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inside you there are two wolves. the science enthusiast wolf is beyond overeager and wants to pick every elective on the course list. the perpetually burnt out wolf is begging you to choose the minimum number of credits needed to graduate.
#i have finalized down to like 50 credits BUT THE UNI ONLY ALLOWS LIKE 40#not my fault I love drug development and genomics and structural bio but my uni wants me to pick one damn specialization#i also might have applied to foundations of ML (from the data science dept) and biotherapeutics (from the live sciences dept)#hopefully they accept my plea and gimme a seat#brrr#msc things
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what’s in a name?
#rain world#rainworld#rain world iterator#rain world downpour#spearmaster#the spearmaster#seven red suns#srs#faeling draws#im normal about them#spearmaster's name is caonically messenger#i wish we couldve made his ingame name messenger too#but spearmasters name was kind of a legacy thing from the very first msc
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hello tumblr look at my special little guys . theyre everything 2 me . theyre an open species for rw so if u want to make one of these thangs you can !! both lesser and common aardfoxes come in every color . common aardfoxes are more often lighter colors cos like. snow. lesser aardfoxes are supposed to be showing theyre Very Deadly (poisonous and venomous)
#my art#rain world#rw#rainworld#aardfox#I LIKE THEM:)#i made these things before msc so theyre akin to scavengers but adapted for cold
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wholeheartedly and with as much gentleness as possible, i truly think there needs to be more discussion about downpour in the community as it is now. for a variety of reasons.
#not main tagging this right now but#some tag babbling. like#some of yall are unnecessarily cruel about downpour. seriously.#you don't have to like it but you can also stand not to tear down someone's work like this#if every word out of your mouth is just about how much you hate downpour. why are you still here?#and i mean that genuinely. it's unpleasant for you and for everyone else. and i say this as someone who still prefers vanilla's lore#at the same time i think it's a real issue where some people take downpour as gospel and assume things about other people's creative choice#even though downpour is a DLC and it's hard to make certain claims about canonicity because of that#it has been publicly acknowledged as being an official AU. multiple times. by the MSC devs themselves#downpour is a fan made passion project that was worked on for years and years before it got DLC status#it was never meant to be scrutinized in the way it is now. i think it's more appropriate to regard it as like#a really popular fanfic most of the fanbase has read#i just feel like. a lot of the community conflicts i've seen stem from downpour's messy existence as a DLC that was originally a mod#and i think it's valuable to have community discussions about that. but also this is tumblr. so. i'm probably asking for too much
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I climb out of my grave to present a mika
#seraph of the end#owari no seraph#mikaela hyakuya#myart#this is legitimately the first thing ive drawn in like 2 years? maybe even 3….. i was busy lol#finished my degree. moved in with my bf. got an additional 2 yrs experience in my field and am due to start my msc in a few months finally#anyway i am extremely out of practice so like…. pls be kind if anyone even sees this lmao#this would have taken me 30 mins to finish back in the day but it took me all day hahahahaha#im so embarrassed to even post this lol how did i do this so regularly before#the mortifying ideal of being known etc
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what r ur opinions on downpour hunters rot and how well or not u think it connects to basegame? :0
Mm, that's a good question. I have mixed feelings about this.
On the one hand, unexpectedly encountering the Hunter Long Legs for the first time was one of the most memorable moments of my Gourmand playthrough, and I enjoy the touch of horror it adds to the campaign. And I can't think of anything in vanilla that's incompatible with the idea that the Hunter's illness is a form of the Rot, thematically or concretely. Five Pebbles' comments on the matter are certainly ambiguous enough to accommodate the theory, though they could just as easily apply to a mundane cancer.
At the same time, there is a part of me that feels that the nature of Hunter's illness was something better left up to the imagination. The lore of vanilla Rain World is full of omissions—loose ends, unexplained circumstances, cryptic references to concepts beyond the player's awareness. These omissions create the illusion of a world much larger than the one story we as players get to see. On the contrary, in stories where all the elements eventually connect back to each other and the characters being focused on, the world tends to feel constructed, artificial. I guess I can't help but feel that the decision to explain Hunter's illness in terms of an already-established story element (the Rot) makes the world of Rain World feel smaller, less alive in this sense.
