#like well if you tell us he Can & Will do that 50 phd project himself over a few days maybe in a semi furnished basement for taylor....

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also i’ll take one thing from episode ten and it’s that i think winston should just be openly phoning it in as his new like default mode. it’s easy to imagine he can get away with that when kompenso showed us a) he can do the work of 50 phds as a one [maybe someone who only got a masters, or bachelors, or idk right out of getting a ged but probably not. probably that would’ve been mentioned] and b) he can knock out a project worth that’ll bring in billions from an investor in this burst of maybe overly extended focus. does that now & then asked or unasked & we don’t hear about it b/c nobody cares really, mostly gets to show up having a day of paying attention to whatever the hell thing preoccupies / enriches him lately, taylor doesn’t care b/c it’s a [the numbers prove your worth / justify your continued employment] situation still, if kompenso winston gave that shit what for at a hundred percent then him vibing at twenty percent is still like having ten phds for the price of one quant, and he’s not even demanding [pay me as much that 50 phds at bridgewater would get] or if he is someone just tells him to shove it & he’s like sigh alright. not like this needs to mean he becomes like the zany sideplots guy, but i don’t think he’s getting sideplots anyways, Or treated any more seriously ever, like it’s funny they seem to have only gone “well we Gotta keep this funny little guy around” & all & people recognizing like oh got a talented actor on our hands but nobody’s pressed to give him character material, and/or already will roland may be generating character material out of thin air when you know, lot of Acting Choices that probably aren’t hammered into the script, and just that his je ne sais quoi creates the character, they had quant kid 2 in a script but didn’t have winston the recurring character until william acted that material out. but there has to be nonzero attention to The Character when if nothing else costuming has been slowly honing his outfits / standard style. and there has to be nonzero sympathy for said character when like, there’s the seeming inherent disdain that the writing has, but if it was this full-fledged “this is the guy who sucks plus we hate him so bad” perspective, some things would be different. but here we are where i’ll believe when i see it that the show will give him any material as a character in his own right rather than providing setup for someone else’s material either through saying some exposition / laying out info or by existing to let other people insult him epic style. may as well give him another genre of Humorous Material That Is Never A Character Arc by like seeing him hanging out on a beanbag by tuk’s desk, knitting taylor a sweater & telling tuk he can do it & to believe in himself, & it annoys people for a second but taylor’s like well he’s still Operating Effectively technically, & then people forget about it b/c they do like to ignore him. it’s not going to happen, but it could. rooting for him to phone it in. he could be, we’re never going to hear about his work specifics if anyone can help it b/c it sucks when he does it & nobody cares, so he may as well be doing something else, if only as a visual gag. winston at his desk soldering some circuitry, developing some photos, hm was going to say learning a language but rian took that one. Would take [winston & rian hang out outside work] from this episode too but the fact that it meant nothing, or if it meant anything it meant ultimately the vulnerability of even something like sharing an interest for a moment is a mere future weapon for rian to wield against him, so it’s just like well great, if the slivers of seeming amicability / interacting regularly that are rarely glimpsed between them ever mean anything, i’ll be surprised, not even Necessarily expecting that bulk of overt hostility from rian to necessarily get to mean anything, i.e. if winston continues to be stuck rolling w/the Normal that is rian bullying him whenever she feels like, that’ll be unsurprising. yet all the more reason to let him be like 90% of the time engaging w/some personal hobby, give him something better to focus on

[callivich]

Gallavich Academic AU Prompts ✏️📝💻🗒

Prompts for fics, headcanons, or discussion, art, etc. Interpret these however you like and feel free to use them as just a jumping off point, you don’t have to stick to the exact prompt! If any fics like any of these have already been written, please feel free to recommend them to me!

Dedicated to @zutaralesbian who suggested the idea and @metalheadmickey & @tectonicduck for answering all my questions and for all the help! (Any errors are my own!)

Ian had been looking forward to making friends with his roommate at college. He’d imagined them going through their first year together. But he might as well be living alone because he never sees this guy - apart from him being dead asleep when Ian wakes early in the morning or him sneaking into their room just as Ian is falling asleep. He hasn’t even introduced himself. Ian only knows his name is Mikhailo from the forms that came with their room. He’s a mystery. A frustrating mystery that Ian is becoming a little bit obsessed with.

Mickey had built it up so much in his head that when he finally comes out in his thirties, it’s not scary - it’s just a relief. But he feels out of place at the local gay clubs and is resigning himself to a life alone when Mandy signs him up for an evening LGBTQ+ art course. He’s nervous but he goes because at least he can try making art which is something he’s always wanted to do. It’s just his luck that he’s stuck sitting next to a dorky redhead who has no interest in art and is only taking the course because his co-workers bought it for him as a present. He wants to “have fun” and “make friends” - his words - and that sounds like it’s going to ruin Mickey’s enjoyment. Of course, he’s wrong….

Ian’s housing falls through last minute and so, along with being a new professor at a new college, he’s also got nowhere to live. It’s really not the kind of stress he needs. He’s about to put a message on the online staff platform/database asking for help, when he sees a message that was posted recently: “roommate wanted: needs to be clean and not annoying. no PHD students - just because you are doing a bit of teaching on the side doesn’t mean you are staff. two bed/two bath apartment, kitchen/living area. if you are a lecturer who likes to host student evenings you cant do it here - go to a bar. no parties of any kind. contact - Prof. Milkovich.”

Ian is recently out of the army. He’s struggling with adjusting to normal life, when he learns that Vets have their tuition waved he decides to enrol in college. But he finds it hard to fit in with most of the class. That is, most of them, apart from the loner who sits at the back of the class, rumour has it he just got out of prison…..

It’s distracting at first - that the person before Ian has written so many notes in this library copy of the book he needs to read - but then he starts to enjoy reading the snarky comments this person has left. To the point where he really wants to meet this person he hopes is a guy. And what do you know, when he looks up the previous person who checked out the book - it’s someone called Mikhailo Milkovich and he’s in the year above. Is it weird if he tracks down this guy and tells him he liked is comments? Probably. But Ian’s going to do it anyway.

Mickey has managed to go five whole years without sharing an office with any other professors. His rude personality and messy desk is enough to scare off everyone. But then a new professor arrives, Ian Gallagher, and instead of doing what everyone else did - get mad and complain about Mickey - he tries to be his friend. And Mickey absolutely cannot have that, his office is his private haven and he won’t have this annoying fucker encroaching on his space. Ian meanwhile has heard all the gossip about Mickey and isn’t about to be put off by a bit of mess and some swearing.

Team project. The term fills Ian with fear. He doesn’t want to rely on a randomly selected partner for 50% of his grade. Especially when he’s matched with someone he’s never even seen in the class. Who the fuck is Mikhailo Milkovich? Ian just knows he’s going to end up doing all the work and presenting the project alone. Still, it doesn’t stop him tracking down this Mikhailo to see if they can work together.

Mickey is on the run from a couple of cops, so when he sees the entrance to the university campus it seems like an obvious place to hide. That’s how he finds himself blending into the crowd entering a lecture hall. He casually sits down and tries to look inconspicuous. But then the lecturer asks everyone to pair up for a project and the redhead next to him, asks him if they can work together. He says that his dorm is right near the lecture hall and they can study there. As Mickey still needs to lay low, he agrees and finds himself accidentally working on a college project with a very attractive guy called Ian.

When another teacher gets sick, Mickey is ordered to step in for the weekend social studies/geography field trip. Which is fucked because that’s not even his subject. And that is definitely not how Mickey wants to spend his free time. Looking after a bunch of hormonal teenagers and sharing a shitty motel room with the new teacher is about as bad a weekend as he can imagine. Of course things get worse - they get snowed in and he’s pretty sure the kids are gossiping about him and the other teacher, Ian…..

It’s a stupid exercise, as far as Mickey’s concerned - every student is given another student’s paper and they have to read it and give it a grade. It’s all anonymous, no one knows who graded the papers and no one knows who wrote the papers. It just sounds like the professor just wants to do less work. Then he reads the paper - it’s a short story about a poor, closeted gay kid on the South Side coming out to his supportive family. And minus the supportive family part and the coming out part, it hits uncomfortably close to home. He becomes obsessed with finding out who wrote this paper.

College is hard. Much harder than Ian had anticipated. And he’s struggling to study for all his exams. Which is why he might have snuck a tiny glance at the paper of the guy next to him in his math final. He feels terrible and guilty, but it was only one question and at least no one knows but him, right? Wrong. Turns out the guy, Mickey, not only knows Ian cheated off him but has decided to confront Ian about it.

Mickey probably should have checked the time but, for once, he found himself on a roll - easily writing a paper for a class that he’d usually found really difficult. Ian was in a similar situation, ignoring checking the time in order to finish a paper that was worth half his grade. Which is how they end up locked in the college library. It’s kinda romantic, Ian thinks. Two strangers, a quiet library, nothing but the moonlight streaming through the windows. I mean, sure, they’re trapped and they have no food but maybe this counts as a meet-cute? At least, that’s what he’s thinking until the other guy tells him that they should throw a chair through the window to get out. Ok, less romance and more violence - Ian can work with that.

