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So I'll start with my experience. I posted this to a few YouTube videos I watched so some of it (not much if any) may be directed at something I watched.
I have PET to the extreme and have had it now for at least 25+ years. I'm 42 and remember being in elementary/middle school when I'd lose all pressure in my left ear to the extent that not only could I hear my own voice, breathing, heart beat, etc. unbearably loud, but also any other slight noise in the room becoming so loud and garbled that I couldn't understand or distinguish the difference between someone talking from the air conditioner fan running. Every noise or voice that is heard when my ear is depressurized sounds like someone removed the lows and mids from the sound, I'd guess from it that anything below 7k hertz is unheard when it happens. If you want to get a rough idea what it sounds like, get a decent set of headphones, adjust your equalizer by turning the volume and your highs/treble/7k Hz or higher all the way up and everything else off or down fully. I've discovered a temporary relief by either breathing in really hard with my nose only which was extremely embarrassing, loud, inconvenient, and disgusting to anyone near me, or, pinching my nose shut with my fingers and sucking in until I got as much pressure as possible back in my ear. It started out manageable, only occurring roughly 9-10 times a day, however, it has gotten exponentially worse to now occurring every time I swallow anything. For me personally I swallow saliva at a rate of 2-4 times a minute so that's 2-4 times every waking minute that my ear depressurizes. Initially, other than the auditory inconveniences and embarrassment of adjusting pressure, I didn't pay much attention to it or think that it was abnormal because everyone experiences ear pressure changes at some point. Within the past 5 or so years I have begun to experience an unexplainable pain in my ear canal about 1 out of 20 times it happens. I also am experiencing an extremely loud whistling noise about half of the time it happens which have started to trigger headaches for me. I've seen 3 different doctors so far but was told that I either have a sinus infection or it is just normal pressure changes and the only reason it bothers me is because my ears are more sensitive than other people. After a bit of thorough research I've learned that the doctors I seen were either not well trained, didn't want to tackle my problems, or just don't think my condition is enough for concern.
I am very sympathetic to anyone with this condition and I totally understand your pain and frustration. I would greatly appreciate any possible recommendations of relief, even if it's only temporary given the frequency of my issues onset. The only relief I've found that works 75%+ for me is to completely seal my ear canal from all air, has to be 100% air sealed, before and during swallowing keeps at least half of the existing pressure in my ear instead of fully opening. I honestly have had thoughts of bashing my head off my wall or desk to try to knock myself out just to have a break from the constant loudness, pain, and embarrassment this causes me! I would never intentionally injure myself of course but these symptoms have gotten so bad that I've had the thoughts of it for sure.

