#my library offers free printing which is such a good resource. i know not all do but they're usually really cheap

[faeriekit]

Faeriekit's big fat library post: what is a public library for?

Things almost any public library will do:

Let you borrow books. (Specialty libraries and archives may not permit you to borrow delicate materials. You may be able to look at them nevertheless, but you dont know until you ask.)

Allow you to put items on hold! (Want us to pull a book or hold it for you? We'll set it aside under your name as soon as it's available!)

Allow you to join in for programming (may be as simple as kids storytimes, or as complicated as academic lectures. It's usually cooking classes and knitting sessions though when the budget gets short. We love outside presenters though, especially locals.)

Inter-library loans (don't have a rare book? We'll try to get it from another library!)

Things your library will PROBABLY let you do:

Let you borrow other forms of physical media, such as DVDs, Video Games, audiobooks, CDs, etc. (This may cost you extra depending on library policy.)

Let you borrow magazines! (It's not like you're paying for a subscription, unless you're me and you like mail. Let us get them for you.)

Print/fax/scan (depends on the tech available in your library; for instance, it costs your library money to maintain a fax-specific phone line, so they may not do fax. Again, price may vary.)

Access online databases! (Ah, Ebsco. We meet again.) (But sometimes there's some cool stuff. Genealogy databases, kids' encyclopedias, all kinds of cool stuff)

Borrow ebooks and eaudiobooks! And maybe even emagazines! (Despite what people say, Libby is NOT the only service that allows your library to share ebooks with your device. There's like five I can think of off the top of my head, and your library has to pay to play. Ask which service your library offers directly so you can get the good stuff)

Put up/look at flyers. (Good for sharing public information! I just used one of our advertised services to apply for low income housing. Love library wages...woo...)

Let you volunteer! Need something to add to your resume? Need wo build up some real world work skills in a low pressure environment?Spend some time with us!

Let you use public computers! Check your email or watch yt vids or apply for jobs. Up to you.

Play with board games or puzzles as long as you're there. They may even have a swap for people to trade!

Things your library MAY have to offer you:

Makerspace (cool tech that lives at the library you can use/pay to use, such as tools, 3d printers, etc.)

Borrowing cooler tech to take home (WiFi hotspots, single-use tablets, and other cool tech)

English courses! Learn with peers!

Borrowing actual tools! (I had one library card that let me borrow hiking stuff like tents and navigational tools and sewing machines and other cool stuff and they will not renew my card because policy changed and no I'm not crying—)

Museum passes (hey! Sometimes you can get into a museum for free or for cheap!)

Book requests (hey. If you tell the library to buy a book, we may just straight up buy it! Why not? It's a guaranteed circ!)

Social worker/social work help (depends on if your library can cut a deal with an organization that has social workers)

Paperwork help for seniors (I don't know how this works because our town handles this one.)

Notary public services! (This one's just straight up like. My boss.)

Tutoring services! (We have kid volunteers AND a paid online service subscription to a tutoring site. Not bad.)

Certain streaming options! (Movies and television right as your fingertips! Or. Well. You know.)

Home delivery for housebound folks! (This one again depends on staffing, resources, money, etc etc.)

Book purchase! (No, really. Sometimes there's old books for sale, or donor books for sale, to help keep libraries running.)

And, of course, sometimes your local librarians are geniuses and come up with things I haven't even thought of. The moral of the story is, libraries do a lot of things, but the majority of them, as you can probably tell, depend on size, budget, physical resources, and local support. If you are interested in any of these services, please reach out to your local library; even if they don't offer these services specifically, making your interest known tells the library what sort of things people are looking for in the community, and may even affect financial decisions down the road. The thing I would like to emphasize the most, however, is that you are likely already paying for these services in the form of tax dollars; if you do not physically go and find out what services you are entitled to, you will never be able to take advantage of them.

Call your local library today to find out the specifics!

[junkworldusa]

i added this as a reblog but it should get its own post - this little zine is available on ko-fi as a free printable pdf! mini-zines are surprisingly addictive, once you start printing & folding your brain latches onto it & it's hard to stop. indescribable feeling of having something you drew in your hands & being able to flip through it and show other people.

[lunarsilkscreen]

How to Run a Game Development Company

Notice I'm talking about this from a perspective that "I need to start from scratch" so I'm not trying to criticize any established company.

If it *sounds* like a criticism; then that's on the reader.

A company needs a few departments for its own protection after hitting a certain size; including a Lawyer, Human Resources, and a Treasurer.

That's only after you're able to grow a certain size; unfortunately you'll need to pay retainer to a lawyer until you reach that size.

As a small business owner; Id need to understand H.R., Budgeting, Investment, and since my preferred job is Game Developer/Designer, I also need rudimentary knowledge of music, art, writing, audio recording, and marketing.

Many Hats.

If you have enough revenue/budget; somebody in this position will start researching workflows. And probably settle on "Scrum" because it seems pretty good.

With a tiny budget; instead of hiring people to work under me, I'd be trying to hire somebody who *knows* better than me in the software department and the art department.

(that is a criticism)

That's were it would start getting unwieldy, because how would you be able to guarantee they knew what they were doing and aren't just good at answering the quote "Google Interview Questions"?

Fortunately, I really am an expert with most of those hats. So what I can do instead;

Is take the "Lead Programmer" hat. What does the lead programmer need to do?

Well, one advantage I have is knowing UML and software design. So I can put together the blue prints, and hire on programmer-interns to do the rudimentary programming to follow the blueprint.

And then I can review the code with them to see where issues might lay, give on-the-fly criticism, and help them get on my level.

This same system is the same for the "art" department. One entry level Modeler is enough. We just need to keep the assets minimal.

A requirement at this level between employees would be to step in where the project is falling behind it there isn't anything to do for your assigned hat.

My hat being all the hats, I step in where needed.

As one product is finished, we hopefully start getting more revenue. And now we can afford a marketer and somebody to do a lot of the footwork that I'd otherwise be doing.

Provided these employees wish to stay here; they become section leaders. They take on a lot of the responsibilities I was taking in *all* departments.

And so the company can keep growing. Provided the revenue supports it.

You only need one person that knows everything on your wish list and just need to sit in and give input after that.

If that starts affording me extra free time; I can work on side projects, starting from scratch essentially, but with the support of the full company around me.

What I don't know; is the dangers that come from a company that grows past that point. I don't really want a company that is bigger than that. So I don't know how to protect the company as a whole after that.

I just know how to use the resources to support growth.

The next department to be created is the core quality control; common frameworks and libraries for reuse. Which will help streamline development and supporting small projects and small intern-ish groups (strike forces) that don't need to start from scratch.

And thus I can offer those strike forces their IP at a cost of some of the short-term profits and allowing them to start their own companies.

Which would allows us to keep operating, and keeping the company smallish and prevent growing to big that it's hard to protect to level I want.

Plus it won't be the same as just *firing* employees.

As they would have their own established resources revenue, and IP. That the "heart company" wouldn't have rights or control over.

Thus, giving us reputation and other opportunities in consulting.

The next problem we might face after that is in over-saturation of the market, and also funding our own competition.

Well, worst case scenario, I would have enough cash at that point to start over if I want, since all I really wanna do is tinker around with software.

[tdcloud]

Hi, if you have the time (and it's cool if not), I was wondering what you use for your self publishing for ebooks and print books? Like if you use Draft2Digital, or publish primarily through amazon, or use Barnes and Noble Press for print books. And if you've used a few, which ones do you like using most?

Howdy! I don't mind sharing some of my knowledge on this, though I'll be the first to admit I have a very limited understanding of most of these options as I really only focus on Amazon/KDP for my publishing. I've only recently dabbled with D2D but only inasmuch as I've used it to make epubs of my files. I don't use it for any of my distribution as they're pretty publicly pro-AI and I don't feel comfortable using them to host my work.

Like I said, I used Amazon/KDP as that's what I started with ten years ago and found the easiest and most straightforward for my purposes. I know several people use Imprint as well and have good luck with that, but beyond those two, I don't know a ton about other avenues. The biggest downside to using what I use is that you're locked into Amazon's distribution channels and may have worse luck getting your work into libraries and bookstores if they're against Amazon published titles. The nifty aspect is that there are ways around that if you opt into expanded distribution, that they provide an ISBN for free (though you can only use it on their sites, if you want to publish your book anywhere else you'll either have to get a free ISBN from them or pay for your own elsewhere, and that can get expensive), and that you have ebook and physical sales all in one space for easy record keeping. They offer hardbacks as well, so that's pretty nice, and I think they're finally on their way to allowing physical pre-orders.

I'd recommend doing a lot of research into all the avenues available to you and choosing whatever works best for what you want to do. A great resource that I keep talking up and sharing because it's been so helpful to me personally is the Monster Manor, a discord server for indie authors and readers alike. They have social medias on most platforms under that name and do great work in helping authors expand their audiences, find their niches, and just support one another as we navigate the indie publishing hellscape. Definitely check them out for all sorts of guides and FAQs for literally everything you can think of in terms of how to publish, where, and all the other junk that comes with the territory.

[gypnama]

Hi, I work at a university library specifically with OER (open educational resources)!! Mary doesn’t get to speak much, so I will help spread the word!

Here are some links!

This is a repository for all types of OERs (from textbooks to lesson plans!):

This is the website out of Rice University that was on a screen in one of Mary’s shots. These books will be listed in the repository above and cover mostly core courses universities will have (math, history, sciences) these may be the most common OER you will see since Rice is well known and the books have straightforward subjects:

And here is more information on the Creative Commons Licenses (or CC licenses) that are used to publish OERs (this part is very, very important to how these free textbooks can be taken and remixed legally) if a textbook doesn’t have one of these 6 levels of CC licenses it’s probably not OER:

This is literally my job, but to keep it short.. good links above the cut to start exploring, wordy late night ramblings about OER work under the cut.

