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So I got diagnosed at the beginning of this month after 1.5-2 years of symptoms (although in retrospect probably lifelong symptoms that just went unnoticed) I have spinabifida which comes with incontinence issues as well as the IBS-M which comes with terrible cramps and loose stool. Because of this when I have to go I’ve got about 10 seconds before I have a BM. My question is… how do y’all go to school work or do anything with this? I’ve felt pressured to quit several jobs over bosses being mad at me for calling off because i can’t handle them being frustrated about it. I failed a year of school because I can’t go a day without having a BM on myself and having to give in for the day and hunker down. Also writing this after calling off a training shift at a job I just started cus I had a BM as I was approaching the door. Help pls.

Hey, I just tried Celsius for the first time the other day. It felt like it lifted mental fog that has been there for quite some time. However, my top left eyelid won’t stop twitching. I’m going to try going a couple days without having it then back on to see if it’s the cause but I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this? Also, I live in Canada so the caffeine per can is only 140mg.
You’d think it’d be the caffeine, but that can’t be it. I used to have pre-workout ~5 times a week which had 300mg of caffeine. I don’t have energy drinks super often, but I’ve had Reign, NOS, Rockstar, and Monster all without any side effects. And I’ve recently started making coffee/espresso at home which I have pretty regularly. As stupid as this sounds, I usually don’t notice any effects from caffeine. I just love coffee. As for energy drinks I usually grab one if I’m studying for an exam bc I figure I could use all the help I can get and at the very least it can be a placebo pill. I used to have these eye twitches all the time in high school when I didn’t have any caffeine which was likely lack of sleep/high stress. But right now, sleep is good and I don’t think I’m any more stressed than usual. Unless I’m just in a particularly good state this week, this drink seems to make me feel like how I felt when I was prescribed adderall for the first time.
(Possibly) relevant background info: 22 y/o healthy/fit male. High functioning autism spectrum disorder, anxiety, depression, celiac, low thyroid.
Meds: Synthroid 0.05mg, Adderall XR 25mg, Vitamin D 10,000UI weekly, and Escitalopram Oxalate 30mg.

Y’all really the only people on this planet that understands my music taste. Everybody else doesn’t even take me seriously. I’m always being judged for what I wanna listen to but ppl don’t understand what it means to me. To lose your favorite rapper that you’ve been listening to since early 2018 when I was listening to him back in middle school. Now I’m graduating next week. Just wanna say I love y’all and this community and everybody else who feels this way and have nobody else who understands.

Hi everyone!! Now that the cycle is over, I’m looking back fondly at my time on this subreddit and figuring out how I did. I’d say I had a pretty unique “why law” that carried me through the application process. I wanted to share my recap just to see if it would be helpful to anyone (Spoiler: it won’t)
At this point, you might be thinking hey, that’s not an LSD screenshot! Or, I didn’t know Johns Hopkins had a law school! This is because I do not have an LSD account. My extraordinary success in having 0 rejections and 0 waitlists is matched by my great failure of having 0 acceptances. I won’t R&R (retake and reapply) because I did not T&A (take and apply).
The stats in my flair are my GPA and the practice LSAT that my girlfriend made me take. It traumatized me so much that I made them take the MCAT in return. The T3 in question is Johns Hopkins school of medicine because the Johns Hopkins school of law does not exist. I’m just here to upvote my girlfriend’s posts.
Congratulations to everyone on fantastic cycles and for making it through!! Cheering y’all on from the other traumatic side of the graduate school veil.