An open letter to Benedictine College and Harrison Butker
I first came across the Harrison Butker’s 2025 commencement speech at Benedictine College on Twitter. It was a short snippet of the speech and I was in disbelief of what I heard. Intrigued, I went to YouTube to find a recording of the whole speech before drawing further conclusions. Now, I am nearly beyond words.
I grew up in the Catholic Church, attended a Catholic high school, and do still consider myself to be Catholic, although not without my own qualms with the church. However, this is not about that. I am also a more recent college graduate. I graduated from a large public university 5 years ago and am looking forward to obtaining my graduate degree next year, both degrees I have worked incredibly hard for and am immensely proud of. I don’t remember my own commencement speech, but if it was anything like this, I am glad I don’t- I loved my undergraduate experience and will be proud to have my diploma framed and hanging one day. Harrison Butker’s speech is condescending, out of touch, and against the very values of your school. You both, Benedictine College and Harrison Butker, owe these graduating students an apology.
As a proudly Catholic college, I do not hold issue you or your choice in speaker with promoting Catholicism and the beliefs of the Catholic Church, even in regard to politics; while I may not agree, that is your choice to do so and one that underlies the foundation of your school.
The class of 2025, as with many recent graduates and current students, have had to work through a unique set of hardships as a whole, beyond the personal hardships we all face. Mr. Butker is not a recent graduate, nor is he working directly with a school or university. College is a change for everyone from high school, with the course load, schedule, and independence, but beyond the nervousness and uncertainty that comes with this new phase, students are able to rely on the fact that since its inception, the college experience has been relatively stable, until the COVID-19 pandemic. Students, and faculty, were forced to rapidly adapt to a situation that we knew very little about and had no history to guide us. To minimize that, say that “it is not unique,” especially as someone who was not experiencing it from an educational aspect, is disrespectful to students and faculty, regardless of beliefs on the issue. Pandemics are not new, nor are controversial policies, but what these students faced, was new. I know of no other time during our history, where thousands of students were nearly overnight told to immediately leave their housing and worry about their finances and shelter as not everyone has the means to find new housing or go back to their parents, have food outside of the dinings halls, or access to a computer and internet to complete their coursework where they had planned on attending in person or using university resources, when these things are apart of what students pay thousands of dollars for or take loans to afford as part of their college expenses. Whether or not you support these policies and changes, that does not lessen the unique hardships faced or make a student wrong for adhering to them when failure to do so could result in greater consequences. If there is another time where this has happened, I am happy to be referred so that I can learn. It is one thing to say that the feelings of uncertainty and anxiety around new policies and adapting to them are not unique, but another to say that the challenges these students faced as a result of policy is not unique, it is disrespectful, condescending, and completely out of place as someone who did not experience it.
Beyond this, it is even more disrespectful to diminish the accomplishments of particularly the female graduates of your university by allowing your speaker to advocate forgoing using their degree and instead, choose being a wife and mother. To Benedictine College, if this is what your school advocates, then why charge tuition to your female students? How will they pay for it or pay off their loans for it? Do you expect your female graduates to marry a man who will pay off their debts? What happens if they don’t or if they choose a vocation in religious life, are their debts forgiven? To take it a step further, why admit female students at all if their degree is not meant to be used? A yearly tuition of $35,000 seems a greedy ask to attain what becomes a useless degree. Maybe this is not something you support, but I have yet to see any statement indicating dissent with this position. The Benedictine sisterhood and St. Scholastica, its founder, take pride in education and she herself do not choose the vocation of marriage. How would St. Scholastica be able to attend your college when she found her vocation to be in the religious life? To Harrison Butker, how dare you? I am happy for you and your family that your wife can be a homemaker if that’s what she wants to do, but that is completely out of touch for what nearly all of these students will face as they graduate. Your family can comfortably live on just your salary of over $4 million per year, but you are a minority in this situation. You speak of not allowing cost of living to prohibiting where you live, but with your salary, I’m sure there are few areas you cannot find suitable housing and access to food. Is one supposed to choose to live in circumstances where they do not have a stable shelter in favor of a more traditional priest? Earlier in your speech you mention “accepting your lane and staying in it,” I believe you should have taken your own advice, because your lane is far wealthier than mine and likely all of the graduates you are speaking to. Most families will need two salaries to live in even a fraction of the comfort you live and even then, may not be comfortable. From what I understand, you went to GT on a scholarship, another minority, factor in student loans, and the comfort fraction becomes even smaller. Should a family live in a constant state of worry about money so that a woman can be a homemaker? You spoke of charity and the platform God has given you, but I do not see you using your wealth for charitable acts to support the lifestyle you advocate in these graduates. You decide to speak for women and presume they are most excited at the prospect of marriage and children when you are speaking to congratulate them on a major accomplishment that has little to do with their future as a wife or mother. Can a woman not find fulfillment and a calling as a valuable member of the workforce and a wife and mother. As a woman who anticipates graduating from medical school in one year, is being a doctor not part of God’s plan for me? As I understand it, my vocation, is not between being a wife and mother or being a doctor, but of the calling to serve as a married, single, or religious person. You make it seem as though I cannot be both a doctor and family woman one day. You make remarks about controlling how and when children are conceived. You condemn IVF and surrogacy when a large portion of woman and men in this country struggle with infertility or health conditions making a pregnancy incredibly dangerous. If a woman cannot naturally have a child then is she not to be a mother? Do you also condemn adoption as it a choice and controlled method of becoming a parent? Is it only if a woman is unable to conceive naturally that it is acceptable to work rather than be a homemaker? I have always been taught in my experience with the Catholic Church to welcome children into your life whenever they come about, not as a barrier to being a working mom. You have laid out the options as black or white, mother or worker, when I believe the advice is to be open to and welcome God’s plan for you in both areas of your life. Not only do you advocate for the females graduates to forgo the workforce when this is an unrealistic path for most, but in doing so, you add extra pressure to the male graduates to provide in an unrealistic way. At what cost do men take higher paying jobs they are unhappy in so that their wives can be homemakers? You have worked hard to get to where you are, say you are doing something you love, and are able to show the fruits of that labor, should these graduates not show all of the knowledge and skills they have gained through earning their degree?
To Harrison Butker, I, too, am Catholic. I believe we also are similar in that we question right from wrong and do not just blindly accept the things that are fed to us. You say that our priests and bishops are anointed by God, but quickly question that anointing. I now question you, in who you are to question who has been anointed by God. You point out it is your duty as a father to lead your son. In our faith, we call our priests Father, but you call us to question and right them, should they not lead us? Should we not follow the quote you use of trusting our priests to translate the teachings of the Bible for us? Does your son question you and what is your response? You call for priests and bishops to be righted but also to stay in our lane. I do not mean to support the actions of our church leaders either way, but as an individual am not following what you ask of these graduates.
To Harrison Butker, you say you speak from experience, but it seems your experiences are vastly different than most of the graduates you speak to. Your statements contradict one another, in questioning our church leaders, staying in our lane, and even speaking of your wife as someone who converted to Catholicism but later question being with someone of a different faith, not allowing for change. As I have stated before, it is one thing to speak of shared feelings, but another to speak of a shared experience. You give advice in black or white rather than ideas for consideration and reflection. Listening to your commencement speech, I can’t imagine I would have found excitement for the future and wisdom as I start to move forward on my own. Had this been my speech to give, I couldn’t speak to a lot of the challenges these students faced, but can empathize with the fears of stepping out of the student life and uncertainty about my future. I could speak to how being able to adapt to challenges, facing hardship in my own way has made me strong and able to persevere and that they too have grown to be stronger and able to persevere too, even if they are not confident. I could speak to how money is not always the most important thing in life, your church, your family, your community are all things to reflect on when making decisions about the future. But, this was not my speech, it was yours. My ideas may not be right, maybe it has more “fluff” than yours, but they do not tell me the right or wrong way to live my life, as that is between me and God.
To Benedictine College, much of this is address to Harrison Butker. However, this is the person you chose and supported in giving a commencement speech. What is address to him, is also a reflection of what you support and believe, and the message you hope to send your graduates off with. I am not one of your graduates, happy to say I am not with this speech, but at least for me, this is the representation I have of your school.
To Benedictine College and Harrison Butker, you both owe the graduates an apology for these disrespectful and confusing sentiments as they enter a new and stressful chapter of their lives.
To the Benedictine College class of 2025, congratulations!

