#class 12 history

[annabelle--cane]

btw, got a bit of an ask backlog of interesting podcast and vampire questions, not ignoring them I'd just like to dedicate proper time to answering once I'm past the first-week-back-to-school stage of adjusting so so badly to waking up at 8am

[sunmisbf]

the fact that i’ve been a fan of teen wolf since i was 14 in middle school n now i’m 25 n i am still just as obsessed 😭

[remyfire]

Fucking nerd has had a very specific movement of a very specific symphony stuck in her head for days on end and it will not release her

[sleepinglionhearts]

Once again I am thinking about becoming an art teacher vs. thinking about how fast I'd get fired if I became an art teacher

[kaizokuseb]

look... i'm not a youtuber. i had a very brief tiktok phase where i was mainly lip-synching to things in my backyard. so i'm aware this is an experience i don't have, etc... but i really think that if you're going to make a speech, a video, or anything even similar, you need to make sure you're pronouncing names correctly. especially if you're a white guy (like me) talking about people of color! is this really so hard? it happens so often that i'll see a youtuber add a little "i realized later that i was pronouncing this person's name incorrectly." then why didn't you fucking check first??

i just... think we should know better than this. i’ve seen people edit in a robot voice saying the word over every time they said it wrong, and i much prefer hearing that to this little "oh sorry i said this wrong :(" that's a person's actual name! do a fucking google search!!

[obrother1976]

me when i take every word in a song completely literally and have no imagination

[unch4rtedwxters]

my smartness level is a grade above me but my work capacity level is my grade and this is a horrible combination

[anarchoanimatronic]

Hi I just found out the city I have lived in all my life is apparently one of the last five three stage locations for Chuck e cheese (or something like that I'm sorry idk chuck e cheese things I'm sorry) and it feels so insane and idk how long I've followed u but ur the only person I could think of who might also get excited over this, and who could maybe explain the significance of it? Like I've been to that chuck e cheese 4 birthday parties, y is it special?

Or u could kill me if this ask is annoying that's also an option, I mean 4 personal reasons I hope it's not the option u go for but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

oh that's cool!!! i feel honored that you thought of me when you found that out lmao. i always wanted a chuck e. cheese birthday party (and i was in fact never even invited to one) so im glad you got to experience them. i love 3 stages, they're nostalgic to me. (and i once drove 4 hours to meet a friend at one in pennsylvania)

the significance of 3 stages is that if a location has a 3 stage setup, it's usually a former showbiz pizza place (though i can't remember if there are any locations that are 3 stages that weren't a spp, i feel like that's something that could have happened) and thus the animatronics are retrofitted rock-afire explosion animatronics. there's a LOT of history involved in chuck e. cheese /showbiz, a lot more than you would think, so i'm going to stop myself from going on a massive rant about it, but there are a handful of good documentaries on youtube that explain it all in depth if it's something you're interested in learning more about!!!

[bread-of-death]

Bruh I'm apparently a straight A college student so far

[shirayuki7]

One year ago, I was working on my bachelor's thesis that I had no idea would awaken such passion about the ancient world. I had had love affairs with ancient history but had never thought I could actually do anything with it. But then my advisor read my paper and told me the topic and my idea was masters worthy.

Maybe some day I'll be a published historian, rather than what is referred to as an "independent scholar" (unemployed). My desk is still my bed (although larger now), and my writing editors are still my plushies. Its messy and the organization only makes sense to me. And I don't think I would trade the experience for anything and I'm so excited to begin my masters 😚

[loversbones]

today i was like "i wish the school year was already over..." and then it hit me that it is Literally may, school is ending next month, what do you mean its already been a whole year. i'm still mentally in november i think. what the fuck happened how did i get here?????

[broke-on-books]

Was gonna post this on the ig spam I never use but decided that joke was too bad for ppl irl so uh. Here you go.

[00venator]

Hey I didn’t know that

[jcmarchi]

MIT student encourages all learners to indulge their curiosity with MIT Open Learning's MITx

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MIT student encourages all learners to indulge their curiosity with MIT Open Learning's MITx

Shreya Mogulothu is naturally curious. As a high school student in New Jersey, she was interested in mathematics and theoretical computer science (TCS). So, when her curiosity compelled her to learn more, she turned to MIT Open Learning’s online resources and completed the Paradox and Infinity course on MITx Online. 

“Coming from a math and TCS background, the idea of pushing against the limits of assumptions was really interesting,” says Mogulothu, now a junior at MIT. “I mean, who wouldn’t want to learn more about infinity?”

The class, taught by Agustín Rayo, professor of philosophy and the current dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and David Balcarras, a former instructor in philosophy and fellow in the Digital Learning Lab at Open Learning, explores the intersection of math and philosophy and guides learners through thinking about paradoxes and open-ended problems, as well as the boundaries of theorizing and the limits of standard mathematical tools.

“We talked about taking regular assumptions about numbers and objects and pushing them to extremes,” Mogulothu says. “For example, what contradictions arise when you talk about an infinite set of things, like the infinite hats paradox?” 

The infinite hats paradox, also known as Bacon’s Puzzle, involves an infinite line of people, each wearing one of two colors of hats. The puzzle posits that each individual can see only the hat of the person in front of them and must guess the color of their own hat. The puzzle challenges students to identify if there is a strategy that can ensure the least number of incorrect answers and to consider how strategy may change if there is a finite number of people. Mogulothu was thrilled that a class like this was available to her even though she wasn’t yet affiliated with MIT. 

“My MITx experience was one of the reasons I came to MIT,” she says. “I really liked the course, and I was happy it was shared with people like me, who didn’t even go to the school. I thought that a place that encouraged even people outside of campus to learn like that would be a pretty good place to study.” 

Looking back at the course, Balcarras says, “Shreya may have been the most impressive student in our online community of approximately 3,900 learners and 100 verified learners. I cannot single out another student whose performance rivaled hers.”

Because of her excellent performance, Mogulothu was invited to submit her work to the 2021 MITx Philosophy Awards. She won. In fact, Balcarras remembers, both papers she wrote for the course would have won. They demonstrated, he says, “an unusually high degree of precision, formal acumen, and philosophical subtlety for a high school student.”

Completing the course and winning the award was rewarding, Mogulothu says. It motivated her to keep exploring new things as a high school student, and then as a new student enrolled at MIT.

She came to college thinking she would declare a major in math or computer science. But when she looked at the courses she was most interested in, she realized she should pursue a physics major. 

She has enjoyed the courses in her major, especially class STS.042J/8.225J (Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century), taught by David Kaiser, the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics. She took the course on campus, but it is also available on Open Learning’s MIT OpenCourseWare. As a student, she continues to use MIT Open Learning resources to check out courses and review syllabi as she plans her coursework. 

In summer 2024, Mogulothu did research on gravitational wave detection at PIER, the partnership between research center DESY and the University of Hamburg, in Hamburg, Germany. She wants to pursue a PhD in physics to keep researching, expanding her mind, and indulging the curiosity that led her to MITx in the first place. She encourages all learners to feel comfortable and confident trying something entirely new. 

“I went into the Paradox and Infinity course thinking, ‘yeah, math is cool, computer science is cool,’” she says. “But, actually taking the course and learning about things you don’t even expect to exist is really powerful. It increases your curiosity and is super rewarding to stick with something and realize how much you can learn and grow.”  

[majorcharacterundeath]

i see a lot of posts that r like "the problem w [people] is that they were drawing in [middle/high school class] instead of paying attention" and. idk can we stop

[gaydivorcetual]

This excludes sick days that werent excused or the like