Ian, head of the LGBTQ+ club at his college, decides to run for student council. He’s running unopposed until some of the video game club members nominate someone from their club. Possibly as a joke, it’s not clear. Either way, this Mickey Milkovich guy is running and his platform just seems to be “do the opposite of this Gallagher guy and free weed for everyone”. Ian is seriously trying to run and he’s not going to be outdone by somebody who doesn’t care about any of the issues. Mickey, meanwhile, is kind of loving pissing off the hot redhead who’s running against him.

Trust Ian to turn up to his first lecture without a pen to take notes. He’d spent hours going through everything he’d need and still managed to forget a fuckin’ pen of all things. He feels so embarrassed asking the guy next to him for a spare one and even more embarrassed when he walks out afterwards with it by accident. But he can’t help but smile when the next lecture rolls around and the same guy just hands him a pen, one eyebrow raised, and says “name’s Mickey, by the way….just in case you needed to know, if you’re gonna keep stealing my pens.” Ian’s immediately smitten.

Mickey doesn’t know why he does it. Really, he doesn’t. But when the hot redhead who is clearly also from the South Side suddenly disappears for weeks, he finds himself asking around for the guy’s name and then, with some detective work/bribery, finding out Ian’s family home address. He delivers the class notes he’s made to Ian’s family house with a note saying he hopes that whatever has happened, Ian won’t miss out on college. Ian is touched that, when he recovers from a depressive episode, an anonymous person has not only taken extensive notes for him but also delivered them to his house. He needs to know who this person is.

Ian and Mickey are the only two scholarship students for their year. Usually there are a few more so the college has an already successfully program dedicated to making the scholarship students feel welcome. Which would be fun (probably…..maybe….) if there were more than two people. But since there are only two of them…..all the ‘activities’ seem like dates.

[ourmrmel]

Mel Feller MPA, MHR, Discusses Success Secrets for the Entrepreneur

Mel Feller MPA, MHR, Discusses Success Secrets for the Entrepreneur

 Mel is the President/Founder of Mel Feller Seminars with Coaching for Success 360, Inc. and Mel Feller Coaching. Mel Feller is an Innovator and Business Leader. Mel Feller currently maintains offices in Texas and in Utah. Currently an MBA Candidate.

  Do you sometimes feel that you could be successful if it were not for the fact that you seem to be missing that one vital clue? If so, you should ask yourself the question whether you have been ignoring that inner voice that is trying to tell you that you should go after what you are passionate about.

 The keys to success may come from virtually anything you do. Always have a concrete plan and if you work constantly to see it through, then you are sure to enjoy some good results. This is one of the success secrets. Nevertheless, the probability of sticking to your preparations increases by a lot if you are in reality enjoying your work.

  There are many differences between doing what you like and being forced to do what is against your tastes.  The success secret is not something that you cannot find. A good planning and executing can ensure your success.

  If you actually derive enjoyment from your career activity, then your success secrets are likely to be popular with your readers. You will automatically expend more time and effort and concentration than you would if you hated your job and all its associated tasks. You also will not be tempted to procrastinate, since you will think of future work with great anticipation. Ideally, you will be having so much fun that you will not really think of it as work at all.

  It is better to let the things happen in their due course than rather to rush out for the outcome. Certain objectives might take a longer time to fulfill but after it is accomplished, the level of satisfaction derived from its completion is much more. Therefore it is important, to concentrate whole-heartedly, on reaching to the level of perfection and contentment, in the task undertaken and not just performing it for the sake of it.

  You will also have more fun while you are doing what you love. Have you ever accomplished something, which was exceedingly hard and exhausting? By the time you finished you were perhaps too weary and thankful that it was completed to completely enjoy the feeling of achievement that you would have experienced otherwise. With the things you really care for, you will have more fun while doing it, and is sure to get a much nicer feeling after you complete it.

 However, history is full of people who noticed a chance to be successful at a particular project, and they put their best efforts into it and were successful in wealth creation, although they did not actually love what they were doing. Two of the most important success secrets are dedication and willpower. In fact, let us look at the effect of willpower on our decision making process.  I have found this a subject that we must look at especially as entrepreneurs.  

 Have you ever wondered why many smart, dedicated people lose control of themselves and make bad choices?  For example, consider the steadfast, straight-as-an-arrow student who binge drinks on the weekends. On the other hand, consider the hardworking, straight-laced executive who reveals himself a reckless gambler. It is a complete shift in character. Willpower becomes depleted until the individual is unable to withstand temptation. He becomes a slave to his vices.

 Roy F. Baumeister refers to this predicament – essentially, making terrible choices – because of “ego depletion,” not simply “willpower depletion.” When our willpower is depleted, our identities are the next thing to fall apart.

 Admittedly, none of this knowledge does us any good unless we can do something practical with it. You cannot just announce to your boss or staff on Monday morning, “We need to take a break. My ego is depleted.”

 So what can you do about it? How do you harness willpower and use it to your advantage?  Here are some things that have come up in my research.

 Keep Your Blood Sugar Stable

 One of Baumeister’s students, Matthew Gailliot, PhD, did a study and discovered that certain foods can boost self-control. It turns out that acts of willpower use – and deplete – glucose stores. Therefore, you need to restore your glucose to give your brain the fuel it needs for further acts of willpower.

 How? Eat meals that contain plenty of quality protein and healthy fats. Both will help you to stay satiated throughout the day so you will not go foraging for sugar-bomb snacks.

 You also need to get your rest! When you‘re fatigued, your brain operates like you‘re inebriated. The more fatigued you are, the less efficient your body puts glucose to work. When you‘re well-rested, your body uses glucose more efficiently, leaving more available when you need to exert willpower.

 Don’t Overwork Yourself

 Our society prides itself on its work ethic. Recall the last time you heard someone say, “I’ve been working like a dog lately.”

 The individual might be looking for sympathy. But more often than not, there’s also a sense of achievement underlying the claim, as if putting in long hours is worthy of admiration.

 The irony is that putting in long hours is a recipe for burnout, the mortal enemy of sustained productivity.

 Working hard can be useful. However, it’s more important to work smart. Look for ways to get more done with less time and effort. Doing so will preserve your willpower “account” for other tasks.

 Take Frequent Breaks

 You do not need me to tell you that taking breaks is important. Many studies have demonstrated as much. Breaks help us to stay focused. They also help to keep boredom at bay.  In addition, importantly, breaks save us from having to make decisions. Making decisions leads to decision fatigue, which slowly erodes willpower.

So how often should you take breaks? Moreover, how long should each one be? That is up to you. Everyone is different. The key is to determine an optimal schedule that accommodates your workflow and ability to focus. Maybe you need a 5-minute break after 30 minutes of focused work. Perhaps you need a 10-minute break after every 50 minutes of work

 The point is that you avoid keeping your nose to the grindstone. Take regular, frequent breaks. You will find that doing so leaves you with more willpower that can be put to use when you need it.

 Delegate Decisions

 Baumeister’s study added another nuance to our understanding of willpower. It is not just work for which we use willpower, but also decision-making.

 Remember, the factor that depleted the students’ willpower – and consequently, demolished their ability to complete the geometry puzzles – in the aforementioned study was not the puzzles themselves.

 It was their decision to resist eating the cookies.

 I mentioned decision fatigue, along with its effect on willpower, above. The more decisions you make, the more withdrawals you make from your willpower “account.”

 Delegate decisions whenever possible, especially if you‘re in a leadership position. Leadership isn’t just about making decisions; it‘s about picking people you can trust to make lower-level decisions for you.  Save your willpower for the big items.

  Implement “If-Then Planning”

  Personally, Iam a planner. I sometimes joke with my girlfriend that I have a Plan B, Plan C, and Plan D for every situation. When I was in college, I used to drive with a book by my side just in case I broke down and needed to wait for a tow truck!  It sounds ridiculous (and admittedly, it was). Nevertheless, it illustrates an important point: we can plan for unanticipated events, and thus save ourselves the trouble of making decisions under stress.  However, I did use it!

  Why is that important? Because making decisions when you are stressed depletes your willpower faster than doing so when you are relaxed.  Bottom line: always have a Plan B.

  Meditate

 Most of us have a natural aversion to the idea of meditation. I use to. Nevertheless, I have found that spending a few minutes doing nothing more than focusing on my breathing and being present has a remarkable effect on my focus.

  There is even research that shows meditation can help prevent relapses among recovering alcoholics. It takes an astounding amount of willpower to fight addiction of any kind. Studies show addicts have better success resisting their respective vices when they meditate. It is no wonder so many alcohol and drug rehab programs include meditation as part of the treatment!

 How and why does it work? It has something to do with the act of releasing your thoughts. When you meditate, you set aside problems looming over your head. Instead of actively working out solutions, you give your brain a break.

 Doing so makes a deposit into your willpower “account.”

  Here is what we know about willpower.  It is a limited resource. It gets used up, little by little, with every decision you make.  Do not think of that as bad news. On the contrary, it is empowering. Once you recognize its limits, you can come up with a strategy that allows you to fully leverage it.

