#cs get degrees

[salmonlyster]

tiny mikey gif i made for class ouuuuuuuuuuuuughh fuck you photoshop fuck you animating in photoshop

[verdesims]

Dahlia graduated from University of Britchester with a Bachelor's degree in communications by the skin of her teeth. She's so glad that's over with...now to the next challenge.

[imakatperson22]

I hold everyone involved in making bi buck canon and then going on a 3 week hiatus at the end of the semester personally responsible for my grade in my stats course going from a B to a C.

[walkawaytall]

I'm trying to take this IT communications course seriously, but I'm supposed to come up with an audience persona for a potential customer for a fake data security product and literally all I've come up with is

Gregor, who falls in the 25-40 age demographic, has started a pyramid scheme that is rapidly gaining popularity in his home state of Utah. Obviously, Gregor wants to protect the data of his fledgling company as well as his initial investors, all of whom will likely be found guilty of fraud and racketeering in the next decade once the feds catch on to Gregor's business model.

And, like, if I were a professor, that would be a delight to read. I'd give myself an A+. But I am not a professor and thus I probably have to give Gregor a normal job.

[natalieplease]

probably will get a 2:1 in my degree and at this point that's fine by me

[6selkie]

my history and politics teachers hate me bc ive been stuck in c grade hell consistently with no significant improvement.

[maybefalsefacts]

Honest to gods thought you were telling us to be quiet and I was very confused. Like... How? Just turn your notifications off? Throw your phone out the window?

I HAVE EXAMS so will be very quiet for a while but I am still here reading comments etc. (and searching for top!Wolvie content 😭😭😭😭) and loving you guys!!

[evelili]

What's your college major (if you feel comfortable answering obviously)?

on paper? computer science. tho recently ive been feeling like this image:

[billdenbrough]

fundamentally disinterested in the recurring discourse about kevin's drinking that aims to a) make it his Specific Problem To Focus On And Overcome when it is a crutch and coping mechanism to get him through a Much Bigger Problem (emotional fallout he can't square with by himself, culture shock, trauma, loss of his extremely wildly co-dependent relationship w riko, losing the structure of the nest, mourning a future he was meant to have, processing a grave injustice, anger and fear and desperate grief, all of which is his Actual Specific Fox Problem) while he builds himself back up, and b) thinks that even if it is a problem (more on that later), it's the foxes' problem to deal with.

like. it's just not.

yeah, he doesn't drink until he meets them. they gave him that habit, and in traditional terms, they're (the monsters specifically) a 'bad influence'. but these are the foxes. this is kevin day, son of exy, whose meteor is crashing spectacularly through no fault of his own. there are no traditional terms to be found here. the framework for it literally doesn't exist. neil comes into the foxes with more conventional expectations—appalled at the athletes' substance use, his horror at matt's trip to columbia, his steadfast and early repeated stance that none of the foxes should let andrew treat them the way he does, and certainly not nicky—and tends to engage with them less as the series goes on and he folds himself into the foxes. the thing about the foxes is that they've all been in pits deeper than they are tall. and some of them got a helping hand on the way—erik, andrew's extreme intervention methods, stephanie walker—and wymack was always waiting for them on the other side, ready to throw down a rope, but all the foxes dragged themselves out of their own holes. often not alone, often not without assistance, but at the end of the day, they have to do it.

there's that line neil has about aaron in that scene that got deleted when the timeline shifted around, when he thinks about how aaron got this far in life on his own, surviving on willpower and sheer desperation. that applies to aaron in a way that's a little more acute than some of the rest of them—boy who doesn't let the foxes in bc of andrew, boy who doesn't let nicky in bc he doesn't know how, boy made of flinching and seeking an escape and grieving the one who hurt him—but is broadly true for the foxes en masse.

this isn't to say the foxes can't help each other, but it's not their job. it just isn't. they'll keep kevin alive, keep him safe, keep him flanked and contained within their ranks. they'll fight tooth and nail in this battle with him, fight to get him to that championship game, fight to get that trophy in his hands. but that's all they've agreed to. that's all they're responsible for, in this covenant they've made with him. he says they can make this happen, and they're going to get him to that final game, but it's up to him what state he's in when he gets there.

