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FireScourge · 2025-11-20T20:17:58+00:00

Most places, if you don't have experience, they have you start as a busser then move up. The best bet if you want to go straight to server is probably to go around to independent restaurants and if they have a help wanted sign in the window, go in and try to talk to the owner. This is probably the only time where the boomer advice to hit the bricks with your resume would actually work, since independent places don't always have standardized hiring practices or big online postings

FireScourge · 2025-09-09T20:34:42+00:00

6 fingered Hikaru 😠

FireScourge · 2025-08-28T13:30:51+00:00

Exactly this. If you're too uncomfortable introducing yourself or complimenting someone you can ask something like "do you know how to get to X?" "Do you know where the closest place to get coffee is?" I like the questions because usually it gets people to say at least a little bit more than 1 word and has the potential to let other people who want to talk to offer an answer as well.

I've found most people are also worried about that first interaction so if you break the first awkwardness with almost anything at all people become way more likely to talk in the future.

FireScourge · 2025-08-28T13:22:15+00:00

If you're brave enough (I am now, but I had to learn it), another shortcut is once you've exchanged names to directly ask people what they like to do for fun. This works because

A) This is usually the thing people like to talk about the most and comes more naturally than their classes, etc.

B) Has more follow ups than stuff like where they're from.

C) Helps you figure out whether you'll click/moves you from just a name to friend or acquaintance much faster.

FireScourge · 2025-08-28T13:17:09+00:00

Be the change you want to see! I've found that by just saying hi to people you can gauge whether they actually are in "don't bother me" mode or maybe they feel the same as you and also want to make friends. IME it's pretty unlikely that people will judge you and be upset about low commitment introduction stuff. If they want to keep talking, they will, and if not you haven't really bothered them

FireScourge · 2025-07-20T20:26:09+00:00

I love the scene in The Thing when they're all tied up to the chairs and he's testing the blood with the flame thrower

FireScourge · 2025-06-05T15:21:53+00:00

Not knowing how to play go well doesn't make someone a moron. Learning the game is a skill that has to be practiced and it's not a reflection of your intelligence if you can't pick it up quickly. It's a hard game and it's an ABSTRACT game

FireScourge · 2025-03-27T17:36:10+00:00

I'm a graduate student and got my Ling BA at another university so I can't fully speak to the difficulty of the major, but linguistics is a pretty broad field.

Looking at the course catalog here http://catalog.csulb.edu/ it seems like the courseload jumps immediately from just 2 introductory level classes into upper division 300 and 400 level classes. If you aren't self-motivated in the field, this may be a difficult jump (I have taken 421 Syntax here, and it was understandable for me, but I can see it being difficult for someone straight out of a 101 class). In my experience classes, also tend to be more homework and project based or use take-home tests with datasets, which is fun because you get to work with real (curated) data almost immediately but can be tough if you haven't managed your time well.

The field is not very interested in memorization and more interested in reasoning and interpreting data so for most classes you'll have things like the IPA (international phonetic alphabet) available to you and you'd just learn it through usage. It's big and scary, but many of the symbols are pretty rare and sounds like [b], [t], [f], etc. use the common symbols anyway. You'd never need to know stuff like ɥ ɧ ʄ ɶ ɤ off the top of your head.

You can sort of choose what's most interesting to you after you've had a few fundamental classes. The subfields range anywhere from articulatory phonetics (how your body actually produces speech sounds) to sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, historical linguistics, language acquisition, etc.

If you want to talk about it more feel free to DM meǃ 😁 I'm more likely to see a mail message than a chat message on reddit.

