So I’m trying to finish it, and I need it done by the beginning of June in order to get what I want done, I’m willing to give access to account for anyone that’s willing to do it for fun, I need decent grades on the quizzes and all the videos watched. I know that’s a lot to ask for, but it’s kind of important.

I know this is always a hot-button topic in this sub which is why I think I’ve become overly anxious about it.
I have ADHD & have been trying to figure out medication (I was diagnosed in college) but have been on some form of stimulants since starting law school (I've switched between about 4 or 5 as we try to figure out what works and what doesn't).
Coming into law school, I also went through the whole process and got approved for 1.5x time on my final exams as well as a "lower distraction environment."
The thing is, I've gotten all As, in my doctrinal and my legal research and writing courses (where I don't have any accommodations because we don't have a final exam, just a big writing assignment). I think largely because of online discourse (and because I've never gotten straight As before) I've gotten very paranoid that using my accommodations is tantamount to cheating. My boyfriend and my therapist have both reminded me that I worked my ass off for these grades and the accommodations also account for all the difficulty I deal with while preparing for exams, and it's not like I ever finish the exams with any time to spare, but I can't help wondering if using my extra time is wrong.
Has anyone else experienced this or something similar? Should I talk to the school about getting my time reduced or not using it?
I'm not quite sure what I'm asking for, just hoping some people have had similar thoughts and would be willing to share their input. Thank you :)

Who is Brookmount Explorations, Inc?
Brookmount Explorations, Inc ($BMXI) is an operator of producing gold properties in the Republic of Indonesia. The Company currently operates 2 gold producing properties in volcanic hosted sediment within the tropical rain forest region of Sulawesi Province in north east Indonesia and is in the process of acquiring additional high grade properties in the area, which was originally surveyed and developed by Newmont Mining of the US. The Company is incorporated in Nevada and was organized for the purpose of acquiring, exploring and developing mineral properties. The Company recently acquired a 5000 hectare gold property in the Tintina gold belt in the Yukon area of Canada and a smaller property in the Alaska USA portion of the Tintina Gold Belt.

• BMXI Stock, Best Gold Stocks, Gold Stocks To Buy, Junior Mining (brookmountgold.com)

Why should I really strongly take consideration on this GOLD mining and operator junior company?
As of recent, Gold prices have been taken center stage with prices exceeding (($2400 / ounce)). That being stated, $BMXI has been putting together their 2021, 2022, and 2023 financial forms for inclusion for PCAOB Audit set to finish this MAY 2024 (has been worked on for some time now) being completed by a firm out of Australia called "Hall Chadwick".

• Hall Chadwick is one of the largest and most experienced accounting groups in Australia servicing clients in every major capital city and many regional centres in Australia. (Hall Chadwick Chartered Accountants & Business Advisors)

One thing to note about this operator is that they are highly profitable off a single mine in Talawaan, Indonesia. While they have a heap leeching mine in Alason (starting back up this quarter), and recent purchases in United States and Canada (Atlin, McArthur, and Yukon), this Junior mining company is looking to expand, with a LOT of coin in their pocket. Here is a link to figures of their net income, profit, liabilities, total assets, and operating expenses:
Kevin C on X: "$BMXI u/brookmountgold is a Junior #mining operations company producing #gold in Indonesia, and soon in North America. With a 3-year #PCAOB #Audit to be completed (End of May), and future #Nasdaq #uplist, here is the #preciousmetals company by the numbers! $SPZI $IGBK $FBEC $PDGO https://t.co/kO0FaJjuzi" / X
Link to their disclosures: BMXI - Brookmount Explorations, Inc. Disclosure OTC Markets
As of current, their total assets exceed: $45,650,000
Total Liabilities: $2,700,000
Net Income: $10,000,000 (YoY)
Operating Expenses: $1,600,000 approx.
What is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO enticing about this company if the above doesn't already look good is that they are sitting on $20,000,000 in cash / gold reserves that is stuck in Talawaan, Indonesia, their first venture. As of today, they have agreed and accepted the conditions to buy out the entire Talawaan mine by June 30.
Part of the agreement with their partner in Talawaan, was that most, if not all the production would be held at that mine for operating costs and upkeep. That agreement will go away when Brookmount Explorations Inc ($BMXI) outright buys the entire mine.
Additionally, currently, they are starting to open back their Alason heep leeching mine that was forced closed during COVID. At that time and recently, they havent been able to start it back up because their cash has been held in Talawaan. To keep working, $BMXI, CEO Nils Olquist has to use Leonite Capital Hedge Fund ((3) Leonite Capital: Overview LinkedIn) as a capital alternative and dilute the stock so they could use funds to stay operational, while seizing on deals in the United States and Canada (This has come to an end, diluting has ended by Leonite).
Their plan is to get their North American mines up and running this summer 2024, break even, and be ready to run next season. In doing so, they needed cash infusion to pay for this land and seize the day while their cash is currently being held up until June 30 of this year.
They plan to spinoff the North American property into its own stock that is majority owned by Brookmount Explorations Inc, which also will end up being audited. For loyal shareholders, they will receive complimentary percentaged shares into the spinoff.
There is a lot planned and, in the works, but the central driving forces here is that END OF MAY the plan is for Hall Chadwick to finish the audit, and Brookmount Explorations Inc to list itself onto the Nasdaq Exchange. Recent tweet last night drives home the fact that the audit is finally coming to an end and all the financials will be solidified.
Brookmount Gold on X: "$BMXI We are pleased to announce that our CEO Nils Ollquist has just arrived in Melbourne, Australia, and will joined by CFO Chris Lim, and Board Member Fred Kempson at a meeting this week with representatives from our auditor, Hall Chadwick. The meeting will aim to address any" / X
You will not find Gold Mining outfits like this anywhere that is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Undervalued while listing assets, net income, and liabilities this company has. For instance, compare it to $SDRC, which sits at $.30 and hasnt produced gold. You can compare this stock equivalently to Nasdaq gold mining stocks and our comparable blows them out of the water. You can do the math. The EPS of $BMXI is .10-.12.
You can read about their operations here: Talawaan, Indonesia - BrookMount Gold