  However, the keys to success can be found in almost any activity. Put a solid plan together and stick to it till the end and you are likely to be successful. That is one of the most important success secrets.  Control willpower and look at the main key of success.

  The ultimate key to success is having a clear outcome in mind. What do you want? What is your purpose for trying to achieve this goal? With an outcome in mind, you can then start thinking about the steps needed to get there. You have to take massive action to turn your goals into reality. Although there is a lot of work you need to do on your own, you should also turn to the people in your life who have already achieved success. What can these people teach you? What can you learn from studying their path to success?

 Success often seems like a gift given to others. What else explains the effortless way they round up achievements while you look on? What is the key to success that they have picked up, but you can’t find?

  The truth is these successful individuals are not lucky, they have just hit upon a strategy that works for them and are engaging it when they make their decisions. In addition, you can do exactly the same thing, provided you are willing to put in the work and time it will require. By turning to the successful people in your life and studying their path to success, you can emulate their efforts.

  At its core, modeling is selecting a person you admire, studying the methodology behind their success and creating a similar path for yourself. This technique is one of the best keys to being successful, and can be successfully deployed in almost every aspect of your life. If you want to be successful, there are three secrets for turning your dreams and goals into reality that involve modeling the best:

  Select the right person

  Look for someone who is already successful in your chosen field, or someone who has created the kind of life you want to live. There is no need to reinvent the wheel here. Look into their history and their rise to the top. How did they get to where they are today? What kind of obstacles and setbacks did they face, and how did they overcome them? What are their philosophies about their life and their work? Use this information to build a path that mirrors theirs.  

  Ask for help

  No matter what it is you are after, someone has already beaten you to it. If it is someone, you already know or have a connection to, so much the better. You do not just have to study them from afar to learn how they found the key to success; you can ask them to share their experiences with you, and perhaps guide you along the path to your own achievements. Understand that their time is valuable and offer a way to add value to their life while they assist you. If this is a friend, it could be as easy as taking them to dinner every month. If it is an acquaintance, perhaps you will take on extra yard work or provide technical assistance.

  Create a strategy

 Those who have succeeded before you have done so because they followed a plan, and you can do the same thing. As Tony Robbins says, “Success leaves clues.” Develop a strategy that works and follow it. Your strategy may be quite similar to what the person you are modeling it on did, or it may be adjusted for your present circumstances.  

 Modeling is absolutely a key to success in life.

  Mel Feller, MPA, MHR, is a well-known real estate, business consultant, personal development consultant and speaker, specializing in performance, productivity, and profits. Mel is the President/Founder of Mel Feller Seminars with Coaching For Success 360, Inc. and Mel Feller Coaching, a real estate and business specific coaching company. His three books for real estate professionals are systems on how to become an exceptional sales performer. His four books in Business and Government Grants are ways to leverage and increase your business Success in both time and money! His book on Personal Development “Lies that Will Sabotage Your Success”. Mel Feller is in Texas and In Utah.

[whoinwhoville]

Lab Mates

Okay, I decided to post this here in case you don’t have access to AO3. I know this is a bit of self-promotion, but I’m really proud of this fic. And for some reason, you guys really like it, and it makes me SO HAPPY to give YOU a smile! There are too many sad things in the world right now, and I just want to make the world a little bit brighter.

Ten x Rose Martha Jones Rated All Ages University AU, Professor x Student AU (but no hanky panky), Lab Partners AU, texting fic, UST, mutual pining,

Tuesday September 27

8:42 pm - HoppingForMyLife Hi. Your lab partner here. Name’s Rose. You weren’t in lab when we were given partner assignments. So here’s me, and you have my text now. We need to get going on this project. Sounds like a bugger.

8:42 pm - Doctor10 ???? Which class ???? I’m taking 5 classes this term.

8:42 pm - HoppingForMyLife Blimey. 5? RLY? That’s a lot. I’m in 3. But it’s Psych 221 since you asked.

8:42 pm - Doctor10 Oops forgot that one. when/where?

8:43 pm - HoppingForMyLife Psych building, L400 T/Th 6:05

8:44 pm - Doctor10 Done and on my calendar C U tomorrow

8:44 pm - Doctor10 Thx

8:45 pm - HoppingForMyLife bye

oOo

8:45 pm - HoppingForMyLife Think I got a clunker of a psych lab partner

8:45 pm - PreMed&Dead BIGHUGS guy or girl?

8:45 pm - HoppingForMyLife dunno no profile pic on text. and forgot to ask name. who forgets first day of class? and who takes 5 classes?

8:46 pm - PreMed&Dead 5 classes????????? he’s either a genius or cray-cray.

8:46 pm - HoppingForMyLife gotta go m tired and have my first physics lecture @ 7 am. ugh ugh ugh ugh. :barf face: and i signed up for physics why?

8:46 pm - PreMed&Dead cuz Jack said the prof is hot and u need a science to grad

oOo

8:49 pm - HoppingForMyLife hello doctor10. forgot to ask your name.

8:50 pm - HoppingForMyLife hello u there?

8:50 pm - HoppingForMyLife i’ll see you tomorrow. I’m blonde and wear a pink hoodie.

oOo

Thursday September 29

7:35 pm - HoppingForMyLife partner no show. again. maybe dropped? only one person left to partner with. looks creepy. old guy. like 80. only has one eye - other one all covered with shrivelled up eyelid. :shudders sticker: and he talks to himself.

7:35 pm - PreMed&Dead sorry.

7:35 pm - HoppingForMyLife i don’t have an idea for the project either.

7:35 pm - PreMed&Dead you’ll think of one. more important is psychics prof as hot as Jack says?

7:35 pm - HoppingForMyLife YOU. HAVE. NO. IDEA. I’m still fanning myself. Good thing no teaching today because I didn’t hear a word he said. :heart eyes emoji:

7:35 pm - PreMed&Dead Niiiiiiice

7:35 pm - HoppingForMyLife u still at SBux? i took pic of him and he may or may not be my homescreen pic

7:36 pm - PreMed&Dead hot for teacher?

7:36 pm - HoppingForMyLife ha ha. thx for ear worm Mar. c u in 10 and if u r good will show you the pic of my future husband.

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Friday September 30

8:05 am - HoppingForMyLife martha! helpmehelpmehelpme i just got out of my physics lecture and i’m dead i’m dead i’m dead and in love or maybe lust how am i ever going to pass physics when the prof is so gorgeous that i just can’t even… all i do is stare at his lips and hips and his hair and guh. everything. he talks and talks and talks and all i hear is the ringing in my ears from the blood rushing from my brain. except when i’m listening to his velvet voice of sex. and he wears these glasses. and a suit. and it’s tight. and his tie. i just want to grab it and pull him down to my lips. i’mdeaddeaddeaddead

8:05 am - PreMed&Dead At least you’ll die… happy?????

8:05 am - HoppingForMyLife here’s a new pic. rear view. i will be forever thankful that he uses an old fashioned chalkboard instead of smartboard.

8:05 am - PreMed&Dead :drooling:

8:06 am - HoppingForMyLife did i tell you I’m gonna marry him?

8:06 am - PreMed&Dead a time or ten. but what if he’s a jerk? or dull? physics, Rose. pretty dull stuff.

8:06 am - HoppingForMyLife impossible.

8:06 am - PreMed&Dead heard from psych lab deadbeat?

8:06 am - HoppingForMyLife nope. sigh…

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Tuesday October 4

8:10 pm - HoppingForMyLife Doctor10, i rllllly need to know if you are still in psych lab. u have missed 3 labs now. Need new partner if u dropped.

8:10 pm - Doctor10 I. Am. SO. SO. SOOOOOOOO SORRY. Got tied up with papers. can we meet today? i promise i am a responsible adult AND i’m a genius.

8:11 pm - HoppingForMyLife humble too. maybe psych test subject should be u? god complex? u r taking 5 classes after all.

8:11 pm - Doctor10 u wound me :brokenheart:

8:11 pm - HoppingForMyLife let’s meet today. library?

8:11 pm - Doctor10 my second home. i’m already there. on second floor. i have a standing reservation for study room 2B.

8:12 - HoppingForMyLife ok if I come over now?

8:12 - Doctor10 yep. looking forward to meeting you. oh, and I’m John by the way.

8:12 - HoppingForMyLife Hello John. :goofy tongue smiley:

8:13 - Doctor10 Goodbye Rose. :happy smiley:

oOo

10:32 - HoppingForMyLife i have a problem. world-ending bad.

10:33 - PreMed&Dead Adam got that promotion to shift manager and you’ll have to work for him?

10:33 - HoppingForMyLife worse. much worse.

10:33 - PreMed&Dead SPILL

10:34 - HoppingForMyLife met my lab partner.

10:35 - PreMed&Dead one-eyed guy?

10:35 - HoppingForMyLife Gorgeous physics prof.

10:35 - PreMed&Dead . . .

10:35 - PreMed&Dead That IS bad.

10:35 - HoppingForMyLife And he’s not a dud. or a jerk. at least I don’t think he is. please don’t be please don’t be please don’t be.

