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2024.05.19 16:22 ProLinis [OFFER] €80 with Mintos - €50 from them + €30 from me (EU, Canada & many other countries). Limited time - until 31th May!
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Mintos, a legitimate investment firm operating within the framework of EU regulations, provides its investors with safeguards up to €20,000 through the investor compensation scheme.
Currently, they are running a temporary referral program: New users who invest €1,000 or more prior to May 31, 2024, are entitled to a €50 bonus. In addition, I am extending an extra €30, bringing the total bonus to €80. Furthermore, during the initial 90 days, you will receive a 1% bonus based on the average amount you have invested. However, you don‘t need to stay invested for so long – 2 (or better - 3) days are enough.
The process involves the following steps:
- Leave a comment of "$bid" on my post, and use my referral link. Ensure that my referral code appears above the 'Create account' button.
- Complete KYC checks and complete the quiz (if you need any help with the quiz, let me know).
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- Usually within 2 business days of satisfying the investment requirement, you will see an addition of €50 to your account. Subsequently, you can choose to withdraw both the bonus and your investment.
- Inform me once you have successfully received your €50 bonus, and I will promptly provide you with the additional €30.
2024.05.19 16:20 Electrical_Apple5741 21 [M4F] take a chance with me 🐶
Supp everyone :) just looking for a girl that has a good or the same personality or hobbies as me so that we can vibe. Anyways I’m trying my chances here since life’s been boring and tiring to me. Been single for quite sometime and looking for someone constant. I’m open to date, and we’ll see how and where it goes but still no pressure let’s take it slowly and steady so that eventually we can know each other better. So feel free to dm and let’s give a chance to each other 🫠
About you: Has a good personality someone na can cheer me up and for the hobbies nman hmm maybe someone na aligned with mine since this is how I vibe and take care of you or treat you, petite adorable, caring, chinita or cute and someone understanding as well since I might be busy sometimes(course).
About me: single, 21, 5’4, ave, decent, cute, clingy, lone wolf, funny, cheerful, some would say I have good eyes or chinito daw kahit pure Filipino nman, plays valo, loves to watch whether kdrama, anime or any movies, loves to listening to any kind of music :), shy in calls xori for that huhuhuh:( but dont worry im talkative man in person studying pre med, from Top 4 Univ 🐯
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About you: Has a good personality someone na can cheer me up and for the hobbies nman hmm maybe someone na aligned with mine since this is how I vibe and take care of you or treat you, petite adorable, caring, chinita or cute and someone understanding as well since I might be busy sometimes(course).
About me: single, 21, 5’4, ave, decent, cute, clingy, lone wolf, funny, cheerful, some would say I have good eyes or chinito daw kahit pure Filipino nman, plays valo, loves to watch whether kdrama, anime or any movies, loves to listening to any kind of music :), shy in calls xori for that huhuhuh:( but dont worry im talkative man in person studying pre med, from Top 4 Univ 🐯
2024.05.19 16:19 rebuildingnormal VA Home Loan Build Program
Hey all,
Since I know so many folks in this community are veterans, I wanted to share this resource from VALoanLady. There is a program where you can buy a pre-fabricated home shell and build on land that is price controlled with a VA Loan. This could be a great solution for those who are unable to find housing due to restrictions. YouTube video link attached, but she also has a great TikTok account.
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Since I know so many folks in this community are veterans, I wanted to share this resource from VALoanLady. There is a program where you can buy a pre-fabricated home shell and build on land that is price controlled with a VA Loan. This could be a great solution for those who are unable to find housing due to restrictions. YouTube video link attached, but she also has a great TikTok account.
2024.05.19 16:17 LoganWY How I self-advocated (Long story no TL:DR)
Today I want to tell my story of how I self-advocated and what I did to achieve that goal. I'm telling my story to help those who are in a similar position to what I was in and to inspire those to self-advocate.
To recap from my earlier posts. I have ADHD and fell under the "multiple disabilities" characterization. My high school teacher claimed that I have autism (Not diagnosed). I personally don't believe I have autism or at the very least I have a high functioning autism. Throughout most of my school career, I was in a self-contained classroom with kids with severe disabilities. Even if I was in the general population I had a paraprofessional or peer tutor. I never believed that I should have been in that position. As a consequence, I never really learned any social skills, I was segregated, and felt like that people didn't want anything to do with me because I was sped. The reason why I ended up in this position was probably a combination of me having the "multiple disabilities'' characterization and me testing low in three year revaluation tests. If you want more info on this then feel free to search my profile. This is an alt account and is primarily used to ask questions about special ed so It's really easy to find stuff about me.
Before I get into my story I just want to make it clear that I'm not against special ed. There's good and bad people in every profession. I believed I was in danger for myself and for my future. I don't believe that my teacher was evil and had the best of intentions but he was putting me in a position that was hurting me and I had to act. If you have any questions or feedback feel free to let me know in the comments. Another thing is that this post has been really hard to make. It opened up some old wounds and as a result took several days to write.
Here's my story: So in late middle school I was tired of the placement that I was in. I was tired of not having friends, Not being able to socialize with my peers, not being able to date. I also was thinking about what my life will look like after high school, I was concerned that I was going to never have friends, Never be in a relationship, and not have the social skills to make those friends. I was generally very concerned for my future. So I decided that for my 8th grade year (2017-2018) I would do my absolute best for both my behavior and academics. Throughout the year nothing changed. I was hoping that me doing well would show that I didn't need any support but at the end of the year I still had paraprofessionals in most of my classes and was being pulled out for tests. In the summer between middle school and high school all I can think about is I want high school to be different. I wanted friends, I wanted a relationship, and I had dreams of me in the student council. When I got into high school I had peer tutors along with paraprofessionals (Peer Tutors are general ed students who sign up as an elective to help special needs kids. They basically serve the role as paraprofessionals with less responsibility). I did everything again and had the exact same result. In January of 2019 (freshmen year) I decided that my current strategy wasn't working. They also started making the peer tutors fill out behavioral checklists for their student(s) by grading them on how well they behaved/followed directions and gave them badges that say "peer tutor" which made me feel singled out. Because of that the peer tutors felt more like babysitters then someone that is an equal. So I went to my special ed teacher and asked him to remove the paraprofessional and the peer tutors. He told me no and said that I needed them. I changed my strategy again and I was going to ask for the Peer Tutors to be gone first, then focus on removing the paraprofessionals. I was more concerned about the peer tutors over the paraprofessionals because I was concerned that since they were part of the student body that this was going to affect me when I was running for the student council. I was worried that they'd tell others I was special needs then people would think I was incompetent. So every 2 weeks I would ask him again to remove them and each time he would give me a different excuse on why I couldn't be alone. Here's some of the excuses he gave me: "The peer tutors need to be there to collect data", "You need to prove that you can do the work yourself", "It's not up to me. It's the general education teacher that decides if you need a peer tutor or an aide", "Peer Tutors are supposed to represent a trainer for a job. If you refuse training then you're going to get fired". I brought it up again during my yearly IEP which took place in March. Once again my teacher said no, bringing up another excuse. As far as I can remember, my parents were neutral about the aide situation. Later one peer tutor was removed, what happened is that the peer tutor moved to a different town and they didn't bother on sending a substitute. A win is a win so I celebrated it. At the end of my freshman year I was pretty much defeated and didn't achieve the goal of being 100% independent. Over the summer I took a look at my situation and decided that my current plan is not working. I knew that when my sophomore year of high school starts I will have aides and peer tutors in classes. I knew that if I wanted to get what I wanted I would have to do something big. I knew that I would have to put up a fight, and put in a lot more effort. Over the summer I developed a war mindset inspired by two quotes from Sun Tzu:
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
I knew that I can't be going into sophomore year blind, so I started drafting a plan. I created a Google doc outlining my goals and what I wanted to accomplish. I knew that I won't be able to win every battle and that I need to choose which fight is worth fighting for. I thought to myself, “Well the peer tutors we're given training on the first day of school and probably have strategies to deal with poor behavior but what about planned well organized protests?” So I began researching strategies on how paraprofessionals/peer tutors dealt with negative behavior and reverse engineered those tactics. I read forms, I Watched YouTube videos and found as much information that I could find. For the peer tutors I didn't know too much about them. I didn't know if it was something that only my school did or if other schools did it. I did some research and found out that other schools had a peer tutor program and some have uploaded training videos on YouTube. Some peer tutors told me that they did babysitting and did nanny work so I looked up babysitting tips. I reverse engineered all of those tactics and came up with strategies to counter those techniques and put all that information that I learned into a google doc that I can use for future reference. During this time I also researched how to become a better negotiator and started learning a little bit of psychology. The plan was to first negotiate and if that doesn't work I will protest and make demands and negotiate. Over the summer I got really good at negotiating and practiced a lot on my father and my sister (they were totally oblivious). To this day I use those negotiating tactics. After I created my document and was satisfied with all the information, I went to bed that night and knew that I have already won and that my sophomore year will be my last year that I 1-1 peer tutor or aide.
Fast forward to the first day of school, as expected I had peer tutors and aides assigned to me in classes. My sped teacher had a chalkboard On the back wall full of sticky notes that had everyone's schedules and a name of someone was assigned to that student for each class. This time around I only had one peer tutor outside of the special ed classes. This is a big improvement over the three I had before but I still have my original goal of having none. For the paraprofessionals I had 2 in Gen classes.The goal was to first remove the peer tutors then the paraprofessionals. Even though this seems to be an improvement I continued with the plan. Since this was the first day, the peer tutors were in another classroom learning policies and other stuff they needed to know so I was alone for the day. I walked over to my special ed teacher and ask him one final time to remove the peer tutor he says no and then I asked him to let me be alone for 2 weeks so I can prove I don't need help and he still denies me. I then tell him that I will allow the peer tutor for 2 weeks and after that she needs to go. My teacher doesn't respond. (To add context the peer tutor that I had, she was a peer tutor in my math class in the prior semester so I already know who she was. We used to talk a lot and was surprised when I saw that she was assigned to me.)
For 2 weeks she mostly left me alone with her occasionally checking up on me. For those 2 weeks I purposely close my self off and adopted a body language that would subconsciously discourage her from approaching me. I did this by keeping my head low and staying as focused as possible. The only thing she did was confront me when I start packing up 2 minutes before the bell rings. She tells me that I shouldn't be packing up and to pull my stuff out again. I tell her no and hold my ground. She writes in my planner that I packed my stuff up early and refuse to pull it out. That happened like 2 or 3 times. On Thursday on the second week my class was tasked to create a PowerPoint. FYI this was a mythology class, while I was doing this PowerPoint I decided instead of manually trying to type in the locations and people from this mythology which the names were very long and complicated. I decided would be easier just to copy and paste them in. My peer tutor sees me doing this and doesn't say anything. At the end of class she writes that I plagiarized in my planner and tells my special ed teacher in person what happened. My sped teacher pulls me out of class (I had his math class right after mythology) and starts telling me that my peer tutor has seen me copy and pasting paragraphs and goes on this lecturing on why plagiarizing is bad. I explained to him that I wasn't copying paragraphs It was only copying names and locations and explain my reason for it. He didn't believe me but he didn't make me retake the assignment. After that I was pissed off and the next day I confronted her about it. I forgot what her reasoning for not telling me was but I told her that she needs to look into things before she makes false reports. After that incident, I decided to wait a week before I ask my teacher to remove her. Also during those first 3 weeks I turned down help from peer tutors and paras if possible In the special ed classroom. I did this to prevent sending any mix signals. I personally didn't mind if I had to work with a peer tutopara or not In the actual sped classroom. I only cared if it was in any of the general education classes. I just thought it would look contradictory if I was accepting help in the sped class and then requesting peer tutors to be removed from my gen classes.
At the beginning of the fourth week I went to school early and went to my sped teacher's class before first hour starts and then I again asked him to remove the peer tutor and the paraprofessionals. He says no again and brings up that I was being academically dishonest by plagiarizing. I tell my side of the story once again on what happened and he still doesn't believe me. At this point I leave and more pissed off. At this point negotiations didn't work so I started small protests by preventing the peer tutors from filling out my planer and the behavioral checklist. Most of them didn't care since there was other students they can fill out and they only need to fill out one to be graded for the day. One peer tutor gave me the puppy dog eye treatment and I eventually cave and let her fill it out. I still let the one peer tutor that was assigned to me in the gen class due to me being the only student and my intention wasn't to ruin, her grade. During the fourth week I began brainstorming ideas on how I can do a massive protest.
