#and then there are extensions

[ryuki-blogs]

What's the average age for finishing college and finishing university where you're from then? :O

If you go to uni directly after high school (for the record, I didn't) and follow the most "traditional" system (aka you don't extend, interrupt, become a parent etc.) at most unis it takes three years to get a bachelor's degree and two more years on top of that to get master's. So in the best case scenario you can get a bachelor's degree at 23 and master's at 25.

If you want to continue to PhD, that depends on the university I believe - for example, my friend does PhD in biology and it's 4 more years on top of master's - she'll be finishing the course next year when she's almost 30.

We truly spend our entire twenties at uni over here :'D

I've heard of skipping high school and that's also completely bonkers! :O I mean, there are exceptions here but you usually have to be some kind of child genius/prodigy if they let you skip just like... a grade :'D But at the same time, we don't have middle school, we have primary school where you go for 9 years (grades 1 - 9, ages 6 - 15) and then you go to high (also called secondary) school (grades 1 - 4, ages 15 - 19).

The only comparison I can draw from is when we had an exchange student from the US for a year. She was freshly 16 and was put in our class of 18 year olds because we both were in "the third year of high school", except in different systems. I believe she also skipped a grade at home, so she was way younger than the rest of us and we were very protective of her because of that :'D

But when it comes to getting a degree, it must be said that if you go to a state funded university, all your first degrees are free. So if you don't change your course (we don't have majors, we apply directly for an exact faculty from the beginning - e.g. you apply for biology, you do entrance exams from biology related subjects, study biology and cannot switch to IT halfway through. If you want to switch your "major" you have to terminate your current course, re-apply for IT and go through the entire entrance exam process again), then you can get all your degrees for free. If you switch, however, then you pay for the new course after a while but compared to the US pricing, it's nothing. People are definitely not getting loans to study. Which is also another thing absolutely incomprehensible to us, getting education shouldn't put one into a life-long debt. It's insane.

But yeah. Hope this makes at least a bit of sense!

[hepalien]

Hey rarepair shippers, I'm about to change your lives.

The AO3 Primary Ship Search add-on for Firefox (it's called AO3 First Tag Search for Chrome) adds this little checkbox to the AO3 advanced search page

And if you check the box, the search only returns fics where the pairing you entered is the first one tagged. This is better than the otp:true operator imo because it will show fics with secondary/background pairings too as long as your preferred ship is the main one.

You can even use the add-on in Firefox or Kiwi browser on Android mobile.

Have fun 😘

(more ao3 tips here)

[liimonadas]

randomly rememebered a very silly maya content creator AU i came up with like 2 years ago. its just dumb fun haha

[deer-butch]

hey instead of bullying or scaring you into switching to firefox, let me tell you why i LOVE firefox and how my online life has improved significantly since installing it

- the setup process is easy, and even fun! if you’re using tumblr rn, you can handle it, and if you’re the kind of tumblr user who likes customizing your blog or tinkering with xkit, you can have a lot of fun personalizing really granular settings and picking themes and extensions and everything, it’s very customizable and i happily spent like 2 hours getting everything perfect.

- you can use a command line entry tool to change specific settings right from the search bar! i did this to make firefox stop auto filling my email information since i use a different password locker (which you should too! try bitwarden!), and it was easier than digging through a bunch of submenus for a setting i wasn’t sure existed. you can just turn shit off!

- there’s a preset theme called aurora that’s purple and VERY pretty

- once you get ublock origin and as many other blockers as you’d like set up, no ads, anywhere, ever! streaming sites, youtube, all the basics, totally no stress and no compatibility issues for me

- in browser screenshot and picture in picture functions!! holy shit i use these every day, the PiP is especially helpful, it replaced an extension i used to use on chrome and it’s leagues better and works on all video content pretty much

- overall better downloads management imo, it’s a lot easier to get to your downloads and find them later

- better bookmark system, with the ability to organize your bookmarks with searchable tags and assign them a shortcut you can type into the search bar to go to

- containers! you can have two accounts to the same website open in two different tabs and switch between them without having to switch accounts. also gives firefox the ability to contain facebook and their trackers, so you can click that party invite link without feeling like you just let mark zuckerberg into your house

these were just off the top of my head, i love firefox a lot and actively enjoy using it, which i never felt with chrome! please download firefox!! you will not regret it!!! where’s your fucking rage!!!!!! go!!!!!!!!!

[saintartemis]

Someday I'm going to write a book about working in museums and have an entire chapter dedicated to the weird things people have said to or have asked me. On second thought maybe I’ll make that the whole book.

[weallpartyatybcpatricksfuneral]

tttyg era where vampire pete finds ybcpatrick and takes him home. sees a fucked up kid and goes. hm you're mine now:) sing in my emo band boy

[xiaojuun]

mutuals what’s everyone’s favorite pastry … like if they have it at the cafe u simply must have it

[waspsinyouryard]

btw my entire perception of who someone is comes from their profile picture. Like if there's a cat in your pfp you're just a cat to me. That's how it is

[like-a-goodneighbor]

hey while we're on the subject of ghoul cowboys yall should look at mine

[grimalkhiindi]

I hate you shipping discourse I hate you unnecessarily aggressive DNI banners I hate you dehumanization of those you disagree with I hate you harassment over ships or favorite characters I hate you purposeful lack of nuance I hate you false equivalencies I hate you policing how people engage in fandom I hate you actively trying to make fandom spaces hostile I hate you refusal to filter your feed I hate you making it everyone else's problem

[kirby-roth]

Rule

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Broke: Lizzie died first because the Canary Curse was transferred to her via Seablings. (Boring) (Cop Out) (Implies women cannot be cringefail enough on their own merit)

Woke: Lizzie spent the entire season being ignored and forgotten to the extent that the universe itself forgot about her and let her die before the canary simply because it didn’t care (tragic!) (interesting!) (makes me want to gnaw on the walls!)

[visenyaism]

me: this test is due at 11:59pm but please do not do anything insane to get it in on time if something comes up for you. if it’s not looking likely just let me know

students in my email inbox at 11:58:

[oodlyenough]

lmao. made up with the bf i see

[popqorn]

as expected, the brilliant protagonist truly was overwhelmingly cool, awesome, insane, and badass, with a dick longer than the heavens ♡

[anna-scribbles]

just thinking abt stuff