OER is a growing area. Ask your professors, or university librarians about them. See if your university has classes that use OER. If there aren’t many courses at your university that use them, try not to get too frustrated. Most universities will only have one librarian working on OER on their campus, if any at all… (it’s an area that is growing so fast that the manpower resources needed to support it is struggling to keep up and a lot of times it takes a while for universities to move funds to support the staff working to get OER on their campuses)

But don’t let that discourage you! See if you can form student groups to help promote to professors to adopt OER. Student Government associations is a great place to bring up the issue! Find that one person working on OER on your campus and ask if there is a way you could help. It will likely be a librarian who handles copyright questions, but I’ve seen the work done by like one random passionate professor.. which like.. god speed to that prof 🫡… I’ve also seen student organizations advocate so hard that their uni had to look into hiring someone to work on OER at their uni, so it is possible!

I cannot stress this enough but Student voices are so important to show professors and university administration that OER is wanted and needed on college campuses. If students don’t speak up about their needs then the professors will keep on with what they are doing.

I personally didn’t know about OER and free textbooks until I started working with them, so I missed out when I was in college. I want to make sure that doesn’t happen to students at my campus. And now you! Whoever is reading this!

Good luck out there!!

Edit: i just saw the “Scholarly Communications” printed outside the office in the last scene where Mary opens the door to the office. That is often the copy right librarian that sometimes is the librarian handling OER work at their library/univeristy! Mary is likely a scholarly communications librarian, which is why they know so much about the happenings with OER.

Go find the Mary on your campus!

[samwisethewitch]

If You Have a Uterus, You Need to Read This Book

A Woman's Book of Choices: Abortion, Menstrual Extraction, RU-486 by Rebecca Chalker and Carol Downer was recommended to me by a friend the day after the news broke that the US Supreme Court was voting to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate federal abortion protections. She knew that, like a lot of people, I was scared and wanted to prepare myself for a post-Roe future. She had found A Woman's Book of Choices at a library and suggested I also give it a try.

I am so, so thankful to that friend, because I can honestly say that this is one of the most informative books I've ever read. There is some fantastic information in here, so I definitely want to put this resource on more people's radar. This is, as the title of this post suggests, a book I think everyone with a uterus should read.

My biggest complaint isn't actually about the book itself, but its publisher: they've allowed A Woman's Book of Choices to go out of print. In fact, it's so out of print it's entered rare book territory.

I wasn't even able to find used copies of this book online. Usually, even if a book is rare, I'm able to track down a few (very expensive) copies for resale on sites like Ebay, AbeBooks, ThriftBooks, etc. And I found this book so valuable, I might actually have been willing to cough up a couple hundred dollars for a physical copy. But there are no copies to be had. Literally. You can't even pay $200+ for a beat-up paperback.

Luckily, I was able to find a digital version of A Woman's Book of Choices on Scribd. That's great for me, because I already pay for a Scribd subscription. It's not so great for people who can't afford or don't want to pay the $10/month subscription fee. But I will say this -- Scribd offers a free trial and allows you to download books and documents. Do with that information what you will.

My local library also didn't have a copy. Neither did any of the colleges and universities in my area. However, I know some libraries have copies, and you can probably get it through an inter-library loan. You may also be able to electronically borrow a digital version. I know it's on archive.org, for example.

(I've also posted my own notes on A Woman's Book of Choices on my blog, sort of like my own personal CliffsNotes. Feel free to check that out.)

It may require a little bit of digging, but if you can get your hands on a copy, this is one of the most important books you'll ever read. There is information in here that may literally save a life someday, especially as states start to ban and restrict access to abortion. (Could that be part of the reason it's so hard to find now? Maybe.)

A Woman's Book of Choices really does address ALL of the choices for terminating an unwanted pregnancy. There's a chapter on how to find a good abortion provider if you live in a place where abortion is legal and a chapter on standards for abortion care. There's a couple of chapters on menstrual extraction (ME), which is not technically an abortion procedure but which can prevent unwanted pregnancies. There's a chapter on abortion with pills and a chapter on herbal remedies.

There's even a few places where the authors talk about the history of the reproductive justice movement and about how unwanted pregnancies were handled before Roe v. Wade. There's also multiple discussions of abortion law and of where different home-health methods like ME and herbs fall on the spectrum of probably-legal to almost-definitely-illegal.

It really is everything you've ever wanted to know (or didn't necessarily want to know but felt like you should know) about abortion.

There is A LOT of information in here. While the authors are very clear that this is not a "how-to" guide, they do provide a lot of detailed descriptions, research, and anecdotes -- including very clear and detailed descriptions of suction aspiration abortion, menstrual extraction, medication abortion, and even an herbal abortion (though this last comes with a lot of health warnings). They also provide resources where you could learn to do some of these things, like menstrual extraction, yourself. There's even medical textbook-style diagrams!

My biggest complaint about the book itself is that the section on herbal abortions only lists herbs by their common name and doesn't include a botanical name. This may seem like a nitpick, but when you're talking about the medicinal uses of herbs, it's really important to be as clear as possible. For example, "mistletoe" could refer to any of several plants in the Santalales order, some of which are poisonous. Botanical names would have made this section much more helpful.

Obviously, some of the information is bound to be outdated in a book published almost exactly 30 years ago, especially when that book is about medical procedures. For example, in 1992 RU-486 (now more commonly known as mifepristone) was a new technology that was only available in some European countries and hadn't been around long enough to study long term side effects. As I write this in 2022, mifepristone is one of the most commonly used abortion methods, and is statistically safer than Tylenol. About 50% of the abortions performed in the United States use mifepristone and misoprostol. Because this method is so safe, the FDA has approved its use at home without medical supervision, which makes this one of the best options for people who need to keep their abortion private.

The resources listed in the book, which were probably very exhaustive and very helpful in the 90's, are significantly less helpful now. Several of the groups mentioned in the "Information Networks" chapter are no longer active, and some of the books in the "Suggested Reading" section are out of print.

Another way this book shows its age is in the use of gendered language. The authors refer to abortion as a "women's issue" and regularly use "woman" to refer to any person seeking an abortion. Even the title, "A Woman's Book of Choices" implies that the issues discussed in this book only affect women.

In the early 1990s, abortion was very much seen as a (cisgender) women's issue. However, nowadays we're more aware of and comfortable talking about the reality that not everyone who wants or needs an abortion is a woman. A person seeking an abortion may be a cis woman, or they may be a trans man, nonbinary, genderfluid or genderqueer, or intersex. For this reason, pro-choice activists today tend to use more gender-neutral language, like saying "pregnant person" instead of "pregnant woman."

I think this is less a case of intentional transphobia on the part of the authors and more a case of language changing over time. Maybe someday we'll get an updated version of this book or one like it that talks about abortion through a specifically trans lens, but until then, a lot of this information is still relevant to people with uteruses who do not identify as women.

And finally, the authors of A Woman's Book of Choices could never have predicted the level and type of technology we would have at our fingertips in 2022, or the danger that would come with it. They never could have predicted smart phones, webcams, or location tracking. These technologies have drastically changed the way we relate to our bodies, and they pose new risks to people living in anti-abortion states.

Period tracking apps are a great example of this. Today, a lot of people use smart phone apps to track their cycle -- but those apps track your data, which could be used to prove you had an abortion. Add this to the fact that your smart phone continuously broadcasts your location through Wi-Fi, cellular data, and Bluetooth, and law enforcement can not only tell that you've had an abortion, but where and when you probably had it, all from your phone. If you live in a place where abortion is criminalized, as it is under new Texas laws, law enforcement can use data from a period tracking app like Flo (which has already been busted for selling data) to determine that you missed a period, then use location tracking to confirm that you visited a clinic in another state.

Obviously, the authors of A Woman's Book of Choices couldn't have warned against using period tracking apps or advised people not to bring their smart phones to abortion appointments, because those technologies didn't exist when this book was written. (Seriously though, if you live in a state with anti-abortion laws, delete your period tracking apps. You can track your cycle fairly easily with a notebook or calendar. And please do not take your phone to an out-of-state abortion.)

My point here is that, although this book is a great resource, it shouldn't be the end of your pro-choice education. Keep reading the news. Familiarize yourself with the law and its loopholes.  

But A Woman's Book of Choices is an excellent beginning to your pro-choice education. And for that, I really can't recommend it highly enough.

[dropofgoldensun]

omg hiiiii i am here from cat (@luvdsc) wondering if you could offer any advice about college apps 🙏 especially about the uc piqs? thank you so much i hope ur doing well!!!!!!!!

yes yes hello friend !! 💝 miss cat directed you to me because i did my college apps last year !!! (yikes one year passed already?? why does that feel ages ago 🤧)

first of all, congratulations on making the decision to apply to college !! i know it’s been hard for a lot of people our age to figure out the college situation recently, so i’m proud of you for choosing to take the extra step this summer to buckle up and write those essays 💞

i’ve compiled a few tips on answering the PIQs (i was actually in the middle of typing this up when i received your ask haha), but some of them can be applied to other essays, as well !! they’re all under the cut (because, unfortunately, being brief is not my forte) 😊

(and for reference, the prompts i chose were #2 (creativity), #6 (subject), #7 (community), and #8 (anything) !!)

tip #1: understand the prompt.

before you even begin writing, it’s important to understand what the question is really asking. for the UC PIQs, this will look different depending on which four prompts you decide to do.

in question one, for example, they want to know about your skills in leading others, but notice that they’re also curious about your resolution abilities and teamwork experience. or in question two, they don’t want to know that you paint and that you love painting—they could be asking how resourceful you are, how you think outside the box when you have an idea.

once you know the question you’re going to be answering, you can move on to brainstorming!

tip #2: write down three (3) key takeaways.

these are like the most basic, not-even-a-sentence answers you would give to each question. so for me, in response to question eight (“what do you believe makes you stand out as a strong candidate for the UCs?”), my answers were perseverance, courage, and character. i had a story about that, so i wrote about my experience with martial arts.

i recommend you do something similar. decide on three things that you want to communicate to your audience, and write them in the footnote of your document. your goal is to cover all three points so that, if anyone were to read your essay, they would walk away understanding those three things about you.

