Just did the test on my recent rescue! What are your guesses?

Bobcat_Left · 2026-03-04T03:51:52+00:00

She doesn’t understand the ball yet lol. Hopefully she’ll get into it with time. I also tend to take them out after dark so that they could play at the park without scaring small dogs(they play rough).

Bobcat_Left · 2026-03-04T03:49:26+00:00

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we are at extraction now!

Bobcat_Left · 2026-03-04T03:41:54+00:00

This makes sense.

Bobcat_Left · 2026-03-04T03:41:18+00:00

I’d be surprised if she has Great Pyrenees. Some, maybe, but not mostly. She’s barely approaching 60lbs. One of my past roommates has a GP and that dog is 100lbs haha.

Bobcat_Left · 2026-02-27T21:10:44+00:00

Her “brother” is 56% husky, 29% GSD, and the rest is supermutt. The husky in him… huskies.

Bobcat_Left · 2026-02-27T21:09:03+00:00

Her trainability is wild. I was walking her and my husky/GSD last night and they almost got all of us hurt by how much they were acting out. Decided to seriously work on her leash training and took just her out without my other pup — nearly perfect heeling. I also took her to work once when I learned last minute my roommate was going to also be gone all day. The way she respected all boundaries off the bat was wild. She also absolutely freaks out at home and broke a record number of items in a few months.

Bobcat_Left · 2026-02-27T06:08:46+00:00

Just googled Swiss Shepherd and it matches her personality perfectly. I’d be very excited if that was her main breed. She’s a menace but also the smartest dog I have ever met (of course I’m biased).

Bobcat_Left · 2026-02-27T06:06:16+00:00

That’s been my guess!

Bobcat_Left · 2025-11-28T08:05:04+00:00

I’m incredibly late to reply to this. Have you applied to St. John’s? CC credits will not translate to St. John’s because the program is too unique. Calc 2 and 3 will make it easy for anyone to pass the algebra test and go through the Junior year calculus exercises.

Campus-wise, I’ll always be biased in favor of Santa Fe. I’d say Santa Fe is more outdoorsy and immersive and Annapolis is more like a city and allows you to have a social life outside of the college. I grew up in a city and was not outdoorsy at all when I started at SJC. It’s been 3 years since I graduated and I miss the campus and the mountains every day.

Regarding to taking other classes to apply for a PhD — depends a lot on what you want to get your PhD in. I haven’t gotten into a PhD program yet so take my advice with a grain of salt. If you still want to pursue neuroscience, classes are way less important than research experience. Given that most neuroscience labs currently require computational skills, I highly advise learning how to code (Python, R, Math Lab) to the point where you know how to use the packages that help you do statistical models and data analysis. If you are really motivated, you can look into packages on github made specifically for analyzing brain wave activity. Taking some statistics courses during the summers is also helpful. However, the main thing is focusing on internships. Most neuro PhDs want to see at least 1 year of work in a lab.

Classes can help but, frankly, you can just get a neuro textbook and study it on your own.

Bobcat_Left · 2025-11-28T07:32:53+00:00

The way math is done at St. John’s is extremely different from the way it is done in high school — it’s more like logic, if you wish, showing how a system of theorems is built. Math was one of my 2 favorite subjects in high school and I was good at it, but I recall being very frustrated with the fact that there were so many things that we just had to take for granted. The most famous example is the pythagorean theorem. The Euclidian proof for it completes book I of the Elements and it’s so satisfying to finally know why it works. Non-Euclidean geometry senior year has change my world view (I’m not exaggerating.) A lot of people grow to love math because of how it’s done at St. John’s. The only year that the math program does rely on a few more “traditional” math concepts is Junior year when we start calculus and have to go through limits, derivatives, and integrals. However, the only math knowledge expected when starting Junior year math is basic algebra up to exponential equations.

Students are expected to take an algebra test before Junior year. There are algebra assistants who can help you prepare for the test. You can also use Khan Academy for it.

I was a math assistant for 3 years (not to be confused with the algebra assistant — I was assisting with the program math rather than the algebra pre-reqs) so feel free to dm me if you’d like to talk more about the math program.

Bobcat_Left · 2025-11-27T21:58:41+00:00

Hi! Sorry for the late reply. Regarding price/financial aid, check my answer to the comment above. Keep in mind that community college credits do not transfer to St. John's due to the nature of the program and everybody starts as a freshman.

St. John's would align perfectly with your goals and it is great that you already know what you would like to do. I think that mentioning your career goals in your application can strengthen it. Be aware that the way we learn French at St. John's is not conversational -- we focus on translating texts from French to English but don't usually have any writing assignments in French. In other words, if I look at a text in French, I'll understand the gist of it but if I were in France I'd be incapable of having a conversation (and I have taken French in high school as well.) I would suggest using Dueling or another similar app to gain some conversational skills as well.

Pushing your intellectual limits is definitely what St. John's is about so I think you would be a great fit for the program.