On Thursday of the fourth week of school, a walk into the mythology class and it started out like any other day. Class started and my teacher starts talking. I pull up my phone to respond to some messages and my peer tutor sees me. She asks me to hand my phone over to her and I tell her no. She tells me that I can't be on my phone and I tell her okay but I'm still not giving it to you. She then pulls out her phone and puts it on the table. She then tells me to put my phone on the table. I tell her no again. A few minutes past and the teacher finishes up talking. She passes the assignment and immediately my peer tutor begins to try and help by reading the questions. I slide the packet over closer to me and start ignoring her. I was hoping that she will get the hint and leave me alone. She doesn't so put on my hoodie and tried to mentally block her out. I don't remember what she said during all this since I was blocking it out but I do remember her touching me and the general ed teacher coming over and start assisting the peer tutor. It was a lot of pressure and I was actually about to give up because it was too much. But they both gaved up before I did and I was very relieved. After that, the class was pretty much quiet. The peer tutor wrote an entire paragraph on what happened. I walked to my math class and sat down. I then see my peer tutor walking into class and ask for my sped teacher. I already knew it was about me. I see them talk for 2 minutes and sure enough I see my teacher calling me over. I walked outside the classroom and me and the teacher begin to go at it. We end up saying the same things we have said before. However, my teacher this time mentioned that if I keep up my behavior that he's going to call in a meeting with my parents. The rest of math class was pretty much the same. However, my English class with the same teacher he went on a rant about using accommodations seeing that he had a disability growing up which was tourette's and he were love to have a peer tutor. I was quiet for the whole class since I was already exhausted because of everything else that had already happened. For the rest of the weekend, I've been coming up with plans on how I would be able to pull off a massive protest.
Now for the good news. On the fifth week of school, I noticed that my peer tutor was missing. My teacher pulled me aside again and told me that he decided that he was going to pull her for 2 weeks to see how well I would do without her. I told him thank you, that's what I wanted since the beginning of the school year. After those 2 weeks he didn't reinstate her and I didn't have a peer tutor or paraprofessionals in gen classes since. The deal moving forward was as long as I had a D or better he wasn't going to send any support unless I asked for it. My relationship with that sped teacher also had improved significantly. Later in my Junior year of high school I ran in my school's election and won. I was given the social media position.
In hindsight, I'm glad I didn't have to pull off a big protest. But the same time I wish that this situation could have ended in a different way.
Everything that I just told you is only the tip of the iceberg. There's so much detail that I had to leave out just to make this story shorter. Lot of it I'm still processing even though I found great strength in myself fighting back against a system that I believe was ruining my life. That war mindset hasn't left my mentality yet. I'm still dealing with the consequences of me being in special ed. Everything I told you happened 5 years ago and I'm still living through it like it just happened. I'm mentally recovering and eventually I will recover. Right now I'm in therapy and I'm writing down everything I can in a Google doc to process everything emotionally. Maybe one day I'll give that story to a writer and make a book out of it.
If you have any questions feel free ask them, I would love to answer them.
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To recap from my earlier posts. I have ADHD and fell under the "multiple disabilities" characterization. My high school teacher claimed that I have autism (Not diagnosed). I personally don't believe I have autism or at the very least I have a high functioning autism. Throughout most of my school career, I was in a self-contained classroom with kids with severe disabilities. Even if I was in the general population I had a paraprofessional or peer tutor. I never believed that I should have been in that position. As a consequence, I never really learned any social skills, I was segregated, and felt like that people didn't want anything to do with me because I was sped. The reason why I ended up in this position was probably a combination of me having the "multiple disabilities'' characterization and me testing low in three year revaluation tests. If you want more info on this then feel free to search my profile. This is an alt account and is primarily used to ask questions about special ed so It's really easy to find stuff about me.
Before I get into my story I just want to make it clear that I'm not against special ed. There's good and bad people in every profession. I believed I was in danger for myself and for my future. I don't believe that my teacher was evil and had the best of intentions but he was putting me in a position that was hurting me and I had to act. If you have any questions or feedback feel free to let me know in the comments. Another thing is that this post has been really hard to make. It opened up some old wounds and as a result took several days to write.
Here's my story: So in late middle school I was tired of the placement that I was in. I was tired of not having friends, Not being able to socialize with my peers, not being able to date. I also was thinking about what my life will look like after high school, I was concerned that I was going to never have friends, Never be in a relationship, and not have the social skills to make those friends. I was generally very concerned for my future. So I decided that for my 8th grade year (2017-2018) I would do my absolute best for both my behavior and academics. Throughout the year nothing changed. I was hoping that me doing well would show that I didn't need any support but at the end of the year I still had paraprofessionals in most of my classes and was being pulled out for tests. In the summer between middle school and high school all I can think about is I want high school to be different. I wanted friends, I wanted a relationship, and I had dreams of me in the student council. When I got into high school I had peer tutors along with paraprofessionals (Peer Tutors are general ed students who sign up as an elective to help special needs kids. They basically serve the role as paraprofessionals with less responsibility). I did everything again and had the exact same result. In January of 2019 (freshmen year) I decided that my current strategy wasn't working. They also started making the peer tutors fill out behavioral checklists for their student(s) by grading them on how well they behaved/followed directions and gave them badges that say "peer tutor" which made me feel singled out. Because of that the peer tutors felt more like babysitters then someone that is an equal. So I went to my special ed teacher and asked him to remove the paraprofessional and the peer tutors. He told me no and said that I needed them. I changed my strategy again and I was going to ask for the Peer Tutors to be gone first, then focus on removing the paraprofessionals. I was more concerned about the peer tutors over the paraprofessionals because I was concerned that since they were part of the student body that this was going to affect me when I was running for the student council. I was worried that they'd tell others I was special needs then people would think I was incompetent. So every 2 weeks I would ask him again to remove them and each time he would give me a different excuse on why I couldn't be alone. Here's some of the excuses he gave me: "The peer tutors need to be there to collect data", "You need to prove that you can do the work yourself", "It's not up to me. It's the general education teacher that decides if you need a peer tutor or an aide", "Peer Tutors are supposed to represent a trainer for a job. If you refuse training then you're going to get fired". I brought it up again during my yearly IEP which took place in March. Once again my teacher said no, bringing up another excuse. As far as I can remember, my parents were neutral about the aide situation. Later one peer tutor was removed, what happened is that the peer tutor moved to a different town and they didn't bother on sending a substitute. A win is a win so I celebrated it. At the end of my freshman year I was pretty much defeated and didn't achieve the goal of being 100% independent. Over the summer I took a look at my situation and decided that my current plan is not working. I knew that when my sophomore year of high school starts I will have aides and peer tutors in classes. I knew that if I wanted to get what I wanted I would have to do something big. I knew that I would have to put up a fight, and put in a lot more effort. Over the summer I developed a war mindset inspired by two quotes from Sun Tzu:
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
I knew that I can't be going into sophomore year blind, so I started drafting a plan. I created a Google doc outlining my goals and what I wanted to accomplish. I knew that I won't be able to win every battle and that I need to choose which fight is worth fighting for. I thought to myself, “Well the peer tutors we're given training on the first day of school and probably have strategies to deal with poor behavior but what about planned well organized protests?” So I began researching strategies on how paraprofessionals/peer tutors dealt with negative behavior and reverse engineered those tactics. I read forms, I Watched YouTube videos and found as much information that I could find. For the peer tutors I didn't know too much about them. I didn't know if it was something that only my school did or if other schools did it. I did some research and found out that other schools had a peer tutor program and some have uploaded training videos on YouTube. Some peer tutors told me that they did babysitting and did nanny work so I looked up babysitting tips. I reverse engineered all of those tactics and came up with strategies to counter those techniques and put all that information that I learned into a google doc that I can use for future reference. During this time I also researched how to become a better negotiator and started learning a little bit of psychology. The plan was to first negotiate and if that doesn't work I will protest and make demands and negotiate. Over the summer I got really good at negotiating and practiced a lot on my father and my sister (they were totally oblivious). To this day I use those negotiating tactics. After I created my document and was satisfied with all the information, I went to bed that night and knew that I have already won and that my sophomore year will be my last year that I 1-1 peer tutor or aide.
Fast forward to the first day of school, as expected I had peer tutors and aides assigned to me in classes. My sped teacher had a chalkboard On the back wall full of sticky notes that had everyone's schedules and a name of someone was assigned to that student for each class. This time around I only had one peer tutor outside of the special ed classes. This is a big improvement over the three I had before but I still have my original goal of having none. For the paraprofessionals I had 2 in Gen classes.The goal was to first remove the peer tutors then the paraprofessionals. Even though this seems to be an improvement I continued with the plan. Since this was the first day, the peer tutors were in another classroom learning policies and other stuff they needed to know so I was alone for the day. I walked over to my special ed teacher and ask him one final time to remove the peer tutor he says no and then I asked him to let me be alone for 2 weeks so I can prove I don't need help and he still denies me. I then tell him that I will allow the peer tutor for 2 weeks and after that she needs to go. My teacher doesn't respond. (To add context the peer tutor that I had, she was a peer tutor in my math class in the prior semester so I already know who she was. We used to talk a lot and was surprised when I saw that she was assigned to me.)
For 2 weeks she mostly left me alone with her occasionally checking up on me. For those 2 weeks I purposely close my self off and adopted a body language that would subconsciously discourage her from approaching me. I did this by keeping my head low and staying as focused as possible. The only thing she did was confront me when I start packing up 2 minutes before the bell rings. She tells me that I shouldn't be packing up and to pull my stuff out again. I tell her no and hold my ground. She writes in my planner that I packed my stuff up early and refuse to pull it out. That happened like 2 or 3 times. On Thursday on the second week my class was tasked to create a PowerPoint. FYI this was a mythology class, while I was doing this PowerPoint I decided instead of manually trying to type in the locations and people from this mythology which the names were very long and complicated. I decided would be easier just to copy and paste them in. My peer tutor sees me doing this and doesn't say anything. At the end of class she writes that I plagiarized in my planner and tells my special ed teacher in person what happened. My sped teacher pulls me out of class (I had his math class right after mythology) and starts telling me that my peer tutor has seen me copy and pasting paragraphs and goes on this lecturing on why plagiarizing is bad. I explained to him that I wasn't copying paragraphs It was only copying names and locations and explain my reason for it. He didn't believe me but he didn't make me retake the assignment. After that I was pissed off and the next day I confronted her about it. I forgot what her reasoning for not telling me was but I told her that she needs to look into things before she makes false reports. After that incident, I decided to wait a week before I ask my teacher to remove her. Also during those first 3 weeks I turned down help from peer tutors and paras if possible In the special ed classroom. I did this to prevent sending any mix signals. I personally didn't mind if I had to work with a peer tutopara or not In the actual sped classroom. I only cared if it was in any of the general education classes. I just thought it would look contradictory if I was accepting help in the sped class and then requesting peer tutors to be removed from my gen classes.
At the beginning of the fourth week I went to school early and went to my sped teacher's class before first hour starts and then I again asked him to remove the peer tutor and the paraprofessionals. He says no again and brings up that I was being academically dishonest by plagiarizing. I tell my side of the story once again on what happened and he still doesn't believe me. At this point I leave and more pissed off. At this point negotiations didn't work so I started small protests by preventing the peer tutors from filling out my planer and the behavioral checklist. Most of them didn't care since there was other students they can fill out and they only need to fill out one to be graded for the day. One peer tutor gave me the puppy dog eye treatment and I eventually cave and let her fill it out. I still let the one peer tutor that was assigned to me in the gen class due to me being the only student and my intention wasn't to ruin, her grade. During the fourth week I began brainstorming ideas on how I can do a massive protest.
On Thursday of the fourth week of school, a walk into the mythology class and it started out like any other day. Class started and my teacher starts talking. I pull up my phone to respond to some messages and my peer tutor sees me. She asks me to hand my phone over to her and I tell her no. She tells me that I can't be on my phone and I tell her okay but I'm still not giving it to you. She then pulls out her phone and puts it on the table. She then tells me to put my phone on the table. I tell her no again. A few minutes past and the teacher finishes up talking. She passes the assignment and immediately my peer tutor begins to try and help by reading the questions. I slide the packet over closer to me and start ignoring her. I was hoping that she will get the hint and leave me alone. She doesn't so put on my hoodie and tried to mentally block her out. I don't remember what she said during all this since I was blocking it out but I do remember her touching me and the general ed teacher coming over and start assisting the peer tutor. It was a lot of pressure and I was actually about to give up because it was too much. But they both gaved up before I did and I was very relieved. After that, the class was pretty much quiet. The peer tutor wrote an entire paragraph on what happened. I walked to my math class and sat down. I then see my peer tutor walking into class and ask for my sped teacher. I already knew it was about me. I see them talk for 2 minutes and sure enough I see my teacher calling me over. I walked outside the classroom and me and the teacher begin to go at it. We end up saying the same things we have said before. However, my teacher this time mentioned that if I keep up my behavior that he's going to call in a meeting with my parents. The rest of math class was pretty much the same. However, my English class with the same teacher he went on a rant about using accommodations seeing that he had a disability growing up which was tourette's and he were love to have a peer tutor. I was quiet for the whole class since I was already exhausted because of everything else that had already happened. For the rest of the weekend, I've been coming up with plans on how I would be able to pull off a massive protest.