i found this strategy really helpful for keeping my essay streamlined while writing—if a sentence didn’t relate to any of those main points, i would cut it since those words would take up valuable space in the word count. stay focused on what needs to be in this essay, and if you have extra words left in the word count later, you can add those details back in.

and once you’re done with your essay, make sure to refer back to your takeaways and check that you covered all of them sufficiently!

tip #3: highlight your stories.

i sent cat an ask a couple days ago with a few pictures of my response to an end-of-year college counseling survey that referenced this tip (you can find it here). basically i said that, when choosing what topics to write about, pick things that interest you! if you get excited talking about it, your audience should get excited about reading it, because they’ll pick up on the passions you have and then everyone’s excited !!! :D

i’ll tell you a secret: everyone you meet, everyone you see, has countless unique experiences that few others may have. me? i spend hours making mashups out of kpop songs. i earned my black belt years after a traumatizing experience during training. i get russian harry potter and spanish dr. seuss books from the library. and i created a collaborative online google photos album for my classmates that now has thousands of entries. although these aren’t necessarily unique to only me, they’re still special enough to the point where, when you put them all together, you get a better image of the person i am, and what i value.

so find a story, a habit, a hobby that makes you different, because i believe that everyone has them. give them some food for thought, or that one-liner that sticks in their brain and won’t go away. and remember: these stories don’t all have to be extraordinary—they should be about people or moments of special value to you, because that’s what matters.

personal tip: when i was brainstorming ideas, i decided that the best way to get ideas out there was to go on a rant (because sometimes it helps to just have a conversation with yourself !!) and i recorded myself, so i could replay what i said !! this was so so crucial to me finding my own voice for writing essays. notice the way you word things when you talk—a good line or two may make it into the final draft :)

i found it helpful to read sample essays as well! they give a lot of great ideas on the kinds of topics people write about. (also, it’s kind of fun, because who doesn’t love a good story?)

but the people reading your essay won’t be there to just enjoy your story; what they really want you to do is to tell them what you learned from your experience. they want to know whether you’re teachable and willing to grow both as a student and as a young adult. so make sure to take note of the life lessons you learned, experience you gained, character you built, etc.

minor tip on ending your essay: if you’re telling a story that happened in the past, then close with what you learned and how you can apply that to your life moving forward. if you’re telling a story that has no definite end yet (like a passion or dream you have), you probably don’t have everything figured out (and you can say that in your essay!), so it might be better to close with your hopes for the future.

tip #4: ask your family for help.

peer-editing is one of the most effective ways to detect errors and inconsistencies in your writing, because, after staring at your essay for so long, you might gloss over glaring contradictions. for all of my essays, i printed them out and asked my parents to help me revise them. we’d meet every other night (or every night, depending on how much time was left) to review and discuss improvements.

i actually kept some of those printed drafts (only the first and the final ones for comparison), and let me tell you from experience—you’re probably going to have a lot of drafts (i think the most i did was seven? but you don’t need to go that far!). this part of the process does take some time, so remember to be patient and kind to yourself :) these essays won’t happen overnight!

enlisting the help of others also helps keep you accountable. one of the struggles many seniors face while writing essays is just... setting aside time to do them. and even though the constant reminders from your parents will definitely get repetitive and a bit stress-inducing, i can tell you from personal experience that i’m so glad they did; otherwise, i don’t think i’d have my essays done in time :’)

while writing college essays is challenging, your family will be there supporting you each step of the way. chances are that they’ll have their own pointers to pass on to you, since they probably remember doing this process themselves! and, out of everyone in your life, they probably remember the most about you (because you probably don’t remember much when you were four or five), so they might have a couple starter ideas for topics when brainstorming. you can rely on them for their advice and their experience.

tip #5: self-editing.

here’s the part that takes the longest time.

use action words. this is probably something you’ve heard all throughout elementary school where they didn’t like you to say “said” because it was “boring”… but honestly, the difference between “doing my own version” and “infusing it with my personality” could go a long way. also, use words that you would actually use in an essay—then it’ll have your own special flair, and not sound like it’s taken from some stuffy 80s textbook!

here are some of the words i used (once again, you shouldn’t use these words if they don’t sound like something you’d write/say): potential, overlay, wrestle, launch, analogous, weave, infuse, experiment, outlet, revel, fascinate, satisfaction, pursue, expand, distinction, capture, range, archive, engage, beyond, build, adversity, cultivate, preserve, commit, explore, convey, naturally

also, be on the lookout for repeated words. i once wrote an essay without noticing that i used “hope” three times in the same paragraph. don’t do that! use synonyms :) personally, i tended to run short on synonyms, so i always kept a tab or two open on my computer reserved for searching up new words.

side note: unfortunately, during my search for synonyms, i discovered that thesaurus.com just didn’t give me what i was looking for. i highly recommend using wordhippo instead; it has so many more options and they’re grouped by the different definitions of your word! i found the synonyms i needed really quickly and it was very satisfying!

avoid the passive voice! my teacher gave me this tip for theses or any other college-level writing. here’s an example of the passive voice: “there was a large part of me that wanted to turn back.” that’s twelve words taking up precious space in your word count! instead, say something like, “i considered turning back.” you’ve just freed up eight words :)

tip #6: final revisions.

this is the step where you fine-tune your essays. meet that word count.

read your writing out loud. does it sound like you? it should. every writer has a different voice, and you need to ensure that yours is pervasive throughout your essay. feel free to use contractions—not only do they reduce your word count (this was a good thing for me, since i had a problem with getting under 350 words), but they also give a more casual tone to your essay, as if you’re telling a story to someone in the room.

next, pretend to be an admissions officer and have someone else read your essay to you. do you get excited hearing about this student who shares your name? if you do, there’s a good chance the real admissions officers will love your essays, too. this also gives you a chance to review to your essay as a whole. pay attention to the overall flow. is there a clear beginning and end? do you resolve the issues and overcome the trials you brought up? listen to it as if it’s a story, and take this time to enjoy what you’ve written. you worked hard!

final thoughts / encouragements.

oh my goodness, did we make it to the end? honestly if you did, thank you so much 🥺

okay but despite my relatively optimistic tone throughout this post, i’m still going to be honest with you—the college essay writing process is difficult. it requires you to look inside yourself and analyze the “why” behind some of the things that you love, and that isn’t easy to do at all. it’s intellectually and emotionally challenging, because not only do you need to use so much energy writing, but you also have to dig deeper to understand yourself, and that’s not easy, either.

but i wanted to encourage you, too. no matter what you may think of yourself at 12am, 2am, 4am writing these essays, believe you have a personality that others love and will love when they meet you. you are an interesting person with unique experiences who deserves to share your thoughts with others. you have so many people behind you, supporting you during these next few months. and when you find that you can’t write any more, remember to take time to care for yourself. have a warm shower. go to bed early. i could go on and on about why sleep is good for your brain but i’ll spare you the details in this post 😉

one last thing: keep the bigger picture in focus. remember, by december or january, you will be finished with most of the application process. that’s no small accomplishment. you can do it. 💝

i really hope you found tips that you were looking for, and that they’re applicable to your own PIQs and other essays !! if you have any other questions, feel free to send in another ask (i promise my response won’t be this lengthy LOL) 💘💓

oh, and if you feel comfortable enough reaching out about anything in particular, i’m only a DM away 💕 i wish you the best of luck on writing your essays and i hope you enjoy your final year of high school !! 💗🌸💟💖

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Oh! I can answer this a little bit from the perspective of someone who has done a lot of work in University bookstores! In my experience, most university libraries can and do get students access to online journals and the like. That's still a thing. Librarians are magial and have more resources than students realize. But textbooks are kind of a huge complicated beast.

While some faculty do assign their own text, it's fewer than you'd think. And a good chunk of those faculty? They distribute free printouts or photocopies to their students. We sell incredibly few copies of texts authored by the faculty here.

The thing is, authors do not control textbook prices. Almost all of them are incredibly pissed at how expensive their books are. The publishers know that higher ed is an incredibly lucrative business, so they mark up the prices higher than they need to be and churn out new editions with minimal edits every couple of years so that they can keep making money. A lot of them don't even offer a wholesale discount to university bookstores, and we can't pay our employees without a markup on the things we sell, so it's even pricier through us than direct through the publisher.

A lot of academic publishers are also trying to cut bookstores out of their business entirely, which is a whole other ball game.

But! The libraries!

They do in fact try to have as many course materials as possible for students to borrow! More and more faculty are using only materials available in ebook format because the library can more easily provide enough digital copies for a class than they can provide hard copies. Especially at the larger universities where you get a hundred or so students per class section in some cases. It's a lot.

Print textbooks in the libraries I've worked with are usually only offered on course reserve. This means there are limited copies, and students cannot remove the book from the library building. A lot of this is likely space, and likely a theft deterrent--because publishers price gouge on texts, stealing and re-selling them is actually a huge problem here--so while the textbook may be available for free to the student, it may not be available in a way they can realistically use it. Remote students can't get to the library, students with day jobs can't get to the library during its open hours, and sometimes you get there and all copies on course reserve are already in use by other students. It's a gamble.

It definitely shouldn't be this way. But I promise a lot of faculty care so very much about lowering higher ed costs. So many are using open source texts and materials, or exclusively things available digitally at the library, or their own materials that they can distribute for free. I work with them a lot on these things. And any university library worth their salt is doing everything within their power (and the limits of their funding) to provide free and easy access to course materials. I send students to the university library all the time when they can't afford their textbooks, because often there's an option on course reserve, and it will give them a chance to figure out if they do actually want to own a personal copy.

Not every school works very hard to keep things affordable for students, but so many do. And sure, some instructors are trying to make money from their books, but the royalties are Not Great so it's not many who do this. The problem, in the end, is usually the greed of the publishing company.

Okay I have a question about American universities, which I do not understand on general principles, and university libraries, which I do not understand in this context.

