, you might have to take a "prépa" [preparation] year, which is a bunch of privatel-run specialized classes which can run you some fucking moneyyyy and some students put themselves into debt over it. entrance exams are also done for most art school regardless of it private or public, such as the public one i was in for my first run of post-highshool education.

if you want to go to free public university like most (me included rn) do, in which you have a wider chance of getting into, you have to go through

which is the government online platform that regulates access to higher education. every french person who's had to use it (me included) will tell you it is the bane of our existence.

basically you have to put down your "wishes" for which branch in which uni you want to go. you have to add to them your grades of your baccalauréat [high school final exit exam] and to boost your chances a like. cover letter as to why you'd want to get in so so much. and then you WAIT. you wait for months that your submission be viewed by the professors (allegedly) of the uni you want to go to and they accept or deny you. multiple rounds of acceptation go around. once accepted into a uni, you can either accept it definitively or wait if another you you'd prefer also accepts you, with the knowledge you could be kicked off your first acceptation if someone accepts first if there are limited entrance spaces.

i know of plenty of people who were rejected from their first choice on parcoursup, and then had to fall back on a uni/class they were not that passionate about but still put in their wishes list because Parcoursup PUSHES you into high ed, even if you would have benefitted from a sabbatical, from getting a job, or from travelling. i always always say this. i can feel it in many of my classmates who were highschoolers last year, SO MANY of those people would have benefitted from getting a government grant to go travel across europe & chill for like a year. i know of plenty of people who were rejected from all of their wishes full stop because they didn't have good grades in high school. it's a goofy as fuck system which brings nothing but stress to high-school students who were (at my time) expected to study for the most important exam of their life so far alongside it (baccalauréat) [they might have changed the examination methods since i left like. 7 years ago man] and More Segregation in higher ed even if it was supposed to help with it.

even if you get into a branch with a very high acceptance rate (such as mine, who had like 90% acceptance iirc), there is a 30%-50% dropout rate for the first year only because it's so different than what you've done before.

tldr : do we wish email and no exams or score competition ? probably.

is it that way? goddess have mercy on us all No.

[teamdarkweek]

TEAM DARK WEEK 2025 BEGINS!

... well, in one hour for me, but that's alright!

Check the pinned here if this is the first you've heard of this. Post anything you've made for the week to #teamdarkweek or #team dark week, or you can tag me @teamdarkweek to participate in the daily prompts!

But wait there's more: there'll be daily polls, discussion questions, an ask list and an improv game all coming out for you to join in, plus for my own selfish desires: I'm opening my team dark playlist up for anyone to add to again - I love to eat your Team Dark related songs! All the relevant hashtags are on this post.

Yes I'm throwing a few bits at you, but the most important thing of all is this - remember to like, share and uplift people's work! Community makes this site go 'round, so no matter if you're bringing stuff to share you can always take part in supporting others.

[starscelly]

will forever be on my soapbox abt how schooling should not be online outside of class hours ever. if i want to be in contact with you i'll come to your office hours. i don't want my professors to have 24/7 access to me. updates on stuff to do. ability to just throw piles upon piles of reading on you. i think tech has a place in learning for SURE but i think that place is not taking over the entirety of student's lives. there's no period of separation anymore. you constantly have school at your fingertips. it doesn't feel like you can have "off" hours where you hang out with friends or party or just fucking Chill Out anymore. the work is always looming and lingering.

[brooklyn-the-great-nobody]

STOP EVERYTHIBG

everyone in the coments, put all deltarune theory you have so we can come back once deltarune is finished to see how close we were

[pastafossa]

Next chapter going up shortly! We're getting some final scraps of fluff towards the end of this chapter before we really dive into both the Frank's Trial arc (which obviously includes the ninja shenanigans happening at the same time, though stuff will obviously play out a bit differently) and a more serious arc having to do with Jane's hunt for Derek and Anthony.

So enjoy this moment, this calmness, this fluff. Then buckle your seatbelts, please keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times, cause we are going on a RIDEEEEEEE

[tiramisuaa]

almost all of my assignments this semester are group based :’)

[idontliketomatoesleavemealone]

The free christian elementary school here is expanding into a secondary school

[paula-of-christ]

it makes sense of course that you would not be able to then have a down payment if he doesn't agree to it (since it's a mutual expense too) but don't you have your own money to buy stuff that you want?

Yes and no. All of my money is his money and all of his money is my money. IE we share everything, even if we have it in our 'own' accounts, it's expected that it I need something (like gas in my car) and I don't get paid for 2 days, he pays for it. Or if we need groceries and he doesn't get paid until the end of the week, I buy them. If I want to buy something not in our budget, I generally ask him for permission to do so. He usually doesn't say no unless it would be an exorbitant espense (more than $50 or so). If I want something but can only be purchased online, I ask him to purchase it for me.

This works best for us because I work part time and sometimes don't get hours at all on days I'm scheduled to come in. For example I was scheduled yesterday, but since there was only one appointment, I didn't go in. We would have a slightly different arrangement if I was working full time, but I'd still ask permission to buy things. We also are not well off by any stretch of the imagination, as the only thing that keeps us above the poverty line is his works generous bonus system. So our budgeted monthly 'fun' money that doesn't go to savings is about $30.

[nomaishuttle]

guys seriously im being tempted by the cruiseliner job .

[llimerrence]

okay, so if we say: Philip is roughly 10 that means that Caleb is roughly 17

And therefore Thomasin is roughly 15 at that time

[daisydoctor13]

The fact that it is thursday today and not Friday feels like a personal attack

[micer2012]

dude severance s1 Sucked am i the only one who thinks this *hiding my pile of PicMixs and pages n pages of fanart behind myback

[arainesque]

have this for ur day

THIS IS THE MOST GEORGE THAT GEORGE HAS EVER LOOKED I LOVE GEORGE (the people who follow this blog all yell in unison because this is the most perfect image to ever exist)

I hope u had the bestest day!!!

[dirt-goth]

Twice this term I have cross-checked the list of courses I need for my program with the courses my current instructors teach because I needed to ensure I could avoid ever taking a class with either of them again likeeeeee