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stevensaus · 2 months ago

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I was kicked off Match.com within 15 minutes, and not gently. The app froze while I was still filling out my profile, logged me out, and then threw up a generic error message when I tried to log back in. My email had one message from Match with a subject line "Steven, we're glad you're here," and 12 minutes later, a subject line "Your Match account has been terminated." But this is not a story about discrimination; it turns out I had unwittingly violated their TOS. This is a story about bad advertising, bad UI design, and bad customer service. I've been on OK Cupid for well over a decade, with varying levels of annoyance at the platform. Still, I have persisted, as it was one of the first to allow you to expressly identify as non-monogamous without shunting you into a completely separate app back in 2016. I've been listed as non-monogamous on OKC since they allowed it. In the last year or so, OKC has begun suggesting other Match Group apps for me to try. OK Cupid was bought by Match Group in 2011 in its domination of the dating app world. It seemed pretty obvious that it was pulling from my demographic data: The ads for their "senior" offerings began showing up shortly after my 50th birthday. Match Group also reportedly will ban people across all its owned networks, so they do cross-reference their data. Among the sites that I was "personally invited to" (in the language of the ads) was Match.com itself. For some reason, I'd never actually signed up there, so after getting presented with yet another ad, I figured I'd give it a try. The signup is pretty routine, easy, and straightforward. The screens are simple, usually with only one or two basic demographic questions per page. Like any dating app, the basic onboarding asks your birthday, first name, and then for your email before setting up the full profile. They all look rather like this (you can click to embiggen images at the blog itself): I did all that, started setting up my profile, filling out some basic information. As usual, in my "introduction" paragraph, I openly state that I'm polyamorous/ENM, and my current relationship(s). It was shortly after that, while adding in some "interests" and the like that the app froze and locked me out. The email saying my account had been terminated gave no details: Your account has been terminated. We're sorry to say goodbye, but we do not allow anyone who has violated our terms of use. This is to protect our Match community. Need more information? See terms of use When I followed that link (feel free to click it; I left the tracking info on it on purpose), it sent me to this general help page: So much for getting an explanation there. So I replied to the email: I was in the process of creating an account and filling in my information when my account was terminated for violating the TOS. The email does not explain what about the TOS was violated, or how, or if there was a way to appeal. If I could be informed as to how I violated the TOS, that would be fabulous. The first customer service rep didn't have an answer: Based on the findings, I’ve reviewed your account and need to escalate your concern to a different department. I am emailing your inquiry now and someone should respond to you via email. and it wasn't until the second representative, two days later, that I got an actual answer. Please note that Match welcomes all single adults seeking one-to-one relationships. However, we do not cater to individuals who are already in a relationship or marriage. Per the terms agreed to during the subscription process, you must be single or separated from your spouse to register as a member of Match or use our site. Therefore, your account has been terminated. We appreciate your understanding. Our Terms of Use can be referenced at the following link: http://www.match.com/registration/membagr.aspx http://www.match.com/registration/membagr.aspx. If you paid to attend an upcoming Match Event, please know your name has

been removed from the RSVP list and any charges associated with the event have been refunded. Which, y'know, is fine. I get that not everyone is okay with ethical non-monogamy, and have no problem with there being a space for people who are only interested in monogamous relationships. I have no interest shoving myself into places that aren't for me. I was a little concerned, though, that I'd somehow missed that criteria. So I went back through the onboarding process (taking the screenshots above as I went). Did you see the notice that you had to be single or separated from your spouse in the above screenshots? It's there... sort of. First, you had to actually click on the "Terms" in the onboarding process. That takes you to this page of much smaller print, filling up my 1920x1080 screen: You then have to scroll down a page to find it under item 2, point 3: "You are single or are separated from your spouse" So to recap: Match Group solicits me with targeted advertising on OKC, where I am listed as non-monogamous, to join their other sites. I sign up for Match, not realizing that I was violating a section of their TOS that was behind a link by merely being non-monogamous. After all, they invited me. The app freezes during my profile creation, my account is terminated, and it takes two customer service reps (and two days) to even point me to the reason why. I'm making a bit of a presumption that when a service terminates your account due to a TOS violation, there's some sort of checkbox or criteria recorded as to why. It would be trivial to use that to auto-fill text in their emails to point to the relevant portions of the TOS. Why they haven't gone to this small effort is beyond me; it would save them time and money and reduce ill-will. Likewise, Match could have forestalled the whole thing kindly by during the onboarding process having any nicely-worded statement like, "Match is exclusively for those who are single or separated from their spouses. Here are our other sites where we're happy to have you!" Since, y'know, Match Group owns sites that are open to non-monogamy. Once again, absolutely minimal cost, reduction of ill-will, and possibly turning that person into a customer elsewhere. Heck, they could even have done that in the account termination email. Finally, someone in Match Group's internal marketing team needs a wake-up call. Actively soliciting me to join your sites that your own data shows I do not qualify for and then terminating the account without immediate explanation is... icky. Again, I have no interest shoving myself into places that aren't meant for me. I have no interest in trying to trick anyone into thinking I'm something I'm not, or to convert or convince anyone to change their relationship style. I want people to do what works best and is healthiest for them. None of this had to occur; I do not sign up for "Christian Mingle" or "Farmers Only" or "The Right Stuff" because they are openly and clearly not communities that I'm part of. I would have done the same with Match.com had it been obvious. Instead, I'm left with a really negative feeling toward Match Group as a whole because of how it was handled after they directly solicited me as a customer. Instead of being gently told, "this club's not for you," I was shoved onto the street with my wallet (figuratively) tossed after me after they'd begged me to show up at the club. Online dating is awful enough, and the statistics are horrible. This (If you've not seen the video below, I strongly encourage you to. It explains why online apps tend to be worse for men, just due to the sheer statistics of the thing.) And Match Group owns so much of the dating app market that -- no joke -- an article about dating apps not owned by Match Group resorted to counting ASHLEY MADISON as an alternative dating app. While Match Group (apparently) hasn't decided that my faux pas with Match.com requires me being kicked off their other apps that do

allow non-monogamy, their handling of this situation really highlights for me Match Group's attitude toward its users, and that they have no particular interest in making an already awful experience any easier. DISCLOSURE: While I am not currently a paid member of any of Match Group's apps/sites, I have been a paying member of more than one in the past. https://ideatrash.net/2024/09/i-was-invited-to-and-kicked-off-match-com-within-15-minutes.html?feed_id=354&_unique_id=66e2410173354

#advertising #business #computers #internet #online #relationships #customerservice #dating #onlinedating

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deniigi · 4 years ago

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sorry to bother again but i am a freshman in college and i am v stressed

how did you get through it and how do I make myself not want to drop every single class i’m in every semester

how does one take more than 5 classes at a time

i am in midterm hell and i am Scared™️

oh you mean, ‘Matt, please do your actual literal job on main?’ Because this is sort of my actual literal job, friend. So don’t worry. I’ve got you.