like. they're foxes. they've been triaging their whole lives. they hate each other and they hate everyone else more. they're the kids with their backs up against the wall. half of them are addicts. i don't think kevin is comparable, personally; he's getting through a horrific situation with a coping mechanism. that's not the same thing as battling yourself to stop using. but that's not really the point of this. what i'm getting at here is that to the foxes, it's easy math: kevin who can lean on vodka and andrew and wymack and the foxes to stay upright when he's not ready to stand on his own two feet is still a kevin who is standing. a kevin with one less piece of scaffolding to lean on is a kevin who falls over, a kevin at risk of complete collapse, a kevin one phone call away from running back to the master, a kevin one crucial loss away from not ever making it back to himself at all. they're triaging. this is low on the totem pole of things they have the room to care about. they very much have bigger problems, both individually and even just kevin-related. if alcohol makes seeing the boy he knew best in the world and moved in tandem with his whole life and who destroyed their entire legacy and his entire life in one move — if alcohol makes facing that boy easier to stomach, then, fuck, why would they take that away? they're foxes. they've all got their demons. this is what kevin needs this year and a half to let him face his, that's all. they can understand that. it doesn't have to be pretty, as long as it keeps him in the fight. that's the priority.

i think there's absolutely space to explore this in fic and art and fandom in a way that maybe does explore it as a Problem, both that it's an active problem for kevin & that it's something to explore other foxes helping him with (there's a t&n fic that i've been gnawing at the bit to read for months that seems poised to explore this premise, and that's super up my alley)! i just think we're in different territory when we're talking about the series—and its characters and dynamics—in a conversational rather than transformational way, and end up talking about this like the foxes are responsible for kevin's choices. i love kevin day. i read these back at the start of 2015 & he's so dear to me that loving him was the blueprint for how i feel abt kageyama. but it's been pretty weird to see how the conversation has been translating Loving Kevin Day into... thinking the foxes are doing wrong by him with respect to this in actual canon. like that's just not how it operates there

[walkawaytall]

Things I should be working on:

The giant pile of clean laundry that's been sitting in my living room for well over a week

The next bits of Purpose of Heritage

The fic I said I was going to write for the @swbigbang event

Literal homework for the literal classes I'm taking to finish my literal degree

Eating the food that I heated up that's just sitting in the air fryer

Thing that's just so tempting to work on:

An AU fic where I get to explore all of my "what if the Solos were actually very involved in Poe's life after Shara died and that contributed to Ben feeling kind of out of place in his own family?" scenarios that literally no one asked for aside for my own brain late last night

[countingdots-tc]

nothing will ever feel as good as academic validation does

[sensitive-trait]

Charlotte’s last day of high school passed in a blur. One moment, the teacher was gesturing for silence, and the class was pulling out their books for the last time. The next, the bell was ringing, and Charlotte was walking out the front door. She hadn’t studied and didn’t care what grade she got. All that mattered to her was that she was finally free.

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[recreationaldivorce]

the annoying thing abt becoming a cs student is instead of ppl being like :O how did you know that they just assume it's bc im a cs student instead. no they dont teach me that im just a nerd

[walkawaytall]

So, I'm in this online IT Communications course and the main topic the past two weeks has been tailoring your message to your audience. Last week, for an assignment, we had to come up with an audience persona where we pick a particular type of person we think might buy a fake product (we were given a choice between two fake tech products) and basically create a profile about that person. Mine was Gregor, the pyramid scheme scam artist.

Anyway, this week, the discussion board topic centers on the personas we created, and we're supposed to add some more details to what we've done, etc. And one of my classmates has used the discussion board space to straight-up accuse either the professor or the entire school of "intellectual piracy" because they're wanting this student's ideas about...speaking to a particular audience about an imaginary product.

Like...I don't know if this person had an idea similar to the fake products that were presented (which are both barely feasible and kind of terrible ideas tbh), or if they think that their methods of presenting information are somehow proprietary, but they went off about being forced to given up information for a grade.

The professor (who is so nice) responded as kindly as he possibly could. I don't know what will come of this, but this is the most exciting school has been for me in years.

[bitstitchbitch]

here’s my pro tip

everyone keeps pushing computer science without recognizing that the field is quickly becoming oversaturated. If you love CS, than sure, do that. But if you’re looking for a really marketable degree that will let you do CS but also leave the door open for other stem careers, then I highly recommend computer engineering or electrical engineering with a CS minor (optional - have an ee degree without a minor and I still work in software). You can still get a software job if you want, with the added bonus that a lot of CS people will think you’re a wizard for having a working knowledge of hardware. And as software jobs get harder to find and get, you can diversify and apply for hardware jobs. And the hardware jobs will be easier to get if you know how to code. Also, circuits are really fucking cool guys.

[screampied]

hi vEGASS

happy new year 😩😩😩

Is 2025 gonna be your year?

HIIIIII happy new year 💖.

hopefully because this year was a whole dumpster fire eheh but WE CAN DO THIS PERIOD POSITIVE THOUGHTS POSITIVE TH-