#Week 5 In Class

[shroomerr]

portrait study but its kenny

[aerequets]

when I'm pissed at my groupmates so I start punctuating my texts

[meirimerens]

[telugxrl13]

soc as a middle school au would be so silly because matthias would be the new kid who immediately became opps with a random teacher who kept giving him detentions, so he’s forced into this weird ass club with like five people to get out of the detentions and he later realizes their plans to raid the principal’s office and kidnap the candy jar or smth

[hiding-under-the-willow]

For the record, I started outlining the Ghosts AU fic today, splitting up 'episode' ideas into like seasonal arcs and such, fleshing out some of the little ideas that have been discussed around here into actual pieces of the timeline. Very exciting 🎉 it'll be sick as fuck if I ever get any free time to actually write it with 💀

[mintypsii]

guys i love them i promise i just have the urge to put them through the grinder sometimes

umm on the bright side here's the alternate good ending version lol!!!!!

[buglaur]

[pikhachu]

messy hair day

[aropride]

>see ceramics class >really want to take it >2 times offered (8am-10:45am & 11am-1:45pm) >"no way in hell im taking an 8am class on a FRIDAY 11am it is" >go to enroll >it doesnt give me the option to pick a time slot >go back and double check >it's all one class >there's a 15 minute break >the class is from 8am to 1:45pm >5 and a half hour long class >on a fucking friday

[whentherewerebicycles]

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[palecryptid]

(p5 spinoff week day one: DANCE!) 🪩

[iamthepulta]

There is a woodpecker hammering at the side of the house and it's a bold take for 10:30 am, bird.

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

Wish burnout was something I could kill. Like with a hammer

[mananea]

I'm just going to be drawing on paper for a while if it means getting me to draw at all. 2023 almost killed me. Literally.

Forgive the photo quality, paper and pencil will be all I have while I continue to recover 🙇‍♂️

Quest for pencil stubs. Let's see how many I get through by the end of 2024 :)

[srdcovka]

my french class is dying

[meirimerens]

do you simply email French colleges, and they take you in? no admission exams? no scores competition?

i mean i guess some people would prefer it go that way but can you imagine how much of an administrative bloodbath that would be?

in order to get into higher education in france you have multiple options. if you're going to specialized med, engineer, business, vet schools, you will need to pass an entrance exam. to do so, you might have to take a "prépa" [preparation] year, which is a bunch of privatel-run specialized classes which can run you some fucking moneyyyy and some students put themselves into debt over it. entrance exams are also done for most art school regardless of it private or public, such as the public one i was in for my first run of post-highshool education.

if you want to go to free public university like most (me included rn) do, in which you have a wider chance of getting into, you have to go through

which is the government online platform that regulates access to higher education. every french person who's had to use it (me included) will tell you it is the bane of our existence.

basically you have to put down your "wishes" for which branch in which uni you want to go. you have to add to them your grades of your baccalauréat [high school final exit exam] and to boost your chances a like. cover letter as to why you'd want to get in so so much. and then you WAIT. you wait for months that your submission be viewed by the professors (allegedly) of the uni you want to go to and they accept or deny you. multiple rounds of acceptation go around. once accepted into a uni, you can either accept it definitively or wait if another you you'd prefer also accepts you, with the knowledge you could be kicked off your first acceptation if someone accepts first if there are limited entrance spaces.

i know of plenty of people who were rejected from their first choice on parcoursup, and then had to fall back on a uni/class they were not that passionate about but still put in their wishes list because Parcoursup PUSHES you into high ed, even if you would have benefitted from a sabbatical, from getting a job, or from travelling. i always always say this. i can feel it in many of my classmates who were highschoolers last year, SO MANY of those people would have benefitted from getting a government grant to go travel across europe & chill for like a year. i know of plenty of people who were rejected from all of their wishes full stop because they didn't have good grades in high school. it's a goofy as fuck system which brings nothing but stress to high-school students who were (at my time) expected to study for the most important exam of their life so far alongside it (baccalauréat) [they might have changed the examination methods since i left like. 7 years ago man] and More Segregation in higher ed even if it was supposed to help with it.

even if you get into a branch with a very high acceptance rate (such as mine, who had like 90% acceptance iirc), there is a 30%-50% dropout rate for the first year only because it's so different than what you've done before.

tldr : do we wish email and no exams or score competition ? probably.

is it that way? goddess have mercy on us all No.