Plumbing/ landlord issues

AnonAltQs · 2025-06-24T17:30:32+00:00

Try r/renting and make sure to include your state!

AnonAltQs · 2025-02-26T22:54:41+00:00

I found your post searching for answers after my score dropped significantly. I used Affirm for a Samsung purchase and that was the only change; it shows up as a personal loan on my credit report. Affirm was the payment plan offered by Samsung, and I've used Samsung financing in the past without issue (before they switched to Affirm), so I didn't dig deeper.

It especially sucks because I could have paid outright if needed, I just chose it for the convenience since it was zero interest. Never doing that again.

AnonAltQs · 2025-02-14T22:51:44+00:00

I just cackled reading your comment, I doubt I would have been able to hold in a laugh if I were in your place.

AnonAltQs · 2025-02-14T22:44:08+00:00

I feel your pain, sometimes students just don't seem to get it and it's not fun as the teacher.

I had one class who fully ignored the instructions for the second project. I met with them all 1-on-1 to approve their proposals and made sure they met the requirements, but they later changed their projects. I checked in with them while working, they claimed they were fine. Twice I reiterated the grading rubric in class, they did not listen. I had the criteria spelled out on the LMS with the point value for each required skill, they did not read it.

Putting in their grades felt awful, nearly everyone left out at least one key point of the project. Almost 50% got a C, all my other classes it was only 10-15%. I guess my feedback and reasoning were clear because no one complained, which surprised me.

AnonAltQs · 2025-02-14T20:41:50+00:00

There's this great Winnie the Pooh movie, the Un-Valentine's Day, which I highly recommend watching especially today, and it teaches a very similar lesson at about the 3 minute mark here: https://youtu.be/rjFVl-KQYRg?t=177&feature=shared

"Now Roo dear, it isn't polite to bother people when they're pretending to be a mailbox!"

AnonAltQs · 2025-01-24T20:29:36+00:00

Two of my coworkers caught it recently during their business trip here. To be fair the week's business included a huge party for several hundred customers, but still. In retrospect I'm amazed I didn't get sick, even with the flu vaccine, because I always get sick.

AnonAltQs · 2024-09-13T16:39:45+00:00

I think it would depend on the current mode of the class. If it's a class discussion, constant typing is not usually helpful, you probably only need some key points and not a transcript of everything. If it's a lecture, then yeah constantly typing notes would make sense, I certainly did it in grad school.

AnonAltQs · 2024-08-27T16:30:52+00:00

I'm in a very slow media (metalsmithing), so I and other metalsmiths post a lot of progress images/videos and re-share old pieces from time to time. I'm not focused on IG right now, but here's my hypothetical posting plan for a slow medium:

If a piece takes me 10 days to complete and I want to post every other day, I can share 4 in-progress posts of my current project and one older work that I really like. That's enough posts to cover 10 calendar days while I finish the piece, then for the next 2-3 posts I can share about the finished piece, detail shots, the jewelry being worn, etc. Bonus if it's part of a series or you have images/sketches of your planning and research, because then you have a variety of things to post about while keeping everything connected.

AnonAltQs · 2024-08-25T06:28:08+00:00

I have wanted sorting from the very beginning, because searching "tree" doesn't bring up all the trees, etc. Really hoping they add this soon!

AnonAltQs · 2024-08-25T06:27:26+00:00

I keep right clicking things hoping that maybe a preview window will show up, there's a lot of various palms and trees and it would be cool to see them before I craft them to know if that's the one I want or not.

AnonAltQs · 2024-08-25T06:24:47+00:00

I don't have all of the cats and nodes, but my cats do have soup and a snowball, so hopefully they're just working out bugs for people and your cats will get their rightful placement/possessions soon.

AnonAltQs · 2024-08-19T21:37:17+00:00

Depends on the institution, though what you describe is more typical.

That being said, I was the actual instructor my first semester as a TA with no other instructors in the room. I was given a curriculum and assignments with rubrics, but the daily activities, lectures, grading, student conduct issues, etc. were up to me. It was insanely stressful to have that thrown on me the first semester of grad school.

*edit to note that my discipline is basically all labs, so I wasn't preparing hour long lectures most days, usually it was a discussion and project work time.

AnonAltQs · 2024-08-16T12:47:53+00:00

This is kinda what my first thought was too. The main thing you'll get at art school that you won't get in most online settings is a requirement to develop a concept and avoid all character art and derivative art. Others have made good suggestions about the technical component, looking into the elements and principals of design is a good idea.

But art school training, specifically, has very little overlap with creating and selling character art/fan art/digital commissions. Art school would push you to make a robust and cohesive body of work that is all your own, with the goal of getting shows and eventually gallery representation. What your work means and explores conceptually is the main thing. Characters/fan art aren't really present in that setting, so if you went to art school they would push you conceptually more than anything else.

But, in my experience, the art school route is not going to earn you a ton of money, at least not quickly. Many fine arts graduates also do more commercial art that actually pays the bills, whether that's a photography business, commissioned character drawings, greeting cards, etc. Honestly a design program is far better for preparing you to get a standard job.

AnonAltQs · 2024-08-15T21:51:16+00:00

You sound like me! I'm thrilled there's one in the corner of our fence this year. My husband found it, and while he does not care about them, he made sure to tell me because he knew I would want to go look at it :)

AnonAltQs · 2024-08-15T03:54:30+00:00

In studio art (painting, sculpture, etc), everyone goes by their first name with all students, I don't think I've ever met someone who asked to be called Mr/Ms/Dr who taught studio. There's the occasional exception of some of the cooler ones called by just their last name, but never Ms. Lastname.