Now for the good news. On the fifth week of school, I noticed that my peer tutor was missing. My teacher pulled me aside again and told me that he decided that he was going to pull her for 2 weeks to see how well I would do without her. I told him thank you, that's what I wanted since the beginning of the school year. After those 2 weeks he didn't reinstate her and I didn't have a peer tutor or paraprofessionals in gen classes since. The deal moving forward was as long as I had a D or better he wasn't going to send any support unless I asked for it. My relationship with that sped teacher also had improved significantly. Later in my Junior year of high school I ran in my school's election and won. I was given the social media position.
In hindsight, I'm glad I didn't have to pull off a big protest. But the same time I wish that this situation could have ended in a different way.
Everything that I just told you is only the tip of the iceberg. There's so much detail that I had to leave out just to make this story shorter. Lot of it I'm still processing even though I found great strength in myself fighting back against a system that I believe was ruining my life. That war mindset hasn't left my mentality yet. I'm still dealing with the consequences of me being in special ed. Everything I told you happened 5 years ago and I'm still living through it like it just happened. I'm mentally recovering and eventually I will recover. Right now I'm in therapy and I'm writing down everything I can in a Google doc to process everything emotionally. Maybe one day I'll give that story to a writer and make a book out of it.
If you have any questions feel free ask them, I would love to answer them.
2024.05.19 16:17 IceLovesYou Me (19m) ended up ruining my friendship with my best friend (18m) with a girl (18m)
Me and my best friend are both 19 and 4 years ago, I ended up liking one of his ex right after they broke up. She was always very friendly with me and tried to be very close to me. I always hung up fast and pushed her away but when they broke up I ended up making moves on her without thinking, I was 15 and had no relationship experience, I realized my mistake and my friend forgave me. Told some time to build back trust and be good friend again.
Now where much closer and another situation happened. We both liked the same girl in a freshmen summer college program and i ended up pursuing her and continuing to like her while he didn’t. We were very friendly with one another and i ended off the program giving her a hug and she said she’ll miss me. I felt like there could have been more with us if i just told my shot. I ended up texting her over the rest of the summer left and I enjoyed texting her. I wanted to get on call with her but she shut that down instantly and soon after ended up ghosting me for days on her roblox and nap grind. I lost interest after that. Then when the fall semester started I went to the other campus while her and my bestfriend went to the main campus. My friend knew about everything with me and her. I told him I didn’t like her anymore and it ended up nowhere obviously. They started to get closer and hanged out a lot on campus, mainly alone. Over time they started going out and end up liking eachother. My bestfriend is very friendly and physical with girls. Always ended up a lady’s man.
I wasn’t very comfortable about it especially when being around them if I did go to the main campus but i didn’t have anything with her and things were going somewhere with them so way have a problem. I just let them be, he knew she was weird but was down to just mess around. Doing cute relationship things never hurt no one and they ended up stop talking to eachother. She later on ended off unfollowed him and blocked him.
Later on a few months she wished me a happy birthday and starts to chat with me (I told my bestfriend this). I was down to be cool and since my bestfriend is transferring next semester. Having someone to be cool with her and there would have hurt. After a week and a half of texting she invited me to go out to eat with a group. Her friend and her boyfriend and maybe another girl. I was down to go the next day and when I was on the train, my friend called to hang out and I said I was going out with her and a group. He hung up and now he’s saying it part 2 of my first mistake.
I understand i never got far with her and he did, especially with her guaranteed liking him but I wasn’t trying to make a move. Did i mess up again or are we both maybe in the wrong.
TL;DR! I was trying to be cool with my friends last talking stage who I also liked before. She invited me to eat out in a group and now I might lose my best friend.
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Now where much closer and another situation happened. We both liked the same girl in a freshmen summer college program and i ended up pursuing her and continuing to like her while he didn’t. We were very friendly with one another and i ended off the program giving her a hug and she said she’ll miss me. I felt like there could have been more with us if i just told my shot. I ended up texting her over the rest of the summer left and I enjoyed texting her. I wanted to get on call with her but she shut that down instantly and soon after ended up ghosting me for days on her roblox and nap grind. I lost interest after that. Then when the fall semester started I went to the other campus while her and my bestfriend went to the main campus. My friend knew about everything with me and her. I told him I didn’t like her anymore and it ended up nowhere obviously. They started to get closer and hanged out a lot on campus, mainly alone. Over time they started going out and end up liking eachother. My bestfriend is very friendly and physical with girls. Always ended up a lady’s man.
I wasn’t very comfortable about it especially when being around them if I did go to the main campus but i didn’t have anything with her and things were going somewhere with them so way have a problem. I just let them be, he knew she was weird but was down to just mess around. Doing cute relationship things never hurt no one and they ended up stop talking to eachother. She later on ended off unfollowed him and blocked him.
Later on a few months she wished me a happy birthday and starts to chat with me (I told my bestfriend this). I was down to be cool and since my bestfriend is transferring next semester. Having someone to be cool with her and there would have hurt. After a week and a half of texting she invited me to go out to eat with a group. Her friend and her boyfriend and maybe another girl. I was down to go the next day and when I was on the train, my friend called to hang out and I said I was going out with her and a group. He hung up and now he’s saying it part 2 of my first mistake.
I understand i never got far with her and he did, especially with her guaranteed liking him but I wasn’t trying to make a move. Did i mess up again or are we both maybe in the wrong.
TL;DR! I was trying to be cool with my friends last talking stage who I also liked before. She invited me to eat out in a group and now I might lose my best friend.
2024.05.19 16:17 Legionatus 500kg Bomb
This is the most impactful-looking bomb, which warms my heart as a Super-Earth patriot. Unfortunately, it did not warm my Salvation Smores when I tried to light them off of it, so I skipped this stratagem for a long time.
But one really cool thing about the extra stratagems is SCIENCE! Are you the most freedom-loving member of your squad? Do you hopefully anticipate painting your feet for a 380mm so that, though you may die, Super Earth shall live? If so, the 500kg bomb is the deal for you!
As a groundburst bomb, the lateral detonation is remarkably restricted. Safety at 5-10 meters from a 500kg is possible with just a small dip in the ground and/or prone. I was initially disgusted by this, but I realized anything taller than the smallest bugs were wiped out - it was only the crawlers that remained.
That means... this is actually remarkably effective for coordinated use in extremely close quarters, especially when overrun by medium and large enemies. You can call a dive for your squad a moment after seeing the chaff fall from the Eagle, or if the spirit of Liberty is in you, you can actually spot the missile hit the dirt for between a half a second and a second before it detonates. 5-10 METERS. I was finally able to light my Salvation Smores.
Freedom follow you, Helldivers.
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But one really cool thing about the extra stratagems is SCIENCE! Are you the most freedom-loving member of your squad? Do you hopefully anticipate painting your feet for a 380mm so that, though you may die, Super Earth shall live? If so, the 500kg bomb is the deal for you!
As a groundburst bomb, the lateral detonation is remarkably restricted. Safety at 5-10 meters from a 500kg is possible with just a small dip in the ground and/or prone. I was initially disgusted by this, but I realized anything taller than the smallest bugs were wiped out - it was only the crawlers that remained.
That means... this is actually remarkably effective for coordinated use in extremely close quarters, especially when overrun by medium and large enemies. You can call a dive for your squad a moment after seeing the chaff fall from the Eagle, or if the spirit of Liberty is in you, you can actually spot the missile hit the dirt for between a half a second and a second before it detonates. 5-10 METERS. I was finally able to light my Salvation Smores.
Freedom follow you, Helldivers.
2024.05.19 16:17 zerofour_month 23F/ tell me your best jokes
Hi everyone! My name is Joy and I'm 23F. I've done this before and it ended on a good note. Open to everyone (as long as you're over 18). I'm an introvert but once you get to know me I can talk for hours. I am a big romance girly. I like watching movies and listening to music. Please feel free to recommend me anything. Also, I really love dad and knock knock jokes, if you have any, please share lol. I've recently moved from Canada to South Korea to start on what I call my funventures. If you have any questions, don't be afraid to ask either. I'm also interested in hearing about what you can talk about for hours. If you need anyone to listen to you, please direct message me here!
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2024.05.19 16:16 xrdriver Flight Sim PC Help
I haven't built a PC in more than 5 years so I am completely out of the loop. I need help with what components to buy please. My dad's current (5-10 year old) PC won't power on and he wants to get a new system instead of fixing the old one.
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1. What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games (ex: resolution, FPS, settings) or programs you will be using.I need to build a new PC for my 75 year old father. He uses a PC for internet/email and MS Flight Simulator. All he really wants/needs is to be able to play FS at/near max resolution. He doesn't need a ton of HD capacity.
2. What is your maximum PRE-TAX budget before rebates and shipping?$1500-$2000 including monitor.
3. When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.Immediately
4. What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ex: toweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc)Tower is required but I'd like to upgrade to a new monitor if it fits in the budget.
5. If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? How old are they? Brands and models are appreciated.Keyboard and mouse.
6. Will you be overclocking (ex: CPU/GPU/RAM)? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line?I am open to overclocking but I'd prefer not to for this PC
7. Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSDs, mass HDDs, Wi-Fi / Bluetooth, VR, VirtualLink, tensor cores, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc.)Wi-Fi is required.
8. Do you have any specific case preferences (ex: mITX/mATX/mid-towefull-tower sizes, styles, colours, window or not, LED lighting, etc.), or a particular color theme preference for the components?No preference
9. Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? Note: some post-secondary students can get Windows 10 for free at OnTheHub or through their school's IT software distribution department.No
10. Will you be upgrading this PC in the future (ie: will you swap out better parts later on or will you build an entirely new tower later)? If so, when?No
11. Do you have a brand preference? (ex: AMD/Intel for CPUs, AMD/NVIDIA for video cards, etc.)No
12. What are the specs of your old PC / laptop? Do you want to see if it can be upgraded instead? If so, paste its build from PCPartPicker here.None
13. Extra info or particulars:I had been looking at one of the AMD 7600 packages on Canada Computers and adding a RTX 4060 :/
2024.05.19 16:15 Crusadelover2019 My view on my parents has flipped completely
I want to preface this by saying that although this is a vent post I'm also looking for advice.
I'm 18F (important context I forgot to add until now is my diagnoses, I have depression, generalized anxiety disorder, Asperger's syndrome, and soon I'm going to be tested for ADHD) and my two parents are 37F (reffered to as "mother") and 45M (reffered to as "father"), I don't know if I should label either of them as NParents since I still haven't sorted my thoughts on them. Before I talk about the past few months I feel like I should give context, when I was born there was an error in my birth certificate (refered to as "BC" from now on) resulting in a big ol' paper mess, and something that definitely contributed to the difficulty of fixing this was the fact that my father never signed my BC, and as a sour cherry on top my parents never married (but did "tolerate" each other until a few years ago). For context on my mixed feelings on my mother she has definitely shown Narcissistic traits, if not in the past few years that I've noticed then probably longer. Me and all of my siblings have had differing problems with her and one of my most prominent issues has been her controlling behavior, in recent weeks it has been diminishing but that will be elaborated upon later in the post. As for the context with my father he has been very aggressive and borderline violent, me and my siblings have had different issues with him as well, my issue is in regard to his very controlling behavior and severe bigotry.
The important events in this situation begin almost two months ago from when I'm posting this. It started with an argument between me and my mother regarding something I did hours before (I'd like to state that there wasn't any violence involved in my actions and the argument, and that I was definitely in the wrong), by the end of the day I went to my father's place for the night. I woke up the next morning to go back to my mother's to catch the bus to school, later in the school day I was talking to a school therapist and due to the thoughts I was dealing with the recommended I call my Doctor and (depending on what he says) either go to him or a hospital immediately. My father was the one to bring me to the hospital and I was reffered to a day program for a total of two or so weeks. After leaving the hospital me and my father decided it was best that I spend time living with him while I finish the day program. While I was with my father my mother slowly started respecting untold boundaries more and more. Meanwhile I was having a good first few weeks living with my father and I felt I was making progress, however as time went on I started to enjoy my time there less as I started noticing more problems with the people I was living with. The same night I made the decision to go back to my mother's was the same night there was an argument between my father and stepmother where I noticed very familiar behaviors coming from the stepmother that were like my mother's behaviors. The next day I went back to living with my mother, and things have been going oddly well over here, but things have definitely been getting worse with my father. He wasn't satisfied with any of the progress I was making in the past few weeks, so he set a deadline of one week for me to make progress otherwise he stops paying for my phone, I don't think he was really considering the impact this would have since I would lose contact all of my family outside the house and I wouldn't be able to schedule therapy appointments myself. On the flip side however my mother has been respecting just about every boundary I've set which is impressive compared to her previous behavior. The same night my father told me the deadline I talked with my mother and we planned a few things, rescheduling therapy, getting my state ID, and getting a Bluebird Card, however the soonest we would be able to do these are later this week past the deadline my father set. Usually me and my sisters have breakfast with my father twice a week, but this time he told me to get out of the car and stay home to make progress.
