#this system sucks

[butch-reidentified]

I don't really vibe with the DSM in general, actually

[orthopoogle]

Found out I made it on the excess list AGAIN, so I’m being sent off to a different school next year…AGAIN.

[panacademics]

This is the time of the semester when everyone around me keeps having breakdowns left right and centre.

It just goes on to show how truly toxic architecture schools working environment is. At least mine. The dean is shit, our guides don't give a fuck and have like 15 min discussions and not see our work properly, only to tear it all down next week cus apparently our design is shit.

It's just. So frustrating. To see creativity go down the drain. All we're concerned with is getting done with the submissions. The semesters are getting shorter, good teachers keep leaving, design crits have turned subjective, submission deadlines are unrealistic, submission expectations are unrealistic, the course syllabus doesn't make any sense, sleeping well or dressing well is looked down upon since that means you're wasting time not working (by the faculty, ofc), having a social life is looked down upon cus of the same reasons, extra curricular competitions are barely given attention, participating in clubs/societies is not encouraged and practically impossible with the working hours we have to deal with, there's no healthy schedule to follow, leaving most of us with fucked up sleep cycles, back, neck and vision problems. We're forced to stay up night after night to be able to complete the work. There is no weekend. No semester break. Just year break after one entire year of rotting. We get burnt out, too often, too soon. The teachers just seem cruel at one point with how unempathetic they are. Theres a severe lack of practical learning, especially considering how practical based architecture truly is. Architecture is as physically tiring as it is mentally.

Professors seem so narrow and closed minded when it comes to design. Anything out of the ordinary or anything even minorly hypothetical is immediately shot down. We've restricted ourselves to blocks of concrete, brick and steel. We're not taught to think outside of the box, and if anyone does do it, they're mocked. I've seen the courses of schools like MIT and Bartlett, and they truly teach students how to THINK. How to broaden their minds. Why isn't this type of education available to everyone??

Ofc I've had my good share of fun in studios, but it was mainly related to my friends, and not the actual work we were doing.

I remember having some brilliant teachers and having the most fun in the classes that taught basic stuff practically. Like learning about brick bonds in first semester by actually making them. Learning metro construction in 6th semester by making miniature models. That is architecture. Questioning the mechanism and functions of everything, looking at innovative creative ways to make something functioning and practical.

And offices can be worse in a lot of ways, especially if it's a small firm. No healthy working hours, 9 hour regular working day, plus extra hours when there's more workload. Most don't give Saturdays off. And the pay?? Pathetic. Theres people who've studied for 3 years and are making more than a junior architect could imagine. So much work and effort and for what? To be disrespected by senior architects?? To not be payed well and be considered a machine instead of a human??

Ik this is majorly the fault of my own country's education system, and I don't know if students from other countries feel the same way. But I'm truly done with the system here. It feels like it was created to make you hate architecture instead of loving it. There's a reason why majority of the students go into related fields and not into core architecture. It's so shitty that by 5th year I've come to decide I can't stand it anymore and want my distance. I might get back into it eventually, but for now, I'm gonna do something else. Fuck this shit, truly.

There's so much more I could say and rant about this but I'm gonna stop now.

P.S.: My seniors call it architorture. I agree.

[bunnygirl678]

Me: every thing sucks, this new system will ruin our lives

My boss: you say that every time we use new software, chill

Me: ice

[helloiamundathewatta]

i need to apply to Universities and i can‘t do it anymore, its so tiring, not even my unproductive gap year can heal my fatigue and anxiety huh

[greenbloods]

honestly hilarious that the lannister siblings are all history freaks in different direction. cersei rolls her eyes that jaime doesn't know what the second blackfyre rebellion was about while he rattles off the tale of ser luthor pisseryon of daeron i's kingsguard, who served for all of seven moons before he died shitting himself en route to dorne. meanwhile tyrion's sitting in the corner reading maester leomore's neo-myrxist critique of archmaester hargreave's account of the Storming of the Dragonpit (The Warrior Himself: Examining the Dying of the Dragons in the Light of the Seven) and not paying attention to it one bit because he’s moping about how everyone in kings landing hates him, the imp, because he’s ugly and rich, and not because he’s a feudal overlord who is fundamentally detached from the immediate concerns of his starving subjects

[reasonsforhope]

"Research on a police diversion program implemented in 2014 shows a striking 91% reduction in in-school arrests over less than 10 years.

Across the United States, arrest rates for young people under age 18 have been declining for decades. However, the proportion of youth arrests associated with school incidents has increased.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, K–12 schools referred nearly 230,000 students to law enforcement during the school year that began in 2017. These referrals and the 54,321 reported school-based arrests that same year were mostly for minor misbehavior like marijuana possession, as opposed to more serious offenses like bringing a gun to school.

School-based arrests are one part of the school-to-prison pipeline, through which students—especially Black and Latine students and those with disabilities—are pushed out of their schools and into the legal system.

Getting caught up in the legal system has been linked to negative health, social, and academic outcomes, as well as increased risk for future arrest.

Given these negative consequences, public agencies in states like Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania have looked for ways to arrest fewer young people in schools. Philadelphia, in particular, has pioneered a successful effort to divert youth from the legal system.

Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program

In Philadelphia, police department leaders recognized that the city’s school district was its largest source of referrals for youth arrests. To address this issue, then–Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel developed and implemented a school-based, pre-arrest diversion initiative in partnership with the school district and the city’s department of human services. The program is called the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program, and it officially launched in May 2014.

Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker named Bethel as her new police commissioner on Nov. 22, 2023.

Since the diversion program began, when police are called to schools in the city for offenses like marijuana possession or disorderly conduct, they cannot arrest the student involved if that student has no pending court case or history of adjudication. In juvenile court, an adjudication is similar to a conviction in criminal court.

Instead of being arrested, the diverted student remains in school, and school personnel decide how to respond to their behavior. For example, they might speak with the student, schedule a meeting with a parent, or suspend the student.

A social worker from the city also contacts the student’s family to arrange a home visit, where they assess youth and family needs. Then, the social worker makes referrals to no-cost community-based services. The student and their family choose whether to attend.

Our team—the Juvenile Justice Research and Reform Lab at Drexel University—evaluated the effectiveness of the diversion program as independent researchers not affiliated with the police department or school district. We published four research articles describing various ways the diversion program affected students, schools, and costs to the city.

Arrests Dropped

In our evaluation of the diversion program’s first five years, we reported that the annual number of school-based arrests in Philadelphia decreased by 84%: from nearly 1,600 in the school year beginning in 2013 to just 251 arrests in the school year beginning in 2018.

Since then, school district data indicates the annual number of school-based arrests in Philadelphia has continued to decline—dropping to just 147 arrests in the school year that began in 2022. That’s a 91% reduction from the year before the program started.

We also investigated the number of serious behavioral incidents recorded in the school district in the program’s first five years. Those fell as well, suggesting that the diversion program effectively reduced school-based arrests without compromising school safety.

Additionally, data showed that city social workers successfully contacted the families of 74% of students diverted through the program during its first five years. Nearly 90% of these families accepted at least one referral to community-based programming, which includes services like academic support, job skill development, and behavioral health counseling...

Long-Term Outcomes

To evaluate a longer follow-up period, we compared the 427 students diverted in the program’s first year to the group of 531 students arrested before the program began. Results showed arrested students were significantly more likely to be arrested again in the following five years...

Finally, a cost-benefit analysis revealed that the program saves taxpayers millions of dollars.

Based on its success in Philadelphia, several other cities and counties across Pennsylvania have begun replicating the Police School Diversion Program. These efforts could further contribute to a nationwide movement to safely keep kids in their communities and out of the legal system."

-via Yes! Magazine, December 5, 2023

[randy-ortons-chair]

This new work is eating alive my free time BUT I REFUSE TO DIE

I will keep obsessive-posting for as long as I want to

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 92

Clockwork is done. 

Screw the observants’ rules, screw the ‘you can’t enter the mortal realms’ demand they try. He is going to have words with the speedsters about timelines and travelling through timestreams. He is not missing his ghostling’s highschool graduation and if there’s even a chance of that horrible thing happening he will make it everyone else’s problem!

[thattheater-kid]

You know what’s wild about being a fictive? Missing your old life even though it was shitty because it’s a shittiness you were used to. The life you’re living now is a new kind of shitty that feels unpleasant in a different way.

[cyarskaren52]

[hatthihob]

Random Bingqiu doodles

[rogerrrroger]

DRAW EMESIS BLUE GOOD ENDING

Arg I’m so sorry this took a whole seven days to complete because other stuff was kicking my ass but here

Basically the motto is blu Engi is so cracked that he fixed the respawn machine enough to heal every possible bad thing that happened 👍

god please if you can’t read my artist’s handwriting feel free to ask for image id

[purple-worm]

i know that folks from the west are not easily giving into support for palestine because “well israeli civilians dont deserve to die, stop being a dick by cheering for this”

and listen. we understand that very well. we cannot cheer for innocent people losing their lives. but we wouldnt BE here today if this were something that could have been sorted out over a negotiation

netanyahu just last week, w a disgusting ass smug face made it clear at the UN GA that he was redrawing the map of the middle east. he was literally there with a board and a marker pen, shamelessly redrawing a map of israel over palestine. people fucking clapped. there is video footage, goo look at it.

and that’s just what the west is seeing. what the west has been conveniently ignoring, or worse, supporting, is the apartheid in palestine for the past 100 years. what is happening in israel today, theyve been doing exactly that and Worse for a century in palestine.

any both sides argument misses the fucking point because it ignores a whole history of how theyve fucked over the palestinian people. not just outright killing their people but also stealing land and resources and redirecting them to the israeli cause.

but the west doesn’t actually give a fuck about arab countries or its people, in fact actively funds genocide. so eat your shitass opinion about not celebrating the one time palestinians have managed to look like a threat.

as hopeful as we are, we know israel is too powerful and has the west as its ally. but this is what palestinian journalist had to say about it “they have decided to fight and die on their feet, rather than just die on their knees”

another journalist reporting from gaza said “well the people in gaza are used to airstrikes of this kind so they have a standard protocol on how to evacuate and know when to give up, and go down together as a family”

let the enormity of those statements sink in, and then maybe you can fucking talk about both sides.

[rubybii]

Alpha teeth

[cringefail-clown]

hateful gaze