First time taker here and was finishing up my 3L year. Just graduated May ‘24 and was an out of state test taker for Texas. Studied for 5 weeks and passed the Texas Bar and did about 200 hours on BarBri. For me, the issue with the Bar was learning and remembering the law and so I focused on the barbri lectures and MC.
MEE/MPT
I did not write out a single MEE as writing has never been an issue. I’m assuming most people in law school can write well and thus the issue with the essays are issue spotting and knowing the black letter law. This is why I focused on LEARNING the law through the lectures and MC questions instead of wasting hours writing essays. Something I found helpful was looking up the model questions and then reading the selected answers. This gave me an idea of how to structure my essays and see what the examiners liked.
For the MPT, all I did was watch BarMD free video on YouTube and then I read the library portion of a sample MPT to get a feel for issue spotting. One thing I found helpful during the exam was that I would read the cases first and immediately type out the Rules into the test document. I would then just copy and paste the rules when needed which saved me a ton of time as I didn’t have to re-read the case etc. Ultimately, the MPT is all about time management as we all have learned how to issue spot by being in law school.
MBE:
I don’t really know what to say other than just to study. Do a ton of MC to get familiar with the format and also to help get exposed to the more nuanced areas of the law. I did some BarBri MC but what I found helpful were the MC questions from the ncbe themselves. They are fairly cheap and well worth it as they come from the source themselves and are how the questions on the bar are worded. Now, these MC’s by the ncbe are on the easier side but they give you a feel for the formatting of the Q’s. I also just hated Barbri questions which is probably why I liked the ncbe Q’s so much.
Overall, don’t stress about not studying enough/ not completing your course. A lot of the bar prep courses allot a ton of time to writing essays for every subject and for writing MPTs. Personally, I’m a believer that if you know the law then the MEE’s won’t be bad and thus just focus your time on learning the law and practicing the MC Q’s.
Hope this is helpful

