Dr seuss 2nd grade math

I'm thinking probably not? The Powers book says that IJ/DR divides damage from an injury.
If I had two layers of regular damage resistance, with a layer of IJ/damage reduction below each of those layers, I'm not really getting properly "injured" until the damage source (a bullet, say) pierces the second layer of damage resistance without getting reduced to zero, right? And that's what gets divided, correct?
So in that case, there can really only be one version or instance of IJ/damage reduction on a character... I think. So multiple layers of damage resistance are possible, but only one layer of damage reduction at the bottom of the pile.
Does any of this make sense?
Also layering IJ/DR would be stupidly cheap mathematically. 25 points of damage divided by 5, and then divided by 5 again (1 remaining), vs. 25 points of damage divided by 10 (2.5 remaining). You spend more character points buying multiple layers of IJ/DR, but it's way more effective. Is my math right on that?
Damage resistance is much more straightforward. You can layer sources of DR; they just get added together, especially if they all have the same modifiers (tough skin, force field, etc.) If one layer has tough skin or whatever, and the others don't, I suppose that just adds an extra arithmetic step, but still it's all pretty linear and logical, yes? But that's damage resistance.
Injury tolerance is all about divisors. I can't remember if Basic Set has any notes about adding divisors together. Also I can barely remember if they taught that to me in grade school.
Anyway, this is probably a dumb question. Have any of you mulled this over in your heads before?

I should've been warned about some of the issues that can happen within the college, especially in this generation. Such as, how students would behave in the campus. I should've been aware that many students can tend to behave like Y7 and Y9 kids, of course, as its a standalone college, most likely alot of students got into alot of trouble back at school so they had to leave. Also, being aware that it won't be 100% quick that I will reach out and make new mates as some students may already have large group of friends from the same secondary school and may refuse to reach out to others. Not saying that due to having bad social skills; I do have good social skills although I wait for others to reach out because I had been back stabbed a few times by my best friends during the holidays.
If I was aware about some of the cons, like how college students can have this bad behaviour like also bad manners to members of the public or even the staff in the campus, I could adjust my plans slightly and go to the sixth form of my high school. Which means that, I should take some of the subjects that I hate seriously, such as GCSE English Literature and Combined Science (Though I passed in that subject); my sixth form needs 6 GCSEs at grades 5 and above, including Maths, English Language, English Literature. Sixth form students are the ones who would actually grow up and be like minded, because a sixth form is owned (predominantly) by the school, so the staff do still give the same consequences.
Why they behave like this? Well, colleges usually give freedom and have less rules. Many students take it the wrong way and think freedom means they can do all the bad things they couldn't do in school; I've witnessed stuff such as drug uses, condoms everywhere etc.
With the betrayal being happened, if I was at my sixth form, I would move on effortlessly as I will be with others that were familiar from the get go and my self esteem and trust will come back immediately or may never even go. My school did got worse, but I'd rather suffer from biased policies instead of wasting time having to interfere with hundreds of strangers in the college who aren't so like minded.
Anyways, I just wanted to get this out of my chest.
What about you all? What stuff you should've known before college?

Relevant ba or malaki nahehelp ang extracurricular activities at highschool when it comes to applying for college? transferee ako sa shs so g11 and 12 halos wala akong najoin na competitions or activities other than writing ones (sa campus lang). I'm not in any clubs cause I was too anxious and scared to join. I tried reaching out pero wala akong natanggap na response from them haha ghosted. And I also quit the choir due to the same reason (I didn't have any close friends there and I felt so alone). I'm not a class officer either due to my introverted nature (usually mga extroverted and popular kids yung hinahype for officers). I'm part of the school paper pero hindi napublish yung school paper namin. I don't participate in any extracurricular activities bc I'm very shy and need talaga ng push from multiple ppl. Ito Yung mga regrets ko sa shs sana hindi ako nagpatalo sa hiya huhu.
Anyways, nakakuha ako ng slot for interview for 1 of my top 3 colleges for my chosen courses (1st and 2nd) but I have no idea how to sell myself. I'd say i'm a responsible and hardworking student. But I sadly don't have anything to prove or strengthen that claim other than my grades. Consistent honor student ako since forever and I can speak English fluently (I'd say 8.5 ish at least). Pero yun lang. I also do traditional and digital art but those skills are not related sa course ko. What do I do? How do I sell myself to them?
Ps. My 1st choice is BSA btw and the slots for the course are very limited.
tldr: I'm an average honor student who barely partook in any extracurricular activities in shs. I'm wondering if it matters. If it does then i need help on how to sell myself to the uni I'm applying for.

I think I am doing whats best for my kids and the right thing to set them up for school and succeed.
My kids go to bed a 9pm, for a few years now, as they need their sleep. They have ADHD and sleep is extremely important for them, to make sure they are rested, to help them focus, and be able to regulate themselves. They need their rest, as they are a little behind with writing, reading and spelling due to delayed brain development, in relation to ADHD.
In winter 9pm is no issue as its dark at that time, but every summer the kids go to bed when it is still light at 9pm. And when they go to bed, often their friends are still outside playing. When they are in their bedroom and look out the window at their playing friends, my heart breaks. I would love for them to play with their friends, but I think rest and school is more important. They are only in 2nd grade of primary school. But the bases of succeeding and making life easier down the line, starts in primary school imo.
I love my kids more than life itself, and when they ask me why they have to go to bed when its still light outside, I explain why they need their rest. Which for a kid is just blah blah of course. It is not causing big fights or anything, just disappointment on their end. Which is probably why my heart is hurting.
Am I doing the wrong thing here? I think I am not, but like to hear your opinion.