(Thanks for the ask!)
#rain world#slugfishh#thematic analysis#thankfully the fact that vanilla and MSC are two separate canons means we can kind of have our cake and eat it too with this kind of thing
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It's funny when people get really really mad when you don't view slugcats as almost-people or super intelligent when almost all evidence for that kinda interpretation comes from MSC, a fan-made and non-canon extension of Rainworld people are completely free to either build off of or disregard. Like it or not MSC handles slugcats very differently from base game and people can like MSC and dislike that vibe at the same time
#like i like msc but one of my criticism is that the animal protags feel significantly less like creatures#and thats both in feeling more like little special protags and also the way slugcats are as a whole are handled#because an animal that doesn't outwardly express huge tells of human like intelligence but still shows evidence of being smart like trading#with the scavengers for tools etc etc is fun and cool#i also find it interesting the way that#people interpet spearmaster learning some sign to communicate with suns as like them being fully fluent in ASL and not like#them potentially having a few tells theyve agreed to mean certain things#like you can train a dog to ask to go outside its not particularly complicated to learn bodylanguage#especially considering spearmaster is lab grown and likely doesnt know how to communicate with other slugcats
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Michael Schumacher receives an easter egg from Shell Ferrari after he finished in fifth place in the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos March 30, 1997 - Sao Paulo, Brazil Source: MALBORO HAND OUT/AFP via Getty Images & Pascal Rondeau /Allsport
#Happy Easter!!#I want an majour billion dollar oil company to present me with a giant chocolate egg with pretty woman#the only good thing theyve ever done#Michael Schumacher#1997#f1#ferrari#formula 1#msc
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oh god im going to be a bug doctor
#i' m waiting on one last committee signature for the application to scootch my msc into a phd#i live in accademia now#i say things
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oppenheimer (2023) dir. christopher nolan
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incredible that I even ever imagined I'd be able to do a cv, research interest, AND personal motivation in 6 hours because today I'm just trying to think of a personal motivation letter and I cannot think of fuck about shit
#well I have till the end of the month for this one#seems like a pretty good option#except for (a) I'd have to move inland#and (b) it seems more focused towards industry professionals and I'm not sure how good it would be if#at some point I decide to go for PhD#like it's not even an MSc#it's an MIT#however at the present point in time I *am* looking towards industry work so#it's probably fine#but an MSc would be good for both options. should my wishes change#however I imagine this might be easier lol. especially alongside work#sooo#anyway yeah what the FUCK does one put in these things#m#whining#I might also try for their MSc but I gotta hunt down supervisors which is a whole nother nightmare
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i want so badly to be honest and straightforward w my parents but they make it so needlessly painful.
#damned if u do damned if u don't#long ago i learnt that i could not be vulnerable w them#'just talk w them just cut them off' they make it so hard. not because they love me but bcs they are manipulative and well connected#cutting them off is so tempting but there are a thousand things to factor in there#and i am not sure i will leave such a situation alive#but keeping them in my life is also just painful#i have slowly been reducing contact with them#but my father has been so on my ass about communicating#like brother you did not give one single flying FUCK when i told you i wanted to kill myself and drop out of my MSc#but now that i've gone 5 months without a job ur like 'why can't you communicate'
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an acquaintance of mine, who i met through a mutual friend, casually admitted that he used chatGPT to help with his master's thesis (in the humanities); and when i curtly said "i don't think that's good" he was like, "oh it was just to give me some ideas and to help me write the introduction and conclusion.. and besides since i'm not going to write a PhD it was completely unnecessary anyway for me to be forced to write a thesis anyway"
i'm not going to report him or anything but it legitimately is so upsetting to me that someone with this kind of attitude now works as a high school teacher
Oof, that is rough, and on top of the substantive issue, there is something really tactless about one person admitting to you with a lot of chill that they cheated, when you yourself put in the work. It lacks some decency imo. It is indeed very upsetting, and I am sorry that you met someone with this little consideration for (your) academic work.