I don't know what to do regarding my father, every time I've seen him since I moved back over he has asked questions laced with hostility and as time goes on I'm feeling less safe around him. I also don't know how to feel about my mother, I can't tell if she's behaving like this because she's finally realizing her behavior isn't okay or if she's behaving like this to lure me into a sense of security with her again.
I don't even know what this post is anymore, it could be asking for advice, it could be venting, or it could just be me trying to find a way to justify my feelings, I just don't know dude.
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I'm 18F (important context I forgot to add until now is my diagnoses, I have depression, generalized anxiety disorder, Asperger's syndrome, and soon I'm going to be tested for ADHD) and my two parents are 37F (reffered to as "mother") and 45M (reffered to as "father"), I don't know if I should label either of them as NParents since I still haven't sorted my thoughts on them. Before I talk about the past few months I feel like I should give context, when I was born there was an error in my birth certificate (refered to as "BC" from now on) resulting in a big ol' paper mess, and something that definitely contributed to the difficulty of fixing this was the fact that my father never signed my BC, and as a sour cherry on top my parents never married (but did "tolerate" each other until a few years ago). For context on my mixed feelings on my mother she has definitely shown Narcissistic traits, if not in the past few years that I've noticed then probably longer. Me and all of my siblings have had differing problems with her and one of my most prominent issues has been her controlling behavior, in recent weeks it has been diminishing but that will be elaborated upon later in the post. As for the context with my father he has been very aggressive and borderline violent, me and my siblings have had different issues with him as well, my issue is in regard to his very controlling behavior and severe bigotry.
The important events in this situation begin almost two months ago from when I'm posting this. It started with an argument between me and my mother regarding something I did hours before (I'd like to state that there wasn't any violence involved in my actions and the argument, and that I was definitely in the wrong), by the end of the day I went to my father's place for the night. I woke up the next morning to go back to my mother's to catch the bus to school, later in the school day I was talking to a school therapist and due to the thoughts I was dealing with the recommended I call my Doctor and (depending on what he says) either go to him or a hospital immediately. My father was the one to bring me to the hospital and I was reffered to a day program for a total of two or so weeks. After leaving the hospital me and my father decided it was best that I spend time living with him while I finish the day program. While I was with my father my mother slowly started respecting untold boundaries more and more. Meanwhile I was having a good first few weeks living with my father and I felt I was making progress, however as time went on I started to enjoy my time there less as I started noticing more problems with the people I was living with. The same night I made the decision to go back to my mother's was the same night there was an argument between my father and stepmother where I noticed very familiar behaviors coming from the stepmother that were like my mother's behaviors. The next day I went back to living with my mother, and things have been going oddly well over here, but things have definitely been getting worse with my father. He wasn't satisfied with any of the progress I was making in the past few weeks, so he set a deadline of one week for me to make progress otherwise he stops paying for my phone, I don't think he was really considering the impact this would have since I would lose contact all of my family outside the house and I wouldn't be able to schedule therapy appointments myself. On the flip side however my mother has been respecting just about every boundary I've set which is impressive compared to her previous behavior. The same night my father told me the deadline I talked with my mother and we planned a few things, rescheduling therapy, getting my state ID, and getting a Bluebird Card, however the soonest we would be able to do these are later this week past the deadline my father set. Usually me and my sisters have breakfast with my father twice a week, but this time he told me to get out of the car and stay home to make progress.
I don't know what to do regarding my father, every time I've seen him since I moved back over he has asked questions laced with hostility and as time goes on I'm feeling less safe around him. I also don't know how to feel about my mother, I can't tell if she's behaving like this because she's finally realizing her behavior isn't okay or if she's behaving like this to lure me into a sense of security with her again.
I don't even know what this post is anymore, it could be asking for advice, it could be venting, or it could just be me trying to find a way to justify my feelings, I just don't know dude.
2024.05.19 16:13 alluringnubian ADHD in University
I've recently found out that I have ADHD (Inattentive) and Asperger's Syndrome. High IQ, I struggled with the last quarter of high school and completely crashed and burned in college while trying to pursue something in Architecture & Construction.
I've always wanted to go back to university eventually after figuring out what exactly I would be good at, what I would be motivated to complete and what would be useful and directly relevant to my life and the way I would earn a living. I know I might end up not needing a college degree considering the fact that I chose the freelance/entrepreneurship path, but it feels like something I will never stop wanting to achieve, and I can't deny that there are benefits to a good college education.
All that said, I now know that it was the AuDHD that made it difficult for me the last time I was in college, and that knowledge has changed my perspective on life and on business.
In my pursuit of self-awareness and understanding of the world around me, I've come to really love the field of psychology. And by psychology I mean everything to do with personalities and personality disorders, with neurodevelopmental issues and with the big topic of "purpose." Apart from creative pursuits, it's the only other thing I find myself obsessively digging deep into without being asked to, sometimes spending days and even weeks on an idea.
I don't know what I would do with a Psych specialisation and how it would be of economic value to me, and I'm not entirely sure I'll love it as a 4 year program, but at the moment it's calling me.
Anybody in here who pursued that path? What was college/university like for you? What did you study specifically, and why, and is there anything you would do differently?
Any advice or resources would be greatly appreciated.
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I've always wanted to go back to university eventually after figuring out what exactly I would be good at, what I would be motivated to complete and what would be useful and directly relevant to my life and the way I would earn a living. I know I might end up not needing a college degree considering the fact that I chose the freelance/entrepreneurship path, but it feels like something I will never stop wanting to achieve, and I can't deny that there are benefits to a good college education.
All that said, I now know that it was the AuDHD that made it difficult for me the last time I was in college, and that knowledge has changed my perspective on life and on business.
In my pursuit of self-awareness and understanding of the world around me, I've come to really love the field of psychology. And by psychology I mean everything to do with personalities and personality disorders, with neurodevelopmental issues and with the big topic of "purpose." Apart from creative pursuits, it's the only other thing I find myself obsessively digging deep into without being asked to, sometimes spending days and even weeks on an idea.
I don't know what I would do with a Psych specialisation and how it would be of economic value to me, and I'm not entirely sure I'll love it as a 4 year program, but at the moment it's calling me.
Anybody in here who pursued that path? What was college/university like for you? What did you study specifically, and why, and is there anything you would do differently?
Any advice or resources would be greatly appreciated.
2024.05.19 16:13 lilyblains Ideas for a gluten free meal to match with lasagna/Italian food.
I’m freezer prepping a bunch of lasagnas for my upcoming baby shower and will have salads and antipasti alongside them. There are some dietary restrictions among our guests, so there will be vegetarian lasagna and a less lactose heavy pesto pasta.
My MIL is gluten free and I was going to make some gluten free pasta to toss with pesto for her, but just found out she’s not eating any breads and pastas after a health scare, including gluten free options.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a gluten free main that can be prepped ahead of time with very little required day of? I’d like to stick with something Italian since that’s what the rest of the food will be.
Thanks in advance!
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My MIL is gluten free and I was going to make some gluten free pasta to toss with pesto for her, but just found out she’s not eating any breads and pastas after a health scare, including gluten free options.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a gluten free main that can be prepped ahead of time with very little required day of? I’d like to stick with something Italian since that’s what the rest of the food will be.
Thanks in advance!
2024.05.19 16:12 Clear_Mycologist1853 How far can you go for a male crush?
✨Story Time:
Hi! Call me Myco [27M]. This story happened when I was in college.
Lets name him Anime.
So Anime has an fb account with anime name and dp. He sent me a message request in fb and we started chatting.
I was so naive back then kaya talagang pag may nag cchat kakausapin ko. I was entertaining him. Mejo smart smart naman sya. Because aligned yung interest nya sa program ko.
Months of our virtual friendship, he started to confess na kaya niya ako kinaibigan because he was trying to get a hold kay Ken, a senior student of the same program.
Then anime started to tell me na crush na crush nya daw talaga si Ken and he would make ways talaga to connect with him, that includes adding me.
He thought that I am friends with Kuya Ken since we are on the same program. Anime eventually made me pilit (conyo?) na ichat si Ken.
I was not friends with Ken back then. So I asked his classmate, Ate Carm to relay my dm to Ken.
Then Ken responded. “Ay naku Myco, dont mind him. Ang kulit kulit nyan, chat nang chat gustong makipag meet up. Ayoko nga. Blocked ko na sya”
So I apologize pa, tapos I told Anime and he was disappointed and sad. I was consoling him pa kasi crush na crush nya si Ken. He would even enumerate the physical traits of Ken that he likes the most. WHILE I was also in convo with Ken. So nag mmediate ako sa kanilang dalawa.
Days passed, di ko na napansin si Anime, mejo nag lie low na sya. That’s when we had the opportunity na magusap ni Ken.
One time pa, nag sorry ako in person sa kanya sa school. Katabi nya pa si Ate Carm, saying na magulo daw talaga yun si Anime kay Ken.
Months passed din, nag sabi sakin si Ken na naccutean daw sya sakin 🥹 hahah. Tapos ang fun ko daw kausap, matalino. [sa kanya galing yan ah] Apparently closette sya.
He wanted to take it to the next level sana pero ayoko eh. I declined and thats when I noticed na parang mejo demanding sya for an acquitance.
He was smart pa naman. He reminds me of someone na ganun mag chat, same vocabulary, same humor and same construction of sentence. 🤔🤔
Then I asked him “Magtapat ka nga, ikaw ba si Anime?!”
He admitted, Yes.
%}<¥,\${}@3748
😡 Apparently it was all made up pala. He did everything for more than a year just to lure me and made me believe that anime exist para I will start convo with him. Who, all this time, the same person.
Ken or anime. It was all planned.
He lied, he deceived, and used me.
Even the stories of Anime chatting him did not exist kasi sya rin yun. When I asked Ate Carm, she knew all this time. She knew. They connived and played their lies.
Sana pala diko na yan pinapa tingin ng sagot sa aasignment ko dati.🤬😡 Irreg kasi si Carm.
When I asked Ken why? Sabi nya because he just dont know how to approach me. Whenever he saw me sa department nahihiya syang i approach ako kasi ang lakas daw ng personality ko, sya kasi timid. Like tf. Tologo ba?
Grabe lang.
Ayun. Pinatawad ko pa rin yan. Pero di ko na yan kinausap.
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Hi! Call me Myco [27M]. This story happened when I was in college.
Lets name him Anime.
So Anime has an fb account with anime name and dp. He sent me a message request in fb and we started chatting.
I was so naive back then kaya talagang pag may nag cchat kakausapin ko. I was entertaining him. Mejo smart smart naman sya. Because aligned yung interest nya sa program ko.
Months of our virtual friendship, he started to confess na kaya niya ako kinaibigan because he was trying to get a hold kay Ken, a senior student of the same program.
Then anime started to tell me na crush na crush nya daw talaga si Ken and he would make ways talaga to connect with him, that includes adding me.
He thought that I am friends with Kuya Ken since we are on the same program. Anime eventually made me pilit (conyo?) na ichat si Ken.
I was not friends with Ken back then. So I asked his classmate, Ate Carm to relay my dm to Ken.
Then Ken responded. “Ay naku Myco, dont mind him. Ang kulit kulit nyan, chat nang chat gustong makipag meet up. Ayoko nga. Blocked ko na sya”
So I apologize pa, tapos I told Anime and he was disappointed and sad. I was consoling him pa kasi crush na crush nya si Ken. He would even enumerate the physical traits of Ken that he likes the most. WHILE I was also in convo with Ken. So nag mmediate ako sa kanilang dalawa.
Days passed, di ko na napansin si Anime, mejo nag lie low na sya. That’s when we had the opportunity na magusap ni Ken.
One time pa, nag sorry ako in person sa kanya sa school. Katabi nya pa si Ate Carm, saying na magulo daw talaga yun si Anime kay Ken.
Months passed din, nag sabi sakin si Ken na naccutean daw sya sakin 🥹 hahah. Tapos ang fun ko daw kausap, matalino. [sa kanya galing yan ah] Apparently closette sya.
He wanted to take it to the next level sana pero ayoko eh. I declined and thats when I noticed na parang mejo demanding sya for an acquitance.
He was smart pa naman. He reminds me of someone na ganun mag chat, same vocabulary, same humor and same construction of sentence. 🤔🤔
Then I asked him “Magtapat ka nga, ikaw ba si Anime?!”
He admitted, Yes.
%}<¥,\${}@3748
😡 Apparently it was all made up pala. He did everything for more than a year just to lure me and made me believe that anime exist para I will start convo with him. Who, all this time, the same person.
Ken or anime. It was all planned.
He lied, he deceived, and used me.