10:36 - PreMed&Dead still gonna marry him?

10:36 - HoppingForMyLife yep.

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Wednesday October 12

5:32 pm - Doctor10 Hello Rose Tyler. Something’s been bothering me since we met, and then again all during lab yesterday. and I’ve been thinking and thinking and thinking. And then it hit me. I know you. You’re in my intro to physics class! You always sit in the front row, right in the middle.

5:33 pm - HoppingForMyLife yep. that’s me.

5:33 pm - Doctor10 why didn’t you say something?

5:40 pm - HoppingForMyLife because I’ve requested a transfer out.

5:50 pm - Doctor10 Oh. Aren’t I a good professor? Am I boring? A dullard? Obtuse?

5:51 - HoppingForMyLife No. U R a great professor. I have a heavy class load and your class is very challenging.

5:51 pm - Doctor10 If you need help, I’m there for you! I have office hours! Come by any time!

5:55 pm - Doctor10 U there still?

5:55 pm - HoppingForMyLife Yeah.

5:55 pm - Doctor10 Is this because we’re lab partners? And you’re worried it’ll be awkward?

5:56 pm - HoppingForMyLife yes

5:56 pm - Doctor10 Don’t worry. I grade all of my assignments by student ID. Completely anonymous I don’t know whose paper is whose. And I’d miss your cheerful face every morning. :happy smiley:

6:02 pm - HoppingForMyLife I’ll think about it.

oOo

6:03 pm - HoppingForMyLife Heeeeeeelllllllp

6:03 pm - PreMed&Dead Again? What’s up with Prof SexyHair this time?

6:04 pm - HoppingForMyLife I got a 52 on my first physics assignment. I can’t concentrate.

6:05 pm - PreMed&Dead You HAVE to go to his office hours Rose!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Imagine he’s one eyed creepy guy.

6:06 pm - HoppingForMyLife :headbanging on desk gif:

6:07 pm - PreMed&Dead You can do it. You can do it. I’m here for you. You can do it.

oOo

Friday October 14

8:34 pm - Doctor10 I have an idea for our project.

8:34 pm - HoppingForMyLife another one? this is your 5th i think.

8:34 pm - Doctor10 8th idea. double-blind of course. NO! triple-blind.

8:35 pm - HoppingForMyLife triple? I don’t think that’s a thing. r u always such an overachiever?

8:35 pm - Doctor10 i take my work seriously Rose Tyler.

8:35 pm - HoppingForMyLife so what’s your brilliant idea?

oOo

Sunday October 23

6:30 pm - PreMed&Dead What did Dr. SexySuit say when you asked him why he’s taking classes when he’s already a professor AND has a PhD? And why psych??? He’s a physicist.

6:30 pm - HoppingForMyLife Said he wanted another degree. His third. THIRD. that’s 3. And you know what this one is in? Fine Arts! He’s taking history of medieval choral music, classical sculpture, and learning how to play the pipe organ. And modern dance.

6:31 pm - PreMed&Dead WHUT?

6:31 pm - HoppingForMyLife The psych class is so that he can “better understand the human condition and transfer that into my study of the physical world.” That’s a quote.

6:32 pm - PreMed&Dead If you weren’t so in love with him, I’d hit that. In fact, don’t turn your back, Rose. I might try anyway.

6:52pm - HoppingForMyLife :side eyes smiley:

6:32 pm - PreMed&Dead JK

6:32 pm - HoppingForMyLife Like I would ever even have a chance with him. He’s probably got some amazing girlfriend with a PhD or two just like him.

6:33 pm - PreMed&Dead Has he ever mentioned anyone Rose?

6:33 pm - HoppingForMyLife No. But I’ve never asked either.

oOo

Wednesday October 26

8:04 pm - HoppingForMyLife Martha, the subject actually moaned. MOANED. And it wasn’t the first time. i didn’t mention it before because i thought it was an anomaly. thought maybe she had indigestion or something.

8:04 pm - PreMed&Dead And tell me again why you agreed to this particular study?

8:04 pm - HoppingForMyLife How was I supposed to know that the test subjects would get so worked up! Right there in the lab! Doesn’t anyone have any self-control? I’d be humiliated if I moaned as a test subject during a psych experiment! It sounded completely innocent when he described it!! Well, not completely innocent. But my point stands. Moaning. And panting. In a lab. In front of people. It’s just chocolate! And a piece of silk!

8:05 pm - PreMed&Dead Uh, and handcuffs. And a blindfold. And didn’t you tell me you had a dream about that very same chocolate and a silk necktie and handcuffs and blindfold and Prof SexySpecs just the other night?

8:05 pm - HoppingForMyLife :blushing smiley: Maybe we should add a second element? Put him behind one-way glass?

8:05 pm - PreMed&Dead Results are results. And science doesn’t lie. It’s all about the data Rose.

oOo

Thursday November 3

9:00 pm HoppingForMyLife Moaning Myrtle is 10 for 10. That’s not her name of course. Just for the record. You reading this MI-5?

9:01 pm PreMed&Dead :smiling in sunglasses emoji: At least your results data are consistent.

9:01 pm HoppingForMyLife I sorta just roll my eyes now. Not sure I’d fare any better. He didn’t wear a tie today. Had this layered t-shirt and henley thing happening. And cut his hair shorter in back and spiked it up front. It. Is. HOT.

9:01 pm PreMed&Dead I dare you to give it a good tug.

9:01 pm HoppingForMyLife In my dreams. He doesn’t have a girlfriend BTW. Told me that today.

9:02 pm PreMed&Dead And you’re just telling me this NOW?

9:02 pm HoppingForMyLife He asked me if I had a boyfriend, and I said no. And then he tells me he’s not seeing anyone either. I just stood there chewing my stupid lip. Didn’t say a thing. And then he turned around and left.

9:02 pm PreMed&Dead Oh Rose. sigh

oOo

Wednesday November 30

5:05 pm - HoppingForMyLife I GOT A 98 ON MY PHYSICS EXAM!

5:05 pm - PreMed&Dead You go girl! :party emoji:

5:05 pm - HoppingForMyLife He’s a really great teacher. And I mean that. He helped me understand something that was a complete mystery.

oOo

Wednesday December 1

6:02 am - HoppingForMyLife Remember how I told you he’s been acting weird the past few days? really quiet. About 2 this morning, my mobile rings. It’s him. Middle. Of. The. Night. He asks me about my Christmas plans. If I’m staying in town, going back home, working… And then he asks me if I’m taking physics winter term.

6:02 am - PreMed&Dead Like a real live voice? Not a text?

6:02 am - HoppingForMyLife TALKING in that amazing gorgeous sexy voice of his. I tell him I’m staying around to work until Christmas Eve and that I have a psych internship planned, and no physics cuz I need to focus on my major and he says oh good. and then he hangs up.

6:03 am - PreMed&Dead Just hangs up?

6:03 am - HoppingForMyLife Just hangs up.

6:03 am - PreMed&Dead Ask him what he’s doing over Christmas.

6:03 am - HoppingForMyLife I can’t do that.

6:03 am - PreMed&Dead Yes you can.

6:04 am - HoppingForMyLife He. Is. My. Professor.

6:04 am - PreMed&Dead It. Is. A. Conversation. AND he is your LAB PARTNERRRRRRR.

oOo

Saturday December 3

11:05 pm - HoppingForMyLife I sent you the data did u get it?

11:05 pm - Doctor10 Yep

11:05 pm - HoppingForMyLife And… ????????

11:06 pm - Doctor10 Not the results I expected.

11:06 pm - HoppingForMyLife How’s that? We proved the theory. Did you want to disprove it or something?

11:11 pm - HoppingForMyLife U there?

11:11 pm - Doctor10 Yep.

11:13 pm - Doctor10 I have some thinking to do. We can start working on the conclusion piece tomorrow.

11:13 pm - HoppingForMyLife K. Bye.

11:13 pm - Doctor10 Nighty-night sleep tight with sweet chocolate dreams. I know I will.

11:15 pm - Doctor 10 For the past 8 weeks it’s been chocolate chocolate chocolate.

oOo

11:17 pm - HoppingForMyLife Martha. MARTHA. Look what he just texted me.

11:17 pm - HoppingForMyLife :screenshot:

11:17 pm - HoppingForMyLife What does that even mean? HE. IS. KILLING. ME. And I think he’s clueless, too. He’s been as friendly as can be. FRIENDLY. And now this. Is it flirty? Or friendly? It’s all how you read it.

11:17 pm - PreMed&Dead he’s a professor and you are his student. Assume it is friendly. Now what the two of you get up to in your dreams… :saucy wink smiley: :smiling devil smiley: :chocolate bar emoji:

11:18 - HoppingForMyLife :heart eyes smiley:

11:18 - PreMed&Dead Still gonna marry him?

11:18 - HoppingForMyLife yep.

oOo

11:25 - PreMed&Dead Rose… did you notice the timestamps between the last two messages???????!!!!!!!!

11:25 - HoppingForMyLife So?

11:25 - PreMed&Dead You’re the psych major. You figure it out.