Hi guys! I just have to say that i appreciate all of you who commented on my last post, even the negative comments. I want you guys to know that i appreciate the positive comments alot since i have no one else to ask for advice.
However, i think that i should have put more effort into my last post and i should have told a little more details about myself and the relationship that i am currently in.
I am 17f and i am soon to be 18. I’m very mature for my age, and there is a reason as to why i have the issues that i have. I am the first born child. My mom had me when she was 23, yet she was un experienced how to be a good mom, and that was absolutely not her fault.
My dad is was an absolute a hole towards my mom and me, he still is, just not towards us because ha abandoned me for someone elses kids. However, my dad used to hit my mom, being violent wasn’t uncommon from where he comes from, but my mom and i are traumatized till this day. He would hit my mom whenever he felt like it was needed to ”decipline” her. He would also lay hands on me as an infant, and no i am not joking.
I was 15 when my dad left me and my sister for another family. He abandoned us, and moved to another country. We still don’t know where he lives or if he is okay.
This sutuation led me to being scared of being abandoned, by anyone really.
The trust issues that i have comes from an abusive relationship that i used to be in. I met this person when u was 14, and we became friends. Things escelated and he started laying hands on me. It was to a point where mom would pick me up and i had to make up an excuse for the black eye, or the bruises on my body. I’m sure y’all are wondering why i didn’t leave as soon as it started. This person, he knew people who knew people, and he proved it to me. He also blackmailed me with alot of thingd, like secrets i had told him and trusted him to not tell anyone. I wqs scared he would hurt my family, and that he would hurt me by leaking things, so for my familys sake and my sake i stayed. Everyday i prayed that things would get better, and that i would be able to leave him. That day finally came, and i cried my eyes out. Not because i was sad, but because i felt so relieved, and i felt so free. I repported him to the police and they have him locked up now, because i was not his only ”victim”.
This is where the trust issues comes from. It also comes from getting cheated on, bur i’d rather not talk about that because i am not ready to bring it up.
I’ve always been drawn to ”crazy” people. I would learn that they are ”crazy” sooner or later. This is the reason why i don’t have many friends, but a few close ones.
My man is really caring, and he has never done anything intentionally to make me feel like i have a reason to be worried. He is rarely around girls if he isn’t in class. I don’t like when he is close to girls or the thought of him having a girl friend or even a conversation with a girl if not needed. I do trust him not to do anything, and me and Connor have talked about this. We both agree when it comes to this subject. He doesn’t trust boys, and i don’t trust girls. It doesn’t mesn that all boys/girls are the same, but it is something that we are worried about because after all we don’t knoe other peoples intentions.
Me and Connor have mentioned breaking up before, or been forced to. Thid has never been by choice, our relationship is something that seens to bother other people. People gives us nasty glances, whisper in our surroundings, and what not. We can’t find the reason as to why our relationship seems to bother people, but this just makes us stronger, because the more problems that we face, the more experience we gain, and grow closer.
We keep a low profile, we don’t act like lovers in public. We keep it really low to not draw attention. We still talk, and walk beside eachother, but we aren’t intimate in any way.
For those of you who thinks that i should enjoy life and be a kid, i can not do that. I’ve raised myself because my mom never had time for me. My sister was the golden child and has always been. But she is my mother and i love her.
I’m very independent, and i’m a very isolated person since i’ve never liked the idea of partying, hanging out more than 2 people at once, or anything else in that direction.
I never got the time or opportunity to be a kid, i had to raise myself and become independent at a very young age. I’ve always been the quiet girl who reads, sleeps, studies, and what not. School has never been hard for me, but being a target for others has been hard. I’ve never had it easy, that’s all i’m going to say for now. I hope this update gives you a picture of how things are from my aspect. And i’m sorry if i miss spelled something, i’m Swedish which makes me miss spell some things.

There's a lot of clinics that have started offering internships that you have to pay for. As a student pursuing a degree in psychology, I thought TalkSpace clinic in Powai would be a good place to start with an internship. But let me tell y'all, from everything I've learnt in my degree, that place breached so many ethical standards. The clinic took 3,500 rs per month for an internship which was not worth the experience at all. They sold the idea of the internship under the pretence that you'd be working under the senior psychologist, Dr. Sheba Singh, instead you had to work under her inexperienced daughter who had only just finished her Masters. The internship didn't let students from the field actually observe cases, rather they made all the interns fight for who would take a new case and sit in with the client. Understandably, most clients said no which would result in the interns wasting approximately 12 hours of their week at the clinic doing nothing. But the psychologists washed their hands off of any responsibility when they didn't live up to their promises of offering cases for the clients to sit in on. I was also made aware that one of the interns there took up a job as a school counsellor without having the qualifications for it and when the junior psychologist was made aware of it, she dismissed it by stating that she was jealous of how she got a counselling job without a Masters degree. It may seem like a minor problem but can cause a lot of damage to kids to have an unqualified person parading around as their school counsellor.
Although the internship opportunities are bleak in this field, please DO NOT let these clinics leech off of you by having you pay to intern there.