So first thing’s first, when planning future semesters:

I would recommend against taking more than 5 classes at a time. Mathematically, it is not great for you. If you have to take more than 5, plan on doing 1-2 to during summer school. You won’t be behind. You’re fine. I swear.

Example for future class planning: For every class, look at the number of units/credits it is. That is around the number of hours that you’re gonna spend in that class a week. Now multiply that by 2. That’s about the number of hours total you’re gonna spend on that class in a week (both in class and doing homework).

That means that a 3 unit/credit class = 6 hours of work per week.

You have five of those classes. That means that you’re doing around 30hrs of school work a week. If you have six of those classes, you’re practically working a fulltime job with little to no pay and benefits.

End story: Do not take more than 5 classes a semester if you can help it.

If you can, don’t take more than 4 classes in your major per semester, either. You will die. Use electives and general education classes as your fourth or fifth class to lighten your load and give yourself something that you enjoy and know you can pass for sure. That will give you some breathing room and will help you maintain your GPA.

Coping with Overload now:

At this point in the semester, it’s a little late to be dropping classes, so what you’re going to do instead is to schedule the fuck out of your time.

You need to pick and stick to set dates/times for completing coursework and midterm projects for the next week or two. People do this in different ways, but generally speaking, people will assign projects/homework to certain days.

Example: Monday is Chemistry homework night because assignments are due on Wednesday. You only work on Chemistry on Monday. You finish the assignment and turn it in.

Tuesday is English homework day because assignments are papers and take 3 days to complete due to requiring 3 different steps: research, outlining, and writing. You do the whole researching process on Tuesday and do a basic outline. You will fill out the outline a little more on Wednesday and will then write the whole paper on Thursday so that you can turn it in then, before the Friday deadline.

On Wednesday, after you’re satisfied with your English outline, you will set that aside because Wednesdays are Math days. You will do the Math homework and/or study for 2-3 hours until your brain feels like soup. Then you will stop, do something relaxing for 30min, and then decide if you need to do more studying. If you do, repeat the study + self-care process. Go to sleep at a reasonable hour (before 2am if possible)

Do the same thing for your other 2 classes, assigning each a day and a specific task or set of tasks to complete on each day. Don’t give yourself more than 3 tasks per class/study session, because that’s how you get overwhelmed and into an anxiety spiral.

Apply self-care (breaks, snacks, drinks, music) liberally while doing assignments.

Other tips: figure out how you study.

If you study best in a group, grab some folks from your class and form a study group. If you are in STEM especially, it is expected that you will form study groups. This is how studying happens in STEM, medical, and law fields. It is nigh impossible to do all that labor on your own. Yes, I am serious. Make a study group, even if that’s you and 1 other person.

If you can find a study guide, take it to study group or block out an hour or two and do the whole thing. If you don’t have a study guide, make one yourself out of your homework/assignments and test yourself with flashcards or writing out definitions and forcing yourself to explain the different parts of cycles you learned in class.

If you are in a humanities/liberal arts major, you need to figure out if you study best by reviewing your notes, by re-listening to the lectures, by explaining concepts to others, or by writing it all out as if it was an essay.

If you need to write an essay and are stuck with where to start, reach out for help from a tutor if your school has one, or just start by doing 15 minutes of brainstorming to figure out what you feel about the topic and what evidence/ideas would work to answer it. Pick apart the prompt to see what it is truly asking you to do, write out the components of the prompt separately on a separate page and start answering those question as if they were short answers.

Then when you’ve got that, you can start noting bits of evidence to add to support your points and BAM, just like that, you’ve got an outline. Write a thesis statement at the top that addresses the Who, What, Why and How You’re Going to Prove it of your essay and you’re ready to go.

Example thesis statement: “The world represented in Oh God, How do I Study by Matt Deniigiq includes references to time management, course planning, and big-picture thinking to emphasize the broader theme that this one shit semester is not going to destroy student’s lives. This is evident in the droll humor used throughout the piece and the fact that the author keeps halting in paragraphs to answer emails from frazzled students.”

**yes, your thesis can be 2 sentences long. It’s allowed, I promise.

Know that these 5 classes will not end your life.

Honestly, like, speaking as someone who does this for a living, at public schools anything higher than a C is grand. It’s not usually required for you to list your GPA on job apps later on (I’ve never been asked). No one actually cares about your GPA in social situations.

As long as my students have higher than Cs in their classes and they aren’t like, nursing students, I’m cool with their progress, so give yourself a break if you can.

Also know that getting a low grade in 1 class as a freshmen doesn’t actually fuck up your GPA as bad as you think it will. Like, there’s a lot of complicated shit around this that I could go into, but generally speaking, if you fail one class (and I mean FAIL-fail it. Fs and D-s. None of this ‘UwU I got a C so I failed’), then by the time you’re a junior or a senior, if you haven’t failed additional shit, that F/D- is barely going to shift your GPA.

Like, we’re talking .1 shifts around then. Maybe a .3 shift if you’re at the end of your sophomore year. That’s the diff between a 2.5 and a 2.4. Or a 3.3 and a 3.0. You can make that up almost entirely by taking another round of classes and getting As and Bs (again, the mechanics are complicated, so you’re just gonna have to take my word here).

So yeah, shoot for Cs or higher and know that these classes aren’t the end-all be-alls of your lives.

(For context, if I get a student with a 3.0 or higher, I’m fucking ELATED. I’m not even joking. Y’all will be fine.)

Start with these tips and get back to me if you want something more specific. I do this all day, every day.

#study skills #long post #I am literally answering 10+ email long chains right now of students asking similar questions

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fifteenleads · 3 years ago

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Scientific Method: a process that uses evidence and testing to investigate the unknown, usually following a set of steps in order to arrive at a conclusion.

(Way too tedious. And boring. And so unlike Dazai.)

— An SKK Gakuen AU.

Step One: Make observations.

Most treat it like a "Step Zero", though, to their teacher's dismay. An era of results and instant gratification guarantees zero patience for things that take time.

Chuuya's guilty as charged, of course.

In any case, Dazai is being annoying, as usual.

"Stop blowing raspberries into my ear," he hisses, ducking under his textbook. "It's disgusting as hell."