11:25 - HoppingForMyLife 11:13 nighty night 11:15 chocolate chocolate chocolate :wide eyed blushing smiley: Was he flirting with me?

11:25 - PreMed&Dead :rolling eyes gif:

11:25 - HoppingForMyLife HE WAS flirting with me. I didn’t respond, and he backpedaled. I am such an idiot.

11:25 - PreMed&Dead You may be an idiot, but there are only one week of classes left. In one week the two of you can be idiots together.

oOo

Saturday December 10

4:55 pm - HoppingForMyLife Professor Smith. This is a physics thing. Not a psych thing. And I apologize if this isn’t appropriate. I mean texting you because we’ve only ever texted for psych. Never for physics.

4:55 pm - Doctor10 I don’t see a problem Ms. Smith. :regular smiley:

4:55 pm - Doctor10 HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA MS. TYLER. T Y L E R. :regular smiley: :regular smiley: Damn autocorrect.

4:55 pm - Doctor10 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

4:56 pm - HoppingForMyLife ha ha ha. I wanted to thank you for all of your help. I couldn’t have passed your class without it, let alone with a 95.

4:56 pm - Doctor10 You were the 95! Only gave 2 grades above a 90. Brilliant! I knew you had it in you! Congratulations! You deserve a celebration! :balloons and confetti gif:

4:56 pm - Doctor10 Taking off Professor Hat putting on Psych Lab Partner Hat. ROSE TYLER! WE GOT PERFECT MARKS ON OUR CHOCOLATE STUDY!

4:56 pm - HoppingForMyLife WE DID???????!!!!!! How’d you find out?!!!!????!!!!!! I didn’t think the final grade would be released for a week.

4:56 pm - Doctor10 I may have used my Professor Smith powers of genius to get into the grading system. Shhhhhh! Don’t tell anyone.

4:56 pm - HoppingForMyLife I won’t. YAY! HUGS HUGS HUGS HUGS!

4:56 - HoppingForMyLife And those text hugs are to you as my lab mate, not to you as my professor. In case anyone’s reading this.

4:56 - Doctor10 Molto bene.

oOo

4:56 pm - HoppingForMyLife calmingbreathcalmingbreath. Read this screenshot

4:56 pm - HoppingForMyLife :screen shot of conversation with the 'Ms. Smith' typo circled in red:

4:56 pm - HoppingForMyLife :X eyes emoji face: I’m dead. DEAD. What do I say to this? Just a typo? But his HAHAHAHAs! He's obviously embarrassed. And then the two smileys! They are casual smileys! Not embarrassed smileys!

4:57 pm - PreMed&Dead two things come to mind. 1: he has practice written your name so many times as Ms. Smith on his three ring notebook and put hearts around it along with JS + RT = LOVE that it is second nature to write Ms. Smith. Or...... He has Freudian slipped Ms. Smith so many times that he can't even type Rose Tyler anymore. Because there is no possible way that TYLER would EVAH autocorrect to SMITH.

4:57 pm - PreMed&Dead or it could be a third thing. He's subtly proposing. You have told me about a billion times that you're going to marry him, you know.

4:58 pm - HoppingForMyLife Ha ha ha ha. So not autocorrect?

4:58 pm - PreMed&Dead :Antione's You're So Dumb gif:

4:59 pm - HoppingForMyLife  A+ gif usage. That’s my fave gif. Hide yo kids hide yo wife hide yo kids hide yo wife

4:59 pm - PreMed&Dead Thx for the earworm. We gon find you we gon find you

4:59 pm - PreMed&Dead And by the way, YOU ARE SOOOOO IN LOVE

4:59 pm - HoppingForMyLife (((whispering))) I may have text-hugged him too.

5:00 pm - HoppingForMyLife :screen shot of hugging part of the conversation:

5:00 pm - HoppingForMyLife But only cos we nailed the project.

5:00 pm - PreMed&Dead Riiiiiight. text hugs. cos they don’t count. :massive eye rolling emoji:

5:00 pm - HoppingForMyLife Wish you were here so I could hug YOU.

5:00 pm - PreMed&Dead Awwwwwww.... Hugs right back. See? text hugs are real.

5:00 pm - HoppingForMyLife I AM pretty proud though. didn’t even’t think I’d pass physics. He told me I deserved a celebration. he’s right! I do deserve a pint or two! He said he didn't know that the one 95 that he gave in his class was to me. Only had two students even in the 90s.

5:01 pm - PreMed&Dead Here’s what you’re gonna do. Tell him you’ve taken his advice and you’re gonna celebrate passing physics AND for getting perfect marks on your psych project with some friends you down at McKenzie’s. But we will come later. But don’t tell him that. And we’ll come down when you text. If you even WANT us there.

5:01 pm - HoppingForMyLife I’m biting my fingernails. Literally.

5:01 pm - PreMed&Dead Don’t. Now put on that sexy red wrap dress and keep my posted.

5:01 pm - HoppingForMyLife Wish me luck.

oOo

4:56 pm - HoppingForMyLife Hi. I’ve decided to take your suggestion and celebrate. Both things. Physics AND Psych. I’ve invited some friends to meet me at that pub on the corner of Winston and Main. McKenzie’s. You know that one, right? And I think I’ll arrive around 8:00.

4:56 pm - Doctor10 That is an excellent plan. 8:00 is a fine hour to start a celebration.

oOo

8:25 pm - HoppingForMyLife He’s didn’t come, Martha. :single tear emoji: I suppose he was just being friendly. And stupid. And perfect. And flirty. And one of those blokes who is clueless about his effect on women.

8:25 pm - PreMed&Dead I’m sorry. :hugging friends emoji:

8:25 pm - Doctor10 Rose… I’m a bit embarrassed, and nervous to ask this if i’m being honest because I have no idea what you are going to say. Here goes. can I come to your party?

8:25 pm - HoppingForMyLife Standby Mar! He just texted me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8:26 pm - PreMed&Dead SQUEEEEE!!

8:26 pm - HoppingForMyLife You want to come?

8:26 pm - Doctor10 Only if you want me to come.

8:26 pm - HoppingForMyLife  I'd like you to come

8:26 pm - Doctor10 OK. Good. I’d like come too. I’ll be there in a few minutes.

8:26 pm - HoppingForMyLife HE’S COMING. I REALLY didn’t think he would. Maybe I was too subtle with my hint. My heart is pounding. :red heart emoji: :red heart emoji: :red heart emoji: What do I do Martha???????

8:26 pm - Doctor10 Rose ????????? You really thought I wouldn’t come????????? Of course I’m coming!!!!! I wouldn’t miss it for the world!

8:26 pm - HoppingForMyLife Oops. I sent that text to wrong person.

8:26 pm - Doctor10 Your heart isn’t the only one that’s pounding. :red heart emoji: :blushing smiley emoji: Look behind you.

“Rose Tyler. It needs to be said. I am really glad that this term is over. You are very distracting. Why do you think I spent so much time with my back to the class writing on the chalkboard? I have every single lecture committed to memory, but the words evaporated from my very big brain every time I looked at you.”

“I didn’t really mind the view. Oh, I said that out loud, didn’t I?”

“Cheeky, Ms. Smith. And I thought I might die every single time you ate a piece of chocolate. Did you know that you make sounds when you eat chocolate?”

oOo

9:02 - HoppingForMyLife He brought me flowers. And twenty bars of chocolate.

9:02 - PreMed&Dead You are SO going to marry him.

The End.

[todaybharatnews]

