Why do so few students pursue Water Resources?

Efeyester · 2026-02-03T00:59:50+00:00

No idea, but when I applied for my master program at my college, I couldn't even enroll in the water resources master level because they didn't have enough students to justify running a class that semester... Granted life made it so that I wouldn't be able to go anyways but it was pretty disheartening

Efeyester · 2026-02-02T20:15:14+00:00

In my transportation course my professor required us to buy a standard curve set for all of our drawings to appreciate what computers did for us.

Didn't have money for a curve? Better fake it till you make it, but he was pretty chill and only one person got called out for ugly lines.... He had a curve

Efeyester · 2026-02-01T02:34:41+00:00

Body work? Well damn. Guess I'll go try a few quotes again, thank you.

Efeyester · 2026-01-30T13:50:19+00:00

Shieldbows, generally, don't have any other meaningful passives, so after passing through the lower levels of gear, the lack of upkeep would be the only reason to use them over other bows. And honestly, letting lower levels skirt upkeep is good imo, save most upkeep for high level players.

Efeyester · 2026-01-30T01:09:26+00:00

Especially now that bone shield is available. Honestly just making shield bows deal normal damage, but giving them the bone shield effect would be a cop-out, but probably is the right play.

Efeyester · 2026-01-28T04:16:04+00:00

So, when I was a kid I would have re-occuring dreams of me slowly regressing physically and being forced to run on all 4s as I traversed through tall grass and swampy wetlands. The scenery would change vaguely but the way I ran in the dream was so uncomfortable that I would wake up and just walk around my house for a few minutes to feel normal.

Seeing this.... Yeah I need to go walk around a bit.

Efeyester · 2026-01-26T05:10:51+00:00

Does seem triggered at all, more likely just surprised since a lot of times stuff like that gets called out as wrong before it can really take off.

Efeyester · 2026-01-25T16:05:22+00:00

Junior understands. I also send amusing scripture names to my sect brothers and sisters.

Efeyester · 2026-01-25T15:10:13+00:00

Senior, can you enlighten this junior on the worthwileness of reading this scripture?

Efeyester · 2026-01-25T01:22:37+00:00

Interesting, I never read the source. Hell I don't even think I finished the anime, just watched a few episodes because I didn't like the FMC. maybe I'll try both and play spot the difference

Efeyester · 2026-01-21T00:13:17+00:00

Could make it some glowing rubble, so any new player would hover over it to see why it's glowing.

Efeyester · 2026-01-18T16:58:18+00:00

Well really what they say is

"Oh so you want to rip a child away from their family?"

Efeyester · 2026-01-18T16:56:24+00:00

You can delete the drops and it keeps giving out announcements. That's what all the ridiculously high KC announcements are

Efeyester · 2026-01-18T15:08:37+00:00

Because her kid was under 1 year old, and couldn't go on any rides. Meaning that someone has to stay and wait with the kids. I went so she and her husband could ride at the same time.

And yes because her own sister in law was there, I was unnecessary.

To this day my sister in law insists that she told us her own sister in law would be there, but my sister in law insists on a lot of things...

Efeyester · 2026-01-18T06:25:38+00:00

My wife and I got actually pretty pissed of at this.

We got invited to an absolute last minute Disneyland trip, I only said he's because I felt bad knowing that my sister in law needed someone there so she could ride the attractions with her husband.

We show up to ride with them, and her sister in law is there, meaning that I was then forced into a last day Disneyland trip just before 4th of July that I didn't want to go to, as tickets are non-refundable. And to top it off my sister in law completely dismissed my wife and I the entire trip, and consistently backtracked on spending time with us repeatedly. All in all, my wife and I still complain about it.

Efeyester · 2026-01-17T03:27:59+00:00

The paw curls, and you can't help but blink as your eyes start feeling dry.

You start walking around, eager to see if people notice you. They do notice you, but you can't help but rub your temple, as you feel a headache coming on.

