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homophobes are not allowed to use computers because the inventor of the computer was gay

people with bad taste are always like “yurr hurr The Beach is about zuko and mai and how they’re a great couple” while intellectuals know that Actually The Beach is about mining any and all of the untapped friendship potential of this striking exchange

Unpopular opinion: homework is the biggest load of BS. I mean honestly, the majority of people value the separation between home and work life, most of us don’t like when we get home and we have to continue working even though we’ve left the office. Why would we do that to children?? 

my most important izzy hands and Edward teach take

8.7.2023

I didn't think I'd be doing this again after I got my undergraduate degree, but it looks like I'm back on studyblr. Right now I'm doing some online classes, but I'm prepping some grad school applications and if those go well I will be a full time student again.

Like before, my posts will mostly be for me to look back on, and not too highly polished. Think of a journal about studying and you'll have reasonable expectations.

Today I did a session of my Interplanetary Spacecraft and Satellite Engineering course. I'm just wrapping up the section on different kinds of propulsion. At first I was skeptical of the quality and depth an online course could provide, but I think this course covers the main topics and gives you a good baseline to evaluate new ideas and go into more research on your own.

I've also been trying to get outside more often, the other picture is some salt ponds I visited last weekend.

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

this guy has the most difficult bird of all time but he loves him anyway

Tips for gamers

The Stonewall You Know Is a Myth. And That’s O.K. | NYT Celebrating Pride

Happy Pride! Know your history!

shout out to all the people who identify with gifted kid burnout syndrome who are probably just neurodivergent but werent diagnosed as a child, who used to devour books like it was nothing and never really understood why the protagonist would leave their cool fantasy world behind to go back home at the end of the story, and who are now extremely disappointed in reality and use escapism as their primary coping mechanism. how’s that bisexuality and deep-rooted anger at the school system going for you?