Even the stories of Anime chatting him did not exist kasi sya rin yun. When I asked Ate Carm, she knew all this time. She knew. They connived and played their lies.
Sana pala diko na yan pinapa tingin ng sagot sa aasignment ko dati.🤬😡 Irreg kasi si Carm.
When I asked Ken why? Sabi nya because he just dont know how to approach me. Whenever he saw me sa department nahihiya syang i approach ako kasi ang lakas daw ng personality ko, sya kasi timid. Like tf. Tologo ba?
Grabe lang.
Ayun. Pinatawad ko pa rin yan. Pero di ko na yan kinausap.
2024.05.19 16:12 LoganWY How I self-advocated (Long story no TL:DR)
Today I want to tell my story of how I self-advocated and what I did to achieve that goal. I'm telling my story to help those who are in a similar position to what I was in and to inspire those to self-advocate.
To recap from my earlier posts. I have ADHD and fell under the "multiple disabilities" characterization. My high school teacher claimed that I have autism (Not diagnosed). I personally don't believe I have autism or at the very least I have a high functioning autism. Throughout most of my school career, I was in a self-contained classroom with kids with severe disabilities. Even if I was in the general population I had a paraprofessional or peer tutor. I never believed that I should have been in that position. As a consequence, I never really learned any social skills, I was segregated, and felt like that people didn't want anything to do with me because I was sped. The reason why I ended up in this position was probably a combination of me having the "multiple disabilities'' characterization and me testing low in three year revaluation tests. If you want more info on this then feel free to search my profile. This is an alt account and is primarily used to ask questions about special ed so It's really easy to find stuff about me.
Before I get into my story I just want to make it clear that I'm not against special ed. There's good and bad people in every profession. I believed I was in danger for myself and for my future. I don't believe that my teacher was evil and had the best of intentions but he was putting me in a position that was hurting me and I had to act. If you have any questions or feedback feel free to let me know in the comments. Another thing is that this post has been really hard to make. It opened up some old wounds and as a result took several days to write.
Here's my story: So in late middle school I was tired of the placement that I was in. I was tired of not having friends, Not being able to socialize with my peers, not being able to date. I also was thinking about what my life will look like after high school, I was concerned that I was going to never have friends, Never be in a relationship, and not have the social skills to make those friends. I was generally very concerned for my future. So I decided that for my 8th grade year (2017-2018) I would do my absolute best for both my behavior and academics. Throughout the year nothing changed. I was hoping that me doing well would show that I didn't need any support but at the end of the year I still had paraprofessionals in most of my classes and was being pulled out for tests. In the summer between middle school and high school all I can think about is I want high school to be different. I wanted friends, I wanted a relationship, and I had dreams of me in the student council. When I got into high school I had peer tutors along with paraprofessionals (Peer Tutors are general ed students who sign up as an elective to help special needs kids. They basically serve the role as paraprofessionals with less responsibility). I did everything again and had the exact same result. In January of 2019 (freshmen year) I decided that my current strategy wasn't working. They also started making the peer tutors fill out behavioral checklists for their student(s) by grading them on how well they behaved/followed directions and gave them badges that say "peer tutor" which made me feel singled out. Because of that the peer tutors felt more like babysitters then someone that is an equal. So I went to my special ed teacher and asked him to remove the paraprofessional and the peer tutors. He told me no and said that I needed them. I changed my strategy again and I was going to ask for the Peer Tutors to be gone first, then focus on removing the paraprofessionals. I was more concerned about the peer tutors over the paraprofessionals because I was concerned that since they were part of the student body that this was going to affect me when I was running for the student council. I was worried that they'd tell others I was special needs then people would think I was incompetent. So every 2 weeks I would ask him again to remove them and each time he would give me a different excuse on why I couldn't be alone. Here's some of the excuses he gave me: "The peer tutors need to be there to collect data", "You need to prove that you can do the work yourself", "It's not up to me. It's the general education teacher that decides if you need a peer tutor or an aide", "Peer Tutors are supposed to represent a trainer for a job. If you refuse training then you're going to get fired". I brought it up again during my yearly IEP which took place in March. Once again my teacher said no, bringing up another excuse. As far as I can remember, my parents were neutral about the aide situation. Later one peer tutor was removed, what happened is that the peer tutor moved to a different town and they didn't bother on sending a substitute. A win is a win so I celebrated it. At the end of my freshman year I was pretty much defeated and didn't achieve the goal of being 100% independent. Over the summer I took a look at my situation and decided that my current plan is not working. I knew that when my sophomore year of high school starts I will have aides and peer tutors in classes. I knew that if I wanted to get what I wanted I would have to do something big. I knew that I would have to put up a fight, and put in a lot more effort. Over the summer I developed a war mindset inspired by two quotes from Sun Tzu:
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
I knew that I can't be going into sophomore year blind, so I started drafting a plan. I created a Google doc outlining my goals and what I wanted to accomplish. I knew that I won't be able to win every battle and that I need to choose which fight is worth fighting for. I thought to myself, “Well the peer tutors we're given training on the first day of school and probably have strategies to deal with poor behavior but what about planned well organized protests?” So I began researching strategies on how paraprofessionals/peer tutors dealt with negative behavior and reverse engineered those tactics. I read forms, I Watched YouTube videos and found as much information that I could find. For the peer tutors I didn't know too much about them. I didn't know if it was something that only my school did or if other schools did it. I did some research and found out that other schools had a peer tutor program and some have uploaded training videos on YouTube. Some peer tutors told me that they did babysitting and did nanny work so I looked up babysitting tips. I reverse engineered all of those tactics and came up with strategies to counter those techniques and put all that information that I learned into a google doc that I can use for future reference. During this time I also researched how to become a better negotiator and started learning a little bit of psychology. The plan was to first negotiate and if that doesn't work I will protest and make demands and negotiate. Over the summer I got really good at negotiating and practiced a lot on my father and my sister (they were totally oblivious). To this day I use those negotiating tactics. After I created my document and was satisfied with all the information, I went to bed that night and knew that I have already won and that my sophomore year will be my last year that I 1-1 peer tutor or aide.
Fast forward to the first day of school, as expected I had peer tutors and aides assigned to me in classes. My sped teacher had a chalkboard On the back wall full of sticky notes that had everyone's schedules and a name of someone was assigned to that student for each class. This time around I only had one peer tutor outside of the special ed classes. This is a big improvement over the three I had before but I still have my original goal of having none. For the paraprofessionals I had 2 in Gen classes.The goal was to first remove the peer tutors then the paraprofessionals. Even though this seems to be an improvement I continued with the plan. Since this was the first day, the peer tutors were in another classroom learning policies and other stuff they needed to know so I was alone for the day. I walked over to my special ed teacher and ask him one final time to remove the peer tutor he says no and then I asked him to let me be alone for 2 weeks so I can prove I don't need help and he still denies me. I then tell him that I will allow the peer tutor for 2 weeks and after that she needs to go. My teacher doesn't respond. (To add context the peer tutor that I had, she was a peer tutor in my math class in the prior semester so I already know who she was. We used to talk a lot and was surprised when I saw that she was assigned to me.)
For 2 weeks she mostly left me alone with her occasionally checking up on me. For those 2 weeks I purposely close my self off and adopted a body language that would subconsciously discourage her from approaching me. I did this by keeping my head low and staying as focused as possible. The only thing she did was confront me when I start packing up 2 minutes before the bell rings. She tells me that I shouldn't be packing up and to pull my stuff out again. I tell her no and hold my ground. She writes in my planner that I packed my stuff up early and refuse to pull it out. That happened like 2 or 3 times. On Thursday on the second week my class was tasked to create a PowerPoint. FYI this was a mythology class, while I was doing this PowerPoint I decided instead of manually trying to type in the locations and people from this mythology which the names were very long and complicated. I decided would be easier just to copy and paste them in. My peer tutor sees me doing this and doesn't say anything. At the end of class she writes that I plagiarized in my planner and tells my special ed teacher in person what happened. My sped teacher pulls me out of class (I had his math class right after mythology) and starts telling me that my peer tutor has seen me copy and pasting paragraphs and goes on this lecturing on why plagiarizing is bad. I explained to him that I wasn't copying paragraphs It was only copying names and locations and explain my reason for it. He didn't believe me but he didn't make me retake the assignment. After that I was pissed off and the next day I confronted her about it. I forgot what her reasoning for not telling me was but I told her that she needs to look into things before she makes false reports. After that incident, I decided to wait a week before I ask my teacher to remove her. Also during those first 3 weeks I turned down help from peer tutors and paras if possible In the special ed classroom. I did this to prevent sending any mix signals. I personally didn't mind if I had to work with a peer tutopara or not In the actual sped classroom. I only cared if it was in any of the general education classes. I just thought it would look contradictory if I was accepting help in the sped class and then requesting peer tutors to be removed from my gen classes.
At the beginning of the fourth week I went to school early and went to my sped teacher's class before first hour starts and then I again asked him to remove the peer tutor and the paraprofessionals. He says no again and brings up that I was being academically dishonest by plagiarizing. I tell my side of the story once again on what happened and he still doesn't believe me. At this point I leave and more pissed off. At this point negotiations didn't work so I started small protests by preventing the peer tutors from filling out my planer and the behavioral checklist. Most of them didn't care since there was other students they can fill out and they only need to fill out one to be graded for the day. One peer tutor gave me the puppy dog eye treatment and I eventually cave and let her fill it out. I still let the one peer tutor that was assigned to me in the gen class due to me being the only student and my intention wasn't to ruin, her grade. During the fourth week I began brainstorming ideas on how I can do a massive protest.
On Thursday of the fourth week of school, a walk into the mythology class and it started out like any other day. Class started and my teacher starts talking. I pull up my phone to respond to some messages and my peer tutor sees me. She asks me to hand my phone over to her and I tell her no. She tells me that I can't be on my phone and I tell her okay but I'm still not giving it to you. She then pulls out her phone and puts it on the table. She then tells me to put my phone on the table. I tell her no again. A few minutes past and the teacher finishes up talking. She passes the assignment and immediately my peer tutor begins to try and help by reading the questions. I slide the packet over closer to me and start ignoring her. I was hoping that she will get the hint and leave me alone. She doesn't so put on my hoodie and tried to mentally block her out. I don't remember what she said during all this since I was blocking it out but I do remember her touching me and the general ed teacher coming over and start assisting the peer tutor. It was a lot of pressure and I was actually about to give up because it was too much. But they both gaved up before I did and I was very relieved. After that, the class was pretty much quiet. The peer tutor wrote an entire paragraph on what happened. I walked to my math class and sat down. I then see my peer tutor walking into class and ask for my sped teacher. I already knew it was about me. I see them talk for 2 minutes and sure enough I see my teacher calling me over. I walked outside the classroom and me and the teacher begin to go at it. We end up saying the same things we have said before. However, my teacher this time mentioned that if I keep up my behavior that he's going to call in a meeting with my parents. The rest of math class was pretty much the same. However, my English class with the same teacher he went on a rant about using accommodations seeing that he had a disability growing up which was tourette's and he were love to have a peer tutor. I was quiet for the whole class since I was already exhausted because of everything else that had already happened. For the rest of the weekend, I've been coming up with plans on how I would be able to pull off a massive protest.
Now for the good news. On the fifth week of school, I noticed that my peer tutor was missing. My teacher pulled me aside again and told me that he decided that he was going to pull her for 2 weeks to see how well I would do without her. I told him thank you, that's what I wanted since the beginning of the school year. After those 2 weeks he didn't reinstate her and I didn't have a peer tutor or paraprofessionals in gen classes since. The deal moving forward was as long as I had a D or better he wasn't going to send any support unless I asked for it. My relationship with that sped teacher also had improved significantly. Later in my Junior year of high school I ran in my school's election and won. I was given the social media position.
In hindsight, I'm glad I didn't have to pull off a big protest. But the same time I wish that this situation could have ended in a different way.
Everything that I just told you is only the tip of the iceberg. There's so much detail that I had to leave out just to make this story shorter. Lot of it I'm still processing even though I found great strength in myself fighting back against a system that I believe was ruining my life. That war mindset hasn't left my mentality yet. I'm still dealing with the consequences of me being in special ed. Everything I told you happened 5 years ago and I'm still living through it like it just happened. I'm mentally recovering and eventually I will recover. Right now I'm in therapy and I'm writing down everything I can in a Google doc to process everything emotionally. Maybe one day I'll give that story to a writer and make a book out of it.
If you have any questions feel free ask them, I would love to answer them.
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To recap from my earlier posts. I have ADHD and fell under the "multiple disabilities" characterization. My high school teacher claimed that I have autism (Not diagnosed). I personally don't believe I have autism or at the very least I have a high functioning autism. Throughout most of my school career, I was in a self-contained classroom with kids with severe disabilities. Even if I was in the general population I had a paraprofessional or peer tutor. I never believed that I should have been in that position. As a consequence, I never really learned any social skills, I was segregated, and felt like that people didn't want anything to do with me because I was sped. The reason why I ended up in this position was probably a combination of me having the "multiple disabilities'' characterization and me testing low in three year revaluation tests. If you want more info on this then feel free to search my profile. This is an alt account and is primarily used to ask questions about special ed so It's really easy to find stuff about me.