Here's how it works for my students:

As part of the £9000 a year they're paying, they get access to full library resources. I, at the start of each academic year, make sure the reading list for each module - both essential and supplementary - is up to date, meaning the library has copies (preferably online forms, with hard copies only if a PDF is unavailable)

The library also has subscriptions to pretty much every major journal going, so they are able to access most journals with their uni login. If they happen across, and need, something they can't access, they put in a request with the library for it. A ninja librarian will perform the sacrament, and a PDF is in your inbox two days later (I am hazy on the mechanism of this part, but not the result). You have up to ten requests per person per year.

How in the world do I see posts from Americans so very often talking about paying for textbooks? Like... I get that it's "Shitty lecturers want to force students to buy their personal textbook for cash monies", but what do those university libraries actually Do?

(Also as a side note I am filled with helpless laughter at the very IDEA that I would (a) be allowed to set my own book as not just essential but fundamental course reading in a field that is well researched HELLO BIAS AND FRAUD and (b) allowed to set any text as required reading that would disadvantage impoverished students HELLO INEQUALITY AND ALSO PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS VIOLATION without the university's academic office arranging for a bed of hot coals to haul me over.)

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Types of men we want to marry

For those of you idealistic, sensitive men out there, and my heart does go out to you for your continued survival in a conformist society that tries to mold men into masculine archetypes – please feel free to change the gender of the following types of individuals to that of Female, or Male, depending on your preferences.

The Sensitive Artist

Marrying the Sensitive Artist, with his deep, soulful eyes and melancholy outlook on life, is sure to be rewarding – especially if he lives in a dingy attic that overlooks other rooftops in a romantic city, like, say, Paris.

The two of you can spend twilight evenings walking down the boulevards, past quaint cafes with green awnings and golden lights flickering behind the windows, other strolling couples, the odd bicycle rider passing by in a tinkle of bells, having deep, philosophical conversations.

Back at his “studio”, the prints cluttering the walls and the floor resembling multi-coloured puked-up guts can offer plenty of fodder for further philosophical thought – as an INFP, you are sure to discover the meaning of life in a splotch of red and green paint, or uncover a fantastical scene in something that looks like a dog’s breakfast after it has been partly digested. Your rapture at his artistic talent will satisfy him greatly.

In return, he will listen to your deepest desires and dreams, understand the despair you feel towards life and the world, and refer to you as his “Muse”, which you will brush off with an embarrassed air, smiling shyly, but secretly feel very pleased about. However, be prepared to pay for meals and other necessities while with him, and, when the man racks up hundreds of dollars in debt buying new easels and paint tubes, remain uncomplaining as you scrawl your signature onto the bill handed to you by the delivery man at the door.

Who knows: Through your experience with the Sensitive Artist, perhaps you will learn something new: that your INFP nonchalance towards money was wrong, and that no matter how “deep” a partner is, sometimes the depths of his pockets is a little more important.

The Good, Caring, Responsible Man

What INFPs need most of all from other people, and which they very rarely receive, is kindness; and this man is bound to provide this scarce resource in abundance.

He will care for you, just as if you were his own flesh and blood, treating you as the fragile, little creature you are: Helping you with real-world tasks, like filing for a savings account at the bank or getting your car registered; comforting you in the middle of the night when you start crying remembering something horrible you said to someone last year; and he will never berate you for being “too sensitive”, or “too quiet.”

No matter what happens to you in the outside world you can have the comfort of always returning to someone who will tell you that he loves you, and cooks you nice, warm meals to show you that he cares. Unfortunately, though he will be smart enough to work as a system’s manager at his accounting firm, chances are he will not possess a drop of imagination, and bore you to bits. In which case, you will have to decide which is more important: having your own equivalent of a talking pillow to soothe you after being battered by the vagaries of life, or someone you can intellectually connect with.

Intellectual stimulation is simple to obtain on your own, in the form of books and, well, more books, so perhaps it would be nice just to settle for someone who cares. Then again, books are fine company on their own, and, unlike this particular breed of the male species, never become too smothering.

The Executive

The Executive is assertive, confident, and bold – in other words, the ENTJ Myer-Briggs Personality type, who values rules, systems, actions and logic, and is the antithesis of the INFP personality type.

Isabel, creator of the Myer-Briggs Personality Type Test, however, has proclaimed the Executive to be the most compatible with the Dreamers. Though I have yet to completely puzzle out her reasoning – the two personalities could not be any more different – nevertheless, it does not require too great a leap of the imagination to envision the Executive being charmed by the INFP’s air of mysterious shyness, and the INFP attracted to the Executive’s boldness and social ease. After all, we often admire what we lack in ourselves, and opposites, as they say, do attract.

In this relationship, regardless of what gender you are, who the dominant partner is clearly defined. You will always have someone to tug you down from the clouds back to earth  with his rational thought processes, thereby helping you to take action rather than daydream your life away; but be prepared, as he is a predominantly logical thinking, to sometimes have your feelings trampled over, and to pick up your battered heart from the floor at the end of a long day.  On the other hand, expect good conversations, as both of you, being intuitive, will probably enjoying imagining the future together, and developing long-term plans.  You will also not have to worry about having your bank account drained, as this type of man is often quite successful in the career, usually opting to work in lucrative fields such as business.

Ultimately, he will be appear powerful and dynamic – captivating, even – but this relationship is liable to go down in flames unless either he grows a little more sensitive to your feelings, or you grow a little tougher in order to withstand his constructive criticism. Still, it can be the basis for a good partnership, and you may even find yourself peeping a little more out of your shell due to his influence, growing a tougher exoskeleton – but, if I were you, I’d stick with the books for less heartache in the long run.

The Quiet Writer

For those INFPs out there who are fond of writing themselves and are looking into it as a career, the Quiet Writer has the ability to offer the perfect partnership – it will be practically like dating yourself! A shared love of literature will be the glue that binds the two of you together, and dates will probably consist of visits to the bookshop or the library, tottering back to the car with tiny towers of novels balanced in your respective arms.

The rest of your time together will probably be spent sitting together or in separate rooms writing or reading, with the occasional visit to the other’s room or lifting of eyes from the page, to comment on what one has read, or written, and ask for additional input regarding it. Birthday presents will be books, and more books, and for the two of you, the idea of a good evening is to sit, side-by-side, at the kitchen table, upon which lies an open dictionary, and giggle over the strange words that exist in the English Language – erinaceous, for instance, which means to resemble a hedgehog. The next morning, you will say to the Quiet Writer, as he awakens with scruffy bed-hair beside you, “My darling, you look most erinaceous,” and the two of you will burst into laughter again. By all accounts it sounds like the perfect relationship, but there is always the chance, the two of you being equally retiring and antisocial, for the relationship to dwindle away into something that more resembles two roommates, sharing a living space, than  anything romantic or loving. But, you know, at least you’ll have plenty of books.

I hope this selection of potential mates has given you some food for thought. Do not forget that dating is not confined to Myer-Briggs Personality Types, and that any personality type can fall in love with any personality type, as each of us are too complex and nuanced to be encapsulated by four mere letters.

I, however, in the process of writing it,  certainly came to some conclusions of my own – namely, that, well, as long as I have books, there is very little else I need; but, we all desire companionship, sooner or later, so it’s best to keep an open mind regarding such things, even if having a partner, though it might be an evolutionary imperative, is not exactly a psychological necessity. This should not rule out the possibility of one enjoying having someone warm to curl up against at night, when your heart is too cold, and the world is too big.

But, then again, you could just get a cat for that – much less maintenance

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When you’re an extremely isolated person, how do you find people who can answer cultural questions? When I asked Writing with Colour it wasn’t answered and a few others just said “speak to people you know of that religion/heritage and if you don’t, find out why you don’t have any PoC friends”. I don’t have any friends or acquaintances of any religious or cultural background (health issues have lead to a decade of isolation), so I have nobody to ask. I want to write a PoC lead but I’m white.

Guide: Writing About a Diverse Character from Outside the Community

Things to Consider and Where to Find Information

Although this particular question refers to writing People of Color when you’re white, a large part of my answer applies to writing any character from a diverse group, when you’re not part of that group, whether it’s people who can see writing about people who are blind, or a white American writing about a Mexican American person with Mexican immigrant parents. So, while my first answer is specific to writing People of Color, the others apply to writing people from pretty much any diverse situation or community.1. There’s a difference between "race” and “culture.”

I think one of the most fundamental points of confusion white writers have about writing People of Color is not understanding the difference between race and culture. Outside of experiencing racism (which isn’t really for white writers to write about in the first place), race doesn’t tell us who a person is and what their lives are like. If you’re writing about a Black Canadian, Brit, or American, for example, you shouldn’t have “cultural questions” about them. Just write about a Canadian, Brit, or American. You should only have cultural questions about a person if they belong to a particular culture. Just because someone is ancestrally Indian, for example, doesn’t mean they practice an Indian religion or culture. If you’re a British white lady and you want to write about a British Black lady, that’s super easy–just write about a British lady and you’re all set. But if you’re a British white lady who wants to write about a Black British lady who was born in Western Nigeria to Yoruba parents, moved to London with them as a teenager, but Yoruba culture still plays a role in her life, then you need to research Yoruba culture. And, more specifically if you can, Yoruba communities in London or elsewhere in the U.K. But, again, don’t worry about the “culture” of a Person of Color unless a particular culture plays a big role in their life. Just write people.

2. There’s nothing about race, culture, ethnicity, or nationality (or anything else, really) that you can’t find out through a simple Google search.

If you have questions about your character’s culture, I promise you can find those answers via Google. As the writer, it’s your job to go out and find that information, which doesn’t mean asking someone else to give it to you. That data is out there. It’s up to you to find it. And the fact that people in diverse communities, particularly writers in those communities, frequently put together guides and other resources to help writers portray people in their community–that’s a huge boon that all writers need to take advantage of. Instead, there’s a huge issue with writers asking “how do I portray….?” instead of finding the information and figuring it out themselves. Will there sometimes be questions that genuinely can’t be answered by information that’s out there? Sure, but it will be very rare. Most of the time, that information is there. You just have to take the time and put in the effort to find it.