Edit: What Prompted me to ask what other people think, is that other teachers I have asked, have shared a similar experience. Very frustrated with adult students unable to perform basic musical tasks.
I am a music teacher. I love my job apart from one thing. Teaching adults. Seeing full grown adult human beings with full time jobs, degrees, and somehow unable to count to 4 in even intervals... Makes my skin crawl.
For some context, I'm not some prodigy musician. I'm fuckin average AT BEST. I play guitar, bass, drums, keys, vox, and can work a recording/live sound booth. I have solid fundamentals with no issues, and a decent grasp around music theory essentials. Overall I have largely taught myself pretty much all my instruments. In the beginning I learned guitar by just watching guitar covers on youtube and copying them. Before you could slow down videos I would bandicam them and slow it down in windows movie maker. Learned by hand. I hated tabs, and had no issue learning things like smoke on the water, or tnt, or welcome to paradise from one of my older cousins. So my 10 year old brain said that youtube was definitely the most efficient route. Anyway fast forward a couple years my parents said I earned lessons (I had quit most of my other vocations they provided), and I had proved I could stick with a hobby. Learned how to solo, improv with logic, write songs even. Fun time, but at no point was it ever difficult. Yes it took time, that doesn't mean it was difficult to me. I never felt very frustrated, and there was never a moment I didn't understand what was going on. As opposed to every other area of my childhood like school; guitar and rock music was the only thing that naturally made complete and total sense the entire way thorough.
Now for my actual point; I do not understand how in some cases, after 20-50 years, someone could possibly be unable to clap their hands to an 80 bpm metronome. Unable to keep track of the frets when they have markers for every odd number. Going to blank spaces when I say frets like 5 or 7. Going to the completely opposite end of the guitar, and looking at me confused. It seriously baffles me. And I get it yes these people are paying me I should be grateful, but after a certain point... They have such a disconnection to music and art as a whole, that I no longer believe that everyone is capable of playing music. These adult students, feel like some of the dumbest people on the planet that I've ever met. They are completely incapable of even operating the instrument, to a capacity that would even allow them to learn. In some cases, like as if they've never even heard the song they know all the words to, and requested to learn on guitar or drums etc. It's like these people have no ears. I have always been of the opinion music is very primal. To me music, rhythm especially, sounds like english. I don't need to learn it, I've been hearing it so much since birth that I speak it. Every TV show, commercial, public school music class. To me music was literally, "let's just bang on shit and see what it sounds like." And then automatically realizing "oh nice if I put it in a pattern and play it an even number of times it's music, sweet." Yeah did I have to improve technique, learn how to make the sounds I was hearing over time, etc? Well yeah of course, but it was never hard. Each new technique, chord, what have you was a breeze. Maybe because music was so prevalent in the house? But then I remember, these people are also mentioning how important rock music was to the family home when they grew up. Now I'm back to square one. What could possibly be the difference between my dumbass, who failed algebra twice, and the dude working a 6 figure job twice my age?
I keep these opinions to myself, and have no struggles keeping private thoughts private in the moment. I am always positive with them, and never mention that I am floored by their inability to complete the task. I always put emphasis that if they don't understand something; it's on me to find a different angle to explain it. I have 3 adult students who do have their heads screwed on straight when it comes to this stuff. And they are able to learn to play. But at a certain point I don't know if I can help you, if it's going to take over a month to learn to clap your damn hands to the song you listen to every day.
I'm sorry if I sound like an asshole, but this is frustrating to no end. I even feel bad, these people have no chance at being able to play, and are still paying me. Taking it super slow, easy songs, seven nation army, smoke on the water, taylor swift, katy perry, whole notes, fucking whole notes?????? We can only go through this basic stuff so many times, and I think I've exhausted every method of explaining 4/4 and how to use your fingers one at a time. I don't know what to tell these people anymore.
Sidenote: The younglings are a different story because sometimes the parents force their kids to go when the kids aren't even interested. That's really no problem. I always focus on making it about music as a fun art form to consume and think about. Basic songs, no expectations, talking about music history, band recommendation's. The kids that are interested have no issue picking it up. Some are like the adults, where they can't keep a beat to save their life, but since they are young I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt they can still figure it out.

Hi everyone, first time here! I'm a teacher in Italian middle school (children's age between 11 and 13), and recently I got fascinated by the idea of planning a campaign set in Homer's Odyssey: the students should fight the Cyclops, escape the Sirens, descend in the Underworld, achieve their revenge in Ithaca, etc. BUT I have zero experience as a Master, and even if the works is pretty much ready, I don't know where to start with the gaming mechanics, like encounters and fights, so I'm asking for suggestions: books, YouTube tutorials, etc in order to prepare the game. Thanks in advance 🙏🏻

Hi Reddit, so I’ll try to keep this as concise as possible while still giving you all the facts. Let us start from the beginning, my at the time 21 y.o. step-brother, was going through his first big break up. Instead of confiding in others or taking time to understand his emotions he instead picked up a book about the stages of love. Let me also explain that my brother has never been the smartest guy and mainly gets by on his good looks and charm in his life. Anyway this book gave the usual “love requires fighting to work it shows that you care about the other” you know stuff everyone already knows. I’m guessing because it came from a book ,or because it was plainly saying what he was too naive to understand about what he was feeling, he became infatuated with every line. Anytime I would have relationship problems he would quote the self help books he had read since and recommend me ones to read. This went on for while but eventually I finished nursing school and moved out of my family’s house (which is my mother’s house, this is important for later) to start working.
Now fast forward to four years later. I’m living on my own with my the love of my life, working the night shift in the hospital like I’ve always wanted. On my way home on night I called my mom to catch up on my drive home. We started talking and eventually I asked about my step-brother. She explained that he was still living at home and had no plans on getting a job or moving out (for context my brother graduated with a master’s degree a year ago). I found that odd and asked what he is doing now. My mom explained that he just makes music and does podcasts with his friends. He apparently says he wants to be an entrepreneur. Which is fine everyone wants to make it big doing what they love doing however. My mother also explained that he constantly invites people she doesn’t know to her house to hangout and when she gets off of work she comes home to strangers that expect her to cook for them. My mother then started tearing up saying “I don’t feel like it’s my house anymore”. That’s when I got upset. I asked her why doesn’t she kick him out or at least start asking for rent so he has to get a job. She explained that she wanted to do that but my step father wouldn’t allow it. My mother and step father have a wonderful marriage and never fight, but because my stepbrother is his son he has attachment to him. My mom recently had to kick her daughter (my blood related sister) into the camper as well since my step sister (19 y.o.) lets her boyfriend stay on weekends in what used to be the girls room. My mother keeps explaining that all of these situations are putting stress on their marriage and by kicking out her daughter she feels like she betrayed her just so my stepfather’s kids can get their way in her house.
After this phone call I was livid so I called my step brother to confront him. After asking the normal “hi how are you” I asked if he has started looking for a job and he said “why would I?”. I responded “so you can work and move out”. Then he said “im in my 20s this is the time you are supposed to chase your dreams” he then pointed out that I always wanted to be a YouTuber or streamer and I should go for it. I then said you know I have a job now and I have to give that job a lot of my time in order to afford the life I live. He basically laughed and explained that there is always enough time. Not much important was said after that.
Now fast forward a few weeks later I see posts from his Instagram talking about how “social media is poison, take back your life, put down your phone, etc.” (Crazy to post that on social media btw). I have also come across his podcast which are just him and his friend who both have the combined IQ of a beheaded chicken explain that the universe is big and has like billions of stars and stuff. 0.0 his entire personality now is saying basic facts at the surface level and then acting like it’s deep as fuck. Furthermore the constant insistence on following your passion mixed with the complete ineptitude of being able to comprehend how smug and pretentious he is during any interaction has breed some real distain from anyone who can see through his act.
All of these posts about self help combined with the complete ignorance of how his actions putting a negative effect on our family has really put a barrier between us. I really don’t think I can take it anymore and I want to either try to explain that he has become a pretentious douche who only keeps around yes men who all think a fact for 5th graders they learn at the zoo makes them better than everyone else, but I honestly think he will just say I don’t understand or maybe I should read this book about stress. I’ve went over the situation with friends of mine and they all laugh when they see his posts and hear him talk now. For God sake he held his 25th birthday party recently and said for everyone to bring a book to exchange knowledge to one another and wear business casual.
I just want my mom to feel like the home she worked tirelessly as a single mother all those years to afford for our family is hers. I have always been so close to my brother and I want him back as a friend. I want my sister to be able to live in the house she was raised in instead of in a camper.
Well that’s everything as of now left out a lot of stories about him being directly wrong about facts he tells us or times he got called out and embarrassed about shit but I think I’ll just leave it here. I plan on confronting him soon I just don’t know what to say. Thank you for your time.