Ive never so so scared, lonely, and insecure in my entire life. All i do all day is either be alone and have constant negative thoughts about myself swarming me to the point where i cant even stay still or think straight or I distract myself with pointless shit.
Im finishing up Junior year and before the start of the year my mother said "try your hardest this year, Junior year is really important for colleges, if you get all As I'll be happy". Like everything she said that was a lie. I finished with all As and twice the amount of classes i normal take and our relationship has never been more horrible
Rn im looking at my college application and im genuinely scared for the future. During my Freshman and Sophmore years i was really immature. I was loud, attention seeker, never shut up, and mostly importantly didnt take school seriously. Because of that, my College resume is dogshit for any college i want to attend. For one i got shit grades in both my science classes (bio and chem) during Freshman and Sophmroe year. Im going into college as a PRE MED student majoring in BIOLOGY.
Thats not the worst of it, i basically slacked off all year for extracurriculars and my application is dry AF. No leadership positions, hardly any volunteering hours, barely participation in clubs. I also quit soccer due to stress reasons. Im doing the same for archery too. Ive done archery up until this year but like soccer it stressed me tf out and put me in another depression so im yet again quitting another activity. Another knock for applications.
And again that's not even the fucking worst part about it all. My STUPID. FUCKING. LAZY. ass hardly studied for the ACT. I just blew off the ACT classes my mom gave me during Junior year because im lazy and now my ACT scores are shit. I got a 25 the first time, second time i was feeling confident but only got a 26. Both scores not even in the ranges of the colleges i am expected to go to.
"Actually taking school seriously this year", what a fucking joke. Im still the same pathetic mf i was during underclassmen. So now ACTs off the table since im so shit at it. I took an SAT however it was right in the middle of finals, midterms, and AP test for all my classes so i could barely study. I got a 1290 on it which is about 27 on the ACT. My mom was fucking furious at me. I have basically one more chance to not fuck it up. The only dates left for the SAT is Aug and Oct. Oct way too close to the application deadline so i really only have one more chance. One more chance to study my ass off after the worst year of my life to get at least a 1400 on the SAT, and it's all my fault. Because i was lazy like always.
I dont know, rn im lying in bed alone after making myself depressed again with my thoughts with tears on my face and i just dont know what to do. I got really emotional suddenly and typed this up. I was gonna type about a bunch more stuff but the college thing took me so long and now the emotions gone.
I just feel so shameful about my entire status rn. I feel like some lazy, pathetic, skinny, ugly bitch rn and not like a talented, hardworking, academically successful, attractive child like my mom clearly wants. We're Asian so im basically a tool. Her bare minimum college is University of Pittsburgh, Ohio State, and UIUC, all of which are clearly not 'match' colleges for me. Downsizing and going to anything lesser just feels like failing to me.
I look at other kids in my grade who got like 30s first try on the ACT, have better GPAs, do extracurriculars, have leadership roles, etc and they're hardworking, honest, have friends, better looking, etc, etc, etc. Theyre just good people and im literally NOT. Everytime im in class i sit alone while they are all in groups chatting, and just being better i feel like dying. That's why im not gonna get together with my crush, shes literally infinitely better than me.
Again i dont know, im just so lost in thought and emotion, I have so much shit rn. College, being alone, start powerlifting, new gym routine, i wanna start calisthenics, i need a new diet, i want a different haircut, i need a new skincare routine, day and night study for the SAT, i need to get a job, i need to start making money this year, i have to do college classes this summer, i have to fix my eyebrows, i need a new clothes style, my body dsymorphia is getting really bad, my instrusive thoughts are getting really bad, i CLEARLY have an inferiority complex i REALLY need to fix, learning about college resumes, planning out college applications, college essays, colleges letters of rec,......
Like im so fucking confused and angry all the time and NOBODY is helping me. EVERYONE in my life either tells me im useless and wrong or just doesnt talk to me at all. Its always something new. Before this archery stress put me in depression for like a month, before that it was loneliness, before that it was more body dysmorphia, and more, and more, and more.
Im so confused and angry and i dont know what to do. I didnt even scratch the surface. Im mad again and so i just wanna conclude this. All in all i guess ill just keep on going.

i have always been a numbers guy. math came quick to me, specifically arithmetic. In 2nd grade when we did those pages full of addition or subtraction they had to give me two pages because I’d finish a paper (albeit one or two mistakes out of 50ish problems) and just be sitting there. Then in 4th grade I had 2 multiplication or division papers as well. I didn’t enjoy the theory based math nearly as much, so I didn’t pursue past Calculus II. I liked it because it was still math, but I couldn’t see it being useful to continue into, at least for me.
Now I am in my 4/4 year of college and I should be graduating with my Undergrad this year. I have figured Accounting was it after a grueling two years of economics/finance, again not into theory. Since then, accounting has just become natural to me, i like debits/credits, i understand depreciation, i actually enjoy doing taxes whether it be individual, business, or even not for profit, i feel like I am finding that i genuinely enjoy accounting topics that i am being introduced to.
To be more clear, I had a tax internship this past tax season, first time i had dipped my toes in the actual career field. I enjoyed every second of it. I was working at my other job 30+ hours a week and did 15 hours of taxes every week, I can actually say, I can picture myself doing taxes for 10hrs a day or 55+ hours a week.
For context, internship offered me full time starting april 16th right after my internship. Mcol on West coast and making 55k while i still have 1 year left in college.
Am I going to hit a roadblock at some point? Or has this reigned true for others during the start of their careers? Is this maybe foreshadowing an enjoyment filled career? Or will I eventually crash and fall, maybe when my CPA desires start to approach. I just feel like I do not resonate with a lot of people on this subreddit and i want to know if it’s a me problem. Ty for your input