This might not be a big issue, but I really needed to get this off my chest. I have a good life, I really do. I could be homeless, starving, or living in a country where you would probably die by the age of 3. But why is it that I have one of if not the most potential(math-wise) in my school, yet other people get to have special programs that they can go to that they don't even care about? My family can't afford that because it's a thousand dollars for one class! Yet they act like it's no big deal, that it's nothing to care about. I would love to go to that program, it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. But they don't even care about it! It's like they never have to go through any hardships, and when I started asking them about their life, it turns out they don't! Their parents aren't divorced, they have a stable income, nobody in their family has any medical complications, and from what I can tell, they never have had a family member die! But can you guess what happens in MY life? In 2023, my family almost ALWAYS had an argument that resulted in shouting every, SINGLE, DAY! My parents are divorced, my grandfather died, my dog who had been there my whole life passed away, my cat who isn't even that old is having life-threatening seizures which my family can't pay for because it's $3,000.00 for a scan to see what's the issue, NOT INCLUDING THE MEDICINE! My parents are divorced, my oldest brother went to Texas in 2020-2021, and my dad is having to do rehab and my mom is always talking shit about him behind our backs! In 2023, she didn't even talk shit about him behind our backs, SHE DID IT RIGHT INFRONT OF US! WITH NO REGRET! The kids that get that wealthy lifestyle don't care about anything. They're often times disrespectful, don't participate in class, and really just don't have any actual effort to do things. Meanwhile me, I constantly think about my family's financial situation. I always try to be nice to the people that deserve it. The last half of the time I got to do a project on, I gave up ALL of my school free-time to go and do that! And you wanna know what my team members did on the FINAL DAY, when we could still improve our grade? Two of them who said they'd show up didn't, one of them went in but didn't do SHIT, and the ONLY ONE who actually helped started helping when there was 8 minutes left. I know that life isn't fair, but I'm trying to find some reason that this is happening to me, BUT I CAN'T! I can't find a singular reason that any of this is happening to me! I'm academically gifted, I try and be respectful and kind to others, I work hard in school, yet all of this happens to me while everybody else that I know doesn't have any issues in their lives, but in my life, apparently I just deserve all of this that's happening to me.

So of course this is about a girl. She is in my class (3rd year) and I really like her, and we text each other like almost every evening until sleep. She often asks me for help in subjects like maths and physics, and I do have good grades but she knows I never study. so I asked her why she wouldn't ask someone else, like the dude who has good grades in every subject (i would say nerd but hes a cool guy, one of my best friends). of course I told her that I wasn't asking because I didn't want her to ask me, but just out of curiosity, and I told her that I'm happy when she texts me. she responded telling me that she likes how I explain things, which is quite confusing since I'm bad at saying what I think, but I didn't ask further Couse i didn't want to make her uncomfortable. she often texts me first and at school she always tries to have some conversations with me, and also the while fucking class keeps telling us that know we like each other, and thank god (or maybe that wouldnt be that bad, its either a super good thing or super bad imo) that never happened when we were together. So, I know I should tell her my feelings and I'm pretty sure she likes me back, but there's a problem. I'm really bad at having conversations. like, I never know what to talk about, even with some of my friends, unless they keep up the conversation, and we end up in that weird state of silence not knowing what to say,but we end up laughing cuz we know its embarrassing but we accepted it for how it is. But even if I asked her and she said yes, then we would have to hang out toghether, and i would realky like it. but i know that probably, if she isnt the best talker, we would end up being silent and that would ruin it all. I get that if that happens it's both's fault, but I wouldn't surely blame her. also, I've been in relationships before, but well last one it was middle school so ye not something to talk about ig. Anyway, even in those relationships, I've always felt like I had to be perfect for her, even if she was the one that asked me out. I feel like if I'm not always perfect I couldn't be at her same level, even though she doesn't even have to try for me to like her. what is my problem, and is there any way I could avoid that weird silence and not get both of us embarrassed? also, sorry if my English was bad but I'm not a native

