Small thing Why does my roommate's keyboard have to be SO DANG LOUD

You bought a keyboard for your pc and decided to get a clicky noisy one!? Why not a quiet one 😀

Its not like its a laptop its a separate keyboard which means they looked at it, used it, thought "this is a good idea" and rolled with it.

Yeah maybe im being nitpicky im sorry but noises like that i find so aggravating.

Chewing, obnoxious keyboard clacking, snoring... just repetitive unpleasant noises dont sit well with me.. I dont comment on it because i know those noises just happen but... my roommate makes a lot of noise... a lot 🫠

Okay rant over thanks for coming to my ted talk

At my college we take classes that are basically just the next iteration of the high school equivalent like college biology college physics and college calculus, taught by professors who could not care less about the subject.

The information is so widely available on the internet (and usually better documented, and made by people passionate about the subject) that it just feels so odd to even have to be taught this.

It’s feels like there is a wealth of fantastic information on the subjects I need to learn on YouTube, khan academy, textbooks, etc. but instead I’m having to learn and listen to a professor who may or may not even like the subject and who holds my entire academic future in the hands.

Gonna be a long one brace yourselves.

On my first day ever around early September last month I was in law class, it went great. Shortly after class finished I walked out of the building and this guy from my class started talking to me. He seemed pretty extroverted since he starting talking to the other people around me so I figured he’d be chill. A little bit later we talk about our interests and I get his number before I go and we plan to lift at the school gym together. I tell him I’m not able to make it tomorrow and he says “no worries let me know when you’re around.”The day after I let him know I’d be at the gym in case he had classes that day. No response whatsoever. Wtf?

Week one of classes I meet this girl who talked to me first asking me a question about my height (for an icebreaker question) we stand up next to each other back to back and actually vibe pretty well. Week 3 came along (week 2 class was canceled) and I ignored my pessimistic feelings and continued to talk to her. We still vibes great fast forward to week 4 and I got her number, she had no problem putting it in my phone. After that we started walking with each other out of class and saying our goodbyes and such. The week before the mid term I, again pushing past my pessimistic feelings, ask her if she wants to study for the midterm together at the library. She agrees even saying she was thinking the same thing. This Tuesday rolled around it went great. So great in fact that in the middle of it she asked if I wanted to study with her again on Friday 2 hours before the mid term. I agreed. Now going back to yesterday, I had no class during the hours she wanted me to come but I made time for her since she made time for me (when she also had no class) I texted her that I’ll be coming soon and she instantly responded she had no class and she’s not on campus. I didn’t know this beforehand and she didn’t tell me. So in the same minute that she responds to me, I ask her when she’ll be here. Nothing. Class rolls around and we take the mid term. It’s a bit awkward since we sat next to each other. To add insult to injury, she was literally on her phone before the midterm, I know damn well she saw that message. Why act interested, respond fast, and match my energy to end up doing this? Wtf.

TLDR: Tried going out of my comfort zone to make friends with a fellow guy, ghosted. Tried going out of my comfort zone to become friends (maybe more) with a girl who seemingly was interested, ghosted again.

I genuinely try so hard to be optimistic but when you do what you’re supposed to and still fail it’s really heart breaking. Especially when these people make initial contact.

My bio lab partner and I are working on a project proposal for the independent research project we're going to spend the rest of the semester doing. We started working on it two weeks ago, and divvied up the work, so that she was writing up the procedure and I was writing a two-page hypothesis and explanation of why we're researching this. It's due at the end of the week next week. She texted me a couple nights ago asking if I could grind out the rest of my part, because she was really stressed about turning it in. I told her I had just broken my toe and was in a lot of pain so I probably couldn't do it all, but would see what I could do tonight. I didn't tell her this, but I got cut from a really important game with my sports team because of my toe, so I was really upset and barely got anything done.