Age: Now 14, when complaint appeared 11 Gender: Female Weight: Normal Height: Normal Race: white Location: Europe (with free healthcare)
Past & current medical history: History of bedwetting until 12 years old, frequent nosebleeds, frequent stomachaches due to being scared of school
Family medical history: Brother (me) diagnosed with ADHD, family history of mental illness
I am asking this for my lil sis because my mom seems to think it's totally normal and wants to sweep it under the rug.
Quick backstory: I had very bad mental health problems as a kid, struggled a lot with feeling different and not doing well in a school environment, even went inpatient once. Multiple psychiatrists talked to my mom and afterwards diagnosed me with depression. When I was 18, my mom finally opened up to me and said that more than 5!! of my teachers talked to her about a suspected ADHD diagnosis, which she apparently purposefully did not mention to psychiatrists as I 'cannot have ADHD because [my] grades are too good'. Went to see a new psychiatrist, did testing, got an ADHD diagnosis. Now I'm doing way better in life, no more suicide attempts, even on my way to graduating university. So this history might bias me, of course. My mom says I am projecting my feelings onto my sister, which is very much possible.
So, onto the complaint:
My sister used to struggle a lot with frequent bedwetting, up until she was 12 years old. I had the same thing when I was a kid due to anxiety, so they thought it was the same for her. She also gets stomachaches sometimes because shes so scared of school and does not want to go. Her grades are very bad, and she struggles a lot with doing her homework and paying attention. She also does not have any friends.
During Covid, I used to help her with online school and realized that she would sometimes completely forget about classes happening, would daydream during the entire class, and when doing her homework would sometimes forget what she was writing in the middle of the sentence and finish it with a completely different sentence. Her homework often came back as 'unintelligible', 'unreadable', 'lots of careless mistakes'.
When I started being more strict with her, aka tracking all her homework, waking her up in the morning, taking away her phone during class and reminding her to pay attention every 30 minutes, she got drastically better grades in the span of two months. Sadly, due to Covid ending I had to return to my college city and her grades started slipping again.
All these things to me point to an ADHD diagnosis or at least something going on, especially due to my diagnosis. But the most worrying thing to me was:
Up until she was around 11 or 12 years old, she would sometimes be so focused on playing video games that she would pee her pants a little because she didnt realise she needed to go. If you would tell her to go pee, she would get upset/annoyed and tell you 'just 5 more minutes' over and over again, until it was too late. She's also really bad with hygiene, when she's visiting I have to remind her to brush her teeth daily, to shower and to wash her hair, otherwise she just won't do it. She's honestly sometimes really stinky and her hair is always a mess.
My mom said that's a normal things kids do, but I annoyed her so much about it that she took my sister to one therapist who talked to my sister 3 times and then said she does not have adhd and that shes healthy.
So now my mom is really angry with me every time I say that I am concerned, because this one therapist said shes a normal kid so if I'm doubting that it means I think I know better than the professionals.
I honestly have no fucking clue, maybe this is a normal developmental stage? My mom says all of us were stinky and icky as teenagers and she will grow out of it, but I think its hurting my sister, because she does not have friends and I think every kid needs friends right?
So I am just asking here because I honestly don't know if I'm actually just projecting and should listen to the professionals and if I dont that makes me a bad brother somehow. I am not trying to imply shes a bad kid, I love her a lot, I want to make that super clear. I promise I'm just worried for her.
It would mean the world to me if you could reply, no matter if it is to dissuade my worries or by confirming to me that that's actually something to worry about.

Back in Grade 3 I found this book in my school library and picked it up to read, now unfortunately the school year ended before I could finish the book and I never found it again.
But when I found it online again I just had to pick it up and I don’t regret it.
Taking place in the near future hover cars have taken over the world utilising magnetic technology to sit roughly a foot of the ground. Now hover car racing is the premier sport of the world and that’s when our protagonist, 14 year old Jason Chaser enters the fray with his 12 year old borderline autistic Brother, The Bug (his actual name and he is described as borderline autistic).
The two are a power duo with Jason being the daredevil who can expertly fly the car and the Bug being a mathematical whizz making him perfect as the navigator.
As a racing nerd I was able to give it some leeway but also some criticisms.
For one, all safety regulations are thrown out the window with the only safety coming from the racing circuits end being ‘dead zones’ which catch the cars if they go too far of track. But aren’t present everywhere. The hover cars are fitted with reinforced cockpits and assumably a roll cage with an ejection seat on the side. However the tracks seems to make the sport more dangerous by adding things like ‘demag strips’ which remove power from the mag drives (the things that make the cars float and move, essentially the tyres of the new era) which make the cars crash out most of the time past the speed of sound. Then there are occasionally extra hazards such as a ‘meat grinder’ which is a tunnel that closes in on the driver until only the cockpit can fit. Now as a racing nerd, the governing body of most Motorsports, the FIA would NEVER allow this at 300 KM/H, let alone 800!
What I did love about the book was the use of racing terms, being Motorsport is underrepresented in fictional media I loved seeing terms like hairpin and apex being thrown into the fray and it was great! Another thing I loved was the characters, the good guys were well thought out and had some great character development. Now the bad guys are comically evil, and this isn’t a bad thing given the demographic, spoiler >!i.e a race fixing bookkeeper or a Frenchman named Fabian who uses dirty tactics Now being the book was made for younger kids it was way below my reading level and I saw all the twists coming, this isn’t a complaint per-se because I was reading the book to tie up a loose end more than anything but it was still an enjoyable read and I do recommend it to you if you want to turn off most of your brain and enjoy the vroom vroom of hover cars! It’s also a great book for younger kids if you ignore the swearing (shit being the worst word) as it gives some good life lessons!