Obviously the first point is not valid: "to get some ideas" is literally the absolute worst use of ChatGPT or any AI ever, I stand by this and will die on that hill. "to write the introduction and conclusion": the most charitable interpretation would be "to help me rephrase stuff", but I am going to guess he meant "to tell me what to put in the introduction and conclusion", which is also bad. Introduction and conclusion are not summaries of the content, nor are they vapid fluff. There is proper content to put in both of them. If your intro/conclusion ends up feeling like a rehash or an empty shell, folks, you're doing it wrong. It's ok, we've all been there, but it needs to be changed.
As for the "I won't do a PhD anyway"... Something in me balks at that, but I have to sit down and consider if it's internalized elitism or not. I think it depends why you do a Masters, and from my experience it varies from country to country. In France, people go have a Masters because Undergrads are shorter, and you often are not competitive on the job market with a just an Undergrad. The vast majority indeed don't want to do any research, and therefore are not required to - you often can do an internship instead. But even in countries where Masters are more of a choice, an option rather than something that you naturally have to do, obviously not everyone will go into research. Still, the point of going one step above the undergrad is that it should then truly mean something. The masters is not a 5th year of undergrad, I think it is acceptable to require of MSc Graduates a different, wider skillset than from Undergrad Graduates. And part of that skillset is the ability to conduct an independent, small research project. The MSc theses expectations are not even close to a PhD thesis expectations anyway, I would argue they are barely the same exercise (in France, they do not even have the same name). The goal is not to show that you can be a good researcher, it's to show that you can develop originally ideas, think critically of the current state of knowledge, knows how to write convincingly about a complex topic, and have implicit understanding of epistemology, whether you realize it or not (aka you know how to know things, or you know at least one way to know things and understand the world).
These are all transferable skills, and your friend should sit down with a PhD researcher, to understand how little there actually is to do with a classic MSc thesis (or a mémoire as well it in French) and an actual PhD thesis.
#I am not necessariy 100% convinced that msc SHOULD HAVE TO write a thesis#I like the internship formula#but baby boy if you enrolled in an MSc knowing you would have to write a thesis to graduate#then don't go all pikachu meme when you are actually asked to write it#ask me things
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#i applied for a Msc in English i don't want to do#and got in#and i spend all evening planning what courses I'd take#but i don't want to do it. I simply don't#i just feel the pressure to study further even if it serves no purpose but my need for reading literature all the time#i just want to study literature. read. discuss it. write about it#And i do it on my own all the time#but sometimes you need someone to explain it to you because it's nice to listen to someone talking with passion about literature#and learning new things#and it's so solipsistic to do it alone all the time#*sigh* i'm this ��🏼 close to lose it it's just generally a very stressful period#and instead of having fun i spend my time grinding my brain gears further#i'll go reading now#blue speaks#really needed to vent#TBD
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Currently distracted in reading through an article called "Study Biomedicine or Biomedical Sciences: All you need to know" for an OC who is studying to be a research scientist. I am filled with confusion at the stuff I'm reading.
#aria rants#ohmygod the article is in english and everything is like simple common words but i still do not understand#pls all i need to know is how long itll take cuz i need to figure out Where my oc is at in terms of school year#time is my biggest enemy. so like... standard BSc goes for 3 years? buuuut the 4 years one is like... an honours thing so BSc (Hons)??#and having BSc (Hons) can help with getting a master's? master's (MSc) takes around 1-2 years?#and then the PhD takes about minimum of 3 years?#add that all up and its like... 8-9 years of college???#ohmygod pls why am i doing this in 1 am i dont even wanna be a scientist why do i have an oc who's such a science nerd#ray you are making me suffer istg
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recent ffxiv island commissions 💖
#ffxiv#ff14#final fantasy xiv#hiiii im alive#i promise i didnt forget to post things i just havent drawn in months bc of my classes rip#but now ive graduated.. im free for a while until i eventually go onto a MSc program#im trying to get back into drawing little by little!!#teedraws
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