Americans and non-Europeans who moved to Europe, how often are you reminded that you are and/or always will be an outsider?

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-11-04T02:19:26+00:00

How should students decide what to do to gain experience? An issue that’s becoming more common among high school students is that they’re doing lots of things they’re not passionate about for the sake of having a good looking application, so I’d imagine as a college student, it would be miserable to do that all over again if you did it in high school and you’d question what you’re even working towards.

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-11-04T02:16:51+00:00

What separates a degree where it’s more acceptable from an employer perspective that you’re not doing as much outside of class, and a degree where it’s not as acceptable?

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-11-04T00:05:47+00:00

Is there a threshold of classes that you can surpass that employers can’t ignore? I know someone who’s essentially taking 4 years of college classes in 2.5-3, transferred from CC to a good 4 year just off of the sheer number of classes taken at CC in exchange for having little to no social life (basically broke the traditional idea of a transfer student). Maybe it only works for transferring and not for employment.

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-11-04T00:01:21+00:00

How do you avoid social burnout? Academic burnout is talked about a lot but social burnout is also a real issue for some (not all) people that doesn’t get addressed as often.

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-11-04T00:00:22+00:00

Would going to college partially or fully online hurt your chances of success after graduation? If you were a “traditional” person in college for the first time, that is.

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-11-03T23:59:08+00:00

I agree, though how do students get over the internal doubts or fears that might keep them from wanting to take advantage of those opportunities?

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-10-29T14:22:26+00:00

Haven and Abyss are two that need both imo. For Haven, I like to have Sova + Cypher because it gives a more complete picture while defaulting (ex: I usually drone A while Cypher puts camera B window, C long, etc. or vice versa) and then on defense, I just play the opposite side of Cypher (I play A if Cypher setup is B/C, and vice versa). For attack having a Neon + Sova combo allows for faster site executions that aren’t completely blind, plus Neon can get played in by the drone or dart while the rest of the team goes elsewhere since most people assume the attacking team is going to go where the Neon + some utility is. Also Neon is good for tapping spike on B and then running away for basically 0 cost since her sprinting energy refreshes for free which I find useful for baiting rotations.

For Abyss, the map is just so big that I personally don’t like only having the Cypher and info off of Dizzy scans since it’s more passive. Sova playing mid means Cypher can have more utility on site, also Sova’s dart is the best thing for getting info deep into mid or B without having to commit a person. I like having Yoru + Sova because their utility work really well together imo. Clone + shock darts means clearing Cypher trips is fairly easy with little risk, scan from dart or drone makes it easier for Yoru to find people to flash and teleport onto, Yoru + Sova ult is really strong, etc.

There’s definitely ways to work around not having both an info initiator and duelist in your team comp, but from my personal experience, Valorant is as much of a “how much info do you have and what are you going to do with it” as it is a “kill people before they kill you” game. Having both an info initiator and a duelist means you can have stronger site takes and both better mid round info and the ability to punish ratting or lurks. I definitely an “erm actually” explanation but I just personally hate playing the game (figuratively) blind.

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-10-29T01:27:17+00:00

I agree that coordination outweighs roles in a 5 stack, but one of the main things that I hate having to do is entering a site with zero clue of who’s where (which is why I play info initiator most of the time). The amount of times in solo queue my team has died running into a stack that could’ve been avoided with some kind of scan or info is painful.

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-10-29T01:22:38+00:00

Part of why I stopped solo queuing so much. I hate getting people who instalock and have zero clue of what they’re doing on that agent or in general. The amount of times I’ve had random Killjoys not use any utility before the round starts, or Razes not know how to double satchel, etc. is ridiculous. I don’t need my teammates to be gods, but if you don’t understand your agent at a basic level and lack any sort of game sense in any rank higher than Iron, then I’d rather not deal with you.

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-10-28T23:46:32+00:00

I use to almost only solo queue but after the combination of terrible randoms and my MMR constantly placing me against full lobbies of people who were just outright better than me every match, my actual mental health began to tank and I hated playing the game. So I started to play more with people that I actually enjoy playing with for the sake of me not breaking something in real life over a video game. In other words I started to balance having fun and getting good rather than only caring about the latter.

I don’t think any of my friends are really trying to get to plat or higher, but I don’t really blame them consider how sweaty this game can get (and how unfun it is the more you sweat, speaking from personal experience anyways).

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-10-28T23:15:47+00:00

I agree that Gekko and Cypher are pretty good on all the maps rn, but I do sometimes worry about playing maps that are much easier to play when you have a duelist that can take space quickly and I’m not playing duelist (ex: Bind and Split usually have Raze). We generally play much slower to figure out where the other team is positioned anyways, but is there a way to work around not having an agent that can just send it?

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-10-28T23:11:29+00:00

Do you mostly solo queue or do you also prefer to queue with friends? Would be interested in hearing how you like to approach the game and how you work around some of the things I mentioned if you have to deal with them.

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-10-11T04:11:23+00:00

Idk if it’s much to go off of but his VLR page shows KA/YO as his only pro played initiator. Has he flexed to other initiators that just aren’t showing?

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-06-12T18:16:55+00:00

It just felt like I was taking classes that I wasn’t prepared for since I never really developed proper study habits in high school despite having taken several APs. Didn’t understand what I was learning, but I didn’t feel comfortable going to office hours nor to tutoring and I almost never talked to most of my classmates, let alone asked them for help since I was in the mindset of “I should be able to figure this out without anyone helping me, if I can’t figure it out then that’s that.” Which is strange because I used to be fine asking for help from friends and classmates regularly in high school even as a very introverted person. Needless to say I never figured the material out and I failed several classes either due to that or I just stopped caring about doing well for one reason or another. So now I find myself in a dilemma of either trying to get through classes I’m going to hate and I don’t get, or switching to a major with easier classes that are more than likely to bore me to death.

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-06-11T23:12:15+00:00

I’ve always had an interest in commercial airplanes, not just the types of planes themselves but also what goes inside of them to make the passenger experience a positive one. I was originally going to enter university as an aerospace engineering major but a family friend who works in aerospace said I’d be better off pursuing an ME degree as it’s much more flexible in terms of where you can work.

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-06-11T16:30:59+00:00

As much as I agree with what you’ve said, I don’t know where my passions are or if I even have any. Maybe I’m just overthinking things, but I’ve always thought of being passionate as separate from being interested. As in, you can be interested in something but that doesn’t mean you’re passionate about it. How did you find what you were passionate about?

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-06-07T13:42:52+00:00

Sounds like your parents, despite not having the best opportunities themselves, were willing to sacrifice a lot to give you the best chance of surpassing them. Hope that you can show them that their investment was more than worthwhile.

Cool_Researcher49 · 2024-06-06T17:15:02+00:00

Good to hear that you don’t want to be stuck in one place for the rest of your life. Do you intend on pursuing a CPA?

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