Before I get into my story I just want to make it clear that I'm not against special ed. There's good and bad people in every profession. I believed I was in danger for myself and for my future. I don't believe that my teacher was evil and had the best of intentions but he was putting me in a position that was hurting me and I had to act. If you have any questions or feedback feel free to let me know in the comments. Another thing is that this post has been really hard to make. It opened up some old wounds and as a result took several days to write.
Here's my story: So in late middle school I was tired of the placement that I was in. I was tired of not having friends, Not being able to socialize with my peers, not being able to date. I also was thinking about what my life will look like after high school, I was concerned that I was going to never have friends, Never be in a relationship, and not have the social skills to make those friends. I was generally very concerned for my future. So I decided that for my 8th grade year (2017-2018) I would do my absolute best for both my behavior and academics. Throughout the year nothing changed. I was hoping that me doing well would show that I didn't need any support but at the end of the year I still had paraprofessionals in most of my classes and was being pulled out for tests. In the summer between middle school and high school all I can think about is I want high school to be different. I wanted friends, I wanted a relationship, and I had dreams of me in the student council. When I got into high school I had peer tutors along with paraprofessionals (Peer Tutors are general ed students who sign up as an elective to help special needs kids. They basically serve the role as paraprofessionals with less responsibility). I did everything again and had the exact same result. In January of 2019 (freshmen year) I decided that my current strategy wasn't working. They also started making the peer tutors fill out behavioral checklists for their student(s) by grading them on how well they behaved/followed directions and gave them badges that say "peer tutor" which made me feel singled out. Because of that the peer tutors felt more like babysitters then someone that is an equal. So I went to my special ed teacher and asked him to remove the paraprofessional and the peer tutors. He told me no and said that I needed them. I changed my strategy again and I was going to ask for the Peer Tutors to be gone first, then focus on removing the paraprofessionals. I was more concerned about the peer tutors over the paraprofessionals because I was concerned that since they were part of the student body that this was going to affect me when I was running for the student council. I was worried that they'd tell others I was special needs then people would think I was incompetent. So every 2 weeks I would ask him again to remove them and each time he would give me a different excuse on why I couldn't be alone. Here's some of the excuses he gave me: "The peer tutors need to be there to collect data", "You need to prove that you can do the work yourself", "It's not up to me. It's the general education teacher that decides if you need a peer tutor or an aide", "Peer Tutors are supposed to represent a trainer for a job. If you refuse training then you're going to get fired". I brought it up again during my yearly IEP which took place in March. Once again my teacher said no, bringing up another excuse. As far as I can remember, my parents were neutral about the aide situation. Later one peer tutor was removed, what happened is that the peer tutor moved to a different town and they didn't bother on sending a substitute. A win is a win so I celebrated it. At the end of my freshman year I was pretty much defeated and didn't achieve the goal of being 100% independent. Over the summer I took a look at my situation and decided that my current plan is not working. I knew that when my sophomore year of high school starts I will have aides and peer tutors in classes. I knew that if I wanted to get what I wanted I would have to do something big. I knew that I would have to put up a fight, and put in a lot more effort. Over the summer I developed a war mindset inspired by two quotes from Sun Tzu:
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
I knew that I can't be going into sophomore year blind, so I started drafting a plan. I created a Google doc outlining my goals and what I wanted to accomplish. I knew that I won't be able to win every battle and that I need to choose which fight is worth fighting for. I thought to myself, “Well the peer tutors we're given training on the first day of school and probably have strategies to deal with poor behavior but what about planned well organized protests?” So I began researching strategies on how paraprofessionals/peer tutors dealt with negative behavior and reverse engineered those tactics. I read forms, I Watched YouTube videos and found as much information that I could find. For the peer tutors I didn't know too much about them. I didn't know if it was something that only my school did or if other schools did it. I did some research and found out that other schools had a peer tutor program and some have uploaded training videos on YouTube. Some peer tutors told me that they did babysitting and did nanny work so I looked up babysitting tips. I reverse engineered all of those tactics and came up with strategies to counter those techniques and put all that information that I learned into a google doc that I can use for future reference. During this time I also researched how to become a better negotiator and started learning a little bit of psychology. The plan was to first negotiate and if that doesn't work I will protest and make demands and negotiate. Over the summer I got really good at negotiating and practiced a lot on my father and my sister (they were totally oblivious). To this day I use those negotiating tactics. After I created my document and was satisfied with all the information, I went to bed that night and knew that I have already won and that my sophomore year will be my last year that I 1-1 peer tutor or aide.
Fast forward to the first day of school, as expected I had peer tutors and aides assigned to me in classes. My sped teacher had a chalkboard On the back wall full of sticky notes that had everyone's schedules and a name of someone was assigned to that student for each class. This time around I only had one peer tutor outside of the special ed classes. This is a big improvement over the three I had before but I still have my original goal of having none. For the paraprofessionals I had 2 in Gen classes.The goal was to first remove the peer tutors then the paraprofessionals. Even though this seems to be an improvement I continued with the plan. Since this was the first day, the peer tutors were in another classroom learning policies and other stuff they needed to know so I was alone for the day. I walked over to my special ed teacher and ask him one final time to remove the peer tutor he says no and then I asked him to let me be alone for 2 weeks so I can prove I don't need help and he still denies me. I then tell him that I will allow the peer tutor for 2 weeks and after that she needs to go. My teacher doesn't respond. (To add context the peer tutor that I had, she was a peer tutor in my math class in the prior semester so I already know who she was. We used to talk a lot and was surprised when I saw that she was assigned to me.)
For 2 weeks she mostly left me alone with her occasionally checking up on me. For those 2 weeks I purposely close my self off and adopted a body language that would subconsciously discourage her from approaching me. I did this by keeping my head low and staying as focused as possible. The only thing she did was confront me when I start packing up 2 minutes before the bell rings. She tells me that I shouldn't be packing up and to pull my stuff out again. I tell her no and hold my ground. She writes in my planner that I packed my stuff up early and refuse to pull it out. That happened like 2 or 3 times. On Thursday on the second week my class was tasked to create a PowerPoint. FYI this was a mythology class, while I was doing this PowerPoint I decided instead of manually trying to type in the locations and people from this mythology which the names were very long and complicated. I decided would be easier just to copy and paste them in. My peer tutor sees me doing this and doesn't say anything. At the end of class she writes that I plagiarized in my planner and tells my special ed teacher in person what happened. My sped teacher pulls me out of class (I had his math class right after mythology) and starts telling me that my peer tutor has seen me copy and pasting paragraphs and goes on this lecturing on why plagiarizing is bad. I explained to him that I wasn't copying paragraphs It was only copying names and locations and explain my reason for it. He didn't believe me but he didn't make me retake the assignment. After that I was pissed off and the next day I confronted her about it. I forgot what her reasoning for not telling me was but I told her that she needs to look into things before she makes false reports. After that incident, I decided to wait a week before I ask my teacher to remove her. Also during those first 3 weeks I turned down help from peer tutors and paras if possible In the special ed classroom. I did this to prevent sending any mix signals. I personally didn't mind if I had to work with a peer tutopara or not In the actual sped classroom. I only cared if it was in any of the general education classes. I just thought it would look contradictory if I was accepting help in the sped class and then requesting peer tutors to be removed from my gen classes.
At the beginning of the fourth week I went to school early and went to my sped teacher's class before first hour starts and then I again asked him to remove the peer tutor and the paraprofessionals. He says no again and brings up that I was being academically dishonest by plagiarizing. I tell my side of the story once again on what happened and he still doesn't believe me. At this point I leave and more pissed off. At this point negotiations didn't work so I started small protests by preventing the peer tutors from filling out my planer and the behavioral checklist. Most of them didn't care since there was other students they can fill out and they only need to fill out one to be graded for the day. One peer tutor gave me the puppy dog eye treatment and I eventually cave and let her fill it out. I still let the one peer tutor that was assigned to me in the gen class due to me being the only student and my intention wasn't to ruin, her grade. During the fourth week I began brainstorming ideas on how I can do a massive protest.
On Thursday of the fourth week of school, a walk into the mythology class and it started out like any other day. Class started and my teacher starts talking. I pull up my phone to respond to some messages and my peer tutor sees me. She asks me to hand my phone over to her and I tell her no. She tells me that I can't be on my phone and I tell her okay but I'm still not giving it to you. She then pulls out her phone and puts it on the table. She then tells me to put my phone on the table. I tell her no again. A few minutes past and the teacher finishes up talking. She passes the assignment and immediately my peer tutor begins to try and help by reading the questions. I slide the packet over closer to me and start ignoring her. I was hoping that she will get the hint and leave me alone. She doesn't so put on my hoodie and tried to mentally block her out. I don't remember what she said during all this since I was blocking it out but I do remember her touching me and the general ed teacher coming over and start assisting the peer tutor. It was a lot of pressure and I was actually about to give up because it was too much. But they both gaved up before I did and I was very relieved. After that, the class was pretty much quiet. The peer tutor wrote an entire paragraph on what happened. I walked to my math class and sat down. I then see my peer tutor walking into class and ask for my sped teacher. I already knew it was about me. I see them talk for 2 minutes and sure enough I see my teacher calling me over. I walked outside the classroom and me and the teacher begin to go at it. We end up saying the same things we have said before. However, my teacher this time mentioned that if I keep up my behavior that he's going to call in a meeting with my parents. The rest of math class was pretty much the same. However, my English class with the same teacher he went on a rant about using accommodations seeing that he had a disability growing up which was tourette's and he were love to have a peer tutor. I was quiet for the whole class since I was already exhausted because of everything else that had already happened. For the rest of the weekend, I've been coming up with plans on how I would be able to pull off a massive protest.
Now for the good news. On the fifth week of school, I noticed that my peer tutor was missing. My teacher pulled me aside again and told me that he decided that he was going to pull her for 2 weeks to see how well I would do without her. I told him thank you, that's what I wanted since the beginning of the school year. After those 2 weeks he didn't reinstate her and I didn't have a peer tutor or paraprofessionals in gen classes since. The deal moving forward was as long as I had a D or better he wasn't going to send any support unless I asked for it. My relationship with that sped teacher also had improved significantly. Later in my Junior year of high school I ran in my school's election and won. I was given the social media position.
In hindsight, I'm glad I didn't have to pull off a big protest. But the same time I wish that this situation could have ended in a different way.
Everything that I just told you is only the tip of the iceberg. There's so much detail that I had to leave out just to make this story shorter. Lot of it I'm still processing even though I found great strength in myself fighting back against a system that I believe was ruining my life. That war mindset hasn't left my mentality yet. I'm still dealing with the consequences of me being in special ed. Everything I told you happened 5 years ago and I'm still living through it like it just happened. I'm mentally recovering and eventually I will recover. Right now I'm in therapy and I'm writing down everything I can in a Google doc to process everything emotionally. Maybe one day I'll give that story to a writer and make a book out of it.
If you have any questions feel free ask them, I would love to answer them.
2024.05.19 16:10 Pen_Paladin Administrative Leave Due to Student Complaints
CW: Mention of self-h, a-bus
A close colleague is on administrative leave while under investigation over claims made directly after reprimanding a student for disruption and violating the school honor code. Some claims have merit (self-h*rm comments, mention of firearms ownership as a hunter), and others baseless (inappropriate comments about female students' appearances, comments threatening harm upon students). He's had a visibly rough second semester due to outside factors, involving personal deaths and dealing with abuses at home, and has since let his classroom management deteriorate.
Unfortunately, I've seen how a majority of his students use his weakened state as an opportunity to walk all over him; they violating district policies, disrespect him, and now it's come to a head. Last week, he decided to put his foot down for the first time in the semester, and told two girls (habitual problem-starters and EXTREMELY pampered), informing them that he would change their seats if they continued to talk over him. The worst of the two was also caught that day plagiarizing one of his assignments and reprimanded, though not reported as he felt it appropriate to let her off with a warning.
The next day, Friday, he was called to the office before his 3rd block classes. He said his AP was approached by two girls who reported feeling uncomfortable due to things he would say in class, such as overshare his mental state through making jabs at self-h*rming himself (which I've heard him do in the workroom, as well, the sort of "this makes me wanna just _____" comments not unusual to hear as a response to high stress and depression), to which he said his AP (and mine, she's incredibly supportive of teachers, though hopefully not just vocally) was sympathetic. She recommended he set up an appointment with the employee assistance program and possibly seek counseling, to which he agreed. The next items regarded a story he often shares about meeting his neighbor through hunting weapons (we live in a sub-rural area where hunting is a prolific topic), supposedly threatening to "bash a kid's head into a brick wall" in response to the plagiarism earlier mentioned, when he admitted he said he said that about his own head, something he's said a lot before. Lastly, he was accused of making inappropriate comments regarding female students' appearances, which no one can substantiate, and it seems this was featured because "male teacher = g-word" seems like a free space to claim.