I just wanted to share my experience here and as I had never seen something like this and I actually had an OVERWHEMINGLY positive experience with this surgery. I realise there is luck + age(29) involved but pre-hab really paid off.
There will be a tl;dr + my final PREHAB exercises.
On march 3rd I tore my MCL (2nd degree) + ACL (full tear) + Lateral meniscus (2nd degree leision) from my MRI. I couldn’t bear any weight and upon ER visit I was given a brace.
First 30 days I wore the brace (because of the torn MCL which requires it to heal on its own) and could only put a very minimal amount of weight on my injured leg. Did that, then started PT on day 30.
Day 30 after injury - had no muscle on my leg, couldn’t bend my knee at all. Had my first PT session where they removed my brace. I started PT 3 times a week at a sports centre where they also worked with the best surgeons in my city. PT was kind of painful and started out slow but it was getting better each day. On week 2 of PT I started doing all the exercises at home on rest days, so basically I did PT 7 times per week.
Day 60 after injury - was supposed to have my surgery here but my Physio suggested to my surgeon to delay. I still went for a check up where my surgeon said he could have done the surgery that week and it was good enough but I/We declined and opted in to wait another 2 weeks of PT. At this point in time my leg was still a bit stiff but after warming up I could bend it properly. My extension was also pretty good / flat but couldn’t match my hyperextension.
Day 60 - 74 after injury - I kept going hard at PT for the last two weeks before surgery, sometimes I did PT at home twice, even went for stationary bike at the gym. At this point for the extra added two weeks, my leg actually started feeling like my own leg again. The progress, as suggested by my PT, was INSANE. Day and night difference. Some days still felt a bit stiff but I was able to lower the bicycle seat a lot, gained a bunch of muscle back, swelling in the mornings was VERY minimal. I could sleep on my side etc. I felt like a normal person again. Sure I could only walk slowly but I didn’t have ANY limp anymore, so much that car drivers would get annoyed at me at crossroads for walking slowly.
Day 75 after injury - SURGERY DAY. I went in pretty nervous but I talked to my PT who as I mentioned also worked at the clinic and was there right before my surgery. He gave me encouraging words but I was still in panic mode. My turn for surgery came, went in, had the ?partial anasthesia where you stop feeling your legs which felt super weird to me. I was still pretty nervous and kind of shivering so they asked if I wanted full anasthesia or just some sort of drugs added to my systems to relax. I said I wanted the funny thing (LOL) and sure enough, the nurse puts in the funny thing and within what felt like 30 seconds, I started laughing in my head and hearing my own voice saying funny shit like “lol finally getting surgery this shits cool haha”. It felt super weird as my anxiety disappeared within seconds. That’s when the surgeon popped in my view and told me the good news - my meniscus had healed properly (as well as the MCL) since I wore the brace for 30 days after injury and did prehab. The guys at my prehab place did tell me most times with the brace and prehab the meniscus can fix itself but I didn’t think that would be my case. So when surgeon told me I did a big thumbsup, laughed a bit and said some dumb shit like “awesome” lol. My entire 2 hour ACL surgery felt like 5 minutes after they had put in the “relax” drug. I loved it, I barely remember any of it other than seeing my leg being thrown around a bit. DEFINITELY ASK FOR THE FUNNY DRUG IT MADE ME SO CALM AND HAPPY (I never do any other drugs, rarely drink etc but this felt like getting verrrryyy tipsy right before going black out drunk usually lol). Surgery’s done, it’s a success, they send me back to my room. This place also uses drainage for 48hr so you stay in the clinic. I kept waiting for the pain to arrive but I was so buzzed up with the funny things and kept telling each nurse how good the stuff they put in me was LOL. I probably still looked worried as they kept making jokes about me being very worried and how they’d take care. They kept asking me if I had any pain and that’s when I used my REDDIT KNOWLEDGE and told them my pain was 1/10 but I heard you wanna take meds preemptively as if you feel any pain - meds not gonna work. Some time passed and they gave me the hardcore painkillers in my veins. They had some “program” where they give you stuff each 4 hours. I felt NO PAIN AT ALL. My accident felt WORSE than laying in the hospital bed post op. I kept waiting for the pain to arrive but it never did.
ONE DAY POST OP - I was playing on my switch when at about 9 AM my PT storms into the room and starts telling me to quit playing lmao. He asked me if I could do a leg raise, and sure enough I could. I knew I could because while laying down I kind of kept checking my mind muscle connection and even after surgery I could still feel my muscles. He tells me to do 25 and he’ll be back later. Mind you, 25 leg raises with a drainage and a heavy-ish brace, under painkillers that were given me an hour earlier as part of the 1 per 4 hour things. But I was able to do them.
Fast forward one hour and my PT is back. He’s telling me that we’re gonna start walking. I’m happy and get up. Immedietely a bit lightheaded so I took some water and was standing up on two crutches. They had previously shown me how to use crutches at PT, so I tried to walk as fast and normal looking as possible. To my shock, 3 steps in, my PT literally laughed and KICKED THE BACK OF MY OPERATED LEG and said “go faster nothing to worry about, I don’t gave much time here lol”. The kick kinda hurt but it made me more confident walking. I did about 10-15 steps on two crutches, he told me to not lean on them but just use for balance. Did some more steps and he literally grabbed one of my crutches and ran away laughing. Told me that I only need one and sure enough - I could walk with one crutch (and the basic support brace). He then taught me how to go up and down stairs and gave me 6 exercises to do in my hospital bed. I did them and that was it. He said “no limit on walking and bear as much weight as you can”. I literally couldn’t believe it. Day ONE post op, one crutch. I had NEVER even read a story like that on this sub. Felt crazy good to know that doing the 6 weeks PT with him saved me so much trouble. As a side note, the other patients in my room, some of which with the same doctor felt TRAMENDOUS amount of pain, couldn’t sleep, kept hearing them do little screams from the pain etc. etc. etc. I was the only one who did extreme PT before surgery from my room.
Day 2 post op - had drainage AND BRACE removed and was told to only rest up to not have any more swelling (drainage is used to remove swelling basically). So I laid around in the hospital bed, got up to the toilet a few times and could only walk with one crutch no brace and that was day 2.
Day 3 post op - I went home, managed to fit in car front seat, did the exercises I was told to do and could sort of walk one crutch only to get around even tho it was not easy and felt a bit sus.
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My FINAL PRE-OP list of PT EXERCISES in the correct order: 1. 12-15 minutes of stationary bike on the lowest possible seat where I felt no pain or light in my knee. 2. 3x15 or climbing up a stair, as high as I could. You put your injured leg on the stair, you climb up with your other leg and then put the other leg back on the ground. At this time I could do a pretty good height on this exercise and do slow negatives. The height was about 3 standart staircase steps or 3x a regular stepper. 3. 3x20 slowly walking down a stair, from as high as possible. Walking down was harder for me, so my maximum was about 2 steps high (66% of climbing). You step on the top step and use your healthy leg to touch the ground and then “jump” back up on your injured leg which never leaves the higher step. 4. 4x20 Squatting on a very low bench. Basically slowly sitting down to something as low as you can while making sure to bend your knees equally. I could do this at two steps heigh where my knees would bend quite a bit more than 90 degrees. Still felt a bit of pain here 5. Walk around for 30-60 sec instead of rest between all of these. If I had energy left, I would add in a few mins at the bike at a lower seat.
That’s it, do all of them as slowly as possible. I did these sometimes twice a day if I had the willpower and my knee felt good. Also used ice after doing them sometimes and made sure to have mind muscle connection and use my injured leg as much as possible. ——-
Tldr; DO PRE-HAB. Managed to walk one crutch only DAY ONE after ACL reconstruction with a temporary brace that was removed day two and went out of the hospital on just one crutch. Only minor pain after surgery 2/10. A bit painful to walk around and bear weight but that’s as expected. Do your prehab because others in my room couldn’t walk at all and were in agonizing pain for 3 days after surgery.
Thanks for reading, I hope this post is helpful for fellow sports lovers. I am 29 years old / 6’1 / 180 lbs, did mostly bodybuilding at the gym and bicycle.