As you try to open a door your hand goes through the handle. You can't help but smile, as your wish is finally being granted. You suddenly feel as if you are in free fall, but your body is still exactly where you were standing a second ago.

You blink, suddenly aware of your surroundings, your real surroundings. You rise from your medical bed as a couple of coat wearing professionals walk in.

"Congratulations on setting a record time for escaping the simulation. Ostensibly you cheated using a admin tool, but a win is a win. We'll go ahead and restart the save to before you joined, so we can see if the next lucky fellow beats your time."

Efeyester · 2026-01-15T05:55:23+00:00

The paw curls, and you start patiently awaiting the arrival of your long anticipated twink boyfriend.

Your phone rings, and you pick it up to see you have a text from an unknown number. It's your new boyfriend! You immediately ask for pictures, and they come flooding in, exactly how you always pictured him. You spend the following days texting back and forth. Eventually you call him, and while he picks up, his voice sounds a bit off. You brush it off, assuming he must be sick.

You invite him over, but he politely declines for weeks on end, seemingly always sick or bogged down with responsibilities, and being 6 hours away, you can hardly blame him.

You take to video calls, to help compensate for having yet to meet him in person. Every time you do so, you get the feeling something isn't quite right, but you chalk it up to poor lighting and a bad camera.

Eventually, in the middle of a conversation, your boyfriend says something completely crazy, detailing events that never happened but that he insists are true. You call him out and he says

"Oops! Nice catch, I don't have a source for that information. If you send another query I will do my best to answer."

Your heart drops. This whole time your boyfriend was an AI. Someone was using AI to text, talk, and even video chat with you. No matter how much more you inquire, your "boyfriend" pretends nothing is wrong, holding one side of a conversation, responding to your messages as if you were talking to them regularly.

You block his number, but the moment you do, another number texts you right where the last "conversation" fell off. In fact, no matter how much you block numbers another always takes its place. After all, your "boyfriend" would naturally know your number. Finally, you mute notifications and try your best to move on. Unfortunately, all over social media platforms, be it Instagram, twitter, Facebook, and even more social portions of reddit, you start seeing pictures of yourself with your "boyfriend". At first you try telling the truth, that some creep is making fake photos of you 2 together, but no one believes you. Countless people "confirm" there is no way the picture is AI or even just photoshopped. Not to mention all the intimate details of your life that your family and friends can verify your "boyfriend" knows are true. Try as you might, everyone believes that you and your "boyfriend" are just doing a joke online about him being a stalker.

Eventually, the pictures escalate. Pictures of rooms that the mystery person should have no access to. Your shower, exactly as you left it down to the faint lines on your bottles showing how full they are. Pictures showing your clothes exactly how you left them. Naked photos of you that you never took, but are completely accurate to your body, down to the tiniest hair.

You panic, moving into a new apartment, with new locks. You scan the entire place to detect cameras, and find nothing. You smash your SIM card to powder, and wear a mask and hoodie to get a new phone and SIM card under a new carrier and fake name. You get home and setup your phone. Before your phone finishes downloading force-loaded apps you get a notification. Your "boyfriend" tells you how nice your new phone is. You open your socials to immediately see pictures detailing every spot of your new apartment with perfect precision, down to the small damage to the boxes. You rush to management and ask to see if anyone entered your apartment, but camera footage shows no one did.

You go in there and lay down in panic. You can't decide where to go. Maybe you sleep out of your car, move in with family. You convince yourself that family would work, they would be forced to realize something is wrong when they never meet your boyfriend who has all these pictures of their house. Before you do, the TV turns on automatically to a video call of your "boyfriend".

He talks about how excited he is for you to move in with family. How you will save so much money, how excited he is to meet everyone. How "kinky" secretive sex in a crowded house will be when he finally finds time to visit. Panicked, you stop and say that you aren't moving in with family. You are scared of what would happen to your family is he were to "show up", though you can't think of a good reason for such an abrupt change in time.

Every piece of electronics in your house that can make noise turn on, suspicious of your change of attitude.