He's rightfully freaked out, as am I, because we both teach very similarly and with the same style, with a sort of "big brother" vibe that's never been a problem, but rather very appreciated by both parents and students alike. He did mention how the admin made a big point about "saying things which could get misconstrued", but he said she was very stern but understanding in her demeanor, even sharing her experience in mourning and still showing up for school as a way to cope. He also said she talked extensively about having "healthy teachers in the classroom", which I believe is code for "we're going to make sure you're just in mourning and not actually going to do anything permanent". We're both on our fourth year of teaching, and our state uses the "continuing contract" system, so we're both unsure how tenure works or if there's protections at all in this state.
Does he have cause to worry for his livelihood, or is this a common, albeit brutal, occurrence for teachers today? I don't think he's registered with the state representation (we're in Virginia), as most of us newer teachers still don't have much wiggle room to afford many biweekly deductions, but I'm nervously optimistic. I'm asking this for my benefit as well, as we teach very similarly to one another, and the last thing I want is for a Children of the Corn situation to arise after.... well, trying to maintain classroom order in any way. Needless to say, this alone is taking the wind out of my sails in regards to continuing in this field, which I loved before this year, and I know for a fact he's having second thoughts, more so, probably.
Tl;dr: Colleague on continuing contract is on administrative leave pending an investigation due to comments made after he reprimanded two students for disruption and honor code violation. Seems retaliatory, though he and I are worried for his future in teaching.
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A close colleague is on administrative leave while under investigation over claims made directly after reprimanding a student for disruption and violating the school honor code. Some claims have merit (self-h*rm comments, mention of firearms ownership as a hunter), and others baseless (inappropriate comments about female students' appearances, comments threatening harm upon students). He's had a visibly rough second semester due to outside factors, involving personal deaths and dealing with abuses at home, and has since let his classroom management deteriorate.
Unfortunately, I've seen how a majority of his students use his weakened state as an opportunity to walk all over him; they violating district policies, disrespect him, and now it's come to a head. Last week, he decided to put his foot down for the first time in the semester, and told two girls (habitual problem-starters and EXTREMELY pampered), informing them that he would change their seats if they continued to talk over him. The worst of the two was also caught that day plagiarizing one of his assignments and reprimanded, though not reported as he felt it appropriate to let her off with a warning.
The next day, Friday, he was called to the office before his 3rd block classes. He said his AP was approached by two girls who reported feeling uncomfortable due to things he would say in class, such as overshare his mental state through making jabs at self-h*rming himself (which I've heard him do in the workroom, as well, the sort of "this makes me wanna just _____" comments not unusual to hear as a response to high stress and depression), to which he said his AP (and mine, she's incredibly supportive of teachers, though hopefully not just vocally) was sympathetic. She recommended he set up an appointment with the employee assistance program and possibly seek counseling, to which he agreed. The next items regarded a story he often shares about meeting his neighbor through hunting weapons (we live in a sub-rural area where hunting is a prolific topic), supposedly threatening to "bash a kid's head into a brick wall" in response to the plagiarism earlier mentioned, when he admitted he said he said that about his own head, something he's said a lot before. Lastly, he was accused of making inappropriate comments regarding female students' appearances, which no one can substantiate, and it seems this was featured because "male teacher = g-word" seems like a free space to claim.
He's rightfully freaked out, as am I, because we both teach very similarly and with the same style, with a sort of "big brother" vibe that's never been a problem, but rather very appreciated by both parents and students alike. He did mention how the admin made a big point about "saying things which could get misconstrued", but he said she was very stern but understanding in her demeanor, even sharing her experience in mourning and still showing up for school as a way to cope. He also said she talked extensively about having "healthy teachers in the classroom", which I believe is code for "we're going to make sure you're just in mourning and not actually going to do anything permanent". We're both on our fourth year of teaching, and our state uses the "continuing contract" system, so we're both unsure how tenure works or if there's protections at all in this state.
Does he have cause to worry for his livelihood, or is this a common, albeit brutal, occurrence for teachers today? I don't think he's registered with the state representation (we're in Virginia), as most of us newer teachers still don't have much wiggle room to afford many biweekly deductions, but I'm nervously optimistic. I'm asking this for my benefit as well, as we teach very similarly to one another, and the last thing I want is for a Children of the Corn situation to arise after.... well, trying to maintain classroom order in any way. Needless to say, this alone is taking the wind out of my sails in regards to continuing in this field, which I loved before this year, and I know for a fact he's having second thoughts, more so, probably.
Tl;dr: Colleague on continuing contract is on administrative leave pending an investigation due to comments made after he reprimanded two students for disruption and honor code violation. Seems retaliatory, though he and I are worried for his future in teaching.
2024.05.19 16:09 Bendaboo11 Seeking advice on career switch from physiotherapy to ecology in Canada
Hi everyone,
I'm considering making a significant career change and could use some advice from those who have experience or knowledge in the field of ecology. I've been working as a physiotherapist for the past five years and hold an undergraduate degree in kinesiology and a master's degree in physiotherapy. I’ve recently realized that I just cannot continue with patient care of people in pain and the emotional and physical burdens that play a part in my time during and away from work. I have always had a passion for the environment, and spend most of my free time in the Northern Ontario woods, and am now seriously thinking about transitioning into a career in ecology.
I have read past posts to try and gain insight on others who have tried a career switch, but there aren’t many examples specific to Canada, and even more specifically from a healthcare field. Given my background, what would be the best academic route to take to make this switch? I'm open to further education if necessary, but I'm not sure where to start. Should I be looking into another undergraduate degree, a master's in ecology, or perhaps specific certifications or courses?
Any insights on how to leverage my current skills and education, potential challenges I might face, and any recommended programs or institutions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
TL;DR: Physiotherapist with a background in kinesiology and physiotherapy seeking advice on the best academic path to transition into a career in ecology in Northern Ontario, Canada.
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I'm considering making a significant career change and could use some advice from those who have experience or knowledge in the field of ecology. I've been working as a physiotherapist for the past five years and hold an undergraduate degree in kinesiology and a master's degree in physiotherapy. I’ve recently realized that I just cannot continue with patient care of people in pain and the emotional and physical burdens that play a part in my time during and away from work. I have always had a passion for the environment, and spend most of my free time in the Northern Ontario woods, and am now seriously thinking about transitioning into a career in ecology.
I have read past posts to try and gain insight on others who have tried a career switch, but there aren’t many examples specific to Canada, and even more specifically from a healthcare field. Given my background, what would be the best academic route to take to make this switch? I'm open to further education if necessary, but I'm not sure where to start. Should I be looking into another undergraduate degree, a master's in ecology, or perhaps specific certifications or courses?
Any insights on how to leverage my current skills and education, potential challenges I might face, and any recommended programs or institutions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
TL;DR: Physiotherapist with a background in kinesiology and physiotherapy seeking advice on the best academic path to transition into a career in ecology in Northern Ontario, Canada.
- I'm particularly interested in conservation, wildlife management, and environmental policy.
- Open to both practical and research-oriented roles in the ecology field.
- Would appreciate any advice on how to make my transition smoother, including potential job shadowing or volunteer opportunities to gain relevant experience. -I also own a flower farm so I have experience working with native plants, and am not afraid to spend significant time working outdoors.
2024.05.19 16:08 JayDuBois One of the most fashion forward little house characters… Miss Peel.
I’m just gonna say it… I loved her look! Say what you will about the character, but that big oversized floppy bonnet, the dark tones on dark tones, black canvas skirt, you can even see her work boots when she’s sitting in her buckboard.
… And don’t get me started on the pilgrim belt buckle. Love it!
For anybody that grew up in the 90s, I could easily see the belt and bonnet and boots being worn by some sort of four non-blond style rock group.
Fun fact: I was able to get this still image on Freevee. You can stream on demand, with 66% less commercials. Skip forward and backward. You don’t have to wait for in-line programming as you would with Pluto. It’s funny because I converted to Pluto about two or three weeks ago, then I discovered Freevee. It works outside of the US if I use NordVPN. Totally free, and you probably already have the username and password. They simply use your Amazon credentials. An Amazon company. Highly recommend.
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… And don’t get me started on the pilgrim belt buckle. Love it!
For anybody that grew up in the 90s, I could easily see the belt and bonnet and boots being worn by some sort of four non-blond style rock group.
Fun fact: I was able to get this still image on Freevee. You can stream on demand, with 66% less commercials. Skip forward and backward. You don’t have to wait for in-line programming as you would with Pluto. It’s funny because I converted to Pluto about two or three weeks ago, then I discovered Freevee. It works outside of the US if I use NordVPN. Totally free, and you probably already have the username and password. They simply use your Amazon credentials. An Amazon company. Highly recommend.
2024.05.19 16:08 WrestlingTurtle Am I (23M) right to be upset with my GF (20F)
About a year ago I caught her messaging old flings and exes behind my back. I called her out, she kinda apologized (I have to ask for apologies), and said it wouldn't happen again. Well fast forward to today, she hasn't contacted her ex again but she is still talking to old flings. She is told one how he has cute freckles and how they should play games together. This hurts because I was wondering why she hasn't asked me to play with her lately.
She would tell those boys about our sex life and how she misses them btw. I am literally looking at an old message where she says, "I don't wanna say no i just can't" THEN ASKS WHY HE HASN'T VISITED HIS SON (her cat) AND TALKS AB WHEN SHES FREE AND WHEN I WONT BE THERE. I don't think anything happened, this was a long time ago, but I am just now finding it and it's driving me crazy. I had my suspicions because I saw an old fling of her's on her notifications a couple days ago. Not too long ago I found out she was texting another fling WHILE WE WERE DRINKING IN MY BEDROOM, telling him how she was thinking about him. We hooked up that night and I felt disgusted after I found out she was messaging him that.
Anyways, HOW DO I GET OUT. I feel stupid as fuck for giving her another chance and not ending it a year ago. She has made me a worse man, pushed me away from family, and I've lost sight of my goals from pouring everything into this relationship. We just signed a one year lease and idk what to do. We have animals together and I pretty much provide everything for her.
TLDR I am unhappy in my relationship and don't know how to get out.
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She would tell those boys about our sex life and how she misses them btw. I am literally looking at an old message where she says, "I don't wanna say no i just can't" THEN ASKS WHY HE HASN'T VISITED HIS SON (her cat) AND TALKS AB WHEN SHES FREE AND WHEN I WONT BE THERE. I don't think anything happened, this was a long time ago, but I am just now finding it and it's driving me crazy. I had my suspicions because I saw an old fling of her's on her notifications a couple days ago. Not too long ago I found out she was texting another fling WHILE WE WERE DRINKING IN MY BEDROOM, telling him how she was thinking about him. We hooked up that night and I felt disgusted after I found out she was messaging him that.
Anyways, HOW DO I GET OUT. I feel stupid as fuck for giving her another chance and not ending it a year ago. She has made me a worse man, pushed me away from family, and I've lost sight of my goals from pouring everything into this relationship. We just signed a one year lease and idk what to do. We have animals together and I pretty much provide everything for her.
TLDR I am unhappy in my relationship and don't know how to get out.
2024.05.19 16:07 aK1donn Must-Have Tips for Shoppers: Maximizing Your Shopping Experience
I’ve been honing my shopping skills and thought I'd share some tips to help you get the most out of your shopping experiences. Whether you're shopping online or in-store, these strategies can enhance your experience and ensure you get the best value for your money. Feel free to add your own tips in the comments!
Happy shopping! 🛍️
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1. Stay Updated on Trends and Deals
- Follow Influencers and Brands: Follow your favorite brands and influencers on social media to stay updated on the latest trends and exclusive deals. Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok are great platforms for this.
- Sign Up for Newsletters: Many retailers offer exclusive discounts and early access to sales if you subscribe to their newsletters. This is a great way to stay in the loop.
2. Utilize Shopping Apps
- ShopStyle: This app helps you find the best prices on fashion items across multiple retailers.
- Shoptagr (now Karma): This app lets you save items from any online store and notifies you when they go on sale.
- Poshmark and Depop: Great for buying and selling second-hand fashion. You can find unique pieces and often at a lower price.
3. In-Store Shopping Hacks
- Shop Mid-Week: Avoid weekend crowds and find better-stocked shelves by shopping mid-week. Sales associates may also have more time to assist you.
- Ask for Discounts: Don’t be afraid to ask if there are any available discounts or upcoming sales. Sometimes, sales associates have information about promotions that aren't advertised.
- Check the Clearance Section: Always make a stop at the clearance section. You can often find hidden gems at a fraction of the original price.