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For the 2nd blank , I used math strategy. My thought process was that the answer to the 2nd blank would be opposite of 'specific advice' which means 'not specific' or impartial. Thats why i selected option D but the correct option is option C. Can somebody explain 🙏

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Hi everyone! I've been working as a VA for a US based ecom for almost 2 years now. At first, the work environment provided for us was really nice despite the fact that pay and benefits aren't really that great. But last year, the micromanaging has really been on a different level and have heard horror stories from co-employees that have been there longer than me that getting a proper pay raise was nearly impossible. Anyway here are some of my gripes and the reasons why I'm really considering on quitting:

• 10 days PTO "awarded" after 1 year, 2 days PTO increase every year after 1st year. Take note, those PTO days are the only ones you can use your whole tenure in the company, so if gagamit ka ng 5 days sa 1st year mo, 7 days PTO ka nalang sa 2nd year mo and the rest of your time sa company except for the 2 PTO increase. Basically, you'd need to work for another 5 years to get 10 days of extra PTO.
• No holidays except christmas and new year
• Time tracker that takes screenshots, wasn't a problem at first but now everytime may 2 consecutive scs or "gap", HR will flag you bakit ganito ganyan
• HR will also flag your unpaid time off or absences if it reaches to 20% per quarter which is a bit unfair naman as we have little to no wiggle room with our PTO policy
• 1 month resignation notice, if you fail to follow this, they will not compensate properly and will withhold pay
• Tracking KPIs using quantitative approach which again is fair, but with our EOD reports, weekly and monthly meetings, plus time tracker--ewan parang I feel like robots lang kami na dapat productive the whole 8 hour shift and required na may numbers kami to show for it, if wala edi hindi ka productive in their eyes
• Almost 2 years na ako with the company pero feeling a bit stuck cause they keep laying off people in my team. Still doing the tasks that I did since day 1 (CS and admin work) on top of higher level managerial tasks while I only got a total of 40% hourly increase in the last year and a half. 40% in hindsight sounds good pero $1.3 lang talaga yan
• Lastly, had a 1 on 1 with a higher up who said that I'm not meeting their expectations when the past 2 years I've increased revenue to basically 1300% the last 2 years and increased the number of brands from 3 initially when I was onboarded to 38 now. Adding also that when I was onboarded there was little to no training/support provided to me. This resulted in me being highly anxious and getting chest pains na because of that incident.

Tl;dr: Working for a company that I initially stayed as work environment was nice and the line of work really suited my skills but has now become really micromanaging and is now starting to affect my mental and physical health. Please give me tips on how I can quit this job immediately.

Hello all. God bless to everyone in this subreddit & more. Thank you for all of your previous help & comments.
My Dad age 60 was diagnosed back in October with “Advanced Prostate Cancer”. Gleason 4+4=8 , PSA 9.1. Localized, no spread thank God.
He got RALP in November, received a good pathology report; negative all invasions & margins.
His first PSA: undetectable, after 3 months. Second PSA: undetectable after 6 months. Now we are going into the 3rd one in a little over 2 months!
After his first PSA follow up, he was experiencing constant & persistent Right Pelvic pain (right above the right side of the pubic area). The pain was never too bad, or excruciating by any means. He said it was a 2/10 on the pain scale, ALWAYS. The pain never went away. Though, it wasn’t bad intolerable pain..it was always there at 2/10 which gets annoying & just uncomfortable, you know?
So he told his Doctor & he told him that’s unusual, he was set up for a CT Scan. His PSA came back undetectable, so it was a sigh of relief that it wasn’t Cancer, or anything suspiciously bad. However, DR still wanted to go through with a CT Scan. Told us “it could be fluid build up from prostatectomy, or some sort of fluid that’s unusual”.
He got the CT done on Wednesday, and his results were interesting, so I have a question. It said that there was NO FLUID, or any LIQUID build up, nothing suspicious, nothing bad, everything basically negative. HOWEVER, we noticed that in the CT results it mentioned his lymph nodes growing larger then last time (for EX: previously 4mm, now 10mm, previously 6mm, now 8mm, previously 8mm, now 10mm, etc etc). And it recommended a follow up in 3 months.
He will not be seeing the Doctor until June 2nd, so a couple weeks from now. But, I couldn’t find a reason as to why this happens & if it is concerning or not? Is this bad that his lymph nodes have grown?
During his recovery, after his first PSA he got Total Knee Replacement surgery, could it have to do with that? He has very low testosterone, could it do with that? Is this even bad?
Any replies, & comments are significantly & greatly appreciated. Thank you all & God bless you all for your support & help for this sucky battle us Men have to deal with. Thank you again, let me know!

hey, I recently completed my 12th exams.. wanted to know the admissions process for St. Xavier's.
-Does Xavier's have an eco hons course or only bcom hons?
-Cut off for bcom/eco hons
-Mumbai vs Kolkata Campus
-Any other good merit based colleges in North/West India (Preferably)
qualifications- completed grade 12 (98+ in commerce with maths)

