#english class 9

[jigsawabacustraining]

https://jigsawabacus.com/jigsawenglish.php

[tired-and-swaggy]

BE (ACOUSTIC) LAST WEEK, NEW EP MARCH 22 AND WASTELAND BABY! DELUXE NEXT MONTH????? HELLOO????? HOZIER FANS WE STAY WINNING!!!!

[sailforvalinor]

Idk if this is controversial, but studying for a English/writing degree at university shouldn’t make you NOT want to engage with writing or literature. Just a thought.

[broke-on-books]

I need to drop out, flee the country, & die at sea btw (got a question rlly wrong in a lecture hall class)

[iidsch]

isnt it crazy that someone can make a completely legal app for ios but if apple doesn't want it in its app store because of lol lmao reasons you have to then go through a gazillion loops just to get this one app and also millions of people buy apple's products because they don't see the problem with an operating system that fully controls what you can or can't have on your device and also has several other major problems. insane

[thatoneluckybee]

MATH AT 8:04AM IS CRUEL

[overly-hubristic-mad-scientist]

I can’t lie, whenever someone tells me “school never taught us how to do ___” part of me gets kinda annoyed because 9/10 (at least in Ontario) they did you either didn’t take the course because it was an elective, or it was a required class you never actually paid attention to.

[aturinfortheworse]

Discussions of empathy always feel very strange to me, even beyond the complicating factor of people saying empathy when they mean compassion.

And I think it's because empathy encompasses a range of mental and emotional skills. Like I have dear friends who are low-empathy in the sense that they do not readily share other people's emotions. But they are not unempathetic, because they still have the learned skills of considering other people's points of view and connecting other people's experiences to their own experience.

And when I look at my own experiences, there are times when I feel extremely unempathetic, like not just the absence of empathy but the opposite of it: an emotional pushing away from what the other person is feeling. But I can still use the mental skills of empathy in those situations: I can listen to and consider the other person's needs, I can draw parallels to my own life, I can reflect other people's feelings back to them with compassionate understanding.

So then when people say "Some people just don't experience empathy!" it gets confusing because yes, many people lack that emotional response or have various constraints like feeling empathy for animals and objects but not for people—but being incapable of using the mental skills is clearly a failure to learn (a failure of teaching) that can be corrected if it's helpful to do so. I've seen no shortage of parents and educators working with children or students with intellectual disabilities, going through the steps of teaching empathy, which is something all of us need/ed to be taught at some stage.

Which, to be clear, is not the same as teaching compassion or morality, though obviously it helps a lot with those things. It's sitting with people and saying "When you said that, it made me feel sad" and "You know how you hate the rain? I feel like that about ticking clocks." and "Why do you think X is behaving that way? Hm no, I don't think they hate you. I was thinking they might be really tired today."

And like it's not a competition but I think those skills are more essential than the emotional response of sharing other people's feelings. Purely emotional empathy can lead to an uncompassionate response because then you're in a situation where dealing with your own negative feelings can be the higher priority, and you end up trying to downplay the problem or avoid it or explain it away, rather than supporting people.

[heavenly-kazee]

I pass. I passed it. I fucking pass....

HELP MEEEE IDK HOW TO EXPRESS MY FEELINGS FOR THIS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[itstimeforstarwars]

My local community college is like "you don't necessarily need a degree for everything! We offer certificates for working adults that get you just the necessary classes so you can level up in the workplace!" And im like so can i get a spanish certificate? And they're like "no! Only spanish degree!" And im like ok. what is necessary for the spanish degree. And they are like "you need 51 credits in assorted random classes. And then 9 credits of spanish."

Like. Come on man.

[yixiangs]

the state of the begins youth tag on ao3 is making me want to pick up my pencil and write my own fic after years of having abandoned my fanfic writing phase

[post-futurism]

i think my helix piercing is infecteddd

[bluebellthesponge]

when plagiarizing websites flag your paper for the stupidest things ever

it says you plagiarized  two words and they are the most common words ever too and girl what

it also before in the past has flagged my last name before???

[cimicherrychanga]

SO fucked up that when u study languages they also make u study architecture history and ant biology and economy and european politics hierarchy so by the end of the semester i still cant tie a proper sentence in any language but sure i can differentiate the neo gothic style from rococo or tell you what a bull market is

[liebelesbe]

I'm fighting demons and the demons are switching to a different Studiengang 3 days before classes begin

[sunfoxfic]

I know it's not my school's fault but I just did the math and not only am I taking a major in English that requires 8 course credits (though I'm taking like 10/11), I'm doing a minor in secondary education that requires 5 course credits and a concentration in secondary education in English that requires 3 course credits - in essence, I'm doing 8 credits worth of English study and 8 credits worth of education study, but I'm not getting the credit for a major in education, which is honestly weird as hell