3. If you do have one of those rare “this can’t be answered by a Google search questions,” if you have done your other research, there are places you can go to find people who can answer your question. But they’re not going to bother if they can see you haven’t done your due diligence. 

A writer friend of mine was writing about a particular culture in the far-future and needed to know what elements of that culture might be affected by an element in the story. That’s not the kind of thing you can find out on Google, because this is a thing that has never happened before and couldn’t realistically happen in a non-fantasy world. But because he had done loads of research on the culture, both in terms of the past and present, had specifically looked at how things like colonization and advancing technology had affected those elements, and used that information to guess how the elements of his far-future fantasy world might affect this culture, he was able to go to an online forum of other writers (I’m not sure which one, but the NaNoWriMo, Reddit, and Absolute Write Water Cooler writing forums are examples) and seek out people from that particular culture, present his situation and his thoughts, and then ask them how they thought elements of their culture might change in this situation. He had loads and loads of responses because people could see that he had done his legwork and was as well-versed as he possibly could be on the culture. So people from that culture didn’t mind filling in the gaps that couldn’t be filled in by research. But if you go to a Q&A site like Writing with Color or a writing forum like on NaNoWriMo, and you just ask, “How do I portray a person from such and such culture?” not too many people are going to want to help you, because why should they tell you information that can easily be found through a Google search? So, keep that in mind. Do your research and save your questions for things that genuinely can’t be found via research.

4. Where to find information about diverse groups when you are isolated or otherwise unable to experience those groups firsthand.

Online Community Groups - Any community, whether it’s people with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, Peruvians living in the U.K., Black American feminists, trans writers, disease survivors, etc., almost certainly has at least some sort of online community if not an entire organization dedicated to that community. It may take some digging around, but you can find them, and as long as they’re not private support groups meant only for people from that community, most of the time they welcome people who are interested in learning about their community. So, look for these groups and if they welcome people from outside the community, join the group and start absorbing everything you can.

In-Person Community Groups - Many communities also have actual groups that get together and put on different events and activities rooted in the community, and once again, they often welcome people from outside the group who want to learn about the community. Even if you can’t attend these activities and events in person, you can still typically follow them online and can learn a lot from pictures and video from the event. So, try looking for events within that community and see if you can find video or an online picture gallery from that event. And if you can and they welcome people from outside the community, try to attend one!

Look for Community Leaders, Activists, and Other Notable People from That Community - Many communities have vocal people within the community who stand as unofficial (or sometimes official) ambassadors of that community. They speak out on issues affecting the community, they share news and events related to the community, and offer lots of firsthand commentary from the perspective of that community. You can find them on social media, particularly twitter, they often have blogs or YouTube channels, and sometimes they have web sites. Find the notable people in the community you want to write about and follow them. Read their posts. Read the things they share. Absorb the information they give you.

Watch a Video or Documentary - There’s a really good chance that there are videos or documentaries about the group you wish to write about. Go to Google and type in “documentary about people who are deaf” or “documentary about Latinx Americans.” There’s a good chance something will come up. Try doing the search on YouTube.

Look for Articles, Blogs, and Other Resources - Once again, no matter what community your character belongs to, there’s a pretty good chance that someone from that community has written about their experience, whether it’s dealing with specific issues related to their situation or just what it’s like to be someone in that situation/from that community. Interviews, both in print and video, are another great resource.

Read Books - It’s almost a certainty that there are books written about the diverse group you want to portray. Whether it’s a book about growing up as a Chinese American or the racism in the U.K., whether it’s a non-fiction book or a fiction book. “Own voice” stories are becoming more and more popular and offer a firsthand view of experience in a particular situation or community. You can purchase physical books and e-books on Amazon or other sites, you can also often find books that are free via special promotion on legitimate sites like Amazon (just please don’t download free e-books on sites that have stolen those books.) You can also try your local library which can often order books for you from other libraries. Some libraries will even send you books via the mail. 

Watch TV Shows and Movies - TV and movies may not always be the best source of information about a particular situation or community, but over the last several years more and more are being made thoughtfully, respectfully, and by people with firsthand experience in that situation/community. So it’s always worth looking to see what’s out there. Watching The Joy Luck Club won’t tell you everything about being the Chinese-American daughter of a Chinese immigrant daughter, but it’s a good start.

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Libraries Are a Writer's Best Friend

There are a lot of resources out there for writers, from helpful websites to books to workshops, but the oddly overlooked one, in this day and age, is libraries. I'll chock this up to people assuming they can find everything they need on the internet (which, to be fair, is mostly true) or to thinking that libraries and physical books are passé (which is blatantly false). Sadly, many writers—who, if they do well, will have their books in libraries someday—don't understand how much libraries can offer them, for free.

Non-Book Resources

First and foremost, libraries have the internet. And yes, most people don't care, because they have their own, but not everyone does, and not all the time. If you're a poor writer who can't afford your own internet and really don't want to use up your data for a hotspot, go to your library. This is also true if, like me, your internet sometimes decides not to exist. Though this usually happened when I was a student, it could happen to any writer, at any time of the day and night. Now you might be thinking that libraries are closed at night, but that doesn't matter for wi-fi. I have sat in the parking lots of two different libraries at around midnight, using their wi-fi to submit last minute assignments when my home internet kicked out (don't judge me!). The point is, all those writing resources available on the internet are therefore available at your library through their wi-fi.

And there are computers. Did I mention that libraries offer free computer use? You don't even need a card (though you usually need some type of ID, even student ID). If you find yourself without a computer for some reason, go to your library. They also have printers, copiers, and scanners, should you need that for printing out drafts or working on cover art. Your library also has subscriptions to online databases, like encyclopedias (because we've all fallen down the wiki-walking rabbit hole at one time or another, and sometimes we just want something short and dry) or old newspaper scans.

Ah, but what if you need a human being to talk to? There are always the librarians, who will attempt to answer any question you have. Nothing is too esoteric or weird or random. No, really, try us. We've heard things you can't imagine. We've seen things. You wouldn't think that you'd encounter that much human blood when working in the library, but... I digress (and no, I am not joking!). My point is, you're not going to shock or annoy us if you need us to look up books about soviet psychic research or have to know who started some revolution in an obscure country or need help printing out the entire first draft of your novel. We're literally there to help you. We're happy to do it.

Some libraries also offer writing workshops, mini-book festivals, or author panels. My own library has an ongoing writers group that meets every other week at a coffee shop downtown. We were also fortunate enough (and by fortunate, I mean one of the librarians worked hard and got a grant) to get two Writers in Residence this year. For those of you who don't know, a Writer in Residence is an author who works for a short time at the library and is available to help patrons. Along with hosting special programs, such as one on flash fiction or one focusing on blogging tips, our Writers in Residence also run a lunch-time group every week where writers can come and talk, write to prompts, work on their own WIPs, and just hang out. It's a great way to get out of your own head, meet other people, and learn different techniques. Consider asking your local librarians if they could create a writing program or get a Writer in Residence in the future. You'll be glad you did.

Book Resources

But, of course, one could not have a library without books (it would just be a "-ry"), but all the books in the world don't do a person much good if they can't find what they're looking for. First and foremost, let me again say talk to your librarian. They know where everything is, and what a library has to offer.

One resource that you might not have considered is writing magazines, such as Poets and Writers and Writer's Digest. Even if your library doesn't have physical copies of these (which they probably do, as well as back issues), they likely have a subscription to them online.

Another handy resource is Writers Market. For those of you who don't know, Writer's Market is a guide for people wanting to get traditionally published. It updates every year, so it's got current listings of agencies and publishers, what they accept, and how to contact them. It's really helpful, but kind of pricy for a book that's only accurate for a few years. Luckily, your library has a copy. Or they can get a copy at your request. Our library buys each volume as a continuing resource, and also has the Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market. For those of you looking to traditionally publish, I highly recommend you take a look at this book.

And then there are the regular old books, which I would divide into two categories: books on writing and books for research. That first category includes "How to Write X", where X is every genre and format under the sun: thrillers, romance, children's books, memoirs, sci-fi, and so on. There are also guides such as Forensics and Fiction, Careers for YourCharacters, and The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West. These oddly specific books can be helpful to those of us writing genre fiction who want to be accurate without spending months on research.

But I love spending months on research, which is why I've become familiar with the weirder sections of the library, such as true crime, parapsychology, forensics, and folklore. How deep into book research anyone wants to go is up to them. Your library likely has broad resources—an encyclopedia of psychic phenomena, for example—as well as narrow, niche books—one focusing on the CIA's Stargate program, for instance. A tip I offer is to not shy away from juvenile nonfiction. Sometimes these books offer a nice overview of a topic without spending 500 pages on it. They also tend to focus on some of the weirder details that are of interest to writers and not researchers.

Finally, I offer you this handy list of Dewey Decimal Numbers that might be of interest to writers, broken down vaguely by what genre you're writing and what you want to research. Note that if the number ends in "0", I mean the entire section, so "130" means "130 to 139.9999". Happy researching!

General writing

Publishing - 070.5

How-to writing guides - 808

Mysteries, thrillers, detective fiction, etc:

Forensics - 363.25 and 614.1

True Crime - 364

Secret Societies - 366

Fantasy, magical realism, horror, supernatural, etc:

UFOs, Bigfoot, Conspiracy Theories, etc - 001.94

Psychics, Magic, Ghosts, etc - 130

Secret Societies - 366

Folklore, Mythical Creatures, etc - 398

Science Fiction:

Astronomy - 520

Physics - 530

Chemistry - 540

Paleontology - 560

Space Travel - 629.4

Historical Fiction:

Costume / Historical Clothing - 391

Ancient History - 930

European History - 940

Asian History - 950

African History - 960

North American History - 970

South American History - 980

History of Pacific Islands - 993-996

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Composing For An Academic Journal: 10 Tips.

What Is Academic Journal?

What is Academic Journal? It is actually an assortment of notes and also dialogues made by faculty members who are actually lecturers, staff members and also lecturers to trainees on the academic career of their organizations. These diaries were actually in the beginning discharged on the net and afterwards in published kind with registration needed for every private periodical problem.