Sorry if the intro is a bit long, it's hard for me to explain how I feel.
I just turned 24 yesterday and for some reason I always feel like I'm out of time to build my career or that I'm too late to change paths. I've been working as a Data & Analytics consultant for almost 2 years (will be 2 years in September) at one of the Big4 companies. Not that it means much to me. I feel like in these 2 years I haven't really achieved much and instead I've lost quite a lot of confidence in myself and my abilities.
I studied Applied Statistics (4 years degree, finished summer 2022) and although I didn't get a very high average grade (7/10), I still got high grades in important subjects like Advanced Prediction, Time Series, etc. To mainly rebuild my confidence in my abilities I thought this year I could study a masters degree and that would also help build my CV and value(?). I was confused as to whether I should take a MSc in Biostatistics or something towards Business, and finally I chose the later one because I believe there are more jobs (at least in my country) in this area.
I've been reached out a few times to apply to other companies and I've gone through some recruitment processes, but I always self sabotage. This happened last December with an offer from another consultant company to join as a Junior Data Scientist. I really wanted this job but I thought I was not enough and I didn't prepare the interviews, and left the process after the worst interview I've ever done.
Yesterday another company called and told me if I wanted to begin a recruitment process with them and I said "sure, why not", so apparently that will happen, I haven't been reached out yet, not sure if I actually want to.
So my lines of thought are these: 1 - should I take this opportunity seriously? The reasons I'm not sure of changing jobs are: - If I leave my job before July, my summer pay will be lower and winteChristmas pay with the new company will also be even lower. - The salary they offer is not much higher, around 200€ monthly after taxes. - I'm not sure if changing from a Big4 to a company with less renown will impact my CV, considering I would like to maybe move abroad in a future (let's say to the UK, for example) - I'm not sure if this could impact my ability to study my masters degree. - I'm not sure this company will actually offer me interesting data projects in which I could improve my skills or learn new ones, or if they'll just want me to create a Power BI dashbord.
2 - Reason I would like to change jobs: - My decrease in self confidence due to having to do tasks not related to my field and that I consider useless (as in, it is making me forget about some of the skills I had and not letting me learn new ones), and having no prospect of leaving the project I am any time soon. - I'd like to have a higher salary so that I can keep on increasing my savings. - I'm tired of my dramatic boss and would like my opinion to matter more. - I want to become a Data Scientist and don't think following this path will lead me there, but also think until I don't build a portfolio and have a MS degree I won't be taken seriously.
TL;DR: Currently working as Data Consultant, planning on studying a master's degree in September, worried if I change my company it'll impact my ability to study. Final goal is to become a data scientist. For some unknown reason I feel rushed to achieve everything as soon as possible.
So, should I just give it time? Stay in my company until I have achieved my masters degree and then look for new opportunities that would lead me to becoming a Data Scientist? Or should I change jobs to have more experience in different data projects without knowing if I will actually find a different situation or if it'll be the same just in another company?
Also, I'd appreciate advice on becoming more self confident in my skills and more proactive.
Thank you in advance.

Hello. I’m back again, but complaining about a different class now. One I would usually like! Not to be dramatic but I’m in tears. I’m doing my psychology degree. I wasn’t expecting this essay to come back GOOD but I was expecting over 60%. I’ve never gotten a grade so low, 55%. She wrote that the essay was a “this is a fair attempt”. This is the worst semester of my life.
According to her filled out rubric, I should have gotten at least 60% because some are D, some are C and a few are P??? I thought I had a lot of evidence and referencing but that criteria was marked as AN N??!!! I’m definitely the problem but it’s destroying my confidence for sure. I’m so embarrassed.
I REALLY looked through her comments and disagree with a lot of them. She’s unnecessarily harsh about things that don’t matter. Saying that she “expects better planning from a third year student.” I plan my essays to a t, I don’t just start writing but one of her comments was “I encourage you to plan your essays prior to writing.” wtf? Why do you assume that??? Apparently I’m not allowed to fence sit, even though the information required you to BE FAIR IN YOUR ASSESSMENT. I wrote that the Dr did not APPEAR to have the skills to deal with a traumatic brain injury BASED ON HER BEHAVIOUR, but the comment says “what do you mean? Psychologists are trained in cognitive impairment in masters!”. Firstly, how am I meant to know, I haven’t done a masters. And secondly, the case is about the ethics of her conduct- and she DID NOT DEAL WITH THE COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT APPROPRIATELY SO MY COMMENT IS A CORRECT ASSESSMENT. Whether it’s the fact she is rural or she didn’t pay attention iN hEr mAsTeRs, that’s the truth and I fucking said it.
I’m really angry, embarrassed, and upset. I was confident my WAM wouldn’t lower this semester but I’m really struggling now. I have really no confidence left after this blow. I’m really struggling to finish my essays now because I don’t trust in my ability at all. I don’t like my tutor, I don’t like my classes this semester and I feel stupid for thinking I’m smart enough to do university.
I’m dealing with grief but I didn’t realise it was affecting my focus this much. I’m so anxious about the exams, I’m so anxious about these assessment. This semester is really breaking me down - I’m not good at even ONE of these subjects.

I (18M) am extremely lonely and it's destroying my life. It is reduced my productivity drastically. I have no friends now although I did had few in the past.I have really big dreams and I want to work toward it but I am not been able do anything because of my loneliness. When I was in my 9 grade my grades were very high and then it drastically reduced because I couldn't make any good friend. I have finished my high school this year with really bad grade and I really hurt me because I knew that I had the potential to ace the exam but I didn't even try. I wasted 2 years of my life doing Nothing ( just using my phone ). It's not like I couldn't make friend's but I always tried to look for someone who would have similar thinking like me and who would also share the same dream and also tried to look for someone very intelligent(and I know some people could say, who do you think you are? Like do you think you a genius or someone special, narcissitic asshle and bla bla bla kind of sht), I said what I felt like. I wanna be a filmmaker. It's a kind of career which doesn't really have a straightforward path but I still wanna do it. I wanna and will be writing amazing movie script's and learning how to use a camera but I feel like the onlythinkg that stop me is loneliness (and little lack of money but I think I can get over it except loneliness which doesn't seem to go away. I mean it like , I wake up alone, eat alone and and walk alone and also watch movie in theatre alone and I don't feel like studying (which will ruin my life). Everyday I just feel like me me me and I sometimes dwell into nihilism and get very pessimistic about life. I was massively depressed for more than 2 years and I could see bad effects on my health too. I more thing I wanted to study in the united states for my bachelors but I could afford it and will be doing it in india which led me to a lot of hopelessness but will be doing my master in germany as there is free education (I hope) and learn about filmmaking too. Please help me, guide me, what should I do, I was unable to find content on "loneliness affecting studies, dreams and goals" on youtube. There was nobody sharing their experience on it.