"Did not," Dazai singsongs in English to the tune of his annoying ringtone. How he manages to even carry a tune despite the bubblegum idol pop blasting from his huge headphones is a mystery, indeed.

Chuuya rolls his eyes at that. "Did, too." He lightly kicks Dazai's leg to get his attention. "Seriously, listen to me. This is important."

Dazai seems to have read his lips, pausing his iPod and taking his headphones off with an annoyed sigh. "What, chibi?"

Ugh, that's definitely intentional.

Chuuya lets that insult slide for now. "I need the budget for the props ASAP," he huffs, arms crossed. "The school festival is already next week, you know."

Five days, to be precise, but Dazai still acts like they still have five weeks. "Ask Higuchi to do it," he drawls, lazily waving Chuuya away. "We still have 120 hours, don't we?"

Dazai turns to him, raising an eye expectantly. Damn him and his lack of sense of urgency sometimes.

That said, though, he always manages to get shit done in time. Every single time, without fail. And Chuuya, in turn, is always baffled at how he does it, every single time.

Today he finds himself asking the same thing all over again. Ugh.

Dazai's still waiting for an answer.

Chuuya's way too tired for this. "120 and counting down," he answers in kind to prove his point. "I need to submit it by today, in case you forgot."

"Higuchi will do it," Dazai simply repeats, wearing his headphones again. "Come back here when you're done. I'll wait for you."

Chuuya opens his mouth, then closes it again. Inhale, exhale. Better.

"Fine," he relents for now, arranging his things. "You'd better still be awake, or I'll dropkick your bony ass to tomorrow. Got it?"

He only gets the same lazy wave in response as he leaves.

When Chuuya comes back to the classroom an hour later, Dazai is fast asleep at his desk, headphones awkwardly displaced around his face.

To be fair, Dazai never said yes at all.

Chuuya could only scratch his head at that. This is one mystery he doesn't feel like solving at all.

Step Two: Ask a question.

Easier said than done, really.

They've been seatmates for more than a year and co-class reps for half that time, but that's about it.

Chuuya had cursed his luck to high heaven and back, and Dazai knew it. Reveled in it, even.

Then he got used to it.

He prides himself in being a good team player for the most part, if nothing else. That said, though, this is the first major event they are handling together, and the weight of the responsibility isn't lost on him.

"—Oiiii. Earth to Chuuya?"

Dazai is staring holes into him, pointed nose a mere fingerbreadth from his. He quickly backs away in surprise, sending the stack of paperwork flying to the ground.

Dazai seemed to have expected this somehow, and he sinks back into his seat while breaking into an amused chuckle.

Chuuya slowly puts up a hand to his face, surely an embarrassing flush of red by now. This is what he gets for getting caught off-guard.

The meeting continues where it left off, with Dazai rattling off a string of numbers while Higuchi notes down everything. Luckily, no one else said anything anymore.

Chuuya's still in his own headspace as he walks home alone, having managed to successfully ditch Dazai for once. He stops at a vending machine for a can of iced coffee, since he'll be pulling another all-nighter.

He gets the hazelnut-flavored one by mistake. A reflex, really.

Downing it in one go, Chuuya grimaces at the nutty aftertaste at the back of his throat. He still doesn't see what Dazai likes about it.

That being said.

Since when has he been this preoccupied with thoughts of Dazai?

"Ever since," a voice from the back of his head whispers.

Chuuya feels his face heat up again at the thought. Traitor.

Maybe he's still only flustered about earlier. He also hasn't slept enough the past days. Also stress from festival prep.

Or, he's only confused. Yup, that's definitely it.

That instantly makes him feel better.

Step Three: Formulate a hypothesis.

1. Dazai's annoying. 2. Dazai's very annoying. 3. Dazai's very, very annoying.

This one goes into the wastebasket, of course— as if he didn't already know that.

Chuuya's eyes trail to Dazai as he reads aloud a paragraph from the textbook.

It gets increasingly difficult to follow along with the lesson at hand when he's absolutely distracted by that rich, warm voice, carefully enunciating each word in the passage.

"Thank you, Dazai-kun," the teacher nods in satisfaction. "You may sit down."

As Dazai takes his seat, he turns his gaze ever so slightly in Chuuya's direction and their eyes briefly meet.

No sparks fly in all directions, but Chuuya feels a faint jolt of electricity run from his chest outward to every inch of his body.

Then Dazai smirks— the bastard.

1. He's definitely riling me up.

Dazai's smug face lasts only for a fraction of a second before it reverts back to one of disinterest.

Chuuya definitely knows better, though: from the dip of his eyebrows to the twitching of the corner of his lip.

2. He can be serious as hell.

Chuuya ends up mulling over his list through last period. He doesn't notice that class is over until Dazai sneaks up on him and quickly blows into his ear.

"Argh— goddamnit Dazai, every single time!"

Dazai sticks out his tongue in response. "That's for ditching me yesterday."

Chuuya groans in disbelief. Petty much?

He will never understand what he even sees in Dazai at all, at this rate.

Surprisingly, the very thought does the trick for him, and he takes note of it in his notebook at once.

"What's that?" Dazai attempts to peek over his shoulder, but Chuuya manages to evade him, snapping the notebook shut and glaring at him. "None of your business."

It only makes Dazai laugh. "Fine, then. I'll find out by next week."

"Is Nakahara here?" Kunikida from the next class calls from outside. Oh yeah, meeting.

"Gotta go," he excuses himself, half-relieved.

And that was that— for now.

Chuuya doesn't look at the third item on his new list until he's home. It's... strange and vague and unlikely as hell, but there it is anyway, in bold, red ink:

3. This might be a crush (???)

Step Three-point-five: Refine the hypothesis.

This is absurd, Chuuya thinks.

He's taken to scribbling his thoughts on a dog-eared spare notebook, since Googling "Do I have a crush on my classmate" was evidently useless.

The result ended up looking like a conspiracy map. Ugh.

Chuuya considers his three-and-a-half pages of chicken scratch before tearing them off.

It feels like he's dug himself into a hole at this point. Not that he minds staying in it, if it means he doesn't have to see Dazai tomorrow.

School festival's tomorrow, though.

Double ugh.

Chuuya honestly thought he was already too old for this shit. No, really.

Now his 15-year-old palpitating... red organ thing is laughing at him for it.

(He still chugs the rest of his coffee anyway. Mmm.)

Running won't solve anything, Nakahara.

Inhale, exhale.

Back to work:

H0 (null): He doesn't have a crush on Dazai. H1 (alternative): He has a crush on Dazai.