I am moving out of the house and my mother is abusive. I don't know what to do to help my sister before I move so she is ready. She is 11 and being an eleven year-old as any other. She doesn't like school, she avoids chores, she sneaks treats, and a few other things. I am used to being the one to take care of her, make sure she is doing her school work and eating well. Idk what she is going to do when I am gone. She is always told to be like me and I set a high standard since I picked up most of the slack my parents left behind them. I can't seem to help her understand that school and good grades is her ticket out of home early, that chores keep mom happy, and that hours of YouTube shorts a day is not only a poor way to spend her time but also unhealthy. I have two more weeks but it is starting to feel like not enough. I want her to have healthy things to lean to and habits to keep life comfortable like I had. I just don't want her to take years of abuse and trauma to build those things. Just simple stuff, like getting up early, avoiding life by focusing on school and hobbies more, and keeping things tidy. I would sleep til almost noon, avoid life by porn and drugs, and focus on video games and daydreams, and was a mess. It took me probably five years to switch those to the good things now. I have been trying to help her build good habits for a while now but I don't think she understands. I am worried she will have to figure it out herself but if I had been one inch off track I would be a dropout since my freshman year running away from home and getting into fights, or I may have gone through with my suicide.
I don't want her to go through the same things I did, I want to help her skip them. But she is tired of listening to me cause I "never" let her eat treats and ice cream or skip chores for a day. I don't think she understands the importance of some of it. I am currently trying a chart I used/use to get myself out of depression, where it is a checklist starting with basic daily hygiene, going to productive things (Chores and school), and ending in-game time and fun. What else can I do?

I am moving out of the house and my mother is abusive. I don't know what to do to help my sister before I move so she is ready. She is 11 and being an eleven year-old as any other. She doesn't like school, she avoids chores, she sneaks treats, and a few other things. I am used to being the one to take care of her, make sure she is doing her school work and eating well. Idk what she is going to do when I am gone. She is always told to be like me and I set a high standard since I picked up most of the slack my parents left behind them. I can't seem to help her understand that school and good grades is her ticket out of home early, that chores keep mom happy, and that hours of YouTube shorts a day is not only a poor way to spend her time but also unhealthy. I have two more weeks but it is starting to feel like not enough. I want her to have healthy things to lean to and habits to keep life comfortable like I had. I just don't want her to take years of abuse and trauma to build those things. Just simple stuff, like getting up early, avoiding life by focusing on school and hobbies more, and keeping things tidy. I would sleep til almost noon, avoid life by porn and drugs, and focus on video games and daydreams, and was a mess. It took me probably five years to switch those to the good things now. I have been trying to help her build good habits for a while now but I don't think she understands. I am worried she will have to figure it out herself but if I had been one inch off track I would be a dropout since my freshman year running away from home and getting into fights, or I may have gone through with my suicide.
I don't want her to go through the same things I did, I want to help her skip them. But she is tired of listening to me cause I "never" let her eat treats and ice cream or skip chores for a day. I don't think she understands the importance of some of it. I am currently trying a chart I used/use to get myself out of depression, where it is a checklist starting with basic daily hygiene, going to productive things (Chores and school), and ending in-game time and fun. What else can I do?