So in 1st and 2nd grade, there was this girl who we'll call June.
June was friends with some of the same kids as me and even friends with my best friend.
June never liked me for some reason and would be very rude to me all through 1st and 2nd grade, except one day in 2nd grade.
It was a day at school when the parents would come to hang out and do fun things with the kids. We were assigned groups and would rotate to the next activity with the rest of the group.
I was in June's group, while waiting in line for sign-in I was behind June and her mom. I said hi and she slightly turned, rolled her eyes, and ignored me. Her mom had also turned a bit and noticed I was the only kid without a parent, she did the nice in front of ppl mom scold and gave June the face, so June turned to me and said hi back.
At first, I was actually lonely and struggling because what we were doing for some of the activities was meant for two ppl (parent+child), and June's mom noticed and would have June help me or do the activities with me since there was usually time for two rounds. Then I started doing it on purpose or I'd try and interact with her so she'd be rude to me like always, she wasn't most of the time but when her mom's back was turned or when she thought her back was turned she'd be rude to me. Once throwing a ball at me not so playfully.
Her mom made her give up her popsicle to me at the end of the day.
The next day I heard from my best friend that she ended up in trouble and was grounded from the TV. She glared extra hard at me for her whole week of grounding.
The best feeling ever especially after finding out that June's best friend didn't hate me like June, and ended up being my friend.