There, much more... straightforward.

Dazai would probably laugh at him for misusing a stat concept like this, but it serves his purpose just fine. It's not like he'll find out anyway.

It's one or the other.

(He'd have to decide sooner or later, anyway. Best to strike while the iron is hot.)

Step Four: Gather data.

(Because there's no time to experiment.)

It's only Day One, but micromanaging proves to be more challenging than expected. It comes with being second-in-command though, so Chuuya takes it all in stride.

Dazai, on the other hand, is on his phone, mindlessly scrolling and tapping and humming to himself between listening to the team's reports and ordering everyone else around.

Magnificent bastard's a born leader.

Chuuya peeks at his own phone; stopwatch app's still running

Dazai's been on his mind for... 6 hours now.

(No, really. Despite all the chaos. Yes, he's been keeping track.)

Others:

1. They've been using the same shampoo. The smell of activated charcoal has never been this alluring. 2. They think in the same way, apparently. Higuchi of all people had noticed. "You realized just now?"

And... And!...

3. They've been sharing breakfast for a year now. Bites out of the same bread, gulps from the same bottle of water, the works.

It makes Chuuya run for the nearest faucet to scrub off the blush on his face.

He's only left with cat-scratch nail marks and a soaking wet shirt for it, so clearly he shouldn't have bothered.

Welcome to adolescence.

Dazai is mildly amused when Chuuya returns to the classroom. "Had fun, chibi?"

No thanks to you, stupid beanpole.

Day Two isn't any different, but they're more used to the work by then, so they manage to close up much earlier.

Chuuya and Dazai are the last to leave the classroom, having finished the stocks inventory for Day 3 while everyone else went to enjoy the festival.

It's five PM.

"Ah, freedom!" Dazai yawns loudly as he says this, stretching his arms upward before swinging them around.

Chuuya ducks to the side to avoid getting hit. "Ugh, watch it!"

To his credit, Dazai drops his arms back at once. "Oh. Sorry."

He adds a smile to that. It's beautiful.

How hadn't he noticed that before?

The early sunset bathes the corridor in pale red-orange, as well as their white polo shirts. Dazai's messy hair seems to shine, too, if anything.

Chuuya's reaching up to touch it before he realizes. Greasy but soft.

Also: "You have freckles."

Dazai's confused at the sudden contact. He doesn't withdraw, though. "You, too." A smile. "Faint ones, as small as you are, across your nose."

Then he leans in and traces the cat-scratch marks on Chuuya's cheeks. "You've been distracted since last week. What happened?"

Step Five: Analyze the data.

Step Six: Draw a conclusion.

Step Seven: Share your findings.

...

Wait, wait, wait.

The moment feels like a jolt of electricity and the numbness after, and then some. Those who said people short-circuit were onto something, after all.

Chuuya doesn't register anything for the entire minute Dazai shakes him back to reality.

Then something wet goes into his ear.

He lets out an unholy screech right there and then, instinctively covering his ear in disgust. Dazai, too, has a finger in both of his, face contorted into something between a wince and a grin.

A beat.

Two more.

And Chuuya laughs his head off. He doesn't know anymore.

Dazai does, too, and they devolve into a pair of crazy hyenas— not that anyone would notice.

It's only a good five minutes later that they catch their breath, slumped on the wall, leaning into each other for support.

"You okay now?" Dazai asks him, still trying not to laugh.

Chuuya only huffs loudly in reply. Dazai takes it as a yes.

"Now that that's out of our system,"— and he goes back to business mode— "will you tell me what's going on?"

Hypothesis 2: Dazai can be serious at times.

(He has always been, though.

Chuuya only refused to see it.)

The next thing he knows, their faces are too close for comfort.

Chuuya takes a nervous gulp. It felt more like gasping for air, the way Dazai frowns at him for it.

Hypothesis 1: Dazai likes to rile him up.

(Maybe? Why, though?

Now he's not so sure anymore.)

Maybe it would be wiser to just forget it. This only happened because he overthought many things.

There's still time to back out.

Dazai won't let him, though, if the intense glare he has on now is any indication.

Inhale, exhale.

Moment of truth:

"Here's the deal" Chuuya starts, momentarily avoiding Dazai's gaze as he finds the right words to say. "We've worked together for so long now. And yes, I still think you're annoying as hell."

Dazai merely hums at that, as if he were expecting it. He doesn't say anything, though.

"A lot of times, though, you pull through. Get things done— magnificently at that. I really don't know how you do it, sometimes.

"The past week made me think about these things. Maybe even earlier than that. Who knows? Does it even matter?

"In any case, I realized something."

By now, the sunset is as deep red as his cheeks, and he feels himself burning up inside.

(Running now won't solve anything.

One or the other.)

Chuuya meets Dazai's eyes.

It's now or never.

"I like you," he says with finality. "And that's all you're getting out of me for now."

Chuuya lets out another huff to prove his point, and holds his breath. And waits.

A beat.

Two more.

It's Dazai who sighs in relief.

And what a sight to behold: his lithe form slumping forward against Chuuya's, the tension in his muscles dissipating with the remnants of the afternoon heat.

"Whew," Dazai finally manages after a while, "you finally said it."

"... Huh?"

"I told you, right? I'll find out soon."

"You didn't read my notes."

"Of course not," Dazai laughs. "You /were/ mumbling a little too loud to yourself these days, though. It was easy to piece things together."

Ugh.

Chuuya rubs at his temples. If only he has something to chuck into Dazai's face right now.

It doesn't explain Dazai's exaggerated reaction just now, though...which he isn't at all trying to cover up, unlike all the times he played pranks before. Unless..

...Oh.

It takes Chuuya only a moment: "You—"

"Yeah," Dazai breathes out. "And that's all you're getting from me, too."

No problems there. Chuuya likes straightforward people.

He still headbutts Dazai for it, though. "Payback," he says simply before he hears complaints.

"Fair enough," Dazai mutters under his breath. "We even now?"

"Yeah."

A bit anticlimactic, all things considered, but Chuuya finds he likes it, too.

Now that that's out of his system, though... "Now what?"

It's a pretty loaded question, and they both know it. No one just suddenly admits and enters into... whatever this is, without a plan.

Dazai stares back, just as cluelessly— but not for long: "I think I know what."

Chuuya decides he still doesn't like that grin at all.

"Remember the lab primer in science? There's a certain procedure we follow to investigate what we don't know."

This time, it's Chuuya who slumps. Good lord.

Step Eight: Start over.

For Kiro.

