#you are a tenured professor

[spohkh]

my brit lit professor fully unironically literally definitely has ADHD and i am afeared for how this class is going to go. bc holy shit you cannot teach a class on the 18th century being that all over the place. please im begging you slow down. sit. sit down. why are we listening to a bob dylan song. stop writing random words on the whiteboard. stop interrupting students reading passages to go on a 15 minute rant. please please please for the love of god. why are we listening to bob dylan AGAIN.

[pathetic-gamer]

love Remedy's commitment to putting Alan in fun little outfits, but giving him a messenger bag and tweed suit is so fucking funny. bestie where r u going? what r u carrying? textbooks? joseph campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces? u have a lamp in there.

[cosmicnovaflare]

Exactly a month late to the 1 year anniversary. Shez and Byleth from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes.

I’m going to be honest. I bought this game because the reveal trailer of the ex protagonist beating the crap out of the new protagonist for 10-12 chapters was hilarious. I have no regrets, this is by far my favourite warriors game.

[posallys]

i will NEVER not be pissed that most colleges cost about 40k A YEAR on average and that if YOUR PARENTS make over 120k AS A GROSS INCOME you're practically immediately disqualified for need-based aid???? like do you really believe anybody can afford to throw an entire third of their annual income to their kid's schooling, when they probably have several thousands of dollars in loan debt themselves??? in THIS economy??? eggs are fucking $7 a dozen where i am right now but GOD FUCKING FORBID i get any financial aid because "well your upper class" NEWS FLASH 120K IS THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS AND JUST BECAUSE MY PARENTS MAKE OKAY MONEY NOW DOESN'T MEAN FUCK ALL WHEN I CAN REMEMBER ALL THE NIGHTS THEY DIDN'T EAT WHEN I WAS GROWING UP BECAUSE THEY ONLY HAD ENOUGH FOOD TO FEED ME AND MY SISTERS I need to hold everyone involved at gunpoint because i really don't think a single fucking one of them understands "oh but you have money :/" there's literally a reason i work FULL FUCKING TIME while double majoring and it's because my parents can't even send me money for fucking groceries, let alone fork out FORTY FUCKING THOUSAND DOLLARS GOD DAMN YEAR for a degree that'll be FUCKING WORTHLESS in three years anyway i worked my ASS off and graduated with a 4.7 to get scholarships because i knew that's the only way i'd realistically be able to afford school. and then the fucking fafsa goes "oh but you have money in your savings! you can pay for your own school" bitch i have 4k and it's for my fucking rent!!!! my parents have like $600 in savings do YOU SEE THE ISSUE that's what being forced into credit card debt for 20 years fucking does it puts you in an unescapable hole so even when you're making good money YOU DON'T GET SHIT!!!!!! NOT TO MENTION THE ABYSMAL CREDIT SCORES MY PARENTS HAVE SO GOOD FUCKING LUCK TRYING TO GET LOANS FOR ME!!! COSIGNER? I'VE NEVER HEARD OF HER IM GOING TO KILL PEOPLE!!!!!!

[godblooded]

as a certified, actualized, literal professionally trained academic educator the true horror of wicked is that as a professor morrible is That Bitch With Tenure everyone wishes could get fired but she can’t because she’s so Old and Installed she will literally never go anywhere EVER she will die on this fucking campus if it KILLS her with THIS pension and it doesn’t matter how weirdly manipulative and flat-out unprofessional she is to her students.

[anonymolly]

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[astriiformes]

Dying a little bit because the source I've been spending the most time with (other than Burton) for my melancholia project is Johann Freitag's 1678 Kurtzer Bericht von der Melancholia Hypochondriaca, which is a fascinating, fairly dense read that clearly has a lot of valuable information, but the thing is:

My German is already not amazing, and this is Early Modern, Fraktur-printed nonsense that I'm really struggling through

There is like no scholarship on the author or the book. Which really makes me want to write about it, since it would probably look good to consult a lesser-known source instead of just re-treading ground everyone else has already covered (like Burton), but also. Especially with my limited German. How do I do that confidently.

And this is a one-semester undergrad research project, not a PhD thesis or anything, so I really don't know how far I should try to chase it, but the part of me that yearns for grad school is going bonkers.

[clarascuro]

ive been seeing the word "feyre" in a bunch of tiktoky romantasy adjacent dressmaking videos and I assumed it was like a fandom word from some ya book I haven't read. I realized today it's supposed to be "fairy".

[riverstories7]

Can I rant for a minute? Authors, if one of your characters is an academic, do some basic research. Your adjunct professor will not suddenly get tenure if they publish their magnum opus. Your associate professor probably already has tenure and isn't at risk of being fired unless they commit misconduct—in which case their rank doesn't really matter. Job titles vary from country to country: professor means something very different in the US and the UK. I've been thrown WAY out of immersion in at least two books this year by stupid errors that might have been fixed if ANYONE involved in the writing or editing had done a Google search or talked to an academic.

[micamicster]

When you’re messaging with another resident and you can feel their attending standing over their shoulder breathing down their neck like if you cave and add me to this chat you’re the most fired anyone hs ever been

[otter-byte]

Not only am I plagued by the fiction ideas I haven't written yet, but I am also haunted by the dozens of ideas I've had over the years for small psych/sociology/economics papers I'd love to work on, but lack the education and willpower to submit grant applications for lmao

[nablah]

for once i'd like people not to infantilize me just because i'm obviously disabled and polite and petite and "feminine" and asexual

[transfaguette]

i kinda hate when bad things happen to successful and well liked people. but mostly because everyone is like "oh what a tragedy" and then when they pull thru they get to talk about perseverance or whatever but if the same thing happened to a "failure" like me and you can't pull through then ppl just think you deserve it lol.

[g4rchomp]

I remained in contact with my thesis supervisor and when I told her I was enjoying working in retail despite the absolute shit pay she said 'oh my daughter works as a cashier part time and she's amazed by the money she's making!' and I had to remind her that her daughter is a 16 year old with no bills to pay and I'm a whole adult

[saja-star]

I was just reminded of a time a friend of mine called me and asked what I was up to so I said I was having tea. And he said, "oh, I just read about how you should use different temperatures of water for black tea vs green tea." And I said "oh cool, I didn't know that." He said "which are you drinking." I said "neither, it's mint tea." He said "so green?" I said, "no, there's no green tea in this. It's just dried mint leaves." He continued to insist it must be either black or green, and I continued to try to explain that "green tea" doesn't just refer to the color it refers a drink made from the actual tea plant, and my mint tea is literally green but it doesn't contain any leaves from a tea plant. To which he got annoyed at me for "refusing to answer."

I am totally sympathetic to the fact that the terminology is counter-intuitive. It is! It's super confusing! But he acts like I'm making things hard on purpose because he doesn't understand something.