The first time I made a real close friendship was in middle 7th grade they were 2 best friends we were talking all day and night even studying together but suddenly after we finished 8th grade they started ignoring me maybe because of my anger issues and rudeness when I was talking about the abuse in my house they thought I'm way too crazy so they dumped me now I'm now in first year of since 9th grade I haven't find any friends in school or online idk why but whenever I talk to someone they're really weird or narcissistic psychopaths I live in a third world corrupted country and I think it's normal for society in this type of countries to be ignorant and immoral but it's crippling I really don't know what to do I reached my peak since the last 2 months I can't get no more than 5 hours of sleep I smoke a lot of cigarettes and some days I don't even sleep at all, I tried to make my brain just forget about all the suffering and problems but YouTube and movies are always talking about brain rotting politics or violence and crime, I always seek socializing but no one likes me and it's too late already it ate up all of my brain I was a smart and fast thinker in middle school I learned English with my friends in middle school in 2 years to the point where we can listen to English songs and understand the lyrics without translation or turning the subtitles on but since they left me I can't learn anything I can't study I can't work I can't sleep it's my fault that I just tried to look for people like them I should have looked for people who are more like me but it's too late and I have just realized lately. 2 full months of insomnia and I really can't figure out who am I or what do I want or what are my interests even if right now if someone just texted me and told I'm like you or I just had a perfect friend I don't know what to say to them it's like I'm socially and mentally dead from the dry and cruel life I'm suffering from insomnia and my family doesn't care they speak loudly, shout and slam doors when I try to catch some sleep (btw I'm so sorry if I can't write correctly I can't focus at all) now the real point is that I'm asking you what is this feeling is my brain damaged or am I just dead does it have a name is it a mental disorder or is it what 5 years of no talking with people do to you when you're still growing up

So I found out about a week ago that my soon to be ex is dating someone new but he hasn't told me himself. We officially ended things three months ago and were on good terms. He apologized for everything he has done and told me he wouldn't date anyone while we lived together because it would be disrespectful to me and our kids. Well we still live together with our two small kids (2 & 6). We originally talked about staying in the house together until our older child finished first grade due to finances and her struggle with school (June 2025) but after learning that he is seriously dating this other person (found out he spent the night there already) I need him out soon. The house is in both our names so I have a plan to buy him out of his share of the equity. I also have a solution to get a roommate by September so I need him out by then. He doesn't officially know that I know about the new girl but I have feeling he figured it out. Anyways, is two months notice enough? How do it survive emotionally until then? I feel sorry for our older child because this will all hit right before school starts. I wanted to avoid that but when he started this new relationship before any of our affairs were in order (we haven't even started the divorce process yet), I realized it's a big boundary being crossed and every day I feel sick to my stomach. I have my solution and I no longer want to help him find his. Thoughts?? All of this sucks 😞

Hello everyone,
I just started my 11th-grade coaching on the 17th of this month, and today was my 3rd day. Before entering 11th grade, I was repeatedly informed by my family and various Reddit posts that 11th grade is much harder than 10th and that one needs to study for at least 4-5 hours daily to survive it. However, I’ve found it difficult to even study for more than 3 hours. Part of the issue seems to be a lack of material to study.
After coming home, I usually revise what was taught in coaching, complete my homework, and then I’m done. For instance, today I finished everything in about 2 hours. To avoid feeling guilty, I watched some Physics Wallah lectures on the current topic and even studied a bit ahead of the coaching schedule.
My question for all of you is: How much should I study in 11th grade? How and what should I study to ensure I don’t mess up my 11th grade? Also, I’d prefer not to exceed the 5-hour mark daily, as that feels too overwhelming.
Thank you!
(Forgot to mention that I was preparing for jee)

Okay, here we go. Big rant incoming. This post is going to be extremely long and a bit whiny, but I would only write something like this because I really do love this game, and I am passionate about the decisions that go into game design & player experience. Feel free to skip to the TLDR. Obviously: SPOILERS
I'll start this off by saying that I have like 1000 hours in Valheim and I absolutely love the core aspects of the game. I also like to think of myself as a pretty skilled player compared to the average/target audience. I've done many Valheim playthroughs over the past few years, including a hardcore playthrough through Yagluth with no deaths, and a no-map/compass only playthrough. Even so, while the Ashlands as a biome felt "off" from even before the release, I generally blamed this on "skill issue", and figured progression would ameliorate some of the issues. After doing basically everything there is to do in the biome, I've come to the conclusion that it does not get better: the Ashlands gameplay loop is fundamentally anti-player experience. Here' why:
Mob density and lava is anti-exploration: Valheim, at its core, is an adventure & exploration game. If you take out the exploration, you're left with a resource collection simulator with awkward movement and basic combat. Like the Mistlands before it, the Ashlands presents immediate barriers to exploration. To even set foot into the biome you need top tier gear from the previous biome and an industrial grade multi-biome farm producing all of the best foods and meads.
However, while the Mistlands progression allows you to eventually overcome its barriers to exploration with the introduction of magic and new mechanical items (like the feather cape), the Ashlands never gets any less hostile. There are no lava-immunity boots, no anti-spawning beacons, no nothing. You just get a pretty okay gear upgrade, and a big fuck you. In fact, because of the unrelenting charred hordes, Valkyries, and marathon-running Asksvins, you're actually punished for exploring too far from your steadfast.
The only reasonable way to map the biome is by sprinting in Fenris armor with an Asksvin cape and Moder, which fundamentally destroys the immersion of the exploration anyways. After all this time in the biome, I've explored less than a half of a single of the Ashlands continents in my world. And why should I? What do I even gain from it? This leads me into my next big problem:
The Ashlands is unrewarding: To invest such tremendous effort into a biome there needs to be an equally tremendous reward. Spoiler: there isn't! You can expect to die a LOT in the biome, meaning your hard-earned skills are going to wither away, making you substantially weaker overall. What are you offered in return for this? Not much! The new heavy armor is the standard upgrade, extremely expensive, and generally slow. The Asksvin hide and magic armor sets are definitely not worse than the previous armor sets, but they don't really feel that much better. A couple of the weapons were interesting... but again, not enough to offset the pain.
The Ashlands really doesn't reward players for dealing with all of its bullshit. It's totally isolated, not very visually appealing, hostile from start to finish, and doesn't really introduce or accelerate any of the out-of-biome mechanics like previous biomes do (farming, sailing, new cooking stations, new crafting stations, fall damage negation, etc). By far the most interesting thing you acquire in the Ashlands is a staff that sacrifices half your health to spawn a charred troll, and they aren't even allowed to be on your team!!!
The whole war-zone aesthetic would be tolerable if the biome just didn't take so damn long to finish. Like seriously, because all of the limited visibility and constant mob clearing it's extremely slow to even locate the things you need to do, never-the-less even do them! At this point, I kind of think of the Ashlands as a chore you must complete to progress beyond it. That is fundamentally not a fun thing to do, and I believe the vast majority of players will not make it to the deep north for this exact reason. Which brings me to the biggest problem.
The Ashlands does not understand what makes difficulty fun: According to the devs, the biome is hard. Really hard, actually. They seemed extremely proud of making a biome that would really give the players a true run for their money! Naturally, I was extremely excited! Unfortunately, the Ashlands is not hard because of new strategic or mechanical learning curves, it is hard because it is clumsy.
Flametal mining is contrived and hostile. The pillars are a pain to climb with the game's terrible collision. Have you ever been crushed between the underside of a sinking flametal vein and your basalt bomb platform? 'Cus I have! Even worse, every time I actually whack a Flametal pillar (which by the way, wants to kill me even more than the monsters do) I'm personally inviting every entity in a 10 mile radius to form a mosh pit right below me.
Grapevine harvesting and planting is too slow. They take forever to find, even longer to grow, and cant even be planted in their natural biome without a shield generator? (What's up with that by the way?) I will admit that I love the way they look and depending on where you land you might get lucky and find them early, in which case this point is pretty moot. In my case, I had fully upgraded gear and had already cleared a fortress before I even found my first Vineberry.
Fortress "sieging", as the devs would like to call it, is kind of... useless? The siege weapons are clumsy and ineffective, and are immediately secondary to the brute force method of building a wooden staircase and bombarding the inside with fireballs until everything in it is dead. By the time you even reach a fortress, the relentless mob clearing just to get there has sucked all the fun out of the would-be battle anyway. (By the way, who though that it would be a good idea to make the only unique fortress mob a necromancer that summons even more of the most annoying mob in the entire biome?? Hurray, yet another swarm of reskinned, stat-boosted greydwarves!)
Honestly, I wouldn't even call the biome "hard". I would just call it painful. Things that are hard are generally things you can get better at. I don't think it particularly fits this category.
Lingering questions: While there are many things I like about the biome as a concept, I don't know if there is a single mechanic in the Ashlands that I actually think is well-designed. Now that I'm basically done with the biome, I look back and ask myself a number of questions about things I encountered. Were these really fun? or were they just tedious. I'll let you decide:

• Why is the only ship you can take through the spires so difficult to steer? If you want it to feel large and heavy, that's fine... but then why do spires spawn so densely that it constantly gets beached?
• Why do basalt bomb platforms only last for like 30 seconds? If you want them to not permanently mark the landscape, why not make them last at least long enough for players to reuse them for approaching and escaping from the pillars? Why make the player interact with the admittedly funky aiming mechanics to throw more platforms as the pillar is sinking?
• Why can the charred and Asksvins go in the lava if you can't? They're not immune to fire damage from a staff, but they can wade through lava? Wouldn't it make more sense to encourage players to use the lava as a risky resting place? Something like, "go out into the lava with basalt bombs to escape the horde briefly, but make sure you don't slip!"? Maybe then, once the player has cleared a fortress and acquired their first set of lava-immunity potions (or boots or whatever), they will have an advantage over the horde in terms of mobility. You know, like in every single other biome?
• Why are there no lava-walking boots?
• Why do tamed Asksvins animals not have a "passive mode", or a "follow" command like wolves, or at least some kind of hitching post? If the idea of asksvins is to be able to ride over lava to pillars, why make them run away from the pillars and to their death the instant the player gets off of them?
• Why are there no lava-walking boots........?
• Why make the step heights on flametal ore pillars only convenient/resonable to climb when wearing the feather cape that is extremely weak to fire? Isn't the idea of the fire weakness to discourage its use in the Ashlands? If you know your movement & collision mechanics feel clunky, why design the pillars in such a way that scaling them is necessary to escape certain death?
• Boots in lava no walking on it why tho........?
• Why make the spawnrate for monsters so uniformly high? The combat is extremely simple, and these monsters do pretty substantial damage in melee. This leads to a boring and frustrating "swarming" experience, where players have to run from monsters, inevitably picking up more monsters on the way. Couldn't you fix this by just have areas of extreme monster density like in every other biome which can be "cleared". Doesn't this work better with the power-up based combat your entire system is based off of? Doesn't this also double as another reason to actually explore in the Ashlands, as when players clear one area, they need to continue on to the next?
• If you want a new paradigm where defeating the horde isn't enough to "clear" an area, wouldn't you at least want to counteract this with some new mechanic that spawn-proofs/suppresses large areas? Or maybe a set of armor that reduces player-made sounds? Why doesn't that exist?
• Why not reward the player with outside-the-biome progression? Why not use this as the reason to go to the Ashlands in the first place? Teleporting metals is an obvious great example, but it feels like it was an afterthought made late in development so that the Ashlands would be even remotely tolerable, given that it's a nightmare to sail to. With an entire community full of dedicated players who love the game proposing extremely popular changes all the time... why not use some of those? (shield generators could also repair builds! Redbeard Dvegrs could offer unique item trading! New cores & metal could somehow accelerate or automate farming! Any of the above...)

TLDR: After finishing the Ashlands I struggle to see why so many design decisions were made that make the biome so relentless, tedious, and anti-exploration. It's like they took all of the experiences and mechanics that people love about the game and replaced them with all of the ones people find painful and annoying. It is extremely disappointing, and will prevent most players from finishing the game, or even the biome itself.

Hi guys, I'm confused about how to do well in my degree. For context, I do psychology with neuroscience BSc. I've never done psychology before as my school didn't offer it for A-level, but I did biology for A-level, enjoyed it a lot, and was successful, as well as for my other A-levels.
I was excited to do this degree, and I do enjoy the content. But the coursework and final exams just killed my enjoyment and self-confidence. I'm finishing my 2nd year right now and I'm so terrified of doing poorly, cause it contributes 30% to my degree, and also I just want to understand my course. I've tried different note-taking and revision methods, I've gone to drop-in sessions and sought external help, but my best grades are like a 65% max on an essay (which is not bad but when it's one of the only 2:1 grades you get per term............).
Anyway, I just really need help, especially with understanding how to 1) balance my lifestyle between working + taking care of myself, 2) understand how to critically evaluate, it's so confusing to me and my essays always have the same feedback with too much of a range in grades for me to know what I'm doing wrong and 3) know how to properly revise this content. I think I may have been so used to having a syllabus laid out for me like in A-levels that my brain just doesn't know what's important to know (we only get one sample paper for revision, not any past papers, and MAYBE an online MCQ self-assessment with answers (sometimes not even with answers!!)) Does anyone have any advice?
tldr; I suck at my degree and genuinely cannot find out what's wrong with me and how to improve.

