#tho he wants to apply for the affiliation program

[keepyourlife]

Do people in a relationship still write porn on ao3 and regularly stuff on tumblr or are they boring?

Didn't know you've been in a relationship, congrats! I don't do tax either by the way!

uuuh depends on the person, i guess. my boyfriend knows that i write, although i haven't given him any of my written stuff as of yet. i have been MIA on tumblr for a bit bc of work, my upcoming USA trip and bc of my rather fresh relationship.

thanks btw!! 💚 yea it's the guy i've been talking about on here for a while, we're together now. he's,, pretty mature for our age (i'm 21, he's 22). the whole story is a bit of a mess bc of my cluelessness & even more so if you know a thing or two about lego and their retail stores vs the affiliate program.

[zumpietoo]

When You “Shop” a Company

that you’ve interviewed/applied to unsuccessfully.....And they suck beyond belief in their presentation, etc:

Honestly, it was fucking hilarious

For starters, you first have the flunkie below the person call you and ask dumb qualifying questions and schedule a time for a demo.    

And you then receive (and remember this is over the course of an entire 18 hours) ninety billion irritating, annoying reminders and links/forms they want you, the customer, to take the time to fill out "to make the most of our session"even tho they're completely redundant (and this is meant to be about something to save you time----which is why you were interested in the first place)

Time pops up, "higher level" sales guy has clearly not bothered to remotely vet or read anything presented, starts asking the same questions I already answered.

Doesn't even grasp what we do, what I'm selling, etc, even after I've explained it to him THREE times

Also doesn't seem to grasp that I'm A) an experienced sales person, who understands how to use a data mining program B) IDGAF how they mine their info, I want pricing for leads, so I can get back to work

The service, OFC, is also obscenely overpriced and even as he's trying to do the demo, he still couldn't fathom what I wanted, even as I explained it to him a fourth time (and no, it wasn't all that difficult to figure out)

I actually had to say, "I answered all these questions yesterday, I'm fully aware of what I want, there's no need to qualify me, can we just get to the demo?"

Granted, I interviewed for a different position with the company, but still affiliated----and they can’t seem to fill it....maybe being really unprepared and stupid is what they’re looking for?

[silenceofthemongooses]

hi! I hope I'm not bothering you but I can see ur attending CU. I'm planning on applying to either the school of art or engineering, but I'm leaning more towards art. I'm really at a loss when it comes to applying, home tests,and the general enviorment of the school.. and what to do after I graduate so I was just curious on what that's all like :0 sorry for making this so long .. thank u for ur time!

OMG THIS IS THE ASK I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR MY WHOLE LIFE I LOVE TALKING ABOUT COOPER

i’m putting it under a readmore bc it got crazy long??? i’m not even to the part where i yell about applications yet and it’s like ten paragraphs lmao

so. 

first things first. 

i applied to cooper in the first place because when i took the tour (best fucking college tour i took the whole time, by the way. all of the guides LOVE cooper and they love telling you about it, so if you get a chance, defo go on the tour bc theyre way more honest and you get a better feel for the school than on any other tour) one of the things that they emphasized was the student community., one told me that once when she walked into the EE lab and asked to borrow someone’s phone charger because hers had frayed so badly it wasn’t working. not only did someone give her a charger, but they fixed her charger until she could get a new one. 

and when i got here, it’s totally fucking true. cooper is a community in every definition of the word. everyone is totally willing to help you in any way that they can, because that’s the kind of people that cooper admits and then fosters that behavior. 

now. the reason they foster this behavior is because it’s a fucking hard school. the standard course load for a freshman engineer first semester is 18.5 credits, spread out over 7 classes plus a professional seminar. and yeah, some of those are only one or two credit classes, but they still have homework and class time. it is a rigorous schedule that only gets harder. professor alan wolf (physics, more on him later maybe? i have him next semester, we’ll see if the Rumors are true) said at an engineering faculty panel that he wants physics to be moved to first semester of freshman year (instead of second) because the transition from “an easy first semester” to a semester with physics and calc 2 was too difficult for a lot of students. everyone around me groaned when he said the first semester was easy. 

and this is just the engineering school! the art school is hard as hell too. keep in mind that what i know about the art program is just synthesized from talking to art students and not at all from personal experience. but. 