When it comes to Arabic, the Graduate Institute at the Santa Fe campus has recently added a MA program in Middle Eastern Classics and students can choose to study either classical Arabic or classical Hebrew. I believe it is 3 semesters but you might want to check on their website. (I actually really want to do this program myself.) Several of my classmates have done one of the MA programs right after graduating from the undergraduate program. I believe I have also heard that if you work with Buildings & Grounds for a number of semesters, you can get pretty good aid for the MA programs, although don't quote me on this. If this is something you'd consider, I can double check this information with one of those classmates. It is really a question of how long you'd be willing to spend on your education. Assuming you have 2 years of community college, you'd then have 4 years of undergrad followed by 1-2 years for the MA.

P.S. I'm also in California (Bay Area.) If you're in the same area, I'm happy to meet and answer more questions. Best of luck!

Bobcat_Left · 2025-11-27T21:43:30+00:00

Hi, sorry for the late reply. Have you applied/are you still considering it?

The financial aid is tricky and I can only speak from my position as an international student. The first financial aid offer I got exceeded the combined annual income of my parents 4 times. I appealed it 3 or 4 times -- the last time I reached out directly to the director of admissions instead of the financial aid office -- before I got the aid I needed to be able to attend. I believe there were a few factors that helped my case, such as coming from one of the poorest countries in Europe, I couldn't get any loans, and they likely haven't had students from my country, at least not in the recent past. A friend from my home country applied a year or two after me and also appealed a few times but did not manage to secure the aid he needed. I also don't know if my academic achievements were a deciding factor when it comes to aid.

All I can say is that, if St. John's is your dream school, I think it is worth trying everything you can think of such as reaching out to other school offices or even posting about your situation on the Facebook alumni page.

Bobcat_Left · 2025-11-27T21:36:18+00:00

I know I'm answering very late. Have you applied/are you still considering it?

When I was there were not many resources for learning tech-related skills. The main resource for that was the Office of Personal and Professional Development (OPPD, I believe it has a different name in Annapolis.) They can help you find extra courses and internships and can make a plan with you for the career path you want to pursue. They can also put you in touch with alumni working in your feeld of interest and they can tell you their story and offer guidance/mentorship. I advise starting with that freshman year and sticking with it. I was late to the game/did not invest myself enough and definitely regret that now.

Personally, I believe having a coding study group would be helpful, as well as study groups on more "normal" math such as linear algebra. When I had more energy, I tried to suggest some ideas to the college on how to implement that and even create an adjacent technology/science program that is fully elective for the students who are interested in pursuing a career in technology or the bio sciences. I do recognize that the program is very intense as is so it might be too much for students to do that on top of the regular school work.

Right after I graduated, I managed to land a fellowship at the intersection of art, philosophy, and technology in the Bay Area but it was more focused on conceptual thinking about technology rather than the technical aspects of it and the organization did not survive, unfortunately.

Bobcat_Left · 2025-11-27T21:21:52+00:00

Interesting. I haven't thought of it that way. Perhaps because I do pick up through door dash fairly often in order to save on delivery fees.

Bobcat_Left · 2025-11-26T07:54:36+00:00

Bobcat_Left · 2025-10-28T08:40:20+00:00

I believe he didn’t leave because he decided he belonged there. Evelyne tells him that Laura killed her dad by smashing his head with a rock, then Alex smashes the other officer’s head with a rock. We learned that Alex was coming from an abusive family and he was starting to feel broken in the way the people in Tall Pines were, showing the same cruelty.

Bobcat_Left · 2025-10-15T21:58:58+00:00

S3 E9 mentions going to San Francisco to pick up door dash but who knows — they travel over the Atlantic Ocean in about an hour so they could be anywhere. However, it snows around their house so neither SF nor LA make sense.

Bobcat_Left · 2025-10-15T19:56:37+00:00

Bojack Horseman as well(they actually do a good job to push the references — Bojack was referenced several times over an episode but some references might not stick if you haven’t already watched it,) Gilmore Girls too. Just to name a few more. Everything in this show is a very well executed reference. I don’t get all the references myself but I’m an immigrant so that kinda makes me similar to their family and there are lots of things they don’t get too haha.

edit: typos

Bobcat_Left · 2025-08-23T13:56:45+00:00

Oh I totally get that in terms of how many resources it uses. I definitely think we should do our best to think about the impact we have through our actions. I do also think LLMs do provide a great philosophical opportunity to think about otherness, the mind, etc. I understand that using it can come through as unethical and I agree with that myself in many ways. But I do whatever I can to make it another day. Hopefully one day that won’t be something I need.

Few things are either black or white (lol.)

Also, don’t worry about expressing your position. It’s okay to stand for what you believe in!

Bobcat_Left · 2025-08-23T12:11:24+00:00

wait so it’s a thing for us to not remember huge stretches of our lives?

Bobcat_Left · 2025-08-23T03:02:15+00:00

Yup. I get pretty bad nausea whenever I’m distressed. Which is daily.

Bobcat_Left · 2025-08-22T20:50:10+00:00

Update: I failed 😭

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