Hello everyone, I'm gonna start this off by saying thanks to anybody who will read this as it will be a long one, and anybody willing to offer me any advice.
PS. This post started as a post where I was asking for college advice, but as I wrote more I realized any advice would be really helpful so I changed the title a bit, Thanks in advance again!
[[ Beware: My whole lifestory coming up combined with tired midnight grammar 😅 ]]
To get to the point, I currently live in Croatia and just turned 19 a couple of months ago and a time has come when I am again thinking about college. Some background on me, from when I was very little I was always interested in engineering and art, it all started when a teacher of mine in the 5th grade of primary school introduced me to programming and robotics. From then on I was in love with everything to do with electronics, robotics, mechanics programming, and fundamental sciences, maybe even math itself, but that's beside the point. During those years the passion for all of that really grew. I went to countless robotics competitions during my time at school there and even won lots of prizes. One time I almost came to world-level competitions but sadly missed the first place by a point. When I was home I sadly didn't have much equipment for any of these interests except a computer. It seemed limitless what I could do with it, whatever I wanted to do I could make it. It's not like electronics where as a kid getting parts was difficult except from old salvaged electronic devices. I could learn and make whatever I wanted, as long as the old family computer could run it. So I started learning a lot about computers during these times like basic algorithms and some basic games random Python scripts etc. In terms of computers, I was no genius, but for the age, I'm grateful I took the time to learn even the basics of it. Other than that I was a somewhat weird kid because I couldn't really take picking off some classmates as a joke and got annoyed at it quickly when they started interrupting me while I was drawing ( My dad was an artist in his youth so I picked that up from him, been scribbling every day in primary school when class was either boring or some kind of recess ) but even though they were picking on me, I to this day still really don't mind them, we were a pretty close class at the end of the day. And that's how most of my primary school went by, me being social with only a few friends and my informatics teacher as well. Other than that I was pretty sad during those years, I couldn't understand people and was contemplating the meaning of life as well, and that combined with me inheriting some stubbornness from mom, she and I were always fighting for homework, screentime, etc. Right now we are in a very good relationship so I'm greatful for that aswell. Seeing how I didnt really talk outside of school to many people expect a few friends ( I do live in a small village so if they were the same age as me they were in my class ) i basicly spent most of my time while not staying after school in a computer club we had for few hours every couple of days a week, i was cooped upped inside my house, playing with legos, being with grandparents or my cousins or being on computer and doing some programing, scripting, photoshoping and other things you can reasonably excect a child to do. And so passed most of my primary school.
When time came to plan for highschool, I originaly wanted to go to art school, but was quickly turned down by my mother because she thought it wasnt a smart idea. Personaly didn't like it at first, but she is a smart woman so in time i understood. Basicly other then liking to draw and paint, I wanted to go there bacause my best friend from class was going there and he also wanted me to come along. ( Funny how me the least popular guy and the youngest guy in class and he the most popular guy in class while also being the oldest were best friends, but thats a story for another day ) As my mom turned down my suggestion for art school she suggested I go to a school for a Mechatronics Technician. I didnt not like the idea as well I loved everything related to it. Other than that another option was Computer Technician ( basicly a programming oriented path ) but I decided mechatronics because i said to myself i can learn programing at home because the only tools i need are a computer, and mechanics, electronics and robotics is something I dont have at home so it will be really cool to learn all of that here and so, highschool started.
Oh how fast has the reality come crashing down as I understood what the whole mess of the education system actualy was. Most of the classes didnt have any equipment to actualy do anything practical, the other small portion that did the rest lf the 95% of class didnt understand anything so we couldnt do much or what was the more often scenario is that the proffesors just didnt really care at all so we would come to class and do absolutly nothing, like literaly nothing except waiting for the bell to ring. After i realised that I just started not coming to school most quite a bit. Mostly was not comming on fridays, some wednesdays etc most of the times I was actualy abit sick, but every time i was sick i exadurated it so my mom would let me stay home. Even though i was missing quite a bit of classes, if a class had something to do with math or logical thinking ( which most were ) i would usualy either be best at it in the class or almost the best for the pure reason I was actualy really interested and loved all the cool engineering stuff. On the other side if a subject was about 0 logic, full random name memorisation like the croatian literature class, I was almost if not the worst in class managing just barely to scrape by. Other than that there was one proffesor who I admired so much for his style of teaching, as he tought me so much during the only 2 years he lectured me ( my fourth year of highschool he was out because pention ). In simply half a year we went from 0 knowledge to designing, printing, creating and soldering a whole circuit on a pcb, I was always there for his classes. On the other time we were doing something else, he always had some cool stuff prepared when i was finished with work early, he was a great guy and still respect him alot. Other than that i was really disapointed how there existed zero after school activities that i could do that had to do anything with electronic, mechanics, robotics or programing.
On the side of my social life, the summer just before starting highschool I realised this was a great opportunity to redeem myself as i really didnt want to get picked on like in primary school. So what other kind of persona would somebody come up in this situation than one being supported by my pride itself, other than that i was basicly a "chameleon" aka adapting to every person around me which was probably the reason i made some friends but it usualy tired me out completly. And so it started really great actualy, nobody was picking on me, i was socialising ( only inside of my class usualy, other than the people who went to this town from my village that i already knew, but it was a big step up for me ) and learned how to shrug of others banter by pretending it didnt effect me. It was definitly in a better possition then primary school alright, but i did realise alot of people just moving away sometimes because of how i just increased pridefulness as i got more vulnerable. I think i was able to keep my pride to just below some overflowing point as i still managed to make a few friends.
And so some time passed, at home watching more videos about everything to do with engineering, getting a 3d printer and messing with it, programing some more and even trying to learn some business, economy and more about money. I even developed a game for the school as some special thing I got by talking to a teacher of mine. Other than that at the third year, thanks to a profesor i was able to get in touch with a software development company and was able to secure an internship for basicly the whole summer, which was a blast. I learned so much new things that opened doors to alot more things. After that i focused my random "Jack of all trades" learning to be mostly focused on modern used technologies, and the needs of possible job recruiters, and well it in general. That is the point i feel i truly started learning proper programing.
More on my development of pride, in highschool and in primary school i was actualy praised quite alot and being actualy abit good at something maybe was the thing that allowed me to get even some friends by being prideful. We can call that being lucky as the stars alligned, but anyways. During those years i also had two experiences with me falling in love for the first time. The first one didnt last more than a 4ish months maybe, it was basicly a crush thing that ended in a broken heart, but o boy it was a good waking called. I wonder what would happen to me without this realisation. Then the next one lasted basicly 7-8ish months in the 4th year of highschool, and this one was much more complicated and longer, but after it i learned quite a new few things. These two things really awoken me to who i am today, as i try to live each day with as much virtue as I can. I threw out the pride out of the window, and dont really care too much of somebodies bad opinions on me, if there are currently any. I came to terms with alot of things and am just able to accept things for what they are, without judgment.
As im writing this its quite late and am tired so sorry for bad grammar i want to shorten this abit. Basicly my whole life i loved scientists, engineers and the idea of colledge. Was always dreaming of becomingba "great scientist" like albert einstein or nikola tesla but the older i got, the more things i learned, the more that dream of going to colledge got shattered by reality. As i realised the giant flaws in the education system, after learning about money and realising colledges are just big businesses trying to earn alot of money, and that that is their main motivation, combines with seeing that scientists basicly to get any money and recognition these days need to literaly hop from trend to trend, research what is "in" currently or well no bread on the table just made the academia route of my life shatter before my eyes. Seeing how i knew quite abit computers i thought i could atleast land something, but after seeing people who were much longer in the industry praise me for a impressive knowledge on alot of fields and my ability to almost instantly grasp any concept thrown at me, i actualy got a job. Well this was how I decided to start working immediatly instead of going to colledge. After weighing the options combined with the additional knowledge i got about the job market, this was an obvious choice. I believe that my key to being objective is me being realistic, so sadly i know am not some do it all genious and know i need to rely on whatever i have to use as leverage to enhance my life, so learning from Warren Buffet that out of everything I got, my time was my biggest asset. Simply being young with the above average skills i have, I believe i have a reasonably good chance to have a virtous and fulfiling life.
But i still have that burning flame in my chest, i still love the idea i had of colledge, of becoming a scientist, an engineer. I tried looking for ways to convince myself otherwise and see that i was actualy wrong about it all, but each time i look, more and more i realise my initial assumptions were right. The world is slowly moving away from official education like colledges as everything can be learnt online, because of ai the next few years are going to be revolutionary in all of these fields so either the colledge courses are going to be very outdated or just some concept of a job will not simply be needed as a diffrent one apears. The posibilities and their volatility is just so high that i dont feel even 1% safe actualy going to colledge, seeing how devoting like 5 years to it will mean loosing the onlx advantage i can use, and that is me starting out young. And as a bonus because i have a job i actualy have more time than colledge to persume my other interest like mechanics and electronics as well as actualy funds.
Thanks for reading all of this, I can trust it was quite a journey reading everything i written basicly half asleep but i hope you were able to understand everything. Im really confused what to do, as I love both options but knowing that one has a much better chance of being useful to me than the other. Any advice you can give me will be greatly appriciated, be it about college like is there an actualy good colledge in europe thats is worth it in my place, or general life stuff, about work etc. Once again I cannot thank you enough for reading this and helping me. Thanks!
Edit: I havent said much about my job because this is more of a general reddit but for people who are in the field I am a backend developer, with some freelancing and opensource contributions on the side