#bungou stray dogs #nakahara chuuya #dazai osamu #soukoku #gakuen AU #mayoi gakuen AU #high school #fluff

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doinbetter · 4 years ago

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Do you have any tips (non academic and academic) for a soon to be freshman in college? Really admire you and your success ❤️

aw thank you!! and congrats on the big change! this is super (super) long, but I hope this all helps :)

edit: adding a TL/DR- don’t procrastinate, delete social media, have a solid work/life balance, take care of yourself, and stand up for yourself. be your own best friend.

academic-

a) read the textbook before class and annotate your book notes in class, if you can! i’ve found it gives me more focused time working with the material- 1) focusing on reading it and note taking and 2) not rushing to write everything the prof is saying instead of actually listening. it also means lectures are just reinforcing what you’ve read rather than being the first time hearing it, and you’ll know what you struggle with more and need to pay greater attention to:)

b) don’t write papers in one day- the shortest timeline I have comfortably managed is research one day, outline in one day, write one day. but my ideal (for shorter papers at least) research one day, outline one day, and write a paragraph a day until you’re done. just start like... as soon as you get it. so much less stressful and more manageable. in general, I try to divide projects into more manageable chunks rather than doing it all at once. the general theme of this point is try your best not to procrastinate.

c) I found that I did really well and was much less stressed when I treated school as a full time job- be on campus at 9am, spend down time doing work in the library, go to your classes, and be home for dinner. then relax/work out/ friend time/ self care all evening, and take at least a full day off on the weekends. don’t let school work bleed into your entire life- don’t let every hang out be a study session, and give yourself solid relaxation time where you specifically *dont* think about school.

d) covid specific:::::::: you really need to find a way to separate school from home life, whether that means you study in a different room from where you relax, or you completely pack away academic materials when you’re done working for the day. it really consumed me for the past few months. also, if you can afford to, try to get physical copies of books, take notes in a notebook, and print out materials to work with instead of being forced to stare at a screen all day. really makes studying a lot easier.

non academic-

a) I would strongly suggest deleting social media and ditching the phone more often. This was the single thing that changed how I spend my time the most. I think the most damaging ones for me were instagram / snapchat, and I never had any other platforms but tumblr. just be careful with the really addictive platforms, specifically instagram and tik tok nowadays. I keep facebook for university pages / events but have never had the app on my phone. i don’t keep the tumblr app on my phone. personally, I recently redownloaded snap but I deleted everyone I haven’t spoken to in the past week / that I wouldn’t snapchat right now, so I have maybeeee 15 friends on there? and it feels a lot healthier that way. seriously- you aren’t missing ANYTHING and you’re getting your time and attention back by deleting it. ( a good book on this topic is Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport- it really changed my relationship with technology. would definitely recommend)

b) don’t be scared to put yourself out there when it is safe to do so! for example, I signed up for a pottery class, spin class, and women’s choir, having never done those things before! and I’ve made some really good friends, especially from choir! try new things, anything you’ve ever wanted. you don’t have to be good. I promise

c) I’ll start off with saying it’s cool to hang out alone and do things alone. I always used to say “be your own best friend.” explore the city alone. go eat alone. you won’t make best friends right away, and that’s okay. either way, I’ve found that being 100% genuine and vulnerable has gotten me SUPER far in terms of making friends. people really value those who put effort into getting to know them, and it’s obvious if your intentions are good. just be kind and open and yourself, and you’ll attract kind open people!

d) don’t be scared to leave situations that make you uncomfortable and unhappy, and to speak up for yourself. this time in your life is really for your own development, and you shouldn’t waste your precious time on people who don’t respect you or on things that don’t make you happy. don’t be scared to break up with a friend or SO if the relationship stresses you out AT ALL. good relationships shouldn’t stress you out all the time.

e) read for fun, watch the 20 min news segments on youtube, EAT A BALANCED DIET, SLEEP, and EXERCISE. doesn’t need to be a whole book a day, doesn’t need to be a whole sweat fest, but just make sure you do at least this to take care of yourself and to stay informed. balance, my friend!!

f) I would not recommend scheduling every minute of your day on google calendar, but whatever floats your boat i guess. balance balance balance

feel free to ask me anything else if anything comes up!

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discovering-ellie · 3 years ago

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August 26, 2021 - Post Two

Day Thirteen. I can't believe I've been working on this for almost two weeks already. Maybe I've just been clogging everyone's timelines up with all of these paragraphs every day, but I've honestly come to enjoy writing these posts every day. The cards give me something new and different to focus on every day and, at the same time, they allow me to share more things about myself (if I so choose). Other times, they help open up different dialogues with people and I really like those times, too.

Anyway.

Yesterday, I finished another cycle through the categories so I chose to start this new cycle with "Insight & Awareness." Once again, this card plays so well into things that have been on my mind lately.

Front: "There is always more"

Back: "Boredom is a fabulous tool and a great indicator that there is more fun to be had. Next time you're feel bored, look more closely. If there doesn't seem to be much going on, then look even closer. If you start to look for interesting things and for more detail, you will see it in a new light and something that was once boring can reveal itself as truly fascinating. If you're still bored, then spend a few minutes looking at boredom itself. What does it feel like in your mind? In your body?"

My Interpretation: I've always had a difficult relationship with boredom. As a kid, I was left to my own devices a lot. Since I was reading at an early age (roughly 3 or 4 -- I was reading before I even went into preschool), any time I asked either of my parents to read a book to me, I was met with "you can read, why do you need me to do it?" Because of this, and many other factors, I became self-sufficient out of more or less a necessity. I would occupy myself when and how I could but, even then, I would feel those pangs of boredom, or just craving interaction. If I ever mentioned that I was bored (which, for little kid, still an only child me was code for just wanting interaction), I was shamed for it. "How can you say you're bored? With all of the toys and games that you have, how can you be bored? If I had half the shit growing up that you do, I'd never say that I was bored." Man, aren't parents the best?

Over time, I began to associate boredom with negative feelings. Was I wrong or a bad person because I was bored? Was there something wrong with me for wanting something different or out of the ordinary for my routine?

In a way, that's kind of still where I am to this day. I can't let myself sit for too long because I start to feel the familiar guilt. I should be doing something. I should be more productive. I have access to so many things, how can I possibly be bored? Even the other night, when I found myself honestly and genuinely -relaxing- for the first time in I can't remember how long, I felt guilty almost immediately. I have so much work to do for my care/recovery. I have so many tasks I should be working on. How dare I relax?