I don't even know where to start. I'm a 19 year old girl, I live in a third world country and I'm kinda drowning currently.
I'm very autistic, I can talk and do some school stuff but I can't adapt to work environments at all and holding down a job has been impossible even though I've gone through training or a month or two of work in like a dozen places. It just never sticks. And this is a huge problem and relevant to my situation.
I'm currently in college too, on top of that, but because of the autism it's been impossible to keep up with the pace and truly learn and I've been failing exams and other college obligations. It's all going downhill.
I don't like going to college at all to begin with, but the crux of my issue is that I hail from a very abusive, very strict family and they demand I not only finish college but do it with good grades too. And I depend on them financially. Now I got into this college on a full scholarship because I managed to get through previous schooling with good grades (with extreme pressure and mental breakdowns and stress put on me by my family) so my family doesn't have to pay for school. Still, they pay for my housing and food.
They don't believe I'm struggling, they're those types of mental health deniers, and my worth to them is directly tied into my college performance. They've threatened to cut me off if I fail college before and often blackmail me by withholding enough money for me to live (there was one month where I had to go hungry a lot because I couldn't cover everything with rent and bills and public transport fees etc.).
The problem is that I'm depending on them, and my inability to work makes it impossible for me to become independent. I keep trying to find jobs that might be possible for me to do but they either don't want students or want people with a lot of work experience which I don't have. Or they just don't call me back.
I'm just so depressed and honestly just so scared. I don't want to become homeless and destitute, and I wish I could handle college because I know a college diploma is useful in life, but I just can't. Every time I think I finally did a little better in school or learned a bit more, my results come back bad anyways. It's so stressful because the only livelihood I have access to currently depends on my college success but I'm not succeeding despite trying my best.
I don't know what to do. I don't know what I can do either. It all feels hopeless. My family looms so large because they control money and therefore resources and I don't know how I can ever break free. I'm just so lost.
I need general life advice here, I think. Anyone who's been through something similar, how did you get out of it? What options exist out there? I'm sorry if this post sounds like I'm whining, I'm just desperately trying to find a solution because the state of things as it is right now isn't working out at all. English isn't my first language either so if my tone or wording is weird, I'm sorry.
Thank you anyone who reads this. Hope you have a good day

This guide is created based on my experience and would like to share it with players considering to get the voltgun(VG)/ players who has gotten it and have not figured out the Crux of the gun.
General tip: do not take the elite purple gem if you do not have the required skills to take the elite drop skill. There are only so many elites per round. Pick up radius messes up this strategy so I do not take pick up radius tree.
Yes I bought the exp bot, so I do not bother with collecting exp drops from the floor.
Goal : The volt gun should become a bullet hose that keeps firing and never has to reload.
How?: since the voltgun has a 30% chance to trigger lightning out of the box. Energize and splitting shock from the lightning tree is crucial to turning your VG into a bullet hose.
Legendary grade of the VG adds an additional perk of granting you ammo with every 3 lightning strikes.
Base upgrade of the elementariums improves splitting shock to have 1 additional lightning on top of the 1 granted by splitting shock.
Once you have gathered all of the above you will have your bullet hose.
Damage: The VG's bullet are but a medium for the damage. From experience, you will want VG to keep applying skills that do on hit damage and by that logic you want to focus on fire rate, projectile, penetration, To finish your build. See below for skills.
Elemental damage boost(boss drops): tomb of frostfire, tomb of thunder.
Fire rate skills: rapid fire, lightweight ammo, entrenched. Tomb of furor(boss drop)(take this as first boss drop if possible), assassin(elite drop) (move rate tree)
Penetration: deathreap, assassin(see above).
Projectiles: double barrel is sufficient, dig in(boss drop) is not a priority. I have carnage pants so that might be a reason why I don't feel the need. Fusilade wastes a skill point to get to, hence I don't like to get it.
Lightning tree: your bread and butter for your bullet hose. Take all the energize and splitting shock first to finish your bullet hose setup then finish with eletrotheurge later in the game. Do not take elite drop, personally I feel there are better elite drops out there.
Fire tree: prioritise getting warmth here and flaming meteor. Take the elite drop overload, it is a free additional 150% damage since you already have lightning. Fire mastery can be taken later. Warmth is to help with your survivability. With enough fire rate flaming meteor will be constantly dropping.
Withering gaze (WG): prioritise evil eye, eagle sight this will be your additional medium of proccing your your on hit skills. Elite drop is good to have but not a priority. Evil eye procs lightning, freeze, burning. More procs = more damage.
Freeze tree: do not take frost bolt(your are never reloading). Elite drop is free damage. Freeze is proc by your bullets and WG, frigid domain turns frozen mobs into mini bombs when they die. Freeze also gives you some room to breathe as frozen enemy block other mobs from moving forward. With WG you should have an ice wall surrounding you
Power shot tree: prioritise fragmentation over large caliber, to get deathreap. Penetration is important and it makes your bullet hit more mobs, more hit = more procs. Elite drop optional.
Bruteslayer tree: I like all of the skills here, at the point of writing I have not unlocked the elite drop so can't comment on this.
If rng does not go your way. Curse tree is good I don't like doom, with elite drop. It helps spread your burning to ensure warmth procs more. And increases your bullet damage with karma.
Tldr: Step 1: build skills that proc on hit/ with shots fired. Step 2: Shoot fast, keep shooting, shoot faster. Step 3: profit?
That's all I have for now. At the point of writing this I'm only at stage 34 with 244k CP using the VG. With slightly over 2 weeks into the game.
I beat stage 33 (recommended CP 274.3k) using VG following this strategy.
Veterans of the game please feel free to jump in if I'm wrong in my logic.

