#college survival

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

hey friends

I'm surviving <3

I made it through my first semester of university (🎉) and I think I've made a few friends. but I'm still not quite where I want to be. there are so many things inside my mind and heart that I can't put into words and I just wish I could say aloud and be free of.

thank you so much to those who have been praying for me all along, and those who have sent me DMs since I've been away; it's meant so much to check in here every now and then and see that I haven't been forgotten.

I'll see y'all around <3

[jaycrakhead]

(Comic) Survival kit for lazy mfs

I made this comic for a college project. The project goal was to tell in a book our college experience (first year). It was meant to be like a guide book|survival book etc If you want take a look I would appreciate it You get to see a bit more of the "real life Burnt Jay" (On my pixiv there's the full book in full quality and with all the extra pages and such.)

I hope you enjoy.

If you want to check the full thing: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/117786135

[mangosintherain]

Jon’s little whispered “it is remarkably easy to buy an axe in central London,” will always be one of my favourite random lines from TMA. The police may claim to be tackling knife crime but nothing can stop one (1) sleep deprived archivist with unchecked paranoia

[equinoxette]

they should've hugged!!

[bedheadstudies]

Intro to Public Speaking in 3 Weeks

Not sure how many people who haven’t already taken a gen-ed public speaking class will see this, but if you can take it as a 3 week intersession course you totally should. Tips for survival of the 3 week public speaking blitz include:

Research your professor. This goes for any class, but if you end up with a bad professor for a 3 week class, you won’t have enough time to figure out how to work with them.

Get the book. I’m serious. Find it free online if you can, but make sure you have some sort of a copy. This may be just my class, but the book for my class had a ton of info about how to actually lay out your speeches and even a template that you could basically copy down and add your speech to. Depending on your prof, you might be lucky and have access to that info if they post it, but in a 3 week class you won’t have much time to suddenly decide “oh fuck I need the book.” Don’t risk it.

Start as early as possible. Most introductory public speaking classes (to my admittedly limited knowledge of the subject) will have you do some sort of informative speech and some sort of persuasive speech. That probably sounds a lot like your first college writing class, and you’d be right! I was lucky, they gave us access to the class materials on our portal (we use Brightspace) a week early, so when she said “pick your topic for your first speech on Friday,” I had both my topics ready and could basically start researching straight away.

This probably all seems obvious, and maybe this is a silly post, but I hope someone sees it and decides not to waste a 3 credit slot for 16 weeks and just goes for the 3 week option. These tips also go for college comp classes, but I wouldn’t want to do one of those in 3 weeks. I took composition 2 in an 8 week fall session on accident, and due to a combination of stubbornness and poor planning hated every minute of it. If I’d known these things going into that, I’d have been much better off.

These are just my thoughts, I’m a junior but forgot to take this class as a freshman, so I took the intersession section to avoid having to devote a ton of time to it. It worked out very nicely, and ended up being so much better than if I’d had to slog through 16 weeks of that class. Consider it!

[starjammin]

Hey, Hey, Hey, Lover !!

[deltapelagicpetrel]

alright time for my once-in-a-quarter post, this time the topic is griddlehark!!!!!!!! I love them so much i sure hope nothing bad happens to them ever hahahaha

[fennelwasp]

Day 7-8: Boarded-up and Forgotten

[yorshie]

[hemuchang]

dog life

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

hi yes I'm doing great and fine at college why do you ask :) (<< person who barely contained crying all the way back to her dorm and then broke down once she was in her room bc her government professor told everyone at the end of the first class that they're going to see horrible things in life and it's ok to be bothered by them, you don't have to constantly 'other people have it worse' about everything and so never let yourself feel the hurt over something and then went on to give everyone in the class a Tim Keller book to help cultivate personal devotions bc freshman year is hard)

[grmpgm]

[lonelyslutavatar]

I like the idea that Jon has really plain taste in food. He thinks pepper and paprika is spicy and he's never even dared to try hot sauce before but people automatically assume he can handle spicy food because he's poc.

[sergle]

yall are about to piss me off by not having any PASSING basic knowledge of the way the u.s. military manipulates its recruits into joining by typing up one of your uninformed, unresearched, unempathetic, individualistic, unbelievably annoying posts about how 100% of the people in the military ended up there because they just Love America So Damn Much! they're extremely mature and informed at time of recruitment, they can totally leave anytime they want, they totally had tons of other avenues in life they could've taken, there was no rush at all to get income as fast as possible, and everyone in the military also totally is part of the combat divisions and personally enjoys being IN the military very much, big believers of violence. everyone in the military is shooting guns all day, that's how that works. they LOVE BLOODSHED. also I love the "amewicans haha" twang to this type of shit because you're actually TOTALLY stealing our Thing, which is turning systemic issues into Individual Issues. Instead of talking about the powers that be, it's so Personal Choice up in here. It's, "well you shouldn't have done it then. I totally wouldn't because I know better." you don't wanna talk about the military industrial complex as a whole, and you don't want to talk about recruiters, you just want to pin the blame on Specific Individual People one-by-one, as if they're responsible for the system that they're being ground up in. someone was in the military? bad person, no matter what. it's easier to believe that, I guess, than to acknowledge that Normal People (with high school educations) are manipulated and incentivized into joining a system that is Bad. at like age 18. but yeah no that 18 year old should have just been smarter lol haha anyway here are some screenshots for no particular reason

side note this reply of someone going "umm just get loans and go into a high paying field it's easy XD" as a direct response to someone trying to explain how most americans joining the military are being funneled in that direction out of a need for money.

and another person who Decided that americans join the military just CLENCHING their teeth thinking of other people, and not thinking completely selfishly about their own selves and their own income/housing/healthcare.

[starjammin]

“Hi, pretty !”

[doobledabbadoo]

mini htf art dump