Was I wrong or bad for relaxing? No, of course not! Am I wrong for being bored from time to time? No! Everyone gets bored. It's just part of the human experience. My views and feelings on boredom are just one of the many things I need to work on rewiring, and that's okay.

Plan of Action: Well, in the future when I get bored, I'm going to try to not let myself feel guilty about it. Instead, I'll try to remember to take a step back and look at the situation. Why am I bored? Do I have options for things to do? Is there anything keeping me from doing something?

DBT Skills Card Update: Guys. I'm starting to feel like the idea of me trying to establish boundaries in regards to personal space is just a joke to people now. I'm still trying, though I'm stuck in between knowing that I need to be firm and stick to my guns about this, but also not wanting to come off as too harsh. But, like, ugh. I need that man from the beginning of quarantine who made the hat with pool noodles to make one for me. And this'll just bring us right into.....

ACT Skills Update: Just like yesterday, I needed to use Expansion again today in tandem with Defusion. *What was the emotion? - Stress *How long did it last? - The stress itself only lasted 10-15 minutes, but the physical effects lasted for closer to an hour and a half *What prompted it? - Like yesterday, the unnecessary invasion of my personal space while trying to do my morning work. This time, I was in the (very small) laundry room filling the cleaning buckets and the other person walked into the laundry room, stood about 2 feet away from me and watched me fill the buckets, completely silent. *How did it physically feel? - There was a tenseness in my chest that soon changed into a slight pain. *What did I do? - Firstly, I left the room as soon as I was done with the buckets. I acknowledged my stress and took some deep breaths before getting myself a fizzy water. I told my boss about the situation and how I wasn't okay with it (you know, like every single time something similar happens), and I went into my area to clean.

During this time, I continued my deep breaths and attempted expansion (seriously, this ring never leaves my thumb anymore aside from when I have to sleep). I also practiced my self-compassion breaks along with my deep breaths and finally attempted my rainbow grounding technique. This one was rough, guys. Even after I no longer felt stressed, the physical pain from the stress was there for what felt like forever. At that point was when I started to talk to others, partially for distraction and also for some advice since Google had given me all ideas that I've already tried.

I also mentally checked in with myself from time to time, just noting that the stress pain was, in fact, still there, and I would take another couple of deep breaths.

Once I have more time later on today, I'm going to see if I can find a collection of short meditations either on an app or in podcast form like Nastassia suggested so I can hopefully help myself better during these events in the future.

Any other ideas and suggestions are completely welcomed and appreciated.

"I am already everything I am trying to be. I will see that if I stop for a minute."

#mindfulness #mental health #mental health blog #mental health journey #coping

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bedlamsbard · 7 years ago

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Organizing (Grad) School Applications

Applying to college or graduate school has a lot of steps, some of which need to be done in advance of the deadline. I’m not the most organized person alive, and in the past that’s definitely come back to bite me insofar as apps go, mostly because I won’t get everything lined up and end up missing the deadline as a result.

This is the method I used last year when I was applying to graduate schools. It requires a fair amount of advance planning, because I knew going in (this was my fifth round of applications and the first round of entirely PhD apps) that that was mostly likely to be where I was going to fall down, so I needed to bite-size it as much as possible. This is aimed at grad school apps, but the same method should work fine for college as well; there are just a couple extra grad steps.

I really recommend doing this on your computer, because I ended up hyperlinking a lot of stuff so I didn’t have to google it and dig around the department website every time. I actually just did it in my Tumblr drafts, but something like Google Docs or even Microsoft Word or Excel would work just as well.

KEY POINT: You can do all of this in five minutes a day if you start early enough. You don’t have to dedicate six hours a day to it or do every step in a single day; in fact, I recommend only doing about 5-15 minutes a day, then putting it aside and doing literally anything else. If that’s one e-mail? Good! If that’s looking up one school’s website? Great! If it’s filling in ticky boxes for five minutes? Hurrah!

Whatever works, works.

Step 1

Narrow down your schools by whatever metric you’re using: my initial list was 13, I narrowed that down to 8 and ended up applying to 6. Write down the school, the department (your area of specialty if applicable), at least one professor in the department that you want to work with, and the application deadline(s). Hyperlink the program page on the department website.

Example:

Boston College - History (medieval)

Robin Fleming (medieval/Late Antique)

January 2, 2017

Louisiana State University - History (Late Antique/medieval)

Maribel Dietz (ancient/Late Antique)

January 15, 2017

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill - Classics with Historical Emphasis

Jennifer Gates-Foster (ethnicity & identity)

December 13, 2016

December 21, 2016 (letters of rec)

Step 2

Go through each program and write down every requirement for the application. Not all of these will be on the department website, so you’ll probably have to go to the graduate school’s website as well. Every requirement. Double and triple-check.

Things to check for:

Digital vs. hard copy transcripts

Also, which schools. If you’ve taken summer courses at another institution, they may be required; they may only be required from degree-granting institutions.

No graduate schools require high school transcripts as far as I know.

Number of letters of recommendation (the standard number is three, some schools will accept four)

Deadlines -- does your program have different deadlines for the application and for letters of rec? does your program have a different deadline than the main graduate school?

Program-specific requirements -- writing samples are standard; some schools also require a book review, a portfolio, or something else.

Does the program require or recommend contacting the professor within the department whom you’re interested in working with?

GRE scores -- if you’re in the States just assume you have to take the GRE, though not all programs require it.

Personal statement vs. statement of purpose (or both)

Resume vs. CV (curriculum vitae)

COST. Almost everywhere in the U.S. has an application fee; make sure you know what it is. Some schools will have a fee waiver deadline; in many cases you can also apply for a fee waiver if it’s financially difficult for you.

Organize everything by application date; I divided them up by month and put every requirement on there, as well as a hyperlink to the APPLICATION page (not the department page). I didn’t go through each application

Example

DECEMBER

Dec 13 – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill - Classics

Application

transcripts (scanned)

letters of recommendation (3)

GRE scores

note: separate requirements for classical archaeology

writing sample (20-30 pages)

personal statement (1-2 pages double-spaced)

professional goals?

why a PhD in classics?

particular interests UNC program and faculty?

any special circumstances?

application fee ($85)

JANUARY

Jan 2 – Boston College - History

Application

statement of purpose (1-2 pages, intellectual interests, why BC?)

official transcripts (scanned)

hard copy only required after matriculation

GRE scores

letters of recommendation (3)

writing sample (10-15 pages)

application fee ($75)

Jan 15 – Louisiana State University - History

Application

GRE scores

official transcripts (hard copy)

statement of purpose

letters of recommendation (3)

writing sample (10-20 pages – excerpt from MA thesis)

application fee ($50)

Step 3

Make your applications. Write down your username (or e-mail address used) and password -- I kept these handwritten in the same notebook I used for a few other things. Make sure your hyperlinks from the previous step lead directly to the application itself.