I am 17 y/o girl who is still in high school and is gonna have to do another year, I’m not the most motivated person and I do like to play games and lay down during my free time which is a lot of the time but I personally don’t think thats ALL I do. I go to school of course and I clean up our room, I do our dishes and laundry but I don’t have a job, he says I don’t NEED to get a job but obviously its what he prefers. I am not against getting a job I want a job I’m just a little late with it and working on my sim number right now. So all I do is go to school and stay at home either tidying up or chilling. He thinks I’m unproductive and I should do more and I understand where he is coming from but he makes me feel a little bad about it telling me that I basically do nothing and I’m unmotivated and unproductive and I have no goals. Maybe I do just want to get by but I obviously don’t wanna do nothing and yes of course I like chilling and playing games when I have nothing to do but I also go to school and I don’t know what else to do to be productive. I can do art and read or go on walks but I don’t really wanna go on walks by myself lol. I do workout sometimes and I’ve been trying to jog with him but I don’t know what else to do to be productive besides getting a job. I’m trying to get my sim number done so I can go job hunting but I just haven’t chosen a day to go because I would prefer to go with my mom and a lot of the time she has something else to do. I can go by myself but I need a birth certificate which she has so I can get it from her and then try getting a job. But should I find more hobbies and do more? I don’t know what else to do I wanna be better for myself and for him 😅

Hey y’all, I’m Bryan! All schools have many differences of course, but you still learn close to equal the same things. Is cosmetology test work very hard? I also mean written not practical, because I like to learn, studying is not practical bell for me, and paying attention is easy. I mean hair is my passion, my start day is Nov 11th anyways. I just want to be fully prepared, any advice?

