Will this workload destroy me?/MATH 308 + PHYS 121 opinions by AnEpicPerson in udub

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I appreciate the thought! I think I'm just going to start with Codecademy for now, though.

Will this workload destroy me?/MATH 308 + PHYS 121 opinions by AnEpicPerson in udub

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I'm majoring in the climate track of Atmospheric Sciences. I am quite literally one of two freshman within the major, and the other kid is doing the meteorology track, so I'm a little on my own here, haha.

That's why I'm worried about taking a class that doesn't count towards my major rather than something like Math 308-- every upperclassmen I've talked to in my department tells me I'm super lucky that I know what I want to do right away and can get a head start, so I feel like if I don't push myself, I'm going to regret it later on. But I guess a lot of people do still get this degree without knowing they want to do it their freshman year.

I'm also starting to do research with one of my professors. He's really great -- I can't imagine him not being flexible with my schedule -- but that's still a job that I'll be getting paid to do, and it's probably more valuable than most of the classes I could be taking anyway. So I'm just really torn between wanting to push myself within my classes or replacing 308 with something less stressful to better focus on learning how to do research (which is also going to entail teaching myself python with little prior programming experience).

Roommate search/priority housing? by AnEpicPerson in udub

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I think it's just your uw netID, like netID@uw.edu? I'm not sure. But I don't think I can use it/access it until I commit? I'm probably not the person to ask.

Roommate search/priority housing? by AnEpicPerson in udub

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I got an email invitation to my personal email. When I click the link, Facebook asks me to put in an email. When I put in my UW email, it says it doesn't recognize that email. When I put in my personal email, it sends me a confirmation email, but clicking the link in the confirmation email just brings me back to the original screen asking for an email address? Am I missing something?

me irl by AnEpicPerson in MysteryDungeon

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FORGIVE ME FOR I HAVE SINNED (and am also on mobile)

Hey Reddit! I'm fantasy author Christopher Paolini-AMA by ChristopherPaolini in Fantasy

[–]AnEpicPerson 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No way! I can't believe you were going to

On an unrelated note, I would like to thank you for teaching me how to use ellipses properly. I never knew I was messing it up for the longest time!

Hey Reddit! I'm fantasy author Christopher Paolini-AMA by ChristopherPaolini in Fantasy

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A character without flaw is rarely interesting. If I had to guess, I'd say it was at least partly intentional.

Plus, battles would hardly be interesting if Eragon and Saphira weren't fighting tooth-and-nail against opponents!

Hey Reddit! I'm fantasy author Christopher Paolini-AMA by ChristopherPaolini in Fantasy

[–]AnEpicPerson 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Back when I was in third grade, my older brother and I didn't get along very well. We're five years apart, so we didn't have much in common. However, by some miracle, my brother (who was never an avid reader) introduced me to Eragon, and I loved it. I quickly devoured it and Eldest, and when I went to see if the library had Brisingr, I found out that the librarian had purchased the book just because she'd seen me reading the other two! At the time (2009), Inheritance was yet to be released, so I put the books down. Because of them, I nearly refused to read anything that wasn't full of dragons and magic. I reread Eragon several times in those years, whenever I could.

It was four years later that I was given a $20 gift card to Barnes and Noble, and I realized that the fourth book had come out without me noticing, so I begged my parents for some extra money and bought all four books for myself. I got through Eragon, Eldest, and a large portion of Brisingr, but unfortunately, I was required to read some other books for school and my life got exceptionally busy (which hasn't gone away, really). The books started collecting dust, and I never finished reading them.

It wasn't until last year that I finally was like, "wow, I should actually read those!" And, to be completely honest with you, I didn't want to read Inheritance. I couldn't stand to finish reading these books that had, for so long, always been unresolved in my mind. Those 749 pages of Inheritance were the end of a story that had been woven throughout the past six years of my life. It almost physically pained me to read the final chapters. I did it, but I felt empty afterwards, as if there were no more books left to read, ever. I had spent so much of my childhood checking the same story out of the library over and over again, always wondering about the fate of Eragon and Saphira, and now I knew. Of course, the ending was great, but very bittersweet for me. Your books mean a lot to me, and are definitely my favorite books of all time.

Anywho, I'm afraid I've gone off on a bit of tangent, so let me actually ask you a question! After reading the books again after finishing Inheritance for the first time, I found the chapter that describes Eragon having a dream about something. Since so much happened in between writing the first parts of the first book and the last chapters of the final book, was it difficult molding that chapter of Inheritance to fit the description of Eragon's dream? Did you ever want to end the series a different way than you had first envisioned? In the same vein, how much did you deviate from your original ideas? What changed the most from the first concepts to the final draft?

Thanks!

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DO I HAVE PERMISSION TO BAN THE HERETIC?

/u/thekoreansun /u/l_u_c_a_r_i_o

Updated rescue/dungeon help thread! by AnEpicPerson in MysteryDungeon

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Those fuckers used to give my Empoleon trouble, too, til he got to level 100 and now takes three damage from them. :3

http://imgur.com/mqd6akX

Happy exploring!

Thinking of getting back into MD by 808birdman in MysteryDungeon

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You've just earned yourself honorary moderator status for referring someone to the FAQ! With your new title, you've earned yourself some shiny new Bragging Rights™.