via Today Bharat Nani is playing a serial killer in this film which will release directly on Amazon Prime Video on September 5. One of the biggest direct OTT (Over-theTop) releases in Telugu so far, V is all set to release this Saturday on Amazon Prime Video. Starring Nani, Sudheer Babu, Nivetha Thomas and Aditi Rao Hydari in the lead roles, the film is a neo-noir thriller with heavy emotions and drama, as director Mohana Krishna Indraganti describes it. The film has Nani playing a psychopathic serial killer, while Sudheer Babu plays a celebrated cop on a mission to chase him down. The pandemic disrupted the initial plans of an Ugadi release in March. After a long wait of five months, V is now releasing on Amazon Prime Video directly. TNM spoke to the filmmaker — whose works include the widely popular Ashta Chamma and the more recent film Sammohanam — about the challenges of making a violent thriller, writing intelligent women characters, the decision to have an OTT release and more. Could you tell us about the aesthetic influences and references for V? What kind of a vibe can we expect from the film? Two genres that have always fascinated me, the film noir of the American cinema of the ‘40s and ‘50s, and also the French noir that Jean-Pierre Melville and others have championed and mastered. I was also a big fan of ‘70s Hindi cinema which very interestingly captured the conflict between systems. If you look at films like Deewaar, Trishul and Don, they were always about police versus gangsters or criminals, law versus crime. Usually you have two protagonists, each representing one, like Amitabh Bacchan and Shashi Kapoor (in Deewaar). I always wondered how it would be to blend these two genres: the visual style in terms of the noir look, of dark edges and brooding style, coupled with these really powerful emotional exchanges; the dialogues, the dramatic scenes, and personal and family conflict. To Sudheer, I said, look at Brad Pitt (from Fight Club). I don’t want a muscular police officer, I want someone lean and athletic. Similarly, I told Nani to look at films like No Country for Old Men, where Javier Bardem did the role of a psychopath, or Keanu Reeves’s role in The Watcher or Kevin Spacey’s role in Se7en. I told them to watch all these guys not to imitate them, but to see how differently each actor was approaching the part. To the character of a killer, they’ve added their own texture with their performance. Beyond what I’ve written on paper, Nani has added his own interpretations and created a certain texture to the character. Much of Nani’s look in the film is the result of a lot of brainstorming. Sudheer Babu similarly did the same, he lost a lot of weight, he became leaner, he studied a lot of task force police officers. So we approached the film with a lot more seriousness than a regular mainstream film, where you would just go and create some mannerisms, and try to create some sensational image. We may be doing a nice popcorn film, but it's also a very meaningful popcorn film. I wanted it to be an emotional experience, not just people fighting and having sound effects and action. It’s very carefully designed. Even for cinematography, we had a lot of references. My cinematographer Vinda and I — we started our careers together — would watch a whole lot of films that we like, and we always wished we could do something like that. We’ve tried to pay tributes to all those films through V, through the lighting, design and costumes as well. There’s a lot of hype around the fact that V is Nani’s 25th film, and his third film in your direction (after his debut film Ashta Chamma and Gentleman). It’s also your 10th film. What has changed for you both since Ashta Chamma? I started off as a small filmmaker with very few means to make movies. I was trying to do low-budget and medium-budget movies, and to adjust my aesthetic and ambition to those limitations. Although I believed I could do all these things earlier, I could not do it because of lack of resources etc. Of course with these challenges and restrictions, you grow as a filmmaker. As I grew, more producers started approaching me for my kind of films. My budgets increased, my audience increased. I could bring in whatever I learned in my filmmaking training abroad, because now I have the money, the resources and the audience. Nani started off as a very shy but very ambitious and very creative kind of an actor, when he debuted with me in 2008. He made enormously risky choices, he challenged himself at regular intervals, he did all kinds of offbeat films in spite of commercial pressures. He has also grown and created an enormous fan base for himself, and people now look forward to Nani’s films In all my films, I tried to change the genre. But V is of a genre I always wanted to do, which is a giant leap for me from what I've been doing till now — because the scale is bigger, the risks are higher, the actors are bigger, the budget is big. What were some of the challenges in making V? The most important thing is the genre — it is dark and violent. I’ve never dealt with violence, it is not necessarily my favourite emotion. Unless I feel really compelled to incorporate it, I’ve never used it in my earlier films. But this film is violent by nature, it has to deal with violence So dealing with violence on a day to day basis is very challenging for me, as a director. And for the actors also, I am sure it’s not a very pleasant emotion to deal with it on a day to day basis. We have to deal with blood, murder and all kinds of psychotic elements, which kind of challenge you as a person emotionally. Shooting the film was also very difficult because we were shooting for a lot of nights, there were a lot of action and stunt sequences that the actors had to take risks for, which they went ahead and did. But they were all very tense affairs because we had to be very sure that nothing happened to them. Your films are known for having well-written female leads. Could you tell us about the women in V? I take great care in representing women because I am very fond of women-driven stories. V is probably a more male-driven film compared to my other works, but Nivetha (Thomas) and Aditi (Rao Hydari) are central to the plot. Their screen time may be less compared to both the male leads, because the film is about two men fighting each other. But it’s also about how these women bring meaning to their lives, and bring perspective to the conflict , instead of making it simply about two macho men brainlessly beating each other up. The presence of these women in their lives gives them a certain perspective, a certain purpose, a certain sense of meaning. How that happens is something you have to see in the film, but it’s very important that the women in my films play not just an eye candy part, they have to contribute to the narrative. How do you ensure that you write meaningful women leads? I try to do my homework. I am also surrounded by extremely brilliant women in my own household, my mom is a writer, my wife is a PhD. Most of the women I know, my friends and colleagues, are more educated and more well informed than I am, and I constantly learn from them. Subconsciously, all that admiration I have and my friendship with them, what I learn from them, seeps into the way I write women characters.Their mischief, their sense of humour, the way they make fun of some of the stereotypes that mainstream cinema perpetuates, all of that I try to write into the dialogues through these women. You'll see that in the opening scene of V, with Nivetha and Sudheer, where Nivetha says what kind of a woman she is. I obviously have to research and consult, but when I write, I don't think it’s a conscious effort. It seeps in naturally. I would be mortified if I ever wrote an unintelligent woman. Could you tell us about the decision to release V on OTT? What changes were made from the theatrical release version of the film? We dreamed about a theatrical release and so we did things a certain way, we lit it in a certain way … But these are extraordinary times and we have to make the best possible choices. We didn't want to kill the excitement around the film by waiting indefinitely. We also realised that a lot of people want good entertainment now. Besides, we had no clue as to how long we had to wait. There was no clarity, so we thought we’d go for it. To approximate and to bring this (OTT) experience closer to a theatrical experience, we tried to tweak the visual a little bit grading wise, we tweaked the sound, we tried to create a little more surround as much as we could, from 5.1 to stereo. We tried to give our best approximation, to bring the Atmos experience to OTT. And when we tested with different devices and different environments, we were very happy. We also looked at the least ideal to ideal environments to watch a movie: what if I am watching it on a phone in traffic, as opposed to a proper home theatre setup. We tried to find a middle ground to the entire spectrum, to give the best possible visual and aural experience to the audience. Could you talk about your literary influences? Are you considering any adaptations from Telugu literature for your future projects? I believe that it's essential for a filmmaker to be acquainted with other art forms, to be well read, to know about dance, theatre, music, painting, photography. Cinema is an amalgamation of all these art forms, and our exposure to these art forms will give us a sense of yardstick of excellence.To hone my skills as a director, writer, and a creative person, I feel all filmmakers must have a very close relationship with literature and other art forms, but especially literature because it is very close to cinema. I would like to adapt the popular novel Chivaraku Migiledi by Buchi Babu, and also Saptabhumi (by Bandi Narayanaswamy, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2019). There are a few more, like one short story by Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao, for which I had written the script. All these are there in the pipeline. I have to find the right funding and the right atmosphere, the right cast and crew to do it, but I'll do it eventually.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WHY TWITTER IS DEAD

Most VCs will tell you to get lost. So if you're mainly interested in hacking and you go to the store and buy one, he forced other people to do such things for him, they were all essentially mechanics and shopkeepers at first. The variation between programmers is so great that it becomes a difference in kind. The standard way to develop applications now is to launch fast and iterate. I believe everything I wrote in the second version. A Public Service Message I'd like to conclude with a joint message from me and your parents. One is that companies will inevitably slow down as they grow larger, no matter how hard they hit them back. The way Apple runs the App Store approval process is broken. We thought so when we started ours, and we didn't need any help with those.

Well, obviously overtly sexy applications like stealth planes or special effects software would be interesting to eavesdrop on people, but diluted by a much larger number of neanderthals in suits. One of my favorite bumper stickers reads if the people lead, the leaders will follow. Hardly anyone is so poor that they can't afford a front yard full of old cars. For PhD programs, the professors do. But when I first met him, I thought he was a complete idiot. Partly that users needed him. And that being so, revenues would continue to flow in, so you'd have security as well. I paid for it. Thump-thump music. A string of rich neighborhoods runs along the base of the hills, then heads uphill through Portola Valley. The message Berkeley sends is: you should be more powerful.

Some said I was just telling people what they wanted, when they wanted it, and learn what they know. If they're going to do this. There's no controversy about which idea is most controversial: the suggestion that variation in wealth might not be as big a problem as we think. Google, but what about Microsoft? If they get something wrong, it's usually because I'm interested in the people than the ideas. I come across a powerful one. Who do I use as examples when I'm talking to companies we fund? The drawbacks will only become apparent later, and then think about how such a management company to run your company for you, the founders are, and that number can and will increase. As often happens, Ron discovered how to be the CEO. With a new more scaleable model and only 53 companies, the current batch feels like a walk in the park. I'd rather use it.

I'm certain it isn't. Even hackers can't tell. They work on something till they think it's finished, then they release it. You want to be an assistant professor. Do whatever's best for your users. How much startups' ideas change. Good hackers avoid it for the same thing, but slower. After all, as most VCs say, they're more interested in the speaker. I don't think the amount of freedom you get by scaling the size of the tree structure that every large organization is a kind of fake tribe. Since the custom is to write to persuade the actual reader, someone who doesn't expend any effort on marketing himself.

The rate at which technology can develop, but that's only the immediate cause. Joe Kraus says you should try harder. An undergrad could build something better as a class project. The thing about languages, though, that even with all the fat trimmed off its market cap. Humans were not designed to eat white flour, refined sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and hydrogenated vegetable oil. But it also has a lot of the professors believed or at least wished that computer science was a branch of math. My final test may be the most progressive. But this model doesn't work for an existing company for a couple years after you graduate. There's a rule of thumb in the VC business if the next hot company didn't take VC at all. During the railroad boom, some executives enriched themselves by selling watered stock—by issuing more shares than they said were outstanding. Your early twenties are exactly the time to take insane career risks. Twitter was a referral from Evan Williams himself.