There's been much discussion, both on the podcast and on this sub, about the extent to which those involved in the Playboy inner and outer circle were subject to NDAs. Most recently, Crystal has been criticized by Marston and HB for supposedly obtaining NDAs near the end of Hef's life and "silencing" his close friend. I think there is some fundamental misunderstandings about NDAs and what their role might be in this story.
Who am I? I am a silly little lawyer, practicing in California, and I love the intersection of law and popular culture. I wrote a journal article in law school about NDAs and the MeToo movement but sure as hell didn't try to get it published, so I've done deep dives into this topic but I am by no means an expert. I do love to learn, however, so if anyone has expertise in this area and wants to correct me or add onto any of this I would greatly appreciate it.
What is an NDA?
A non-disclosure agreement or an "NDA" refers to the broad spectrum of contractual agreements where the terms of the agreement bind at least one party from communicating about a pre-determined topic. Basically, a contract that makes at least someone keep quiet about something.
A contract requires (amongst other things) consideration by both parties. This means both parties have to give and take something for the contract to be valid. A contract, or an NDA, cannot just be a piece of paper where someone promises to do something. There has to be something in it for both sides.
Consideration, most commonly, takes the form of money. I pay you X, so you will do Y. But it can also be in the form of permission to engage in a certain activity. For example, I did an escape room once that had an NDA clause in the waiver so that people wouldn't go blabbing about how to solve the room once they were done. In exchange for getting to do the room, I agreed to the NDA. If I didn't want to agree to those terms, I could just not do the escape room.
The terms of the contract have to be reasonably balanced. You can't pay one cent for someone to agree to give you their firstborn child. Courts generally aren't in the business of scrutinizing the fairness of terms of contracts unless there's something grossly egregious about them, but it still has to make some modicum of sense.
Misunderstanding #1 - Anyone who signs an NDA is a victim being silenced by the other party.
This seems to be the assumption that HB and Marston are operating off of. There's this notion that Crystal forced all of Hef's circle to sign NDAs near the end of his life and now they're being silenced because of it.
First, you can't just have people sign NDAs and expect them to be enforceable. If Crystal did get NDAs from Hef's circle later in life, they had to have been paid consideration for it. Either Crystal offered them a sum of money (which they accepted) or the NDA was a requisite to partake in movie night, buffet dinner, etc. Either way, those who signed NDAs did so with an acceptance of what would be offered in exchange.
Obviously, there's argument that most people don't really understand the contracts they sign and wouldn't agree to them if they understood what they were giving up. But Hef's inner circle? These are people who have been in the entertainment industry for years, if not decades; these are people who have money to hire a lawyer, if not already have a lawyer on speed-dial. I am skeptical that if Dickie Bann was handed an NDA before entering the mansion for movie night he would've just signed it blindly.
Let's also consider the fact that the value of one's ability to speak out is inherently subjective. The criticism of an NDA assumes that the right to speak on a matter is something otherwise desired by the person agreeing to the NDA. It's easy to wonder why a victim would ever agree to an NDA and be prevented from speaking out about their experience. Frankly, before MeToo and the rise of social media, most victims of traumatic experiences were more inclined to speak less about their abuse than to go public. If you're a victim, and you already have no reason to speak to the public about your trauma, getting a significant payout to remain silent is actually a pretty solid deal.
Hef's friends are not victims by any means. But they showed a great amount of loyalty to him and the Playboy brand for decades before his death. I am incredibly skeptical of the notion that Hef's friends, but for some NDA, would have otherwise planned on ratting him out and showing the world that his health was declining.
The value of silence is subjective. Someone signing an NDA does not necessarily mean they are now restricted from publicly communicating something major. It very well might mean they just now have a legal obligation to do the thing that they would have done otherwise.
If, somehow, Crystal had been able to get Hef's friends to sign NDAs, I do not think that it influenced their behavior enough from what would have otherwise been that anyone needs to be that concerned about it. If it did, great, they probably got a great payout from it.
Misunderstanding #2 - NDAs are counter-intuitive to free speech and Hef would have never stood for them
As I'm sure many of you are aware, the First Amendment protection of free speech refers to the government's ability to restrict speech. Someone choosing to sign an NDA is not the same as the government preventing your broadcast from reaching its desired audiences. Someone choosing to not enter a private preschool with an AR-47 has nothing to do with their Second Amendment rights. The free speech that Hef specifically was known for advocating for had to do with censorship at the hands of the government from the broadcast of "obscene" content.
Maybe Bridget meant just the general philosophical idea of "free speech," which you would hope her masters in communication would have taught her to clarify the difference between. Regardles, remember, NDAs require consideration. This is not just ruthless silencing of innocent people who'd love to speak out about how awful Crystal is. These are wealthy, if not also highly educated, people in Hef's inner circle who, if they signed an NDA, surely understand the gravity (or lack thereof) of what they're agreeing to.
Likewise, I don't think Hef was against the idea of an NDA. Holly speculated that Hef wouldn't have required NDAs for those going into the bedroom because it would have given them a second to think about their decision. There's probably truth to this, but courts are also -very- reluctant to enforce any contracts that seem as though they would implicitly be authorizing sex in exchange for money. Also keep in mind the limited opportunities for women at that time to "speak out" if they even wanted to share about what happened in the bedroom. Hef probably would've loved for the public to hear what happened. There wasn't social media or the same understanding of power dynamics as there are these days. Who is someone who went into the bedroom and didn't sign an NDA and had a horrible time going to go to?
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that Holly said she signed an NDA to work at the studio. This is perfectly reasonable. Anyone who is on a salary or signed a contract with an employer probably has signed off on an NDA clause and are currently bound by it. You couldn't keep something like who the Playmate of the Year was under wraps without some strict confidentiality provisions. The Playboy empire could not exist if there was some kind of blanket rule against NDAs.
Additionally, part of the allure of the mansion parties, per the podcast, were that no outside cameras were permitted inside. You're really gonna rag on someone not wanting a bunch of shitty iPhone shots of a man in his dying days, meanwhile you're singing the praises of exclusive parties that for decades wouldn't let people take and share photos of the event?
I am fully confident that Hef did not have issues with NDAs for business purposes, and certainly did not see that as contradicting his stance on free speech. In the podcast they said the mansion staff signed NDAs as part of their employment contracts There are countless examples of the Playboy company trying to silence people in Secrets of Playboy. Hef made it very clear that his stance was that free speech was important when it could help his bottom line. Anything else was negotiable.
Misunderstanding #3 - If someone signs an NDA it's automatically enforceable/If an NDA is unenforceable that will be obvious from the get go
To play devil's advocate to myself, I will say that whether an NDA is enforceable by a court of law and whether the parties abide by the terms are two separate issues. In many cases, a contract may not hold up in court if someone seeks to litigate over alleged violation of the terms. Most contracts don't get litigated over let alone actually get a final determination of their enforceability by a Court.
I will say that there's possibility that Crystal had people sign NDAs that were shotty but that the signers didn't understand that the NDAs weren't legitimate and so they still complied with the terms of the contract. (for example, often those waivers you sign for various activities wouldn't hold up in court, but people think they do, which precludes a lot of people from even considering bringing a claim) But this goes back to the type of people who would be signing these NDAs who otherwise might have access to sensitive information about Hef or the company. These are not girls coming out to do test shoots or the larger guest list at the mansion parties. These are people who are wealthy, powerful, and educated and would not be duped by the idea that merely signing an NDA with ridiculous terms would mean the contract is enforceable. Or perhaps they just didn't give a fuck enough about blabbing so there was no reason for them to even question the NDA that would stop them from saying something they weren't playing on saying.
Not a misunderstanding but one closing note in defense of these hypothetical NDAs - The power of speech for the average person has increased exponentially in the digital and social media age. HB acknowledge that the mansion parties were unique from anything currently because there weren't the same tools we have now to disseminate information. I think it's sort of an apples and oranges comparison in terms of confidentiality to compare the vibes of the buffet movie nights from the early 2000s to the 2010s, not even taking into account the nature of Hef's health.
I think Bridget talked about how a lot of screen contracts didn't allow for residuals from streaming services because they literally hadn't existed then. By the time smartphones and social media were ubiquotus I don't think Hef really gave that much of a care about protecting his or the brand's image. Hef never had a policy or strategy to address social media because it just wasn't even a problem for him to consider, not because he had some absolutely stance on letting anyone who came to the mansion say whatever they wanted about it to the masses.
Ok, I think that's all I have for now. Happy to talk about this or debate this more, but wanted to clear some things up since I feel like this drama with Crystal and allegations about NDAs is going to come up in the near future.