4. Online Shopping Strategies
- Read Reviews: Always check customer reviews before making a purchase. This can help you avoid low-quality products and make more informed decisions.
- Wishlist: Use the wishlist feature on shopping websites to keep track of items you want. This way, you can monitor price drops and avoid impulse buying.
- Abandoned Cart Discounts: Sometimes, leaving items in your online cart for a few days can trigger a discount email from the retailer.
5. Leverage Loyalty Programs
- Rewards Points: Sign up for loyalty programs at your favorite stores to earn points on every purchase. Redeem points for discounts or free items.
- Exclusive Member Perks: Loyalty programs often offer exclusive perks such as birthday discounts, members-only sales, and early access to new collections.
6. Shopping for Specific Items
- Clothing: Check the fabric and care instructions to ensure you're getting high-quality, durable items. Shop off-season for the best deals on clothing.
- Electronics: Research the specifications and compare models to find the best value. Look out for refurbished models to save money.
- Home Goods: Measure your space before buying furniture to ensure a perfect fit. Read product dimensions and reviews carefully.
7. Seasonal Sales and Events
- Black Friday/Cyber Monday: These are prime times for scoring big deals. Make a list of items you need and set a budget to avoid overspending.
- End-of-Season Sales: Stock up on seasonal items at the end of their respective seasons. For example, buy winter coats in February or swimsuits in September.
- Holiday Sales: Take advantage of sales during major holidays like Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Independence Day.
8. Sustainable Shopping
- Support Ethical Brands: Choose brands that prioritize sustainability and ethical practices. This can often lead to higher-quality products that last longer.
- Buy Second-Hand: Thrift stores, consignment shops, and online marketplaces like ThredUp and The RealReal are excellent for finding gently used items.
Happy shopping! 🛍️
2024.05.19 16:07 icingcookies Should I go back to school?
I’m 45. F. Currently working as a para within a very tough special needs classroom. I have worked in several different places but always in education. I have an associate degree. I also have a CDA certification. I feel like I’m better than this job. I have been in lead teaching positions in the past but in a headstart program. I work now in a public school. The people who hear me say I was once a lead teacher laugh at me because headstart isn’t considered a real school and you were not a real teacher. I have seen public school classrooms run, there is no difference in what the children learn or what tasks the lead has before them. I watch the teachers around me and I have so many ideas and thoughts on how to properly run a classroom. When asked my opinion or for help they just scoff at me or act like I don’t know anything. I’m frustrated and tired of this setting. I make better money here than I have before but it’s not a lot. I owe on student loans still and I’m trying by paying what I can. I feel unfulfilled and less than everyone else here. I’ve fought the idea of being a “real” teacher for years thinking I wouldn’t be good or that I would regret it somehow. I feel like I’d fail. I worry about the added cost. The people here act like they are better than all of us paras. They call us support staff - including the janitor and cafeteria workers. I don’t feel better than anyone, but I do feel less than the “teachers”. It’s bringing me down.
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2024.05.19 16:06 SurviverWarior ChatGPT User Bags 5 Ivys
Demographics
Accepted
I'm super grateful and happy with my decisions. I have committed to Princeton, and it definitely is the best fit for me. College results this year were very random, but I couldn’t be more thankful to get into the #1 undergraduate university. I was worried that since most of my application was MIT-related (Research, classes, Letters of Rec, Awards, Activities), other universities would think I was going there and reject me. College results were super random and stressful, but it worked out better than I could have ever imagined. It's funny how I got waitlisted and rejected from all my target schools (Vandy, UMich, USC) but then got into most of my reach schools.
Advice for Future Applicants:
Be authentic. There is no formula that gets you in. Sure, you have to do a couple of things like getting good grades and SAT scores and having some unique activities and awards, but especially for Top 10 schools, you just have to be unique and authentic. I didn't have any connections or background (like private school and college counselor) that provided me with opportunities. I was literally the first kid ever from my school to get into Princeton. I was authentic and hardworking, did stuff I enjoyed, and one thing led to another. I also spent a lot of time on essays and my application. 50% of the work is actually doing stuff, and the other 50% is showcasing it in your college application. Also, have balance in life. I had a lot of fun in high school and enjoyed the stuff I did. Live life with no regrets. Feel free to DM me.
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- Gender: Male
- Race/Ethnicity: Indian
- Residence: Massachusetts
- Income Bracket: Upper Middle Class
- Type of School: Mediocre Public school
- Hooks: Immigrant but US Citizen
- Intended Majors & Minors: Applied Math, AI, Entrepreneurship, Engineering & Computer Science
- GPA (UW/W): 4.0/4.6
- Rank (or percentile): 8/300
- Classes: 12 APs, 3 Dual-Enrolments
- Senior Year Course Load: 3 APs (Computer Science, Chemistry, Psychology) 3 Dual-Enrolments (MIT OCW Linear Algebra, MIT OCW Multivariable Calc, English), Teacher Assistant for Calculus and Teacher Assistant for AP Physics C
- SAT: 1570 (770RW, 800M)
- AP Exams: Calculus AB (5), Physics 1 (5), Statistics (5), World History (5), Physics C: Mechanics (5), Calculus BC (5), AP CSP (4), US History (4), Lang (3)
- AMC 12: 136.5 (Top 200)
- Coca-Cola Scholar (150 Selected from 100K+)
- Harvard Guest Speaker on AI & ChatGPT in Education (6K+ Listeners). The Harvard Gazette wrote an article on me.
- MIT Hackathon 3rd place winner 2x (AI Recipe Generator & AI Therapist)
- Presented at International Education & Social Justice Conference (Peer-reviewed) at University of Hawaii
- MIT LLCipher Summer Program (3% Acceptance Rate). Invited back as Guest Speaker the following year.
- Wrote Boston Globe Article on AI & ChatGPT in Education
- AMC 12 Distinction (2x) and AIME Qual (2x)
- President's Volunteer Service Gold Award
- AP Scholar with Distinction & AP Scholar with Honor
- Multiple other Math Competition, Model UN, and Marching Band Awards
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory Summer Intern: Advanced Research in AI & Networking (1% Acceptance Rate). Internship primarily for Grad and Undergrad students. Received a return offer for summer before college.
- Writer: 110+ articles on Medium with 200K+ reads. Published by the Boston Globe and other publications.
- Antarctic Research: Climate Research and Data Analysis at UW-Madison.
- MA State House Internship: Worked for State Rep. Wrote a policy brief on AI. Promoted to Campaign Manager in 2024.
- Math Team Coach & Captain: Coach students and top scorer. 4x Regional Champions (First time in history). 2x AIME qual and 2x AMC Distinction (AMC Score: 136.5).
- Students of Color Affinity Group President: Mentor students and lead professional development workshops; presented at International Education & Social Justice Conference at University of Hawaii.
- AP Physics C & Calculus Teacher Assistant: Help teach 70+ seniors at my school (ran out of classes hence TA lol).
- Model UN President: Perfect record and multiple awards at regional conferences.
- Karate Black Belt: 10+ years and help teach classes.
- Marching Band: 2nd in USBands Nationals (3x).
- Coding Instructor: Taught kids how to code in Python and JavaScript.
- Sales Head & Data Analyst at National STEM Honor Society: Promoted STEM education to underrepresented populations.
- JV Tennis: Doubles Player
- AP Calculus Teacher
- Math Department Head and Physics TeacheMath Team Coach
- MIT Lincoln Lab Research Mentor (MIT Alum)
- Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Director of my school (Harvard Alum)
- Massachusetts State Representative
- Common App: During the pandemic, I found personal growth and a deeper understanding of myself and society through writing, which led me to explore artificial intelligence and its applications, culminating in an internship at MIT and advocacy work, and inspiring my entrepreneurial ambitions.
- Community Disruption: When the pandemic disrupted my activities, I leveraged online platforms to continue learning and leading, discovering new interests in AI and entrepreneurship, and demonstrating resilience by revitalizing my school’s clubs and engaging in new ventures, setting the stage for my future in innovation.
- Additional Information: Links to various articles and videos, and other activities and awards.
- Supplementals: Some were very reflective about my identity, activities, and goals in life. Others were light-hearted and quirky. They were very personalized to the school and emphasized how I fit in, what I would bring to the school, and how I would use the school as a catalyst for my entrepreneurial ventures.
- Additional Uploads: Uploaded my Resume, portfolio of Articles, and a summary of my Research at MIT Lincoln Lab.
- Harvard (REA): Great Conversation and said Harvard would have to fight MIT for me. 9/10
- MIT: My Interviewer was very disinterested and didn't care. It was 15 minutes and he said if I don't get in then who would. 6/10
- Princeton: It was a great conversation and said he would fight for me. 8/10
- Yale: It was also a good conversation and she said she would fight for me. 8/10
- UPenn M&T: Guy kept asking technical questions and I was lost. But in the end, he said I did good and he would fight for me, even though interviews don’t matter too much. 7/10
- Dartmouth: Lady was super impressed and said if I don’t get in then she is quitting doing interviews for Dartmouth. 9/10
Accepted
- WPI (with Max Scholarship, Half off)
- UW-Madison
- Northeastern (with Max Scholarship, Half off)
- Georgia Tech for CS (Early Action)
- Cornell (Meinig Family Cornell National Scholar)
- Dartmouth
- Duke
- UPenn (Waitlisted M&T)
- Harvard (Waitlisted → Accepted)
- Princeton (Committed)
- UMich (Early Action)
- Vanderbilt
- USC (lol)
- Yale
- Stanford
- MIT (This one hurt)
I'm super grateful and happy with my decisions. I have committed to Princeton, and it definitely is the best fit for me. College results this year were very random, but I couldn’t be more thankful to get into the #1 undergraduate university. I was worried that since most of my application was MIT-related (Research, classes, Letters of Rec, Awards, Activities), other universities would think I was going there and reject me. College results were super random and stressful, but it worked out better than I could have ever imagined. It's funny how I got waitlisted and rejected from all my target schools (Vandy, UMich, USC) but then got into most of my reach schools.
Advice for Future Applicants:
Be authentic. There is no formula that gets you in. Sure, you have to do a couple of things like getting good grades and SAT scores and having some unique activities and awards, but especially for Top 10 schools, you just have to be unique and authentic. I didn't have any connections or background (like private school and college counselor) that provided me with opportunities. I was literally the first kid ever from my school to get into Princeton. I was authentic and hardworking, did stuff I enjoyed, and one thing led to another. I also spent a lot of time on essays and my application. 50% of the work is actually doing stuff, and the other 50% is showcasing it in your college application. Also, have balance in life. I had a lot of fun in high school and enjoyed the stuff I did. Live life with no regrets. Feel free to DM me.
2024.05.19 16:05 ashleyoftheways It’s been a rough 24 hours.
 | I found this pile of feathers just as I was running out the door to head to work yesterday afternoon. I called out for my free ranging flock but most of the gals were hiding in the woods and in neighboring yards. In the search for them, I came across another pile of feathers. After following the trail, we found the body of Ricki Lake(envelder), totally decapitated in the bog behind our house. It’s most certainly a mink or a marten who stumbled upon our gals. submitted by ashleyoftheways to BackYardChickens [link] [comments] Went out this morning to do another headcount. The remaining members of the flock are all accounted for. I then head next door to check on my little bantam mama & her 3 week old chicks whom I keep in a separate coop until they’re old enough to be integrated. I find a lifeless chick stuck to the bottom of her mother. It’s almost as if they got tangled in the undercarriage feathers of their mama during the night. I was able to remove the poor, delicate thing only to time its neck had been broken during the struggle to unattach itself. So, despite being extremely emotional over the decimation of my backyard flock, I placed the carcass of the baby bantam in the back of a trap with the hopes of catching the mink when it undoubtedly returns for the remaining few I have at home. I’ve dispatched a handful of my own hens who have fallen ill and one who had been brutally attacked by a raccoon. I’ve lost gals to hawks & owls. I’ve found remnants of them strewn about my property. But the events of the last 24 hours must have found me when I’m most emotionally vulnerable, because well, I’m still a blubbering mess over it. Anywho. I thought sharing this with others would help me feel better. My coworkers probably think I’m nuts for crying over poultry but I’m known to blur the line between livestock & pets. Happy chickening I guess! |
2024.05.19 16:04 kandb2006 Think I stumbled on some shady sh*t
I’m rather new-ish to whatnot. I think I accidentally stumbled upon something super shady and illegal AF. I won a giveaway and received my package in the mail. Shocked by what I got for free, I messaged the seller and asked them if I got this package by accident. Response was being blocked. Being new to Whatnot, how was I to know that this just might be what this seller does. The seller has 5 stars and doesn’t even have what I received for sale on their page. I don’t want to call them out on here because I’m guessing this is known by others from this seller but I honestly think I have some received stolen items. If you want details please PM me. I don’t know what to do other than message whatnot about it.
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