Mwigereri Dorcas, Kenya, for research using machine learning techniques for solar energy distribution optimization.
Mmesomachi Nwachukwu, Nigeria, to support the Special Maths Academy which prepares teams for competitions including the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Mohamed Haoussa, Senegal, for the Pan-African Robotics Competition in Dakar which has had over 2800 participants from middle school to university from 37 countries since inception.
Santiago Eyama, Equatorial Guinea, to support the production of YouTube videos on life and society in his country.
John Anthony Francois, St. Lucia/California, PhD Candidate at Stanford, to support his research on Immune Checkpoint Blockade.
Caroline Ochieng, Kenya, PhD candidate at Jomo Kenyatta University, for research into the molecular characterization and transmission dynamics of Chikungunya and Dengue viruses.
Mohamed Diouf, Senegal, for his startup idea of doing merchandise loans (instead of money) to small scale vendors in West Africa.
Kemar Stuart, Barbados, for the production of YouTube videos on Caribbean politics.
Tyrique King, UAE/UK, for developing an AI coding instructor which can train and upskill talent without prior coding experience within 100 days in Africa.
Kurtis Lockhart, US/Tanzania, for developing an economics focused degree program in Zanzibar.
Daniel Alabi, Nigeria/US, Postdoc CS researcher at Columbia University, for Naija Coder, a summer program teaching Nigerian high school students computer science in Abuja and Lagos.
Joshua Walcott, Trinidad/Poland, University lecturer in politics in Poland, for research and writing on existential risk and Caribbean geopolitics.
Nikita Greenidge, St. Lucia/UK, PhD candidate at University of Leeds, for research on surgical robotics.
Masahiro Kubo, PhD candidate at Brown University, for research on how Catholic missionary work contributed significantly to the accumulation of human capital in Africa/
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Cast of Season 20

Men

Name	IG	Age	Notes
Young Soo	nogurchito	38 (1986)	Pediatrician and is undergoing training to specialize in neonatal care at a hospital in Seoul
Young Ho	powermks	34 (1990)	Dated a woman who was 10 years older. Likes women who earn well. In charge of quality management at Hyundai Engineering.
Young Sik	mingquu	34 (1990)	Was raised by his grandparents. Still lives with his grandmother. Works at Nonghyup bank.
Young Chul	ry.ool	40 (1984)	Process engineer at Intel USA. Lives in Oregon. US citizen.
Kwang Soo		35 (1989)	Went to a science 'magnet' school in Seoul. Was a circuit design researcher at L Display. Now an escape room designer.
Sang Chul	mezzzzzzzini	36 (1988)	Lived abroad for a number of years. AI developer at Samsung Electronics

Women

Name	IG	Age	Notes
Young Sook	ddohyunnii	33 (1991)	MBTI is ENFJ. University assistant professor > Hyundai Steel Pangyo Headquarters
Jung Sook	IG bitterpeach.kr & YT	37 (1987)	Likes fashion. Is unhappy with how she looks. Wants her partner to be attractive who needs to be 'kissable'. Senior manager at LG Electronics.
Sun Ja	r_ang22	32 (1992)	Owns a home in Gangdong-gu. Looks for personality & values. Elementary school teacher.
Young Ja	hyemnie	30 (1994)	Graduated from Yonsei University, Department of Business Administration. Lotte Members Digital Marketing Assistant Manager
Ok Soon	flying.heej & globetrotterheej	36 (1988)	S7 OS's younger sister. MS in CS from Cornell. Works at Google in NY. Hobbies are scuba & sky diving, flute, golf etc.
Hyun Sook	jyujin_smile	36 (1988)	Bachelors and Masters in Pharmacy from Seoul U. Researcher at Amorepacific