Earlier there were actually simply on the web journals offered. Having said that, as the demand for these publications developed, therefore performed the different academic seminars and journals to which these publications are provided. Various forms of the academic seminars are actually being arranged once in a while. These seminars are being actually secured for various explanations, like to conduct new analysis or even study of old ones, perform seminars and also talks on different subjects, and so on

. Such meetings are actually held with different goals like to break down prizes for best documents, to locate analysts as well as lecturers for essential projects, to explain as well as make think about modifying or creating brand-new curriculum and also educators' training, and so on. Therefore different meetings are being coordinated annually as well as at routine periods. These conferences are actually mostly concerned with upgrading the existing curriculum of an establishment, elaborating brand-new one. Having said that, there are some meetings that focus on grading and granting students for their academic efficiency and post-graduation work.

The conferences have various concepts like "Discovering Experiences and also Attitudes" to "Professions as well as Their Perks and Downsides" to "Hiring Online Lectures as well as Exhibits" to "Advertising of Research Job" to "Arts and Liberal arts" to "Examining Approach". They also follow various layouts for conferences like seminars, workshops, guest talks, editorials, argumentations, tasks etc.

. Journals of Engineering of the instructional seminars are composed for the younger production of college students. Older trainees that are resigned or even operating in educational institutions possess some free time which they can easily make use of for composing their academic diaries. These short articles are typically in the form of diary access.

Nevertheless, once they resign or leave behind the institutions, then their leisure time is actually restricted to their remarried relatives or even buddies. But when the writer makes a decision to write again, she or he begins searching for an ideal topic. This moment he or she will definitely write a whole entire article. The write-up receives posted in a separate journal alongside the other seminar articles.

There are actually numerous academic journals available which serve different topics including Journal of Youngster's Literary works, Journal of Social Issues, Journal of Middle Ages Research Studies, Journal of the United States Historic Organization, English History, Review of African Research studies, etc. A typical academic journal will be reasonably quick and will include concerning 3 to four many thousand terms.

In short, what is an academic journal? It is actually an assortment of notes as well as discussions created through faculty members that are actually teachers, personnel and lecturers to students on the academic profession of their organizations. These publications were in the beginning released on the net and after that in printed form with subscription required for each personal periodical problem.

What is actually a Journal?

Academic diaries are actually a typical component in academic literature. While academic diaries do certainly not normally contain research study results, instead they have a tendency to be the very first resource of headlines concerning the most up to date accomplishments and obstacles that an academic community is actually encountering. These diaries have ended up being an essential part of a scientist's lifestyle as well as, extra notably, make it possible for a scientist to continue releasing academic results. This creates academic journals the official publication venue for a lot of scientists, along with a growing amount of academic companies and also specific academics striving to publish their work in these diaries, without the inspiration of authorities companies or financing body systems.

What is actually thought about an academic journal? Typically talking, academic publications are actually those that are published through specialist academic organizations. For example, the American Journal of Human Biology is actually one such publication. Though this publication was founded by human the field of biology professionals, it is actually also generally pertained to as the "initial journal for the life sciences." This journal is primarily utilized through qualified biologists but some other specialties, including the molecular the field of biology area, may likewise publish their lookings for within this journal.

How to locate an academic journal? Locating an academic journal is actually not as challenging as it seems. All you need to have to accomplish is to find your specific willpower on the Web, as an example, the field of biology diaries as well as libraries will usually submit a listing of journals in this particular self-control. Alternatively, go through your library or bookshop and seek diaries associated with your certain style. An important point to keep in mind is that diaries coming from different styles as well as academic self-controls do certainly not automatically have the exact same material so you should consistently ensure that you fit with the subjects of the journal before sending it.

Exactly how Perform I Receive My Academic Newspaper Released?

The excellent thing about creating a paper or manual is actually that you could be absolutely sure that it is going to know, and also the ideas you share will definitely be actually gotten and also take into terms. Sadly, exactly how do I obtain my academic paper published? And in the case of written works, just how do I discover a publisher to become capable to create this possible? Certainly Climate research that, however what does a publisher really carry out, and exactly how can they assist? You will find that discovering a specialist editor is not difficult, although the job called for coming from an editor may be lengthy.

First of all, you have to deal with the type of report you wish to generate, whether it is a research, thesis review, theses, dissertations, argumentations and also theses, and also a number of the rules need to have to be attended to just before you may anticipate your editor to call you to become able to edit your job. Of course, there are actually bunches of individuals that function online in the course of what they perform, and also they manage academic writing in addition to various other created jobs. This suggests that they are going to manage to take care of the research associated with your papers, and they will certainly have the amount of time to devote to this. Likewise, this form of individual will certainly have a ton of experience and also will certainly understand how to take care of these scenarios. As far as exactly how do I acquire my academic paper posted? the Journal website is actually the first step.

With so many providers around that relate to academic report writing, you might intend to take into consideration these concepts, to prevent any type of confusion. A really good tip will be actually to search for the solutions on Google as well as other search engines as well as see what you can easily discover, and also if the experience you gain is actually not nearly enough at that point contact your nearby workplace of an academic writing business. That's just how do I get my academic paper posted, nevertheless.

[abwatt]

Books of Shadows

@theweepingwillowbird just posted about how frustrated she (?) is with her Book of Shadows — how often she’s started and restarted it after making small errors. I wrote a long response, and then it was eaten.  So rather than try again, I’m going to write my own list for beginners; and then it’s not crowding out her request, either, or offering things that don’t necessarily apply to her.

First, it’s helpful to consider Ira Glass’s advice. You have taste, and you don’t want to ruin your taste.  But there is a gap between taste and skill — and you have to produce work to close that gap.

First, recognize that most of the impatience involved in producing a beautiful illustrated book by hand is really a daemonic presence — the Dweller on the Threshold.  A genuinely creative and magical life is open to all, but first there’s this fear-monger that holds you back.  Don’t let it. And recognize that this daemon will appear again and again through your process.  All the good stuff you will ever produce is on the other side of that door.  

There are also tools to help a newcomer to the art of making illuminated or illustrated books, to make rapid progress.

Learn the Secret Law of Page Harmony. Once you understand that pages have a standard size and a standard margin that can be harmonious, it’s easy to decide on a size of handwriting.

Study some calligraphy techniques.  I really like Getty and Dubay’s Write Now series for adults (I used the left-hand version).

Learn some illustration skills.  I began with Ed Emberley and Sachiko Umoto (”Let’s Draw!” translated from Japanese), then moved on to Dave Gray’s Visual Thinking School and Mike Rohde’s Sketchnotes.  Now I’m working on Botanical and Bird Illustration and Botany in A Day.

You don’t have to learn bookbinding, but you can. Esther K. Smith’s book How to Make Books will teach you 60-80% of what you need to know.  It means that you can produce pre-printed pages using your computer, and then hand-bind it (which I have done to some of my poetic works).

Learn some Geometry.  I worked through all of the problems in Andrew Sutton’s book Ruler and Compass, and produced my own book of shadows specifically for geometric work... 114 pages, nearly 200 proofs. All those magical diagrams you see in beautifully-photographed witch-aesthetic posts have an underlying order to them, and knowing that geometric rule can really help.  

Learn about Commonplacing.  A Book of Shadows is really a kind of commonplace book with a specialized purpose of re-enchanting the world.  A Book of Shadows is in part a tool for cultivating a particular kind of rich interior life. There’s a variety of techniques for making them work.  This is also permission, in a sense, to copy all sorts of things into your Book of Shadows, which now serves a threefold purpose — to cultivate that rich interior life on the level of the soul; to practice the mental and physical skills of practical geometry, illustration and calligraphy at the level of the intellect; and to create an heirloom in the realm of the material world. Welcome to witchcraft.  ;-)

Google “medieval manuscript elephant illustrations”. It will make you feel better about your illustrative work — those monks used beautiful colors and rare materials to produce high-quality illustrations of ... blobs.  No medieval monk ever laid eyes on an elephant, and they hadn’t the slightest idea how to draw one.  You can do better. And you will do better. And it will make you feel better knowing that centuries ago, professionals were once just as in the dark about this as you are.

Noah Bradley’s advice in his essay, Don’t Go to Art School, is spot-on. There’s a wealth of free and cheap resources to do everything I’ve just described above. Nearly everything on this list can be studied from YouTube videos,  webpage tutorials and more.  You can borrow many of these books from the library.

Spend some time thinking about time on five different layers: the “secular calendar” of January to December with its holidays and weekends; the “astronomical calendar” of constellations and wheeling stars; the “Earth calendar” of flowers and fruit in their seasons; the “astrological calendar” of planets, signs, houses, and aspects; and the “sacred calendar” you follow, whether it be Sabbats and Esbats, or Saint’s Days and Sundays, or Festae and Dies Aegyptiani.  Find ways to represent and mark these in your book — because these tax all of your abilities as a geometer, a page designer, a calligrapher and an illustrator.  These are the places where your artistic abilities will tend to be stretched the most.

Most of all, remember this: Your Book of Shadows, or your Book of Sunshine, or your Book of Splendor, is not required to be a masterpiece... unless you want to be a master maker-of-illustrated-books.  You are making this book, though, in order to cultivate a kind of interior life — and there is a type of curriculum that aids that purpose.  Some of that curriculum is rooted in the artistic and mathematical-proportional training I’ve laid out here.

But much, much more of it comes from the material that you choose for yourself.  YOU should decide what goes into your commonplace book for magic and mysticism.  YOU should decide what diagrams and illustrations it contains. YOU should decide how deep down this rabbit-hole you want to go.  

There is a vast cloud of witnesses and allies, in the form of the geometers and illustrators of the past, who will aid you in this labor for as far into the work as you want to go.  There are poets and preachers and witches and mystics a-plenty who will sing for joy and dance the boogie if you re-write their words in your best handwriting (no matter if they’re dead or not).  But YOU are still the maker of the work.