Step 4

I took the GRE several years ago, so I didn’t have to do it again, but if you haven’t taken the GRE yet I would advise you do so as soon as possible in order to get your scores in on time. (I’m not sure if it’s too late or not for people wanting to apply in this round of applications.)

Step 5

Ask your recommenders. I asked five professors; most schools only require three recommenders but I’m an untrusting sort so I lined up four (one said no because he had only had me for languages), three from my most recent graduate program and one from my previous postgrad program. Since I wasn’t in town with any of them, I e-mailed them and said, essentially, “Dear Dr. So-and-So, I am applying to graduate school this year, would you be willing to write me a letter of recommendation? I am planning on applying to programs in ancient and medieval history and classical studies; the deadlines are in December and early January. Thank you, K.”

Generally professors will say yes! They may ask for your statement of purpose and sometimes your most recent paper; I sent them all a draft of my statement of purpose (more on this coming soon), my CV, and for the two who hadn’t been on my thesis committee, a copy of my MA thesis. (There’s a pretty good guide here, as well.)

Do this as early as possible. Now, I have asked professors for letters of recs at the last minute before, but I don’t recommend it. Try to give them at least a month’s lead time to write it.

Step 6

Order your transcripts. Many institutions are now granting digital transcripts, which is great! None of mine did. If you’re a current student, you can usually just order them online and pick them up in a few days from the Registrar’s Office; if you’re no longer a current student you’ll want to have them sent to you. Yes, you. Most universities require you, the applicant, to upload a PDF file of your transcript to their application, so you’ll want to have one. I manually scanned my transcripts and keep PDFs of them.

A few universities require transcripts to come directly from the degree granting institutions in hard copy, which means you’ll have to order them from your university and have them sent to the graduate school you’re applying to. The receipt information will be on that grad school application’s webpage. This unfortunately generally costs more money.

If you went abroad for university or graduate school, note that you’ll want more lead time because a hard copy will take longer to get there (and sometimes more processing time). Since I did my postgrad in England, for the one graduate program that required hard copy transcripts I had to order them about a month in advance. This also cost more than ordering them from my undergraduate university in the States.

Step 7

Sit down with your transcript and write out every one of your major and minor classes. Every single one. Make sure you also note down the grade you got and the number of credits it was worth. If you did a double major or a double minor, as I did, do this for all of them.

Many graduate programs require your major GPA, which isn’t noted on your transcript. This is pretty easy to figure out -- just plug it into something like GPA Calculator -- but it’s a time-consuming hassle. Since I had a double major and a double minor, I calculated my GPA for each one separately, then together, and put down whichever of those three turned out the highest. I only had one school ask for my minor GPA; same process.

Writing everything down will also mean you have a list to refer back to if a school asks for all relevant courses you’ve taken, thanks, Boston College, that was really annoying to do.

Step 8

At this point if you like -- and I would recommend it, since I didn’t do this and it came back to bite me -- you can go through each application and note individual requirements: major and minor GPA, relevant courses, work history, languages, etc.

Step 9

Start drafting your statement of purpose. It can be very very rough at this point; you’ll refine it later. This is the thing where you give your academic history, your areas of interest, and why you want to go to that particular school.

Note that most universities won’t have the same word- or page- length requirement. I would recommend writing one general statement of purpose -- in my case I wrote one for classics/ancient history and one that differed slightly for medieval history -- and leaving the last paragraph to revise for each university. In that paragraph you want to make it very clearly that you’re familiar with the program and the professors you want to work with; make it as specific as possible. I sent the cleanest early draft of my statement of purpose to my recommenders (making it sure they knew it was a draft).

Step 10

Start actually working on your applications! In whatever order you feel like; this is mostly a case of filling in boxes. It’s time-consuming but generally brainless.

As many of you know, I’m a big fan of using timers and doing five to fifteen minutes of work a day, which is how I did my apps. At least five minutes a day, aiming for at least five days a week. I put stickers on my calendar every time I did something on my apps because (a) I like stickers and (b) it shows me that I’ve been working.

I think I started working on them in about mid-October, lost about a week in November because I wasn’t functional due to the election, finished the first half my apps in December, lost another two weeks because I wasn’t functional for personal reasons, and finished the second half of my apps in January.

Step 11

Figure out what you’re using for your writing sample. In my case, I used a chunk of my MA thesis -- actually, several different chunks, because I tailored each excerpt to the program I was applying to. Many of them had different word- and page- count requirements.

Here’s a “do what I say, not what I do” note: make sure you write down somewhere which writing sample you sent to which university, if you’re using different excerpts or different papers for them. I still have no idea which chunk of my thesis I sent to which university and I wish I knew.

Step 12

Make sure you actually hit the “submit application” button once you’ve finished. This is also generally the point at which you will have to give whatever university you’re applying to a large amount of money.

Step 13

Congratulations, you’ve applied to graduate school! Your applications are in and finally you can know peace! Actually that’s not true, you’ll be very stressed. Response time varies a lot. I got a rejection letter from one university less than a week after I submitted the application, but in general longer is better; you may not hear anything for a few months.

MAKE SURE YOU KEEP CHECKING YOUR E-MAIL.

I used my .edu address instead of my personal e-mail address because it looked more professional, and after I finished my last application I didn’t check it for a week because I figured it was early enough that no one would be contacting me yet. Three days after this I got a frantic e-mail on my personal account from a professor at one of my applying universities saying she had been trying to get in touch with me, but couldn’t because I wasn’t checking the address I had used to apply. (She contacted one of my recommenders, who was actually the only person at my previous university who had my personal e-mail address.)

I also got an e-mail from one university telling me that I had been waitlisted, did I want to stay on the waitlist or had I gotten a better offer? Another e-mail told me I’d been offered acceptance into the MA program, but not the PhD program; did I want that? Another wanted clarification on my GRE scores (they were right on the expiry line). You never know what people will ask, so make sure you can stay in contact.

Step 14

You may have an interview, which I did. I prepared some things to talk about -- my academic background and areas of interest, both of which were on my statement of purpose, as well as some other academic interests I hadn’t put in my statement of purpose. I also prepared some questions to talk about -- what kind of teaching training the program supplied, how much teaching I would be required to do, if the department got along with other departments in the university (because I’m interdisciplinary), questions about field work and internships, and also, what the professors interviewing me liked about the university and the city it was in. You want to seem engaged and knowledgeable about the program you’re interested in.