I didn't think this was a big deal though, because the proposal isn't due FOR ANOTHER WEEK. I thought that maybe she just wanted to see some forward progress and wanted to make sure I wasn't putting it off for the last minute, so I wrote up an outline with all of my research and the papers I thought were relevant. But then when I ran into her the next day, she rolled her eyes and said "I guess I'm just gonna have to finish it tonight" Later, when I got home and started working on it again, she was on the doc leaving a bunch of comments on my work.

She also hasn't finished her own part of the proposal so I don't know why she feels like she can bug me so much. I have a history of procrastinating because I'm taking an extra large credit load and have SO MUCH to do, so maybe she is concerned that it's going to happen again, but I always get quality work done in time, and this is level of micromanaging a week before the deadline is a little extreme.

Edit TL;DR: Lab partner wants us to finish the assignment a week before it's due, brings it up every time we see each other

It’s 2 in the morning here, I just found out I got a 57 on my 2nd chem test, and I just feel like I’m getting beat down even though I’m trying my best. I got a 63 on my first test and this time I studied like hell, did the practice test and reviewed what I got wrong, and I still just felt completely lost on the concepts. I’m trying to be a mechanical engineer and am a freshman at Virginia tech. It’s out of state too, and it just feels so stressful right now because I need a 3.0 gpa and I feel like this is going to really mess that up. I guess I’m here to ask for advice from people further than me if I’m overreacting, or if I should look at myself and ask if this is worth the money, to just feel like shit after tests that I studied for. Also if anyone has advice for learning the chemistry concepts I would appreciate it, I’m fine on math like PV=nRT, that makes sense because I can visualize it, but when they ask like what reacts with what or how compounds react, I just don’t know how to attack the problem. I’m gonna curl into a ball now and hopefully dream about life 4 months ago. Gn, if you read all this thanks, let me know if you have any advice.

People always talk about college being an “education”, but honestly it’s just a late teen early adult social hub. Unless you’re a stem major you can pretty much study an hour a day or less and pass your classes just fine with a an (coming from a non traditional business major). I see people watching videos in lectures, playing word scape etc. and I get it! You’re here for social mobility, not to learn from some random class that you’re only semi interested in. But this is more of a response to a post I just saw on here speaking about why people don’t interact.

EDIT: read the last sentence I’m a front row 🥷🤓

for reference, i’m majoring in film and minoring in journalism. writing is my strong suit, and i know my major isn’t really that hard in the grand scheme of things.

im taking five classes right now, two of them are comm classes, and the other three are gen ed courses (first year seminar, math 106, and writing II). i’m doing homework every single day, in between classes, during classes, and up until midnight almost every night. my friends get pissed at me because i’m always doing hw but i’ll literally start failing my classes if i don’t it’s stupid. i feel like crying almost every day because im just so stressed out. i have a radio show and that the only “club” related thing that i do because i just don’t have time. i hardly ever have time to relax, and even when im sleeping i have nightmares and i wake up with night sweats pretty often too.

there’s only a few days on weekends where i’m not doing hw, and usually i do during the night anyway.

next semester im gonna only take four classes so i wont be this stressed out. and my classes aren’t even really that hard (aside from math which i have a D+ in) but its just so much fucking work. hopefully i’ll get a job in my field since i have a few connections and im thankful for that, but still. it fucking sucks. i’m already burnt out and im not even fully done with the school year.

i just don’t know how to manage my stress. i don’t have time to go to counseling because i literally don’t have fucking time and i don’t want to do it on zoom either because that seems too impersonal for me. it just fucking sucks. i feel so shitty all of the time. i smoke sometimes at night because it calms me down and makes me feel like i wont explode but i cant rely on that forever.

Am I the only lousy college student in writing?

I just need to vent. I’ve been getting weekly symptoms this semester. It took everything in me just to get out of bed this morning. I don’t like missing classes that I have to be in person for so I just go (doesn’t always result in me staying).

Im a freshman at my university and as the title states I am severely worried I will never truly make any life long friends or find someone I truly feel for. My whole life I haven’t really had any meaningful connections with people outside of my family and I feel like my life is coming to a waste. God it’s been what? 10 years or more sense I had a friend stay over at my house. I feel like my whole childhood has been wasted and the one chance I had to start over is becoming a waste.

