#student types

[veryintrovertedmhilai]

eternal-bond:

all of the above! :DD

[adultlearnersallegedly]

The Supremely Confident Student (aka: The Untouchable Genius)

Over time, I’ve noticed that students fall into sub-categories. Some are curious explorers. Some are cautious improvers. And then there’s this one: supremely self-confident, positively oozing arrogance, and brimming with self-importance. You can smell it on the application form.

They’ve never done distance learning before—but how hard can it be? After all, they once taught themselves macramé from a YouTube short and now they’re basically a craft deity. No experience with the subject matter? No worries! Their natural brilliance will obviously carry them. They didn’t ask for advice about what level to enrol on, because they don’t need advice. Advice is for peasants.

But then…reality bites.

The feedback is in. It’s not a glowing ode to their greatness. It says things like: “Resubmit required,” and “Please refer to the brief.” Cue existential meltdown. Except—hold the self-reflection. Because if their work is bad, it can’t be their fault. No, no. Clearly the course is flawed. The tutor? Incompetent. The materials? Impossible. The very fabric of reality is conspiring against their genius.

Psychologists call this the Dunning-Kruger effect—a cognitive bias where people with low ability at a task overestimate their own skill. Or as I like to call it: “The moment someone who’s never parallel parked before declares they’re ready for Formula 1.”

This student type is exhausting. They don’t want feedback, they want applause. They won’t adjust their submission—they expect you to adjust your judgment. And if you don’t? Well clearly, you are the problem.

Teaching them is a bit like trying to iron a shirt while it’s still being worn by a cat: stressful, painful, and mostly futile.

But hey, at least they’re confident.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Vibes based grading system.

(for @epistemologys, who wanted some post-canon, teacher WWX)

[henreyettah]

The kiss 💋

[brainrotcharacters]

deadclaws badassery where it's revealed Wade and Logan tested the distance on Logan's hearing.

Watch them hundreds of feet away from each other in the battlefield and all it takes to set Wolverine loose is for Deadpool to mutter "Logan."

gif credits to original owners!

[conservethis]

Do y’all wanna see a ghost?

It’s the ghost of binder clips past!

[egophiliac]

happy new year Ego!!! Just wanted to let you know that I absolutely adore your twst fanart and the tags are just an absolute pleasure to read! You are my greatest inspiration for my personal twst art and I just wanted to thank you for your wonderful masterpieces <333 if possible, may I ask what are some of your headcanons for the diasomnia family? If not for diasomnia then any other characters are fine as well!

thank you, and happy new year! 💚💜💚 that is amazing to hear; it's always a little bewildering but super flattering that other people like my silly little doodles so much!

I don't think I really have any really solid headcanons and also canon keeps validating me left and right (FLUFFY DOMESTIC DIAFAM IS REAL). mostly just kind of...impressions and general thoughts, if that makes sense! lately though I've been kind of obsessed with thinking about Lilia's hair, and specifically when/why he ended up cutting it. (l-look, we're bouncing around the timeline and I gotta make decisions about these things when I draw, it's relevant) (I mean I would probably be weirdly fixated on this anyway, but.)

I think I've settled on the idea that he kept it long until he went to NRC, partly because 1) I like drawing The Ponytail, and 2) I think he thought of NRC as a chance to reinvent himself a bit! he gets to go and be a wacky carefree teenager for a few years and have fun! (officially he's there to keep an eye on Son #1, but how much trouble could he get into, really.) so he gave himself a Cool Teen Haircut to go with his fresh new Cool Teen Persona!

also maybe he had some reflection on his hair's troubled past with three kids...

...and had to weigh his vanity versus the fact that he was going off to be around hundreds of kids on a daily basis, and. the choice suddenly seemed obvious.

[mikachusblog]

Mable's dorm room

[shatterinseconds]

klance as university professors but no one knows they're married bc one (lance) willingly talks about his amazing husband all the time yet never seems to mention his occupation. and the other (keith) has to be needled into revealing anything about his husband (usually only obliging his students if no one failed the recent test which is rare)

they get found out a few years in when a student catches them kissing in the staff parking lot at the end of a semester

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Every spring semester when I teach INFOST 603: History of Books & Printing in person (I teach it online in the fall), I have my students (mostly from Information Studies) set type and print a collaborative broadside. I set a theme (this year, "Springtime Milwaukee"), have each student send me a very short phrase related to that theme, and then I arrange the lines as an exquisite corpse poem.

This year, we met at Adam Beadel's Team Nerd Press/Grove Gallery, where each student set their individual line in various fonts of wood type. These were locked up on a poster press in the poetic arrangement, and everyone got to ink up the form in a kaleidoscope of colors and pull their own prints. After reading about the invention of type and the beginning of letterpress, the only way to fully understand the nature of that technology is to do it yourself!

Thanks to Melissa, our Special Collections Library Assistant (and student in the class), for taking the pictures.

View other field trip posts from INFOST 603.

View more posts with wood type.

View our other Typography Tuesday posts.

– MAX, Head, Special Collections

[tinyblossomjellyfish]

I finally decided to redraw it and then proceeded to accidentally delete it 😀 I am in shambles

[a-very-tired-jew]

I've seen this particular quote trotted out by antisemites time and time again as a kind of "gotcha" against Zionism. "The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies." This is from Theodor Herzl's diary, which can be found on page 84. However, if you've been around the internet in any context for the past few decades then you would likely realize that a singular quote out of context is not as damning as someone wants you to think. In fact, this is actually a fallacious argument (quoting out of context) that lawyers will get warnings from judges about in their own arguments. You could also categorize it as a lie of omission as well.

Why?

Well let's look at the entire diary entry this particular quote is from.

In context this quote is about using antisemites that are respected in their community to assuage the fears that Jews leaving would not negatively impact the community and country. It pretty much talks about making sure the antisemitic conspiracy that Jews were puppet masters controlling these goyim to liquidate their assets did not also arise.

In short, the entry is about understanding how antisemitism and antisemites act and acting within that frame so as to not cause a negative response and thereby allow the Jews to leave in a peaceful manner.

Why?

Because Jews often enriched a country's economy and people benefited from our presence. There are multiple instances in history of Jews being expelled for antisemitic reasons by a monarch and then being invited back by a subsequent monarch after their economy essentially crashed from kicking us out because the jobs they relegated us too were essential and beneficial. But in every scenario Jews were seen as lesser but beneficial. They wanted us there, but wanted us gone. When we left and returned we were harmed in almost every instance and were accompanied by a host of conspiracies about us. Understanding that behavior and pattern and using it is what Herzl is detailing in this section.

But that's the thing with antisemites. They latch onto a singular sentence out of context and use that to further their narrative about "evil Zionist Jews". All the while they handwave away their own antisemitic rhetoric and bigotry and the actions of the violent antisemites they support in the name of "fighting evil Zionists".

[satoblue]

he is so handsome in traditional clothes > <

[thevoidmeows]

guys..

[stimtfil]

sangihun yuri my sangihun yuri.....

lyrics of the song on the last two pics↑

[fictionadventurer]

Fun Catholic Lord of the Rings trivia for you:

Tolkien had a devotion to St. John the Evangelist (which should not have been surprising, given his name).

Traditionally, the symbol of St. John the Evangelist is an eagle.

There's no indication it's intentional allegory, but it does add a very cool layer to those scenes.