[weaselle]

THIS IS WHAT BOILS AWAY INSIDE ME EVERY MINUTE, MAKING THE TEDIUM OF EVERYDAY LIFE AN UNBEARABLE TRAP - THIS IS WHY I CAN NEVER STAY AT A JOB OR DECIDE ON A CAREER. EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT THESE THINGS IS BORING AND FRUSTRATING ________________________________________________

I have researched and want to write pre-historical fiction exploring my personal theories about early human development, which are wild but entirely possible within the total evidence we have available. I’ve done probably tens of thousands of words in notes on it over the years; finished, it would probably be at least a trilogy in length.

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I have written some songs, and I want to get a couple of friends with a good voices to sing them, and then get some musician friends to write/play music for them on analogue instruments, pair that with the singing as whole songs that they perform live somewhere, then record and give those songs to some other friends to make like, an electro-funk remix album of it, and then get some DJ’s I know to spin that shit at a party, take footage of the whole process featuring the live band performance and the party DJ's strongly, ask some dancing/choreographing people I know to create a couple of kick-ass matching dance routines featuring all the people who worked on the project, reach out to some video and animation folks, and make a small series of music videos out of the whole dang thing.

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I want to change how we experience death by creating a personal website for individuals featuring a kind of A.I. social media bot that users set up and activate which will, upon their death, continue to like and reblog things based on patterns of preference in their posts while alive. These bot/A.I.s would be able to be interfaced with, so, after I died, someone could get to know me - they could ask AfterKie “what movies and TV shows did you like?” and if I had set it up with access to my netflix/hulu/youtube info, AfterKie could tell you which movies and TV shows I rated highly, which ones I watched more than once, read you any positive reviews about them, read you my tweet “idc what anyone says, Ghostbusters is the best movie there has ever been” etc. And the reposting algorithms would A: let me reach out from the beyond to remind people “oh, true, Kie probably WOULD have like that tweet about caterpillars” and B: even if they were not perfect the reposting algorithms would allow for an approximate continuation and growth, so that I could even be seen as developing new interests after my death “Have you heard from Kie lately? He’s gotten super into Swedish architecture ever since he died, it’s like, most of what he talks about now”. I could map my face onto an avatar and use some voice matching software and put myself on a screen on my grave stone that would be linked, so you could literally walk around a graveyard getting to know the people who were buried there, asking them questions about their life. ________________________________________________

I want to build a Pet Mech, a small robot that could be controlled by small pets walking on a rollerball surface housed in the floor of the “head” with a sleeping/snacking den in the “body”. So your rat or guinea pig or ferret or lizard wakes up, climbs up into the control room, the floor of which is the direction pad. Which ever way the pet walks, the robot goes. Your pet is a little closer to your face, safe from the cat, won’t get lost under the couch, and can move around with you and to the extent of it’s capabilities be a social participant in the family it belongs to. ____________________________________________________

I want to sell puppies that owners will come visit in my facility for the first couple months, then take them home one weekend a month, then two, then three, then every weekend, then by the time they are a year old the dog lives with it’s person/people but continues to spend one weekend a month at the facility for an additional year. The facility would provide full socialization and training. A lot of dogs wind up in shelters because in one way or another their owners do not know how to teach them to be a functioning member of the household/society. Just the other day, I heard a lady talking about getting rid of her two year old dog, because "he's getting on my damn nerves, I don't know what to do with him" which A: it is our responsibility to teach dogs how to be an acceptable fit in our households, and B: having never been taught that in his formative years, this dog will have more trouble learning it from even someone who knows exactly how to do that. Modern Americans typically lack the resources and/or proper knowledge to accomplish what could best be done for them by trained professionals who went to collage to study animal behavior and development etc. This way, the dog would have a realistic chance of being a good fit for the owner, and the owner would have clear methods of achieving behavior they require, as well as having access to a support facility for boarding, exercising, trouble shooting problem behavior, etc. At first, it would be very expensive, and I would look into a pairing program, where every dog purchased and trained would pay for an additional dog to be available for families with lower incomes. Additionally, you could defray the cost by predetermining your dog to be trained and available for dog-jobs for hire from the facility as adult dogs, to pay for their early care and training; jobs such as visiting senior homes or hospitals, sniffing things in labs (like tumors) finding lost people, working with livestock at high school Agg programs, etc... so a few days a month until they paid for themselves, these dogs would have jobs, which is fulfilling for many dogs and would help a family afford one of these canines. As facilities expanded, costs would go down, and the facilities would make great shelter alternatives, eventually allowing kill shelters to be closed and possibly getting access to shelter subsidies. Then, as more and more dogs were properly trained and socialized, and more and more families with dogs had access to support services, less and less dogs would be given up, further reducing both the need for shelters, and the number of dogs euthanized each year. __________________________________________________

I have a plan that might allow minimum wage workers to build equity and become property owners while having more free time, in a communities designed as entrepreneurial incubators that allow small businesses to develop in extremely low-risk environments. I’m pretty excited about that one. __________________________________________________

I want to start a store that focuses on local sourcing, and competes with stores like Target and Walmart. This store features a permanent farmers market, a suplimentary onsite greenhouse and nursery, and a large industrial kitchen attached to a small bistro and bakery. The greenhouse and nursery would focus on any produce not represented by local growers. The unsold produce from the farmers market would be given to the store as a substantial portion of the farmstand rental fee, keeping the cost low for the farmers and letting them get value out of produce the public doesn’t buy, and the bistro would sell food made from it. Additionally the industrial kitchen would process the remainder into things like mustard, tater tots, microwaveable chicken pot pies, frozen breakfast burritos, bbq sauce, etc. Instead of buying new tools from the tool section, there would be a large tool library, and a 3-D printer for printing high density ceramic tools in case a specific kind is not available. The ceramic would break down faster than tools of other materials, but since it’s loaned and not purchased, that is fine, especially as the ceramic material can be broken down and re-printed into new tools. Instead of Hallmark and Harlequin novels and Homemaker magazines... cards, poetry chapbooks, works of fiction and independent publications all from local authors. Instead of new toys, franken-toys made out of second hand toys, with a build your own franken-toy workshop open to the public and staffed with someone to assist children. Instead of an electronics department, a repair shop that also offers lessons in electronic repair, and a workshop and tools for public use. Instead of clothes made in overseas sweatshops, a fabric and second hand clothing store staffed with local tailors and would-be clothing designers, doing repairs and adjustments on the second-hand clothes and using them with the fabric to create whole new pieces of clothing. Our offer to the public: bring in any item of women’s clothing from anywhere, and we will add two functioning pockets for free. It would be a club, like Costco, with a small monthly fee that would help cover things like the workshop tool use, as well as encourage regular patronage. __________________________________________________

I want a genetically modified cactus or succulent that glows from bio-luminescence, to use as a night light in the bedroom or bathroom. I don’t know how to make this happen, but I keep looking into it, because MAN do I want this to happen. ___________________________________________________

Instead of people going to big sales, I want to throw a Black Friday make-your-presents party, where instructors and materials are provided for DIY christmas present projects. Tickets are sold in advance, are specific to the project (functioning as a sign-up) and the ticket price covers your materials (costs are averaged so ticket prices are all the same). The idea is, you show up for a party, head to your project space, get taught how to make the thing, and you make like, ten of them in two hours. Then you spend another couple hours eating, drinking, and trading gifts with people from the other projects, giving you a selection of about ten different gifts. ____________________________________________________

I want to make a computer-assisted table top RPG that keeps track of all the numbers and equations character movement speed and position on maps, so you can focus on the role-playing aspect (you still roll dice, but on a mat with sensors that track the result and apply your bonuses etc) ___________________________________________________

I want to do all this and so much more. I have some really cool alien fiction ideas - not the stories, but the aliens themselves, designed the right way, by creating a set of planetary conditions and then hypothesizing lifeforms likely to evolve therein... I have some energy creation process designs that utilize combinations of natural forces (like gravity/solar/tidal plants, that use all three things in a unified power production technique) which I’d love to look into further. I have a line of small pet housing I’ve sketched out, featuring tunnels connecting small pet environments in each room of the owner’s house.  I have a video game I’ve outlined and done character development for that I’m writing up as an RPG sourcebook...

___________________________________________________ I'm not saying this is genius stuff (I’m also not saying it isn’t tho) I'm just saying pursuing these thoughts is the only thing in life that commands my interest.

What I’m super tired of is trying to make my brain do anything but run on at full speed about this kind of thing, because it pretty much refuses to do anything else anyway.

I don't even care if I make any money from any of it, I just want to make it happen. ... I mean, money would be nice too, of course.

So, anyway, now if I die in my sleep at least this much of any of it is out in the world in some form. Meanwhile, I’m just a few days away from going live with the website I’ve put together to showcase my progress on this stuff and help find funding for development. A central location all of it can live and get updated. I should probably get back to working on that, actually

[nexushunter904]

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Are you in need of a web server software for your projects? Looking for something with outstanding performance that suits your prerequisites? A web server is a software program which serves content (HTML documents, images, and other web resources) using the HTTP protocol. It will support both static content and dynamic content. Check these eight top rated web server software and get to know about all its key features here before deciding which would suit your project.

Web server software is a kind of software which is developed to be utilized, controlled and handled on computing server. Web server software gives the exploitation of basic server computing cloud for application with a collection of high-end computing functions and services. This should fire up a webserver that listens on 10.0.1.1:8080 and serves files from the current directory ('.' ) – no PHP, ASP or any of that needed. Any suggestion greatly appreciated. Macos http unix webserver.

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Apache

The Apache HTTP web Server Project is a push to create and keep up an open-source HTTP server for current working frameworks including UNIX and Windows. The objective of this anticipate is to give a safe, effective and extensible server that gives HTTP administrations in a state of harmony with the present HTTP benchmarks.

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The Virgo Web Server is the runtime segment of the Virgo Runtime Environment. It is a lightweight, measured, OSGi-based runtime that gives a complete bundled answer for creating, sending, and overseeing venture applications. By utilizing a few best-of-breed advances and enhancing them, the VWS offers a convincing answer for creating and convey endeavor applications.