I am a average 18 year old Indian male. So, I used to live in hostel when I was 17 for JEE preparation and during that time I had very good friends.
I used to follow female models just who were beautiful, not those post adult contentbon Instagram. Me and my friends used to exchange instgram profiles of models who were popular and posted that kind of pics. I had some of them in my phones save as WhatsApp images. Now, when I came one time my sister accused me of such things( she is 16 y/o ) and told my mom to check my phone. I didn't want to hide from my mother about these things because every teen of this age is interested in this stuff and I really wanted my mom to be open about it. She is very orthodox. But I wanted her to be a bit open in modern society.
She checks the phone and finds some photos, just photos of foreign models and other foreign girls in my phone. Normal photos nothing vulgar. My sister also saw them.
Now she says that she got traumatized because she didn't expect her brother to have such things in his phone. She does not have any friends and does not explore such things so thinks that this is utterly wrong and disgusting. I tried to explain her like this is normal for male teen of my age. Mind it I don't consume p*rn at all.
She thinks that I am very cheap, disgusting and wrong and being interested or having such things in my phones is very low for a human being. ( She thinks even saying cursed words is unmoral and a very low thing)
So am I really very low. Is it really very very wrong. I don't even had Instagram because of my family in high school 9th and 10th because my mother didn't allow and when she found out about it and that I chatted with other girls, I used to flirt a lot with my crush, just normal nothing vulgar. She made me clear i should not do it. All of this after I get a job and graduated.
Until recently she even used to say marry in cast and don't have any gf, got a bit open after met mother's of my other friends and saw my other family members being liberal. She even says that if I drink she would cast me out of house.
So, what should I do about this all
Tl:dr; My sister and mom found images of some beautiful models on my phone while checking my phone and my sister thinks inam a very low person for having such things. Even saying cursed words is lowly. She didn't expect this from her brother is traumatized with me.