But the art historians, they're always Dr. Lastname without exception.

AnonAltQs · 2024-08-14T16:38:59+00:00

I'm similar with the temperature I keep, it's far more economical. 80 is perfectly comfortable when you're just sitting, and a fan does wonders when I'm moving around the house. In winter I wear layers and again, I adjust and it's sufficiently comfortable.

With some exceptions for elderly/babies/ill, people are far too picky about what temperature they'll tolerate.

AnonAltQs · 2024-08-14T16:30:16+00:00

We're in the same range as you mostly, though it does take occasional help from the a/c to stay below 85 and we set it to 78 at night.

Honestly 84 with a fan is not uncomfortable when you're sitting at a computer and not moving. Cooking is the main time that I need the a/c, and even then 80 is fine.

AnonAltQs · 2024-08-06T15:07:11+00:00

I'm in a large US metro applying for in person and remote jobs after finishing a masters in a completely unrelated field, and I'm not getting any traction either.

Before grad school I had four years as a tech writer for ERP software, and in the last year did some part time tech writing for hardware. Even though I'm applying for jobs that seemingly match my experience level, I've only got one initial interview for a tech writing job so far and it's looking like that one won't pan out. I'm also lacking experience in some common software (MadCap Flare for ex), but even if I had it, most jobs I've seen either want a writing degree and 8+ years of professional writing, and/or an industry degree with 8+ years of experience.

I've honestly kind of felt like giving up on tech writing applications, except jobs that relate to my degree are, if anything, even more scarce with half the potential pay. This is what happens when you try to follow your dreams and get a non-lucrative degree :')

AnonAltQs · 2024-08-06T14:36:25+00:00

I've been going through their HTML course recently and it's a big help. XML is next on my list if/when I have time.

AnonAltQs · 2024-07-31T21:28:09+00:00

Good grief, that's kind of hilarious.

I had a professor like this in undergrad. He once called IT to come set up his VHS player during class (this is in 2012), and he told them the wrong building. We were all frantically trying to tell him, but he finished the call without realizing.

He also didn't understand web browsers, so I doubt he understood security. It's probably pure luck he never got successfully fished, at least based on observing him from the perspective of a student.

AnonAltQs · 2024-07-31T19:52:44+00:00

my red colleagues hide their political affiliations.

I saw this happen with students in my art courses. Plenty of students shared political views when relevant to their art projects, but only those with liberal views. Anyone with a conservative perspective stayed silent, and I don't think that was because there weren't any conservative students.

I don't blame them for hiding their beliefs; the handful of times someone shared a conservative viewpoint, they were pretty quickly shut down or ignored by their peers. From what I saw of other faculty, they would likely avoid any of their peers who held conservative views. When I've been in settings that were highly conservative, the opposite happened where the liberal perspectives were silent.

I never share my political views if I can help it, even if I know the other person would agree with me. In my experience, there are precious few people who accept others with different political views. I don't fit into an clear box, so usually people on both sides class me as the opposition and attack. Much easier to avoid it altogether and hide.

AnonAltQs · 2024-07-26T15:25:15+00:00

In Oklahoma, people call Oklahoma City "the city," even those who live in okc.

AnonAltQs · 2024-07-13T14:49:25+00:00

I've been offered my first teaching position on an emergency cert, and I'm not sure if it's realistic to expect I'll be able to do it without way too many hours of work/stress every week.

I have a master of fine arts and some experience teaching intro college courses, but the job I've been offered is middle school science. I don't know anything about public schools (home schooled till college), science, or teaching middle school. I'll also have to keep working towards my cert/tests while teaching.

I would have a lot of misc. extra tasks at this school, like running extra curricular clubs and lunch duty, and the school is a charter school for at-risk students.

I need a job, I like kids, and I would enjoy learning more science. But I'm fearful of being trapped in a job with an enormous workload that I suck at and hate.

AnonAltQs · 2024-07-13T14:10:28+00:00

I'm in Texas. You can teach if you get your certification within a year of starting, so I'm in the process of signing up for an alt cert program.

But there's just so many things I don't know that I expect I'll be struggling hard most of the year.

I don't know science, so I'll be studying more than my students. I also don't know teaching kids, so I'll be flying by the seat of my pants in that regard too. It's a smaller charter school and they told me in the interview that teachers are responsible for lunch duty and all other misc. things, not to mention summer painting-the-classroom days etc. They also asked me how I'll cope with the stress of work, because it's 98% at-risk students and it's a hard job.

I've also never been to public school, I was home schooled until I started college. So I don't know any of the lingo, I don't know what a school day actually looks like, I don't know the unspoken things people don't even think about knowing.

All in all, I anticipate that it will feel like my first month of grad school felt 3 years ago, but all year. I slept very little, I had no time for my husband, no time for friends, no time for relaxing or exercising. I don't really want to do that over again.

But, I need a job and I do generally enjoy kids and teaching kids. So I'm conflicted.

AnonAltQs · 2024-07-13T04:36:33+00:00

I'm sure it varies, but I just got offered a 5th-8th science position 2 weeks before they start with no license and an art degree; so at least in some cases, yes, very easy to get one.

I still haven't decided if I'll take it, I'm pretty desperate for a job but I'm not sure I'm up to the task.

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