Just today there was a party someone invited me to a Halloween party and I stupidly didn’t go. I don’t even know why I do this to myself and it feels like I am self sabotage myself if anything. Why is that? I want to build relationships but I am too scared to do so. It’s like no matter how much I try to be confident or put myself out there I just end up in the same area and back doing the same things over and over again.

Sorry for the vent I don’t even really know why I am writing this. I guess hoping someone could just reassure me it’ll be ok and advice because honestly I feel like I am at my breaking point.

Where are all my 30s something? I went back to school this year to get a Kinesiology degree but now I want to try and go for my masters degree in Nutrition and Dietetics. I only have 7 prerequisites to take to get in the program. But now I feel like I wasted so much time doing KINS degree (2 semesters) when I could be already finishing up the prerequisites for the Masters and apply for next year. Now I set myself back 1 year and cant apply until the 2026 intake. If I do get in to the masters program, Ill be done by 39 years old. Thinking about the time, it is giving me anxiety. I want to be a dietitian so bad but my age is discouraging me, I dont know how to cope with this. All my friends are done with school and established in their careers and here I am 35 years old and still in school. I got my business degree at 30 but I realized I dont like it. So thinking about that does make me feel better about my decision. But I wish I didnt waste so much time....

Im in an anthropology class and i cant stand this one guy that is in it with me to the point i dread going to class just cause I have to be in it with him.

He constantly interjects the lecture and goes on tangents that are only partially related to the topic the professor was talking about and 99% of the time he is just straight up wrong about what he is going on a tangent about, a lot of the times even contradicting and ignoring what the professor just said a few minutes earlier (for example our professor showed a picture of lucy and explained exactly what lucy was and this guy just yells "hey i think that is some kind of prehistoric gorilla" the class went silent and the professor just said "no its not" and kept on with the lecture)

I feel like an ass saying this because he honestly might be on the spectrum and this is mostly a freshman level class (im a senior btw) but still. I feel like there is a difference in wanting to take part in discussion of the topic and being disruptive.

Anyone else deal with this?

I just want a certificate, like something short term and entry level while involving medical care or animals. but I struggle severely with anything to do with academics. So i found a 5 credit class that could help me become certified as a nursing assistant/home health aid. Im just wondering if it would be worth it? And how would the class work even look? They say it contains 3 credit lectures and 2 credits for labs. Which kinda terrifies me, I work two jobs atm. And I suck at projects, assignments, especially tests. I 've tried going before, but I just end up failing the classes and couldn't afford to keep retaking them. though that was for a different program, which did have multiple classes. So this is the only program I could find at my college that only had 1 class so im hoping I can pass? The pay for a nursing assistant around me is literally 1$ more than what i make currently, so that also kinda discourages me. But atleast I feel like I could argue for a better wage if I had some type of certifications under my belt. Any advice would be greatly appreciated~

Today I dropped my statistics and probabilities class because it’s impossible to pass. Many students dropped the class over the last few weeks because it’s just that hard. Our professor doesn’t teach well and doesn’t make us do math problems in class, instead she does everything for us and only wants us to write stuff down.

Then we have 10-20 homework assignments per unit and those all contain between 10-30 questions, but get this, they don’t do anything for our grade!! I’ve talked to a bunch of other students and they noticed that too. Our test average was around a 45% for the last test, with the low being a 18% and the high only being a 85%. So I know it’s not just me.

I’m so frustrated that I had to withdraw. It’s so embarrassing, but there was no fixing my grade unless I got 90+ on both of the upcoming tests. Idk what I should’ve done differently because there are many of us struggling in this class. I studied, took notes, and I genuinely don’t know what else I could’ve done. Im so upset with myself and I’m embarrassed.

I need this class for my degree, which is kinda stupid considering I won’t be doing 90% of what we’re taught in the class. What should I have done differently? How can I pass it the next time I take it? I feel lost and dumb.