I’m currently writing as a high school senior picking out my cc classes. I’m required to take all calcs and linear algebra for my major. I want to transfer after two years of cc but, considering not taking any calcs during hs, it means that i have to start with pre calc. My question is whether I should take pre calc over this summer to take calc 1 and 2 my freshman year at cc. Or should I take pre calc and calc 1 my freshman year and just do calc 2 over next years summer. I hear calc 2 is the hardest calc and don’t know if it would be better to juggle calc 2 among other classes or just to take it over alone over summer with no other distractions. I want to keep an overall high gpa but don’t know which to choose. Help y’all!!!!

Hey y'all! I'm looking for a credit card to use, mainly for flights, as I take a year off school to travel!

• Current cards: (list cards, limits, opening date)
  • Discover Student It, $2000 limit, April 2021
  • Bank of America Customized Cash Rewards, $1500 limit, May 2023
• FICO Score: 731
• Oldest account age: 3 years 2 months
• Income: $19,500 (I just graduated my bachelor's program, so I'm not working full-time yet)
• Average monthly spend and categories:
  • dining $75
  • groceries: $120
  • gas: $120
  • travel: $130
  • other: $50
• Open to Business Cards: No
• What's the purpose of your next card? Travel, but cash back is also always good.
• Do you have any cards you've been looking at? I've been doing research into Chase Sapphire Preferred, Chase Freedom Unlimited, and Capital One Venture.
• Are you OK with category spending or do you want a general spending card? Category spending is fine I think?

Yet another one of these posts for y’all.
Just took my contracts final, which I was hilariously unprepared for because of a bunch of recent shit in my personal life. I know I’m gonna be at the bottom of the class but I’m not really worried about that (I had a bit of a tragedy so grades aren’t something I’m too concerned about right now)- I’m worried about outright failing. I just want to pass, I don’t care how low the grade is.
There was a section on the exam that gave you a standard form contract and then asked you what the terms were. I listed them all out, but it basically amounted to just copying the bits of the contract that were like “if you’re gonna use the service you can’t do this”? Is that what a terms question is??? There weren’t any on the practice exams. I didn’t think it was a trick or anything but it seems bizarre that there was a question apparently just asking what the thing I read said.
I didn’t think I was THAT lost to fuck up something that simple, but I’m lowkey worried. I’m so not confident about my contracts knowledge that I’m skeptical of literally anything that seemed too simple LMFAO
That said I know it won’t be the end of the world if I do outright fail. Life goes on! But please God tell me if I was genuinely that clueless.
The curve at my school is a 3.3 if that matters literally at all.

From Judge orders Alabama driver to apologize or face jail for telling officer, 'Get your ass out of the way'
A man was pulled over for speeding. After writing the ticket the officer stood in front of Burks’ car, Burk then told the cop to “Get your ass out of the way so I can take my kids to school. That’s why y’all underpaid because y’all act dumb.”
Burks appeared in court but after he paid the fine, which totaled $211.12, including a $20 fine, as well as service and court fees, Ozark Municipal Court Judge Nicholas Bull told him that he must also write an apology to the officer for allegedly having cursed at him.
If Burks does not submit the letter at his next court appearance June 4, he will have to serve up to 30 days in jail.
Should Burks follow the Judge's order to write the letter?