These can be phone or Skype interviews; in my case it was supposed to be a Skype interview but ended up being a phone one because my Skype didn’t end up working. (To this end, make sure they have your phone number as well.)

I did end up getting asked in my interview about the fact that I took a year off where I had no work history; I was upfront and said that because I had finished my program late, I had decided to concentrate on my applications and my health rather than trying to get into the job market, since it was financially possible for me. Admitting I took a year off did not hurt my applications.

Step 15

Wait and cry. You honestly can’t do anything about your applications at this point, so be gentle with yourself. If you’re still in classes, concentrate on them; you don’t want your grades to slip in your last term. If you’re not -- well, at the time I was busy being completely miserable about something else, which occupied about 90% of my thoughts at any given point in time, but other than that, it does sometimes help to come up with ideas of what you can do if you don’t get in. Wait for the next round of applications? Apply overseas? (Different deadlines, many of them rolling.) Put yourself on the job market? Take a year off to lie on the floor? There are options.

Good luck, and feel free to ask me further questions or clarifications. I can’t promise I’ll know the answer, but I will try.

#bedlam on school #how to survive in academia when you're the dictionary definition of a hot mess

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techbotic · 6 years ago

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Android Weekly: Galaxy Fold Details, a 4000 mAh Battery Charged in 17 Minutes, and More

This week saw a lot of Samsung news (as usual), with more details about the Galaxy Fold starting to trickle out. Xiaomi also showed off its 100w charger that can juice a 4,000 mAh battery in just 17 minutes. And more!

Samsung News: Watching the Fold Fold

Let’s start with the Samsung stuff this week, shall we?

Samsung showed off how it tested the Galaxy Fold’s seam durability. It can fold 200,000 times. [Android Police]

All versions of the Fold will reportedly ship with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855. Not surprising. [Android Police]

The Fold will be released in 15 countries in Europe starting at €2,000. That’s so many €. [Android Police]

The Galaxy A90 was teased, with Samsung saying it will have a “Notchless Infinity Screen.” Curious! We’ll find out more on April 10th. [The Verge]

If you can’t wait for the A90, however, the A70 was released this week. [Samsung]

NBC used a Galaxy S10+ to shoot an entire episode of The Tonight Show. I wonder how much Samsung had to pay for that? [Engadget]

The March security update was pushed to the S10. That’s…pretty much up to date! [9to5Google]

The Galaxy A6+ Android Pie w/ One UI updated started rolling out. [XDA Developers]

The Galaxy Note Fan Edition also started getting Android Pie with One UI. Hey, that rhymes. [XDA Developers]

Sprint’s S8, S8+, and Note 8 are all getting Pie with One UI. [Android Police]

In slightly weird news, some Samsung device owners were concerned when the “Notification” app got updated. Yeah, it’s nothing. Just a Samsung thing. [Android Police]

If you’re not into the S10’s hole punch camera cutout, a new app called Energy Ring may change that. It moves the battery indicator to around the camera. So clean. [Android Police]

I’m honestly kind of shocked to see this much talk about the Galaxy Fold. I don’t see Samsung moving a lot of Fold units this year—and I don’t think it expects to, either—but the fact that it’s being talked up this week proves that the company believes in this foldable design overall. Still, $2,000 is a lot of money for a phone (or for anything, really), so unless a more affordable way to manufacturer foldables comes out, they’re still not going to have much of a future.

Google News: YouTube’s Monster Mobile Traffic

Google I/O is getting close, and the schedule is out. YouTube draws a crazy amount of mobile traffic. You can use Google Assistant to get a Play Store refund. Wait, did you know you could use Google Assistant to get a Play Store refund?

Google I/O starts on May 7th with the opening keynote at 10:00 AM PST. Get hyped. [9to5Google]

Need a refund for a Google Play purchase? Just as Google Assistant! [Android Police]

The Pixel Launcher in Android Q is testing Digital Wellbeing integration to let you pause apps directly from the home screen. Also, did you know you can pause apps with Digital Wellbeing [XDA Developers]

YouTube accounts for 40% of all mobile web traffic. Out of all the websites on this planet, YouTube gets nearly half the traffic. It boggles the mind. [9to5Google]

Google Fit got some nice enhancements that bring back elevation data and sleep tracking info from third-party apps. [Android Police]

Android Auto was also updated with support for widescreen display. You can run two panels on the same screen! [9to5Google]

When Google announced the Pixel Slate, there was a $599 version with a Celeron processor and 4GB of RAM. But that version never actually made it to release—and it likely never will. [9to5Google]

Advanced call blocking abilities may be coming soon to a Google Phone app near you. The phone tweaks are the main thing I miss about using the PIxel line. [Android Police]

YouTube TV is now available in every US TV market. [Engadget]

There are two main times of year I look forward to: Christmas and Google I/O (which is kind of like Google Christmas). Even though I’ve moved away from covering just Android and Google products, I’m still “an Android guy” in my heart of hearts, and I look forward to I/O every single year. This year is no different.

Google I/O is the time of year when we get a glimpse of everything Google has planned for Android, Chrome, Chrome OS, and beyond. It gives all users something to look forward to in the coming months. All of the company’s coolest innovations and ideas are shown off at I/O.

And I love it so much.

Other News: Xiaomi’s Crazy 100w Charger

Have you ever had a dead battery and thought to yourself “man, if only a way existed to charge this battery completely in like 17 minutes”? If so, Xiaomi has some good news for you.

Xiaomi showed off an insane 100w charger that will charge its 4,000 mAh battery to 100% in just 17 minutes. I can’t fathom how hot it gets in the process. [Liliputing]

Xiaomi also teased its foldable phone in a new video. What if—and hear me out here—it can fold and get a full battery in 17 minutes? [The Verge]

The Huawei P10 and Honor 8x are both getting Android Pie. [9to5Google]

Also! The P30 and P30 Pro were officially announced. [XDA Developers]

In other Huawei news, the CFO didn’t even carry a Huawei device, but an iPhone instead. 🤔 [9to5Mac]

There’s a new scam that allows advertisers to run ads in the background on your phone. They make money, and your phone’s battery gets crushed. If only you could recharge it in 17 minutes—then everyone would win! I think? [The Verge]

Substratum Lite was released, which is faster, smaller, and more stable. If you’re into those things. [XDA Developers]

Last but not least, WhatsApp beta offers Dark Mode. That’s the new hotness, apparently. [XDA Developers]

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