the first year of art is a foundation year. they assume you don’t know anything, and break you down to basics. the art ra in the dorms said her freshman year was incredibly hard for her both as an artist and as a person just because she was confronted with all these other talented people and having to face that she wasn’t The Artist in school anymore. i regularly leave the student lounge (menschel) at two in the morning only for art kids to walk in, holding all of their materials (although, not anymore, since someone got charcoal all over the tables in 3a lmao) and settling in for another all-nighter. 

cooper is a culture of intense rigor and stress, and there is no overcoming that. but it’s also a culture of community and supporting each other. it’s a really specific kind of school that some people find just isn’t for them. 

also, cooper is like, really small. like. very small. here are some of the things you will encounter because of cooper union’s limited budget and facilities, and which you basically have to accept:

no dining hall. there’s frankie’s cafe in the new academic building (also known as the engineering building, most commonly referred to as the nab) but otherwise there is absolutely no meal plan. frankie’s has like, sandwiches and muffins and bagels and (terrible) coffee, but it is in no way a full college dining hall. 

no gym. i think at one point we were allowed to use nyu’s facilities? no longer. almost everyone i know belongs to a gym. i myself visit the planet fitness on union square maaaybe once a month when i guilt myself into it. blink is a popular option. if you’re willing to spare the cash equinox is also there. crunch is the one that everyone kind of makes fun of but like it’s super close so go for it if you want. 

small supporting staff. this is both a blessing and a curse. i know everyone in the student affairs office by first name and usually they know me. i think at this point i’ve met everyone in the financial aid department. cool, because it means that they know me. bad, because it means i’ve had to talk to all of them to figure out what the hell is going on with my scholarships and how much money i actually know. this is not a school where there are online systems in place to fix any problems you have. you have to be your own advocate to the administration, and as much as they desperately want to help you, a lot of the time it comes down to just making sure your paperwork goes through. good news is you almost never have to make an appointment to talk to someone you just show up. 

very little interaction between the schools. there are three schools. art, architecture, and engineering. engineering is by far the most populated, followed by art, then architecture. if i didn’t live with two artists, i would never talk to anyone in art or architecture. yes, the hss classes are multidisciplinary, but just statistically, engineers far outweigh the artists. there weren’t even any architects in my hss1 class. if you don’t make the effort to reach out beyond your school, it straight up doesn’t happen. 

sometimes when you go to the basics plus to get some hangers because you ordered too many shirts online and now they’re just kind of shoved in your drawers and when the cashier asks if you have a student id and you pull out your cooper id she’s like “oh! is that local?” and you have to smile and say yes and when you walk out of the store you can see the foundation building down third with absolutely no problem

there’s more and i’ll think of them later but this is good for now

ANYWAYS i have a lot more thoughts on the culture of cooper??? but i think i’m going to leave it here because this is a decent overview of how i feel and what the most important parts are. 

now.

for applying.

again, i applied to and am in the engineering school. everything i know about the art school is based on talking to art students

also, i am in no way affiliated with the actual admissions department and the following is just based on my experiences as someone who applied and talking to other people who applied

also at first i thought you were applying this cycle and i was like. honey. this is not enough time for either application

BUT THEN i put an ounce more thought into it and realized not everyone younger than me is a high school senior lmao

anyways!

both applications are really intensive. to get art out of the way (sorry art) it’s a series of prompts that you have to create a piece in response to. some artists i know got crazy super stressed about it, and pulled so many all nighters, and skipped a lot of homework to do it, and overall just did not enjoy it. one of my artist roommates, however, said that she actually really enjoyed the process? she just let herself create without worrying “is this what will get me in?” and felt that it was a really great experience. 

either way, you’re going to have an interesting experience. 

for the engineering writing prompts, it’s a goddamn marathon. there were nine, i think, when i applied? i applied to eleven schools and i had to write seventeen supplements. the ratio of supplement-to-school was way off and its all cooper’s fault lmao

there isn’t a word minimum, but there is a word maximum per essay, a fact i discovered as i was copy-pasting mine into the commonapp from my googledocs file. i think the max is 500 words? not positive tho don’t quote me

anyways they’re all fairly standard questions. like, nothing out of the blue like chicago’s or whatever. but keep in mind that this is honestly where you’re going to get admitted. a lot of people apply to cooper. and a lot of those people will have the same exact stats as you (btw, sat/act scores and gpa matter slightly more for engineers than for artists and architects) and the way to distinguish yourself is through your writing. cooper admits you as a person because they believe you’ll add to their community and then to the world, not because you got a perfect score on whatever. 