Abyss Web Server

Abyss Web Server empowers you to have your Web destinations on your PC. It bolsters secure SSL/TLS associations (HTTPS) and in addition an extensive variety of Web innovations. It can likewise run progressed PHP, Perl, Python, ASP, ASP.NET, and Ruby on Rails Web applications which can be sponsored by databases, for example, MySQL, SQLite, MS SQL Server, MS Access, or Oracle.

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All the arrangement is done through Cherokee-Admin, an excellent and effective web interface. Cherokee underpins the most across the board Web innovations: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, uWSGI, SSI, CGI, LDAP, TLS/SSL, HTTP proxying, video gushing, the content storing, activity forming, and so on. It underpins cross Platform and keeps running on Linux, Mac OS X, and then some more.

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RaidenHTTPD is a completely included web server programming for Windows stage. It’s intended for everyone, whether novice or master, who needs to have an intuitive web page running inside minutes. With RaidenHTTPD, everybody can be a web page performer starting now and into the foreseeable future! Having a web page made with RaidenHTTPD, you won’t be surprised to see a great many guests to your web website consistently or considerably more

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KF Web Server is a free HTTP Server that can have a boundless number of websites. Its little size, low framework necessities, and simple organization settle on it the ideal decision for both expert and beginner web designers alike.

Tornado Web Server

Tornado is a Python web structure and offbeat systems administration library, initially created at FriendFeed. By utilizing non-blocking system I/O, Tornado can scale to a huge number of open associations, making it perfect for long surveying, WebSockets, and different applications that require a seemingly perpetual association with every client.

WampServer – Most Popular Software

This is the most mainstream web server amongst all the others. WampServer is a Windows web improvement environment. It permits you to make web applications with Apache2, PHP, and a MySQL database. Nearby, PhpMyAdmin permits you to oversee effortlessly your databases. WampServer is accessible for nothing (under GPML permit) in two particular adaptations that is, 32 and 64 bits.

What is a Web Server?

A Web Server is a PC framework that works by means of HTTP, the system used to disseminate data on the Web. The term can refer to the framework, or to any product particularly that acknowledges and administers the HTTP requests. A web server, in some cases, called an HTTP server or application server is a system that serves content utilizing the HTTP convention. You can also see Log Analyser Software

This substance is often as HTML reports, pictures, and other web assets, however, can incorporate any kind of record. The substance served by the web server can be prior known as a static substance or created on the fly that is alterable content. In a request to be viewed as a web server, an application must actualize the HTTP convention. Applications based on top of web servers. You can also see Proxy Server Software

Therefore, these 8 web servers are very powerful and makes the customer really satisfactory when used in their applications. Try them out and have fun programming!

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Here is my definitive guide to getting a local web server running on OS X 10.14 “Mojave”. This is meant to be a development platform so that you can build and test your sites locally, then deploy to an internet server. This User Tip only contains instructions for configuring the Apache server, PHP module, and Perl module. I have another User Tip for installing and configuring MySQL and email servers.

Note: This user tip is specific to macOS 10.14 “Mojave”. Pay attention to your OS version. There have been significant changes since earlier versions of macOS.Another note: These instructions apply to the client versions of OS X, not Server. Server does a few specific tricks really well and is a good choice for those. For things like database, web, and mail services, I have found it easier to just setup the client OS version manually.

Requirements:

Basic understanding of Terminal.app and how to run command-line programs.

Basic understanding of web servers.

Basic usage of vi. You can substitute nano if you want.

Optional: Xcode is required for adding PHP modules.

Lines in bold are what you will have to type in. Lines in bold courier should be typed at the Terminal.Replace <your short user name> with your short user name.

Here goes... Enjoy!

To get started, edit the Apache configuration file as root:

sudo vi /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Enable PHP by uncommenting line 177, changing:

#LoadModule php7_module libexec/apache2/libphp7.so

to

LoadModule php7_module libexec/apache2/libphp7.so

(If you aren't familiar with vi, go to line 177 by typing '177G' (without the quotes). Then just press 'x' over the '#' character to delete it. Then type ':w!' to save, or just 'ZZ' to save and quit. Don't do that yet though. More changes are still needed.)

If you want to run Perl scripts, you will have to do something similar:

Enable Perl by uncommenting line 178, changing:

#LoadModule perl_module libexec/apache2/mod_perl.so

to

LoadModule perl_module libexec/apache2/mod_perl.so

Enable personal websites by uncommenting the following at line 174:

#LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so

to

LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so

and do the same at line 511:

#Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

to

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Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

Now save and quit.

Open the file you just enabled above with:

sudo vi /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

and uncomment the following at line 16:

#Include /private/etc/apache2/users/*.conf

to

Include /private/etc/apache2/users/*.conf

Save and exit.

Lion and later versions no longer create personal web sites by default. If you already had a Sites folder in Snow Leopard, it should still be there. To create one manually, enter the following:

mkdir ~/Sites

echo '<html><body><h1>My site works</h1></body></html>' > ~/Sites/index.html.en

While you are in /etc/apache2, double-check to make sure you have a user config file. It should exist at the path: /etc/apache2/users/<your short user name>.conf.

That file may not exist and if you upgrade from an older version, you may still not have it. It does appear to be created when you create a new user. If that file doesn't exist, you will need to create it with:

sudo vi /etc/apache2/users/<your short user name>.conf

Use the following as the content:

<Directory '/Users/<your short user name>/Sites/'>

AddLanguage en .en

AddHandler perl-script .pl

PerlHandler ModPerl::Registry

Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks ExecCGI

AllowOverride None

Require host localhost

</Directory>

Now you are ready to turn on Apache itself. But first, do a sanity check. Sometimes copying and pasting from an internet forum can insert invisible, invalid characters into config files. Check your configuration by running the following command in the Terminal:

apachectl configtest

If this command returns 'Syntax OK' then you are ready to go. It may also print a warning saying 'httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name'. You could fix this by setting the ServerName directive in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and adding a matching entry into /etc/hosts. But for a development server, you don't need to do anything. You can just ignore that warning. You can safely ignore other warnings too.

Turn on the Apache httpd service by running the following command in the Terminal:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist

In Safari, navigate to your web site with the following address:

http://localhost/

It should say:

It works!

Now try your user home directory:

http://localhost/~<your short user name>

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It should say:

My site works

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Now try PHP. Create a PHP info file with:

echo '<?php echo phpinfo(); ?>' > ~/Sites/info.php

And test it by entering the following into Safari's address bar:

http://localhost/~<your short user name>/info.php

You should see your PHP configuration information.

To test Perl, try something similar. Create a Perl test file with:

echo 'print $ENV(MOD_PERL) . qq(n);' > ~/Sites/info.pl

And test it by entering the following into Safari's address bar:

http://localhost/~<your short user name>/info.pl

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You should see the string 'mod_perl/2.0.9'.

If you want to setup MySQL, see my User Tip on Installing MySQL.

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If you want to add modules to PHP, I suggest the following site. I can't explain it any better.

If you want to make further changes to your Apache system or user config files, you will need to restart the Apache server with:

sudo apachectl graceful

[elkstudies]

Here’s a list of some of the things I learnt in my first year of college that I wish I had known before I started:

Unidays!! So before I started I went out & bought new clothes, notebooks, stationery etc. for college, & I wish I hadn’t because most of the stores I bought from, have a student discount when you use Unidays/show your id in store. ((They also have 10% Apple if you’re buying new electronics!!))

Lecturers do care. All through secondary/high school, I was told, “when you go to college, lecturers won’t care about you.”  From my experience, this isn’t true. Most lecturers do care because your performance in exams reflects on them as a lecturer. While they won’t spoon-feed you, they are there to help you if you’re struggling/have a few questions. 

Don’t copy down the lecturer's slides (if they post them online!). In my first semester, I wrote everything off the slides, and spent so much time in the lecture paying attention to the slides, I missed what the lecturer was saying, which is more important to note down as you won’t be able to find it online. 

What buildings and lecture halls my classes were in. If you can, try going to each building/hall to see exactly where you need on your first day/week.

You don’t need to sit at the front of a lecture hall to get the best out of a lecture. I thought before college the only way I could pay attention would be by sitting up the front but I’ve found this isn’t the case for me. I work best sitting in the middle because then I don’t have to make eye-contact with the lecturer (something I find really uncomfortable) and I’m not worried about what’s happening behind me. Everyone’s different so try to find a place that suits you! 

It’s totally okay to do things alone. In school, I feel like there’s a bit of a group culture, where you can’t do anything without someone else but in college, it’s good to go to lectures/have lunch and go the library by yourself sometimes (& no one will judge you for it). 

The library isn’t the only study place. The library can be intimidating especially for 1st years. When I started I loved reading rooms which were smaller and more private. 

How to print stuff off in college. Learn how to do it asap! I only found out in my second semester. It’s just something that’s handy to know! Before you go to college just google your college’s name & print and you’ll find out how.

The college doctor’s office is free/a lot cheaper! I didn’t actually use the doctor’s office but it’s good to know how much it’s going to be if you do need to go! (This depends on what college you go to, check beforehand)

You don’t need to buy the textbook. I know so many people who paid a lot of $ for a textbook when they could have used one of the library’s multiple copies or got a cheaper one from a past student.

College can offer a lot more than just classes. Volunteering opportunities, societies, clubs, counselling services are just a few things that are available that aren’t related to class, make use of them.

The people you’re friends with the first week, may not still be your friends at the start of the year (and that’s okay!). You’ll meet a lot of people in college and it can take time to find people you really connect  & want to be friends with. 

You may have to study something you’re not that big of a fan of at first. Some courses are general to start off with and let you specialise later. Don’t be put off by this, work hard and it’ll pay off when you get to pick what you want to study later!

College is hard. You may get homesick, find your classes difficult, or feel lonely but it get’s better. It’s only normal to find a new situation difficult but stick with it & you’ll get through it!!  

Best of luck if you’re starting college this year!! Remember to enjoy every moment of it! 💛

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