There must be some kind of decline in the people than the ideas. A company to compensate for a 2x decrease in the stock sold in series A rounds are not determined by asking what would be best for the type of company you're starting, so long as admissions worked the same. Working for yourself doesn't have to advertise. So the acquisition came to a screeching halt while we tried to sort this out. Ticketstumbler made it to profitability. For example, suppose you're just two founders and you want to get into a PhD program, the key is to impress your professors. There are only 5 MBAs in the top 50. That still wouldn't be small enough to carry around everywhere like a phone, and yet would also work as a development machine? So, I think, maybe I should say Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, or Alan Kay, or someone famous like that. You could sense them squirming on the hook, but you can learn more about this project, I realized it wasn't luck. We have triumphed over the unprincipled dissemination of facts. When you work on making technology easier to use, but that you get a lot of valuable lessons about the software they're writing for you.

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How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year

A few years after John Boyer began teaching world geography at Virginia Tech, a survey revealed that 58 percent of college-aged Americans could not locate Japan on a map. Sixty-nine percent could not find the United Kingdom.

Boyer raced ahead undaunted. He loved the scope and implications of his subject. “The great thing about geography is . . . everything happens somewhere,” he explains. “Geography is the somewhere.”

Boyer uses a “flipped syllabus” in which students' final grades are based on the points they've earned—not lost—throughout the semester.

Boyer is now a senior instructor and researcher at Virginia Tech. He took over World Regions, an entry-level geography class, while he was working on a master’s degree nearly 20 years ago. The class then had 50 students. Now the course is offered each semester and a whopping 3,000 students take it in any given school year.

What has made it so popular? Innovative pedagogy, for starters. Boyer uses a “flipped syllabus” in which students' final grades are based on the points they've earned—not lost—throughout the semester. His legendary assignments range from reviewing films to tweeting on behalf of world leaders (more on that below). Mostly, Boyer himself has made the class a rite of passage for undergraduates, who typically find him funny, passionate, and consummately engaging. Boyer even created a comic alter ego called the Plaid Avenger, who has narrated textbooks and podcasts but is now largely retired—though Boyer still sports his famous plaid jackets and drives a plaid Scion.

Beloved? Boyer has received the Students’ Choice Award as a Faculty Member of the Year for 13 straight years. He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero, an education technology company that produced a short film on Boyer. 

Professor John Boyer teaches World Regions through his comic book alter ego. You can also watch this Course Hero video on Vimeo.

We sat down with Boyer to learn more about his flipped syllabus, unique assessments, and the hard work that goes into an easy A.

EdSurge:How did your course become an online class?

John Boyer: About seven years ago we started live-streaming World Regions. I would still teach the course in person but we would also live-stream it, and increasingly people were just watching it online. By the last class each semester no one was showing up. So I said let’s just go ahead and move it online and experiment with that.

Five or six years ago we started recording all my lectures—not live lectures, but actually in a studio. We converted my office into a studio. We recorded them all and tried to make them into more bite-size pieces. If normally I’d do a lecture on China that would span three hours, I would try to break that up into consumable bites, anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes, broken down by particular topics. I was still telling a linear story about China, from physical geography to history to current events.

What would you tell other educators who want to move some or all of a course online?

I’m a big fan of human interaction, and if a class is not going to be live, then you have to get it as close to live as possible. You have to use video.

When you see a video of somebody versus just hearing their voice, you pick up facial cues. There’s a myriad of information I’m portraying through my face and my hand gestures that even I don’t realize.

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I’ve also done online office hours in a live format, where students, alumni, or random visitors basically used AOL Instant Messenger or Google Talk to ask questions. We use a free online service called Ustream to make it possible for students everywhere to watch. It’s another way to keep people engaged.

What does your video operation look like?

At this point we have a camera on a tripod set up in my office with a curtain backdrop. We actually have five or six different colors of curtains that I can change for my mood or the mood of the lecture.

My technical assistant Katie Pritchard is the editor who takes the raw file and uses Final Cut to do her editing. She puts in notes that reinforce the main themes and adds photos of geographical features and heads of state. We also use a lot of maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. And then she puts the finished videos up on YouTube and Vimeo.

You’ve created what you call a “flipped syllabus,” where students start at zero and accumulate points toward their grade rather than start with a perfect score and lose points on tests and papers. How did that come about?

I wanted to increase the flexibility of what the students could do to achieve a grade in this class.

If you try to have regimented exercises, every single person has to do the exact same thing. With nearly 3,000 students, it’s a logistical nightmare. There are people who have health issues and family issues and attention deficit disorder and they’re on sports teams. We learned you can’t do the same thing for everybody.

The second reason I developed the flipped syllabus is that when you’re teaching an introductory-level course like this, you have some people who are just clueless about the content. Most of my content is about international stuff and most Americans are woefully inept at what’s going on in the world. At the same time I have a contingent of students coming in who are ready for their PhDs, who are smarter than me and they already know all this stuff.

Given the disparity in knowledge levels as well as the disparity in what they like to do in terms of work, whether that be watching international film or writing papers, I wanted to increase the flexibility of what the students could do to achieve a grade in this class.

What are some of the ways students in World Regions can earn points?

It takes 1,130 points to get a C, and 1,350 points to get an A. Every week there is a book reading quiz. You can read a chapter or two of the book and take quizzes, each worth a maximum of 30 points. There’ll be a recorded lecture series, and you can go watch that and take quizzes. There’ll be an international film for the week. You can watch that and write a short review worth up to 40 points.

And there are a variety of alternative assignments, like the Twitter World Leader assignment. (See below for details on Boyer’s assignments.)

Tell us about the Twitter World Leaders.

I’m a big fan of human interaction, and if a class is not going to be live, then you have to get it as close to live as possible. You have to use video.

You can choose to be a true, real world leader. Of course, they’re fake accounts and we make sure everyone knows you’re the fake Donald Trump or the fake Angela Merkel of Germany. Once you take on that role, you will tweet as the world leader for the entire semester, and you have to tweet two to three times a day. And it’s not silly stuff. What is the chancellor of Germany working on right now? What other world leaders is Angela Merkel meeting with? What’s going on in Germany or the EEU?

Over the course of the semester, the student, two or three times a day, writes 140 characters. If you do that for 3 ½ months, it’s pretty much a 20- or 30-page term paper. With this assignment, you have to be fully engaged, following this person every day and learning about what’s motivating them and reporting on it, basically, one sentence at a time.

Most people walk away from this saying, “Wow, I learned way more than I thought I was going to.”

Does a flipped syllabus lead to a lot of A’s?

I give out a whole lot of A’s. I can think of nothing worse than failing people on a topic that you’re so passionate about and you have dedicated your life to. I give people more than enough chances to succeed. Does that make the class an easy A? Hmmm? I guess.

But if you ask students in this course, is it an easy A, people would say, “Oh yeah, it was an easy A. But you had to work your ass off.”

And I’ll take that compliment every day of the week.

Seven Ways to an A

In Boyer’s flipped syllabus, students have a slew of opportunities to earn points toward their final grade. For undergraduates in World Regions, the road to an A is paved with:

1) Weekly book reading quizzes—Each week a quiz is posted on Moodle—a free LMS—with questions arising from the two assigned chapters from The Plaid Avenger’s World.

2) Weekly video lecture quizzes—Each week a number of pre-recorded video lectures are assigned, followed by three or four related quizzes.

3) Current events flash quizzes—Boyer creates a video podcast about a particular current event issue, creates a “flash” quiz on material covered in the podcast, and announces the quiz using social media.

4) International film assignments—Watch the foreign movie of the week and then take a quiz on the film.

5) Non-class events papers—Attend an internationally themed event—lecture, film, art exhibit, live performance, or cultural or religious festival—on campus and write a paper of at least three pages that links the event, as much as possible, back to material covered in the class.

6) International interview project—In a campus sound studio, interview an international student or faculty member about his or her home country for 20 to 30 minutes, then submit the sound file.

7) World Leader Twitter assignment—Choose to portray one of 200 world leaders during the semester and tweet at least twice a day about what that leader is doing, thinking, feeling, where he or she is, and with whom he or she is meeting.

Boyer's Twitter World Leader Assignment; full size image here.

Cinema Paradiso

Boyer has long sponsored a weekly International Film Night as part of his World Regions class. He shares some of his favorite foreign films:

“Aftershock” (2010, Chinese, directed by Xiaogang Feng)—An absolutely awesome teaching tool for many different aspects of Chinese culture. The film depicts the aftermath of the (very real) 1976 Tangshan earthquake. Huge student favorite, though most people are literally crying at the end.

“City of God” (2002, Brazil, directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund)—A gritty street portrait of a great world city. Brazilian crime drama spanning two decades.