DISCLAIMER : LONG RAMBLING (ngl, very tempted on that non judgement flair, im a coward)
I gonna said it guys, Kaizen is way too overhated and the hate towards him is unwarranted
also, this is strictly novel only, because tbh I don't like how the manhwa portrays Kaizen. and spoilers.
now truthfully does Astelle (FML) deserve a better ML (not Seibel, just a random village guy) or just stay single? yes lol
I come to this conclusion not because of Kaizen but rather I felt that Astelle would prefers the countryside life more than being an empress.
And now onto Kaizen. From the hate comments i had seen towards him, I conclude that people are just traumatized from Sovieshu's shenanigans and how the this story and the Remaried Empress have similar premise which I can see why people would lumped them all together.
And this story opening up with Kaizen divorcing Astelle after literally the day their wedding night \ahaha* do not help at all.
Ya okay, this part on why the fuck Kaizen choose the worst time to divorce Astelle is really something that I can't defend (the author prob just use it to ramp up the drama i guess lol)
But, i do can defend on why the divorce had to happened. For those uninformed, its a plot device that it is an obligation emperor and empress must consummate their marriage even though the couple can choose to use protection (??) and the plot twist comes in that dundundun Kaizen's dad is dead literally the next day thus Kaizen's emperor reigns began.
From the flashbacks, we can see that Kaizen from the young age have always being wary of any potential threats to the throne and ironically the girl (Astelle) he was betrothed to was the daughter of said threat. So the boi had been planning to get rid those threats once he got that emperor power which also includes Astelle unfortunately.
Now, that does means Kaizen despises Astelle? No. At worst, he just wary of her knowing full well she is just a puppet to her father. If he does despise her, he could just kill her on the spot the moment he becomes the emperor.
Kaizen in a way does see Astelle as someone who is in the same predicament and Astelle who never confessed her feelings make him assumed that her feelings toward him is the same as him.
Which lead to him doing to what I can say to worse thing he done to Astelle. A very angsty teenage boi ignoring and avoiding his fiancee for their entire childhood. So surprise 2X, he doesn't know much about Astelle despite basically growing up together. And of course, he gonna assume that Astelle like stereo typically any upper class lady stuff.
Now onward to post-divorce. He did tried to give compensation to Astelle after learning that she had been kick out by her OG family and of course Astelle heartbroken, understandably rejected it which make him assume that Astelle found a decent life elsewhere.
ok now i gonna list down things i appreciated about Kaizen after did i mentioned that i binged read this novel 3 times?

1. Bro is completely and painfully aware that Astelle do not like him. So yes, he's aware that divorcing literally after the wedding night is a total dick move. So he never does force or blackmail Astelle (the divorce was mutually agreed) but just took every chance to dragged out the trip so he can hopefully convinced Astelle to stay.

Heck, he even tried to give Astelle and her new family free mansion in the capital because he's aware that Astelle is near to zero chance would want to be an empress so at least he could watch over her. (so close, so far FR lol)

1. He's very straightforward. He would always confessed that he does feel jealousy when Astelle is having good time with any other man. And expressed disappointment when Astelle wouldn't understandably trust him.
   
2. He's not completely down bad for Astelle. While most of the story Kaizen would say yes to Astelle including when Astelle is planning to work together with her father aka the worst threat to Kaizen. Kaizen doesn't let Astelle completely clouded his judgment when she request her very sick maternal grandpa and her young nephew back to the poor countryside which yah doesn't really made sense in Kaizen's POV. And he did hilariously a petty revenge on Astelle by stealing away Theo (post-reveal) by convinced Theo to sleep at the Emperor's Palace instead for a night.
   

Also, I'm not joking 99% of Astelle and Kaizen's interactions ended up Astelle hilariously rejects any Kaizen's advances. (MLs despair and desperation after got rejected by FMLs just tickled me pink for some reason. Literally why i fuckin love these type of tropes lol) And much to our beloved FML dismay, just like her stubbornness. Kaizen stubbornly would not back down.
Now this arc got me emotional the most so i gonna ramble about it.
Onward to the post-"Theo is revealed to br Kaizen's son" arc, Astelle agreed to be the empress again due to some politics stuff that I didn't remember on the condition that Kaizen must agreed to divorce her after 3-5 years later with no strings attached. (like she's had enough lmao) then the maternal grandpa accidentally reveal Astelle's former crush to Kaizen that just give even more emotional dmg to Kaizen which just lead to him to say fuck this and allowed Astelle to leave anytime she wants (and gift her a castle and even the entire East region) with the promised that he would not remarried and Theo will succeed him as the emperor. then he got poisoned. DUNDUNDUN
Now, Astelle could have just took this fine opportunity to leave but of course she didn't and Kaizen while in and out of consciousness, said "i gonna die, huh? welp rn i wanna write my last will to give all of my authority to Astelle". Bro already accepted his fate ヽ(*。>Д<)o゜. and when Astelle said to please recover quickly for Theo and for her, Kaizen literally said, "Wait, you actually want to save me?" gahhhhhhhhh angsttt gyahhhhhhh
OK FINE, i be honest, i'm just here to let out my fangirl moments (no friends moment frfr) I do not expect this incoherent ramblings of a mess would change anyone's mind lol.
on my first read of the novel (back to the ex is my guilty troupe kek) , I literally do not care about Kaizen, thinking he just a whatever ML but after looking at the comments that just 90% shitting on him even multiple times comparing to the likes of GRADE A-HOLE, Sovieshu made me thinking, he's not that bad tho, convinced to re-read again the novel and again for good measure hehe. And the guy (as evidence from the mess of an essay) warmed up to me.
As you can see, i really do like this novel. (just shows what my standards are ehe)

1. top tier FML (I don't really care for children so sorry Theo)
   
2. small cast of characters and small world building, at least make me remember all of them upon my binge read.
   
3. Politics is understandable and doesn't felt it doesn't dragged out that much.
   
4. I don't why ppl kept thinking Seibel is the 2nd ML when bro is introduced much later part of the novel. so thankfully no fuckin love triangle.
   
5. Don't really care much about Astelle mom's past B-plot tho
   

8/10

Hi, I’m currently an international student majoring in English, and I want to add a minor to my degree.
My options are: Minor in Public Administration Minor in Management Minor in Psychology Minor in Computer Science Minor in Law
I added CS to the list but I am terrible at Math (haven’t done anything math related since grade 11).
While I’m aware that a minor doesn’t really help with employability, considering the fact that my major is also generally considered useless, I’d like to increase my chances of being employed in the future… (changing majors is not something I’m considering, so I’d appreciate it if this isn’t a response).
Out of the above ones, which will be a good option? I have done economics and business in high school (A Levels) and got A’s for both subjects, so I’m familiar with the basics.