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Hi everyone thinking about taking MICR 4600 Immunology with Porter! I wanted to give you a breakdown for the class format and explain how it functions. I just finished Immunology with Porter (was one of my CLS pre-reqs) and this class is no joke. It was one of the hardest classes I have ever taken and I already have my degree in Microbiology. Please be ready for being tested comprehensively on the information you learn. Not only is there lots of content to learn, but Porter will design ways to test your understanding of how to apply the info you learned in lecture.
Grade breakdown - lab and lecture are graded together. There is a total of 1000 points you can earn from each. You need to do well in both to get a good grade:
Lecture Component (600 points total):

• Reflective Essays (20 points)
  • Easyish essay on what you expect from the class at the beginning and then again after the final (2 essays).
• Active Learning (50 points)
  • Randomly during class, there will be a ~2pt assignment just explaining the lecture content you learned. Acts as an attendance checker
  • This isn't tested on if you get it correct its graded by participation and if you get it wrong she just comments the right answer.
• Case Studies (100 points)
  • Five team-based case studies: 10 points each
    • Every other week you get a group assignment. Using information you learned in lecture, you need to assess a medical issue. You must explain the immunological causes, key information why you diagnosed what you did, what diagnostic tests you should run to assess the diagnosis, and some questions that may be applicable for the case.
  • Final team-based case study: 50 points
    • Same as above but this one is presented to the class (powerpoint + 1 question from Porter)
• Seminar Synopsis and Research Question (30 points)
  • You will get two guest lectures during this class. You will need to write a paper on the research/information being presented during one of these lectures.
• Weekly Post-Lecture Quizzes (150 points)
  • Fifteen quizzes: 10 points each
    • These quizzes are really challenging! You get two chances and your grade will be the average of the two. Study the lecture before taking the quiz.
• Midterm Exam (100 points)
  • Free response with a few multiple choice questions
    • About 5 pages of free response
• Final Comprehensive Examination (150 points)
  • Similar to midterm setup.
    • About 11 pages of free response (comprehensive with emphasis on lectures after midterm) plus 20 multiple choice.
• Midterm and Final have an essay portion due the night before the test. You need to find a regular news article(NYT/BBC/etc not actual science or research journals) where you describe news on information from the lessons in class. Should be an easy 10 points for each.)

Laboratory Component (400 points total) ~with Dr. Tapia:

• Weekly Pre-Lab Quizzes (60 points)
  • Twelve quizzes: 5 points each
    • Easy just read manual and due early morning before lab section
• Safety Quiz (10 points)
• Quizzes 1 and 2 (80 points)
  • Two quizzes: 40 points each
    • Open lab notebook. As long as you keep your notebook updated, you'll be okay but be sure you have all the reagents whole names written down.
• Graphs (30 points)
  • Three graphs: 10 points each
    • Will be on lab data given by the professor. Make sure you include all the information required on the assignment or points might be deducted.
• Lab Notebook (50 points)
  • Needs to have images or drawings of experiment if noted in manual.
• Poster Session (50 points)
  • Poster: 30 points (team)
    • Team makes poster but each individual is required to present during a poster session.
  • Poster presentation: 10 points (individual)
  • Poster evaluations: 10 points (individual)
• Final Comprehensive Laboratory Examination (120 points)
  • You get a cheat sheet for this.

General Policies:

• Attendance for both lectures and labs is mandatory.
• No make-up exams or late assignments are accepted unless justified (e.g., doctor's note). She's pretty strict with exceptions without doctor note.
• Participation in lecture will help you accumulate extra credit for your final grade so participate often and go to office hours!!

Feel free to ask any questions below. Happy to answer :)

Well, everything started in 2012 when I was in elementary school, and a new math teacher was transferred to my school. At first, no one knew anything about her; we only knew she had been transferred from her old school after being on leave for some time. From her first class, she exhibited strange behavior, and none of the students really understood what she was doing (we had just started elementary school and were 10 and 11-year-old kids). The first red flags were when she divided the classroom in half: one half was for white students and the other for black students. Even though I was white, I felt very bad because the students on the other side of the room began to be treated differently. It started with her ignoring those students' questions. They really tried to ask for help, but she just ignored them. After some time, during tests and homework submissions, the humiliation began. She started to insult all the black students whenever they couldn't complete a task or scored poorly on tests. The insults were always very "masked"; she would always say, "You will never be anything in life," or "When you grow up, you'll be garbage collectors or drug dealers." Most of us didn't really understand what was happening because we were just kids who had just left fifth grade. But everything got worse when the teacher found her favorite student, Francis. Francis was the only white and blonde boy in the class. Since the teacher created this bizarre fixation on Francis, the lives of all the other students became hell. At this point, she started to humiliate all the students except Francis. The first thing she did to me was when I handed in my homework, and she accused me, without any proof, of copying from Francis (I was the best-performing math student in my class, and that year I was even selected to compete in a regional school competition called the Math Olympics). I tried to argue that I hadn't copied, but she simply tore up my homework and said, "You are very arrogant and will be a failure." When she said that to me, I was furious and had no reaction. In the following days, my life turned into real hell. A few weeks before school started, I had been hospitalized for a severe urinary infection, and the doctors told me not to hold my urine for long periods because it could increase the occurrence of urinary infections. I went to the bathroom twice per class because I couldn't hold it anymore. But from the day she humiliated me, she forbade me from going to the bathroom, even after I informed her about my condition. When I told her that, she shouted to the class, "This mommy's boy can't handle anything." When she said that, I had a fit of rage, threw all my materials at the board, and screamed with all my might, "I hate you," then ran out of the classroom straight to the bathroom. That same day, my mother was called to the school, and when I told the principal the whole story of what had been happening, I only received a warning. The principal asked me to leave the room to talk privately with my mother. When I left the room, the principal begged my mother not to file a complaint against the teacher and told her the real reason she had been transferred. He told my mother that Mrs. Rosa had lost her 12-year-old daughter in an accident. Since that happened, she had been on psychological leave for six months and requested a transfer to another school, which is why she behaved that way (which, to me, does not justify any of her behavior). After this incident, the school year was a true nightmare; it was truly my worst year in math. Fast forward 10 years to 2022, when I was already in college, I met my English teacher again. Since school, I had always been her favorite student, and she lived in the same neighborhood as me. After finishing high school, I became good friends with my English teacher, and we often met for coffee. I would tell her about the news from college, and she would tell me about her students. During one of these meetings, she told me that Mrs. Rosa had passed away in 2020 due to an overdose. She told me that since 2013, Mrs. Rosa had struggled with substance abuse, and in 2020, she was found dead in her home. Even after everything that happened, my feelings are very confused about this whole story. Sometimes I feel a bit of empathy, and sometimes I feel she got what she deserved in the end.