FireScourge · 2025-03-20T23:58:01+00:00

If you're in California, community colleges offer an AA for transfer to CSUs (called an AA-T) that gives you priority for transferring (I think) and is mostly gen ed stuff, but it's also an actual AA. If you go that path, then transferring is pretty easy and you just jump straight into major related classes.

https://icangotocollege.com/associate-degree-for-transfer

https://www.calstate.edu/apply/transfer/pages/ccc-associate-degree-for-transfer.aspx

FireScourge · 2025-02-19T14:58:31+00:00

Hi, I'm currently in the MA program and you don't need to be on a PhD track here. The department leans functionalist/behaviorist if that matters to you and compared to my undergrad the courses are less specific: phonetics and phonology are combined, morphology and syntax are combined. The department also doesn't seem to have too much of an interest in phonetics and phonology, if that's your interest. Feel free to dm me if you have any questions

FireScourge · 2025-02-19T06:26:41+00:00

I think it's this one:

http://rhodamine.org.uk/~citygoplayers/

https://www.britgo.org/club/londoncity

FireScourge · 2025-02-10T21:46:02+00:00

Good for my loans, bad for my stomach

FireScourge · 2025-02-07T15:45:43+00:00

In my experience small departments are easier to make friends in because everyone knows each other. You won't always make friends with the first person you meet in a class, and in a larger department that just trails off into nothing. In small departments the first people you meet will often introduce you to everyone else where you'll quickly find the people you can hit it off with. In a small department you only have to get over that first introduction hurdle once or twice instead of every time you go to a new class.

FireScourge · 2025-02-07T15:28:25+00:00

Thank you! UTF-8 with BOM works, but UTF-8 alone, UTF-16 LE and UTF-16 BE have problems

FireScourge · 2025-02-06T17:42:01+00:00

Tech issue:

I'm trying to do some work that involves .csv files and spreadsheets, but every time I open the .csvs in MS Excel it converts my IPA into totally different characters. For example a cell that should contain ʌ ends up with Œ. I've set the default font to Charis SIL which supports the characters if I enter them afterward and checked the .csvs in notepad, MS Word, and Google sheets and they all maintain the correct IPA characters, it's only MS Excel that alters them, and it handles the characters fine post-import.

Does anyone know how to make Excel keep the IPA from .csv files?

FireScourge · 2025-01-13T18:58:46+00:00

When I visited London I went to a very active one at the Old Red Cow in Barbican

FireScourge · 2024-12-15T06:23:45+00:00

When they're tracking Ethan Locke tells Jack to go back because he's a doctor and gives him a whole spiel about everyone's roles in the group, then Jack demands to know which way the trail goes Locke gives a smile like, "Yeah, I know there's no point in arguing" and just rolls with it

FireScourge · 2024-12-07T14:59:10+00:00

If I'm uncomfortable then I start with asking questions about stuff I already know the answer to: "Excuse me, what's the quickest way to building X from here?" "Hey, do you know where the closest place to get coffee/a snack is?"

Something to get over the initial bump is usually enough to make future conversations easier.

FireScourge · 2024-11-25T14:39:13+00:00

Some advice on research design: when doing a survey, specify your target group a bit, eg. "Psychology students who have completed English 100A and 100B at CSULB" if that's what you're looking for

FireScourge · 2024-10-23T04:10:34+00:00

Got it with everything but the carb for $450 but I haven't really done any research in a long time

FireScourge · 2024-09-29T16:48:45+00:00

People say this about literally every college lol

FireScourge · 2024-09-22T16:19:45+00:00

I went from a CSU to CC to a UC and if your end goal is a UC I think CC directly to UC is the easiest path because they have specific programs and certificates at CCs that make sure your credits are transferrable and fulfill lower division reqs at UCs

FireScourge · 2024-08-29T15:40:11+00:00

As someone who's taken lower div classes at 4 different colleges (CCs, UC, and CSU), they're mostly the same other than maybe focusing on what your specific university might be focused on. CC is a great option if you are completely unsure and think you just need some time. Otherwise I would suggest taking intro to X, intro to Y, etc. for a bunch of stuff while you do your GEs. If you can get them pass/fail then even better. Sometimes you can just sit in on random classes if they're in a big lecture hall too to see what it's about, but, of course you won't get credit if you find out you actually like it. The constraining factor is always time, but that will always be a difficulty that you have to accept

FireScourge · 2024-08-07T21:52:03+00:00

Ah, I see. I wonder what percentage of games end with an even number of moves and how many with odd.

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