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Some of us definitely has exseed book in grade 1or2 those books artwork was quite good as a memory can anyone name the lessons of our grade 1 grade 2 English or EVs or maths or any other subjects lessons.
Here some that I remember and can't remember which grade: 1. Tinu sweets 2. Aanya and the dragon 3. Ben's Christmas 4. And what I rememberd is sleeping ox black colour sleeping and releasing 💤 from his nose I definitely remember this is from kindergarten or Upper Kindergarten 5. A monkey not able to sleep because of it's family I can't remember clearly lesson name
I hope you also name some lessons:-)

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i need to get an atar of 70 , i am averaging about 80’s in psych and health, maths and english are just a medium sitting at around 65-70% i guess and im doing a vet course. No extra subjects. if you have gotten an atar of 70 or close what were ur grades like??

As the school year winds down, I just wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the teachers that inspired me throughout my years as an Edmonton student.
Annuciation Kindergarten: Mrs. Huot. Those Easybake oven cakes were the best.
Grade 5: Mrs. Gruniger: She gave us "brainfood" aka candy when she felt like we needed a boost. Encouraged me to read for fun.
Westlawn Jr. High: Mr. McDonald, Mr. Jeffries, Ms.Quelch: first two were LA teachers who encouraged me to get more into creative writing. Last one was a PE teacher who just always stood out as someone who loved her job and the kids she taught.
St. FX High school: Mr. Wiznura made math make sense. Ms. Grover was another PE teacher who really put her all into what she did. Ms. Reducka (guidance counselor) called my mom when she caught me with a copy of the Satanic Bible (I was curious lol).
I appreciate all of these people who played a part in making me who I am.
Who stands out for you?

Just a quick warning I’m putting it all out here about our friendship, i just want to tell the truth.
I 19f had a messy relationship with my ex best friend who I’ll call Tina because she was tiny.
We met in our 7th grade math class after she was having a panic attack because of multiple things going on in her life. I comforted her and helped her escape a toxic friendship and introduced her to my group of friends. We called every night and gave each other ther the support we both needed as I was sheltered and new to everything and she was coming out of some serious mental tolls.
I was there for her even though she wasn’t always for me. I helped her through when her dad nearly died and his entire personality changed, when her mom became a single mother and Tina felt the need to step up as the other parent, and fully supported her in everything she did.
Everything was great until we hit high school. She demanded we talked everyday at school and at least an hour on the phone. I don’t mean to say she told me outright but she definitely forced my hand to keep the friendship. She would guilt trip me with fake panic attacks and swear I was being terrible to her. She also pretty much had to approve every friend I had not to mention boyfriends. The first two, granted, were asses to say the least. However, she’d look for reasons for me not to explore friendships outside of our little group.
I talked to several friends about how much this time affected my grades, love life, and other friendships and they all said the same thing, I went from cheerful and playful, to scared and there being no light in my eyes when Tina was around.
A couple years into high school I met my now boyfriend and we hit it off big time. She did everything to chase him away and even convinced me to break things off. Luckily he and I never grew apart and decided that we’d try again, but help make each other better and to keep a more open line of communication.
She tried to use the same tactic on my other friend from theater but didn’t succeed.
To add insult to injury, I wrote a children’s book and it went to a national competition and all she cared about is that she became a published author in a poetry book before I even started binding my book. I told her about my success in the hallway of a hotel while my club members celebrated all our national placements and all she had to say, “that’s cool but I won that poetry contest and I’m published now! I’m getting copies of the book on Saturday, aren’t you proud of me!”
When I confronted her about this, she said she was also proud of me but she felt I was being selfish. I won a trip to Florida and get to present the book I worked so hard on. But apparently, that’s not as important.
Now for the big conflict, in the summer of 2023, I left my parents house the night before my college orientation. I’ll do a separate story on that. The point is, I left.
She herself yes was there for me holding me as I cried about leaving my sister and helping me but what I need to couch surf for a while.
She had a plan, move me from the campus I was registered for to the one she was going to and have me split door-dash money with her and hopefully not have to live out of her car. She also wanted me to pull a hearty loan from the bank her mom worked for to pay for all this. I personally cannot do that as I’m in the middle of getting a name change and it was hard for me to even get a driving permit.
A couple months pass and the house I had stayed at for that time kicked me out. From the stress of college and getting a job I’ll admit, I wasn’t the nicest.
The day before I was told I needed to find another place to stay I got a call from Tina. She called me crying because she was worried I was going to commit suicide and I talked to her about my feelings and future. How I have so much left to do and see. Including marrying the man I love, my boyfriend. She cried about that and said I should have listened to her. I pretty much ignored it as we talked about it serval times.
I was served my eviction notice, apologized to my friends parents, and began packing my things. I get a FaceTime from her and I’m thinking that my best friend might have some words of comfort or something.
I answer the call and with my friend in the back, she starts in on me saying that no matter what, I never listen. I only don’t when it happens that I can’t or it goes against my wishes and boundaries I’ve set. She went on yelling after what seemed like hours as I zoned out and packed with shaky hands and blurry eyes. I couldn’t take it anymore so I hung up with saying, “we can talk about this when I’m sure where my next meal is coming from and I’m not scared I’ll be on the streets.”
From what my friend told me she blocked me immediately and never wanted to speak to me again. She’s blocked me everywhere even tiktok and it makes me feel bad.
It’s been months and I’ve been told that I’m not the a-hole however, I think I need an outside opinion.
AITA??