so i, at least, let myself be a little freer in my cooper essays than in any other supplement. some of them i could answer right away (why cooper? why engineering?) and some of them i had to think about for a few days. the last one i wrote was the “tell us about something you read recently”. i wrote about staying up until three in the morning reading a novel and crying. i wrote it the next day because i realized that’s like, exactly who i am as a person. 

the biggest tip i have for writing these essays in general (not just for cooper) is to watch food network star or something similar. the contestants get prompted on how to hook an audience (hey, you want to do that too!) in a short amount of time (word count) and tell a story that relates to both them and their food (a story that relates to you and and why you’re going to be a bombass cooper student) like, just watch a few, and then you’ll kind of have the flow of it down, and you can figure out how to work it into your own writing

just like, really show who you are. i know it can be tempting to put on this facade, and to a certain extent you should (do not, for example, tell them about the time you got so drunk you pissed your pants) but do your best to express yourself, in either application. 

um anyways i am always down to talk about any aspect of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, so if you ever want any more info on anything, hit up my inbox!

my points of expertise include the dorms, classes, stanislav mintchev the greatest math professor in the history of the world, ray’s pizza, sitting in the engineering student council meetings and listening to all the Hot Goss, and more

i mighttttt end up putting up like “a week in my life” post at some point because i always think those are cool and maybe it would be neato

we’ll see

(if anyone want to see that…… or anything else……. lmk……..)

[wooowthanks]

Very long, but there’s a reason.

So, recently I’ve been struggling to find a course that would both get my parent’s approval and my own interest - mostly ‘cause they want me to go into something more general (considering how indecisive I am). I was leaning heavily towards IT/ Computing, because of its stability/ safety (and the potential of getting into web design) over Graphic Design, even though I knew I didn’t really have much of an interest in it. I mean, it’s totally better than me going into law or business, so, yeah.  We had a conversation about my future and, you know, expected lah, disagreements and conflicting view points dominated that span of time. It was quite frustrating to continue a discussion and come back to the same point of me not knowing what to do, them questioning my shaky choice, and not resolving anything whatsoever.

OK - but the point of this post is not me complaining, it’s this: yesterday for the CIMP program, we had to go to the JC Hall to collect our exam timetables and for Sem 2 students, they had some booths set up education fair-esque, promoting the degrees in Sunway and Monash. Right in the front was a banner for Interior Architecture and for Design Communication. 

I didn’t really think about it much, ‘cause like, I got a letter about the Interior Architecture program already, and I just dismissed it ‘cause it’s super new (they’re even still in the process of setting up affiliations with Lancaster now), but they didn’t mention the Design Com program in their letter (or they did, and I didn’t read it HAHA). I was going to leave already; having to go to the hall meant that we had shorter classes and thus, a really long break so Siew, Sharon and I wanted to go to Pyramid and eat good food. But I guess my parents’ words, telling me to go and ask around echoed in my mind and despite wanting to ditch the hall (pho > brochures), I went over to just ask a little about it.

And bruh, the subjects in that program can make me cry, man. It’s quite general, but that’s good for me, because it offers not only graphic design, but subjects about photography AND web design AND packaging AND typography AND an elective includes ceramic design or something which I totally don’t need (but guys. Ceramics) AND some video stuff too that I forgot. When I showed the brochure to my parents (at different times), they said that it was as if the program was created for me.

And my dad said this one thing that kinda made me want to take this program even more. He said something along the lines of the degree being God’s answer to my prayers and that he made it pop out just at the right time. Writing this makes me feel as if I’m narcissistic, ‘cause I know, everything is not about me and the world doesn’t revolve around my needs but, woah. The timing for this is so accurate - right when I need to apply for a scholarship, right when I found out that One Academy doesn’t accept CIMP, right when all that came to mind when thinking about my future was a dark, unending abyss.

I don’t know if this really is God’s doing, and God’s hand shining a light onto the path he wants me to take, but I’m still in awe of the stuff that’s happened even if in the end I decide study something else. If IT IS an answer tho - guys, woah, really. I know writing’s supposed to be my thing but I really can’t find the words to describe this storm of amazement and bewilderment inside me right now. It just goes to show God’s glory - how he opens doors for you when all you see are doors slammed shut, how deep his love and care for you is. I just really thought that this story illustrated how God crafts our way if we put our trust in God and leave it all to him. It’s just magnificent and overwhelming that we have a God like this.

So yeah. I don’t know if I’ll be taking it but, really man. Just how awesome is our God?