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I have been with my husband for about 8 years. I’m 31 he is 35. When we were together for about 4 years I broke up with him because I was tired of being his caregiver. Basically he does not speak any English and has little to no schooling at all. He was the oldest in his Mexican family and expected to work instead of go to school. I am also the oldest in my family and was responsible for my sister as I was raised by a single parent. However I did go to school and had a Bachelor degree when I met him. Over the years because of his lack of English I did everything for him. Made Doctors appointments, translated, filled out any and all documents he had, learned how to get him health insurance. Literally anything that was in English I had to help him with. Now at first I had no issues with it because I loved him and saw his struggle but as time went on I saw absolutely no effort from him to even try to learn English. I stopped feeling like his girlfriend and felt more like a parent or caregiver especially after he had a car accident.
After he got better from his accident and was back to work I realized I was not happy and decided to move out. We were separated for 2 years. I was happy and enjoyed my single life. Living on my own and growing within the company I was working with. Then he came back and asked me for a second chance. After a month of thinking it over I said yes but on the condition that he go to school for English. He agreed and I thought that he was going to improve on himself and become more independent. We have been married and back together for about 3 years and I feel like we are right back where we were. I mean he can’t even put in a password for Netflix. I gave him the username and password and he couldn’t do it so he stopped trying. I get so angry with him for not trying and his excuse is that he is dumb and can’t do it. I have a feeling he has dyslexia but it is undiagnosed. I know this probably makes it harder for him but the thing it there is no effort from him to try and that is what angers me.
I have a friend who is his cousin. She has been in the United States for about the same time he has been, and she can read, write, speak, and understand English to the point where she can have conversations with people and he can’t do that. My friend has learned for her children gone to school and found jobs where she can practice her English While he doesn’t even try. one time I did find him a school, but he wanted me to go to the class and sit right next to him and help him. I went the first day to calm his nerves and reassure him that he’s gonna be OK but after the second time alone, he didn’t go back.
I feel like a total terror and awful person because I’m constantly telling him that he needs to learn. I tell him these things because I want him to improve and better himself and have better job opportunities because he learned a new language but because I constantly repeat myself to him over the years at this point, I just feel like I’m belittling him rather than encouraging him.
My husband is not a bad man. He works hard every single day to provide for me while I’m at school full-time. He’s always there to help others when they need him and he loves to help people in need because it makes him feel useful and lets him know that the people he cares about are safe. he’s always got me whatever I wanted. He’s always made sure that I’m OK at home. I have what I need for school. He is wonderful husband in that aspect, but I am so tired of feeling like I have to take care of a child in every other aspect of our lives as a couplethat I just feel like the bad guy.
I’ve even gotten him children’s books to practice his English his math skills. I’ve told him he can use youtube or other apps to learn English, but he doesn’t try. I am tired of exploding on him because I think I just make him feel worse. I’m running out of things to say I’m constantly repeating the same things to him and that really irritates me. It’s like he doesn’t hear me.
He is also incredibly forgetful, and I think that has to do with his depression. over our eight years of being together, I’ve done everything for him to try and support him. However, throughout those years, he’s always told me that he doesn’t have support from anybody. That made me feel like, all my efforts I’ve been for nothing and I’ve gotten to a point where I don’t know how else to help him. I know he suffers from depression and I’ve told him that if he can’t open up to me, then he should seek help from someone that can help him like, a therapist. However, he won’t go unless I force him to make an appointment or I make the appointment for him which goes back to me doing everything for him.
So am I the asshole and asking too much or am I not being supportive enough?
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The 'Let go of the past' people, when it truly matters, keep holding on to my education and career mistskes.
I wish the rules of society reflected the knowing that it's not hard to sabotage a kid's future.
And the knowing that, a lot of kids have deranged parents who will live and die just to see the kid fail. And that these kids, if they survive, will one day become the unwanted adults we are today indifferent towards.
I wish the fucking interviewer didn't dig so much into why I left five jobs in four years. (They wouldn't want to hear or believe in the real reasons.) Everyone knows that a couple weeks of on-job training is as useful as the all the years spent in school. So just forget the past and give me the job! I'm here to work! I am super capable and as excellent as all the other people that lied on the resume.
I wish every person who made it out, or wants to help, would stop repeating that I have to have a childhood trauma stress related proclivity to some disease. I know I am stupid to believe that some people may be an exception to the rule. Still, I don't think it's right to give power to a negative prediction. Or to help it become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I wish ageism becomes uncool thing to do. But it isn't, and society makes healing extremely difficult. Even subtle things, like I wish every YouTube comment didn't begin with 'I am 50 years old and I love this music.' What is the point of mentioning age at every opportunity. In my country, because of overpopulation/corruption one can't go back to regular school even if they wanted to if there is a long gap.
It's not for my sake that I'm told to forget the past.

More of a rant. Went to search some classic Feynman videos and (I’ve not used YouTube in a while) was bombarded with irrelevant clips, and a new system of tabs for shorts, videos, etc. After splitting my consciousness into a dozen pieces trying to navigate this mess, I still couldn’t find the old school clip series.
Why do these jokers always break a good thing? Why is there never an option to revert or maintain a preferred (and efficient) version layout and search?

After a loved had taken a picture of me on their iPhone 13 I was repulsed, disgusted even.
I had dawned a athletic sprinter outfit on a walk with a loved one. I had worn this outfit beforehand and seen it in the mirror and was extremely infatuated .
But, on that day of the walk, when I had asked them to photograph me, it was nothing like what I saw in the mirror.
I have little to no physical insecurities besides my face. Im utterly horrified as to what people may see combined with my hair, face, eyes, and lips put together. The possibility of me staring at someone with a chance of me having a lazy eye, or a fluoride stare is sickening.
Just the thought of approaching anybody with that fills me with dread. Keep in mind this is coming from a person who thinks talking to strangers outside is fun, AND THATS THE THING!! I can't do that if I look like a oversaturated YouTube kids cartoon thumbnail with the sharpness bumped to the max dude! For chuck sakes- NO AVERAGE HUMAN IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO SEE EVEEY PORE AND DISCOLORATION ON YOUR FACE MAN!!
I take photos with a Samsung a04 and even a free phone and know to never use the cameras by themself, I always take them in the mirror and I kid you QUCKING NOT, it looked exactly like the imagery shown in real time. So I have some awareness of what I should at least know people are seeing from a glance right?
Well with that absolute cow manure of a camera it will make you think you look like a greasy individual in their mid 40's who is also probably not allowed anywhere near a school building.
For CHUCK SAKE MAN! NO AVERAGE PERSON SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE THE GRAVEL PIT SOMEONE WOULD CALL A FACE COVERED IN THE WHAT WAS ONCE AND ALWAYS THEN SMALL UN NOTICABLE ACNE FRECKLES AND DISCOLORATION FROM 30 FEET AWAY FROM THE SCREEN PHONE SCREEN!! 👹👹👹👹
Anyway besides that what did we learn?
The iPhone 13's camera is repulsive and will send one of you guys and even the most confident of people into a existential crisis (I don't wanna say but this goes for some other cameras I have no experience with as well)
Filters and highly effected photos if unknowingly done could also cause a crisis (I have experience and really balanced knowledge in taking photos even though I rarely ever take them but still)
And 3?
I forgor 💀