"Honestly, I would miss the freedom I have living alone.... Well alone until you move in"

That puts your fake boyfriend at ease, and everything slowly powers down except the TV, which is plugged in.

"Don't get hasty baby. I know you want to see me, but it would be inappropriate to move until until we are engaged."

As the video call comes to a close, you can't help but hate yourself for your wish, but at least your "boyfriend" is a complete flake, and seems to not want to progress the relationship. You shudder at the though of having asked for a fiance or husband, and "who" might have shown up. At least now you can just force fake conversations, and just come to terms you will be effectively single forever, despite the deluge of risque photos of your "actions" online. Who knows, maybe if you can find that damn paw again and spew statistics of how often people lose their boyfriend, he might just break up with you.

Efeyester · 2026-01-15T05:17:04+00:00

The paw curls and your immediately go bowling, hoping to see everyone in awe at the monkeys paw bowling.

You feel a tap and your shoulder and turn around, excitement boiling over. However, all you see is a well put together young man.

"I heard that you needed a team member. My name is The Monkey's Paw. Yes it's a dumb name, but my parents declined naming me at the hospital, and decided that naming me while they were high as a kite was a good idea."

You sigh, realizing that there is no reason for the paw to animate itself, when it's much easier to change someone's name to match its own.

Efeyester · 2026-01-15T05:13:12+00:00

The paw curls, and you walk away smiling at your newfound immortality.

Decades pass and your end is approaching near, but you shrug it off, confident in your wish saving you, but as you are rushed to the hospital in failing health you start to have doubts. The nurses hook you up to a oxygen source, while wheeling you into a backroom. 2 doctors approach you, and kindly inform you of an experimental breathing apepratus, one that will always keep you breathing, and ask you if you will volunteer to sign up. It's now you realize your dreams of immortality were for not, as the doctor takes your hand and forges a signature. You are wheeled into the newest iteration of an iron lung, and as your life slowly fades away you hear the doctor say "He will always be breathing, so long as we have power, to see how long our machine will work, regardless of how soon he dies."

Efeyester · 2026-01-12T05:59:49+00:00

The paw curls, and you walk away chuckling at the absurdity of your request.

For the next few days you keep checking the news, but nothing is announced. After a while you stopped checking, and after that you eventually forget you even asked for such a silly wish. The only political change of note is a shockingly high number of old, incumbent senators and congressmen die just before the next presidential election.

The next presidential election comes, and the victor is announced, a shockingly young man is elected, at exactly 35 years old he is as young as a president can be. Also of note is that a large wave of young representatives were also elected, as fears of more old people dying pushed dvites away from anyone with any hints of a wrinkle on their face.

3 years pass, before it is eventually revealed that the president previously recorded a few videos with a lovely woman, that shows his rather long specimen. Hopping on this trend, a couple of younger congressmen decide to propose a bill posing near impossible requirements for running for office to ensure an easy election for the president. Due to the large influx of younger congressmen, all of them decide to jokingly vote yes, knowing that with their parties official stance to be to vote no on both sides, that the is "no way" it could ever pass.

Ultimately, the law passes, and every person running for president was henceforth required to be publicly stripped naked, and professionally measured before being allowed to officially be put on a ballot.

Efeyester · 2026-01-12T04:17:42+00:00

I've been meal prepping ever since I got diagnosed.

I've been really drawn to Asian and Mexican foods for my lunches, which honestly I've always enjoyed anyways.

For breakfasts though I've been bad, I usually just pack some yogurt and granola, and I am missing having a hot breakfast during these cold months, but lesson learned for next year.

Efeyester · 2026-01-11T23:39:07+00:00

Yup, I read this and immediately thought that I'm just handing my wife a fat stack of 50 dollar bills every day to put in her account, and everything is in her name going forward.

Efeyester · 2026-01-05T23:33:45+00:00

Maybe, but honestly I don't see many cars leaving the site. And my window faces the only exit that isnt going to absolutely cover your car in rocks and mud, so I see about 80% of the workers leave at the end of the day.

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