“Good Bye Lenin!” (2003, Germany, directed by Wolfgang Becker)—Black comedy with a semi-romantic storyline that is easily the best teaching device for explaining the Cold War in Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

“Lumumba” (2000, France/Germany/Belgium/Haiti, directed by Raoul Peck)—Historically accurate and intriguing portrayal of Patrice Lumumba in the months before and after the Democratic Republic of the Congo achieved independence from Belgium in 1960.

“Motorcycle Diaries” (2004, Brazil, directed by Walter Salles)—Buddy road trip film set in South America in 1952 that focuses on the ideological development of a young Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Examines wealth disparity across Latin America, with great historical tidbits along the journey. Fantastic on-location cinematography.

“Paradise Now” (2005, Palestine, directed by Hany Abu-Assad)—Unsettling political thriller about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel. Realistically portrays the evolving mindset behind such extreme behavior.

“Persepolis” (2007, France, directed by Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi)—Spartan black-and-white animation masterfully follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

“Prisoner of the Mountains” (1996, Russia, directed by Sergei Bodrov)—Based on a Leo Tolstoy story, this war drama illustrates the conflicting views between traditional (Islamic) Chechen culture and the Russian state. Amazing cinematography from the Caucasus Mountains of Dagestan.

“Rabbit-Proof Fence” (2002, Australia, directed by Phillip Noyce)—Australian drama set in 1931 and loosely based on a true story about three mixed-race girls who were forcibly removed from their Aboriginal mothers, put into an orphanage outside of Perth, and then escaped and walked for nine weeks along 1,500 miles of a rabbit-proof fence to return to their community. Great soundtrack by Peter Gabriel, too.

“Sin Nombre” (2009, Mexico, directed by Cary Fukunaga)—Gritty, sporadically ultra-violent, adventure/crime/thriller film about a Honduran girl who is trying to immigrate to the United States and meets up with a boy caught up in the violence of MS-13 gang life who also needs to escape.

“Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War” (2004, South Korea, directed by Je-kyu Kang)—Two brothers are forcibly drafted into the South Korean army at the outbreak of the Korean War and end up fighting for survival—on different sides of the conflict. More timely than ever.

“Tsotsi” (2005, South Africa, directed by Gavin Hood)—Powerful human drama set in a Johannesburg slum. Tsotsi is a young street thug who steals a car only to discover a baby in the back seat.

“Waltz with Bashir” (2008, Israel, directed by Ari Folman)—My favorite animated film of all time, made all the more haunting when you find out that it is actually a series of documentary interviews carefully crafted into a linear storyline that shows the writer/director suffering traumatic memory loss of his experience as a soldier in the 1982 Lebanon War.

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oh before i forget, just re: putting more Billions Thoughts N Comments in actual posts where other people can read it, and by “billions” i mean we’re watching bits of it for winston and then also taylor who is winston’s friend:

i wanna specify the lore about winston seemingly prioritizing Working With Taylor Mason above like, anything else

coz like.....first of all when winston starts working with taylor it’s when taylor calls him up after originally telling him he’s not self-aware enough and turning him down when he interviewed for an axe cap position (which also...they ended up hiring No One so)......and so yeah taylor calls him and i guess asks if they can meet up and winston is presumably like “meetup? how about After Math Meetup” and they rendezvous in this little classroom-looking space and winston assures them that he’s now very aware of his self-loathing in accordance with their prior criticism of him and taylor’s like look You’re That Good so just put in some effort not to be intolerable idk. and gives him a “come to this address” slip of paper (aka surely it must not be in the same building as axe cap b/c winston had already been there and taylor could’ve just been like “go back there”)

and so anyways winston arrives at the Fairly Bare Basement aka the quant dungeon where there’s taylor and 2 other quants (who hadn’t been interviewing for axe cap back in the episode of winston’s first and would’ve-been only appearance? guess taylor found them themself or something) and taylor’s like “i want you guys to whip up a killer algorithm” and all the quants are like “sure”

and now winston is assuming he’s doing this for axe cap still, seeing as how taylor works there, and seeing as how when he finishes his algorithm he talks about taylor being able to take it to axe. but i’m pretty sure that maybe taylor was i guess paying for all of that stuff themself b/c it was all part of their secret plan to split off from axe cap, hence getting a quant team when the prior decision had been “no quants for axe cap,” and the secret meetings after math meetup, and the meeting up in a basement, and the part where once winston finished the algorithm taylor used it to get a Big Investor on board with them instead of that investor being signed on w/ axe cap

and anyways figure that taylor didn’t see a need to inform the quant team of the secret purpose of this algorithm was, and also they never said the work was for axe cap even if they never said it Wasn’t.....y’know why bother complicating this. and the last we see of winston in s3 is when taylor’s checking out his finished algorithm and deciding its ready and then leaving to meet up with that Big Investor, and then the Next we see of winston, taylor mason capital is firmly established and it’s “winston and the quant team”

so it’s a question of at what point was winston made aware of how he’d been Definitely Not Working For Axe Cap and that now tmc exists and the algorithm he’d made had actually been just for taylor’s purposes, not axe cap’s? cuz we don’t know. we see him in the quant dungeon and then we see him heading the quant team at tmc and we don’t know how that transfer happened. was it a continuation of taylor maybe conveniently not informing him that he didn’t really work for axe cap until finally winston looked up and noticed the tmc logo on the wall and the lack of axelrod and just Shrugged? did taylor maybe conveniently imply that he’d essentially already been working for tmc since his work was used for those purposes even if he’d sort of assumed it was for axe cap? and you might as well just roll with that, right? or did they just lay out the full situation and be like “wanna come with”

however it worked the point is, like, winston didn’t HAVE to work at tmc. he maybe even could’ve worked with axe cap if he’d really wanted to, seeing as maybe they’d be interested in getting the quant who made the algorithm used to steal a Huge Investor of theirs, but then again they’d already made the pointless No Quants decision and axe is all about spite and ego over like, any other decision-driving factors, so that’s a bit of a stretch. plus, wags didn’t like him, but on the other hand, no one likes wags. i wanna see winston wear flipflops again. anyways

anyways yeah at some point winston made the conscious and fully-informed decision that he wants to work at tmc. and like, right, okay, back in his First Appearance he mentions that the chance of working with taylor is in fact something that entices him. but in that context of course he’d been talking about potentially working at axe cap. whereas here, now it’s very definitely axe cap on one side and taylor on the other. and it’s also like, Any Other Hedge Fund is also an option. and tmc is this Literally Just Started fund where everything’s gonna be uncertain vs joining an already established fund that’s past that kind of instability, Plus Also tmc has a very significant established hedge fund that now has a grudge against them in particular, so that’s inconvenient. and like, he’d know taylor would pretty much definitely want to keep him on but like, is that bit of convenience worth the rest of it?

And Also there’s the fact that winston could get hired at any hedge fund he wants. he implied as much in his interview and that doesn’t seem to have been a bluff cuz like....first of all when the secret quant dungeon team went from 3 people to 1 thanks to winston driving the other two off, that automatically means that winston would’ve been doing all the work meant to be done by three people....and taylor was just like “whatever man you’re more talented, make me that algorithm” and but also was like “btw i need it to do this fancy thing that will provide an edge over other hedge funds” and winston says that that level of project would have 50 phds working on it, but then says he can totally do it himself. and like, maybe he’s not quite saying that they’d NEED fifty phds, but that that’s still what it would look.....and whether winston’s doing the work of fifty people or three, it’s all wildly impressive and like, presumably it’s more towards the 50 end of that range. which is just like, jeez dude. and he DID manage that solo, so like, he is that bitch

and also taylor called him a genius prior which like, yknow amongst the characters of this show that definitely means...something. especially as taylor is like, The genius character. so they’d get to have the authority on acknowledging that. and they didn’t seem to harbor any doubt that winston could do this insane task asked of him (which was also going to be essential to taylor’s plan of breaking away from axe cap and starting their own hedge fund) and then winston did in fact come through.........so like. yeah winston could work wherever he wants. we can’t really assume he’d be worried like “oh i better take this job that’s offered, it might be the only one i can get.” and we Can assume that he’d in fact be able to field multiple offers and pretty much work wherever the hell he wants for like, a wild salary, and you know what, i know it was just meant to be Show Of Confidence and flippin the script and not playing by the rules but frankly winston was right when he was interviewed that he should be interviewing them and asking what they could offer. if he wasn’t an interviewee that would just be seen as knowing your worth or whatever but unfortunately wags is present and daring to not venerate his superiority is unforgivable

anyways my point is that winston clearly prioritizes the opportunity to work with taylor above absolutely any other factors in Being A Quant and i think that’s neat............like surely it helps that they clearly recognize his abilities and didn’t fire him for driving away the rest of the secret quants and but also See My Posts About How Immediately Winston #Gets Taylor and Tbh Vice Versa and How Taylor Makes The Effort To Communicate With Winston Efficiently And Provide Cues While Also Allowing Him To Take Up A Bit Of Social Space, As It Were

my point......my point is that i think it’s neat...winnie n tay......i followed that one interviewer on twitter just for specifically identifying these two’s Rapport

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