Hey y’all, I am a 21M who just recently realized that the college route ain’t for me and am heavily considered enlisting, not that I didn’t do well, my last 3 semesters were 3.0s but being in school is driving me crazy. I’m currently working landscaping, I’m no stranger to work but at the end of the day it still fucking sucks. I am looking into special warfare with the USAF, and special reconnaissance, pararescue, and combat control have really piqued my interest. I’m looking for something that will get me some insane experiences and stories as well as challenging myself mentally and physically. At this given moment, I strongly believe I’d love the shit out of the Air Force, however I have some reservations. I am in a very serious relationship and plan to marry the girl (21F). I have tried to look everywhere about “free-time” to be able to see her during the Spec. War. pipelines for the Air Force. As well as the prospect of being xyz miles away at the USAF’s whim (we are currently in Charlotte, NC). I am also hesitant due to me being worried about the civilian application of a Spec. War. MOS, after my contract is up. Any advice yall have is greatly appreciated, I don’t have any service members in my circle to be able to talk to.
Thanks yall!

On this very forum I keep seeing people asking whether their chances and they post the most ludicrous things I’ve ever seen. They keep asking if they’re gonna get in with a 3.5 GPA and a 29 on their DAT and I feel as though that this discourages people from applying to all these universities because they feel as though they’re not competitive, what I would like to say is you are competitive don’t let these people who are just humble bragging discourage you. In my case, I managed to get an acceptance from from Tufts University with just a 2.9 GPA and a 20 academic average on my DAT. There’s always a chance you will get in and even if you don’t get in there are always alternative routes to get into Dental School such as masters programs and other programs that are available. Some even guarantee acceptance with that being said, I hope y’all have a wonderful day and I hope everything goes well with you in this application cycle

Howdy, I made a post on here a couple of days ago on Apprenticeship vs Academy. Y’all gave me some great info and advice! With all that info I decided I wanted to pursue the Academy route and get my 3rd mate and a degree!
However, I have been calling around these schools Cal, Maine and SUNY and they will not accept my GPA.
For reference I graduated High School 8 years ago with a GPA of 2.3. I am aware of how bad that number looks but I have worked extremely hard these last years to prove that number does not represent me or my work ethic.
I never attended college but I do have a solid resume of my time as a contractor with the Navy.
Point being, am I shit outta luck because my gpa was low?
Will I probably just have go the SIU route?

Born and brought up in Delhi, now 26 y.o, I have met people from all the states and major cities in school and college (Delhi University) and even Foreign students from Khazakastan, Russia, Uganda and I believe Delhi is cultural melting pot of India
But never once I met a Gujarati girl or a dude,
Do they even exist ?/s
P.s-Except Modi Ji and Amit Shah 🤣

Struggling after family was assaulted.
Long story short, my mom has custody of my 11 year old nephew. He's been staying with his mother while we tried to get back on our feet. We have no car, living in a motel, and can't find jobs, especially ones we can walk to.
But Friday night my sister in law sent someone to pick him up and he got confrontational and attacked my mother, me and my brother. We're okay for the most part. Brother has a black eye, I have bruised up arm, possible busted ear drum, and my mother had to get a new phone after he smashed hers. we had to go today and get my nephew new clothes, shoes; backpack, lunchbox, etc because his things are with his mom and we are not speaking to her at all, to keep the peace. We bought a few groceries but now we're absolutely busted. We have just enough food for my nephew to get through the week and we don't have any food for us. I don't want to do this, and feel horrible putting this on here, but I have no clue how we're going to make it and this boy has been through enough. His mother was all the help we had and as soon as we got a car and on our feet a little better we were snatching him back up, but after this, he's not going back. At all. She's extremely hateful, has no morals and just full of pure evil. She doesn't allow anyone to be civil with her. She is just a sick human and we're completely cutting ties. So anything would help. We've been trying to get a car and get by for over a year and nothing is working out. We did have food stamps until I got a temporary job doing tax preparation. But that was seasonal so that is over and my savings from that job are completely gone now.
My nephew is 11, he's had a hard life. His dad (my older brother) passed 1 year ago this month. He's precious and has no one but us. I have no friends now. I've lost touch with them all. Very, very little family, and no hope really.
This has been very traumatic, and we have no where else to turn. A single dollar would be appreciated. I know times are tough, so literally anything at all is greatly appreciated!
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