ever since i entered high school, i’ve been solely studying and researching in the medical field. my parents constantly urge me to study medicine, telling me that the animation field doesn’t seem like a steady job and won’t get me enough money. i don’t wanna sound cocky or whatever but i know that if i work hard enough, i’ll do great as a medical professional.
but i’ve always dreamt to work in animation. while im over here learning about the skeletal system, ppl my age are being able to expand their knowledge on art, preparing themselves for their dream job, having an absolute blast.
i think i could do great in both fields… but do i really have to pick one? do you think ill be able to take medical classes in college while also taking some side courses on animation? can i be working as a pediatrician while also storyboarding at home for an indie animated show?
i’ve also heard that some people don’t even take official animation courses. they simply watch vids on youtube. can ppl that base off their animation knowledge on youtube get good positions in big animation projects?

So my girlfriend (18f) and I (18m) have be together for almost a year, and I am just now noticing something thats weird. I dont know if its some controlling, manipulation or feeling of power thing but she tells me she misses really bad and that she really wants to see me but when I go and see her she doesn't rlly show me that much affection. She texts me constantly whenever she's at school and I'm not or basically she's somewhere where we would both usually be at. (this mostly happens when I'm absent from school or out with some friends) It feels like she doesn't really miss me and more like she just want to use up my time. I see time in general as a currency that you don't get more of so to me it's really valuable, and just for her to basically beg me for my time of day just to get no type of affection in return is kind of a waste of time to me. She's clingy in the sense she always wants my attention but she doesn't give me the same type of attention back, and I know for a fact that she isn't cheating on me (like for a fact fact trust me 110% she isn't). It feels like she just want to steel my time because on top of all of that stuff she calls me whenever she can (when shes drive to and from work or when no one is home) and when she calls me she says hi says some stuff and then just doesn't say anything. I try engaging with whatever she's talking about and I try talking about some stuff but she just never really gives me anything in return so we usually jus sit there in silence and it's rlly annoying to me because it feels like shes just wasting my time. Granted most of the time I'm not doing anything productive I'm mostly playing video game, or watching youtube whenever she calls me but I'd rather use my time on something that is mildly engaging instead of something awkward and annoying. I feel like this is some sort of controlling or narcisistic trait because it feels like I'm literally scavaenging for affection from her at some points.
TLDR: gf (18f) is clingy in the sense that she texts me (18m) all the time and says she misses me but doesn't show it in her actions when I actually go see her

I grew up during the war on terror, and when it was my turn to enlist, I saw the US staying in a certain country after the guy they were going after was already dead, yet the government decided we should stay there to "nation build" . After an extensive US history class where I realized this wasn't the first time the US invaded a nation and stayed, despite nobody wanting them there, both the occupied countries populace, and the common American, I thought the people who joined to support that were either desperate or murders. Every redneck in my school who wanted to enlist in the ground forces would talk about how they wanted to go kill some "sand nig**rs" . Everyone else who enlisted in the other forces were both desperate and of average to below average intelligence. Every sporting event I have to stand up and salute these literal t*rrorists who go across the world just to secure petroleum and other...things. I think they're disgusting. I'm not even a pacifist. I understand the need for a military for defense. The U.S. military however, are fucking evil. They dropped agent orange on civilians that were their own allies and then lied about it which still effects infants today. They bomb the middle east constantly, killing kids and it has nothing to do with actual defense of the country, just its "interests". They want to justify it, or act like these poor soldiers were duped into it ohhh the baby birds were so poor. No I saw them cheer it on with vigor then talk down to "civilians" when they were in and our. I think the entire thing is disgusting and a farce.l and I don't respect them at all. I didn't even want to join to fix computers for these assholes. I'd be contributing to the murder machine. People are going to say "ohh but what about ISIS or whatever" or "op is a soyboy" some horse shit ad homenim attack because their argunents are state talking points or flimsy. I say bring it on.
Bill Hicks said exactly how I've felt for years
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YplZIZt9Ptc&pp=ygUUYkknbGwgaG9ja3MgbWlsaXRhcnk%3D