#student waste

[alifelearned]

Every April London, Ontario experiences a huge outflux of students as they finish their semesters and head home for the summer break. This always leads to literally TONS of perfectly usable items being trashed when they could otherwise be donated. Living next door to a property where this was a particularly glaring issue, I simply couldn't stand by without acting. Thus over the last 5 years I have found ways to progressively save more and more of these perfectly usable items by bringing them to the thrift store. This year I was successful in bringing 27 loads of reusable items from the students waste straight to charity. Here's hoping I'm even more successful with these waste diversion efforts in future years!

[inkskinned]

one of the things about being an educator is that you hear what parents want their kids to be able to do a lot. they want their kid to be an astronaut or a ballerina or a politician. they want them to get off that damn phone. be better about socializing. stop spending so much time indoors. learn to control their own temper. to just "fucking listen", which means to be obedient.

one of the things i learned in my pedagogy classes is that it's almost always easier to roleplay how you want someone to act. it's almost always easier to explain why a rule exists, rather than simply setting the rule and demanding adherence.

i want my kids to be kind. i want them to ask me what book they should read next, and i want to read that book with them so we can discuss it. i want my kid to be able to tell me hey that hurt my feelings without worrying i'll punish them. i want my kid to be proud of small things and come running up to me to tell me about them. i want them to say "nah, i get why this rule exists, but i get to hate it" and know that i don't need them to be grateful-for-the-roof-overhead while washing the dishes. i want them to teach me things. i want them to say - this isn't safe. i'm calling my mom and getting out of this. i want them to hear me apologize when i do fuck up; and i want them to want to come home.

the other day a parent was telling me she didn't understand why her kid "just got so angry." this woman had flown off the handle at me.

my dad - traditional catholic that he is - resents my sentiment of "gentle parenting". he says they'll grow up spoiled, horrible, pretentious. granola, he spits.

i am going to be kind to them. i am going to set the example, i think. and whatever they choose become in the meantime - i'm going to love them for it.

[sweebread]

Yoosung vs. the cooler Yoosung

(glasses version under the cut)

[kankuroplease]

Young Tsau Mito Sketches

[cryptic-klepto]

Can I ask why I should bother digging back up the sources yall demand I find again when I know damn well yall have no interest in reading them? Like lets be real here. Verifying sources has never been high on Team Blood Libel's list of hobbies.

[calicotisane]

Way

[queenwille]

me, usually: let’s engage in a respectful conversation.

me, this week: let’s engage in you going to mind your own fucking business, as you won’t do enough research. i’m tired of the cult vibes of hearing the same baseless dumb shit from all of you.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

Not every student using GPT is cheating

while there are obvious problems with using GPT to cheat or "do your homework" or whatever, it doesn't exactly seem accurate to reduce all "students using GPT" to just that. that's a bit like reducing google to just the search results for "2024 exam sheet answer key"

the reductiveness is especially annoying because there are problems even when you try to use it in a constructive way! for example asking it for guidance in a subject you're struggling with may lead it to give false or outdated information in the same way that a human-written website or book might.

so it's not just "idiots wasting their education" but also students that are trying to find information that doesn't appear to be available anywhere else, or who are struggling with something in a way that's difficult to search, who are very frustrated.

for an analogy imagine a foreign language student in 2003 getting absolutely ripped into for 'using babelfish to write an essay'... but they only used it to translate a single word, because the word they needed wasn't in their textbook. was the student wrong to do this? who knows! the answer depends on a lot of missing context!

that isn't to say no cheaters exist, or that students don't have an obligation to use more trustworthy human-written sources, it's just that there are shades of gray to keep in mind when it comes to general usage moving forward. Not everyone is a Lazy Gen-Z Wasting Their Education, but not everyone is a Pure Innocent Cinnamon Roll either. everybody could just use a bit more grace and slack.

[greenconverses]

me whenever one of the assigned research papers for class is over 15 pages:

[californiannostalgia]

sometimes I think

hey maybe it's that time again

it's that time to write an abuse survivor mental illness fic with lester papadopoulus and maybe that will help me figure out what the fuck is going on in my brain

maybe my obsession with normalcy and potential dangers and spiraling late at night and being suspicious of people and the hollow disgust at the desperately cheerful person I become around my (changed behavior) parents isn't normal people stuff

maybe I'm gonna be afraid forever incomprehensible forever non-normal forever and maybe apollo wants to say a few words on the subject

[estarion]

you post about ties a single time ...

[noperopesaredope]

People be out here saying "don't get the free plastic bags from the store, just buy reusable ones!" as though my parents haven't been using the same 10 free plastic bags for the past seven years.

Most things are reusable if you have enough determination.

This is a shitpost I support environmentalism and also people who need disposable shit for health reasons I just thought this was funny please don't hate me-

[murasaki-cha]

I have been working on a painting for 2 weeks for school, I've progressed a lot

And the professor just told us there's been a mistake and we had another assignment so we have to FREAKING ERASE IT COMPLETELY!!!

I HAVE TO COVER THIS ENTIRE THING WITH WHITE!!!!!! I WANT TO THROW A TABLE!! BREAK A LAMP!! KICK A CHAIR!!!!

[thissmycomingofage]

OK you know what ? Fuck that. Fuck her. That's it. I'm done with her. Done with her.