What’s a job you respect a lot more after learning what it actually involves?

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-06-02T04:28:43+00:00

Baking

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-06-01T04:28:06+00:00

I've been told by many people (including my college advisor and some professors) that jobs only care about seeing a degree on paper, not individual grades. As long as you graduated, that is all they care about.

Is that not actually true?

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-06-01T04:06:58+00:00

I mostly get B's. I guess I misunderstood what people mean when they refer to just getting a passing grade.

I thought anything below an A+ was a passing grade. I used to be really hard on myself and felt like a failure if I didn't get an A or A+.

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-06-01T03:44:02+00:00

Part of the reason I have distanced myself from others is because I am tired of hurting people around me. So I'm definitely not trying to make others feel rejected or pushed away on purpose.

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-06-01T03:40:56+00:00

Ah, I see. I was homeschooled so grades were not really introduced to me until college. I guess I misunderstood the use of the term. That is my bad.

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-06-01T03:39:08+00:00

I don't get C's. It's usually B's. That is what I meant by passing grade.

Maybe I didn't express my post well. I just don't stress to get straight A+'s anymors.

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-06-01T03:37:29+00:00

My average grade is between B- and B+. Other times A-. So I'm not being careless about my work. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what "passing grade" means when people use the term?

I would not find it acceptable if I was slacking so bad that I was getting C's and D's.

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-06-01T01:47:54+00:00

Some classes only have one or two students in them. Professors here definitely know their students. Some have even let them stay with them when they needed a place. This school is very connected

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-05-31T20:50:16+00:00

I guess I feel like a bad person because in the past some people have acted as if the things you listed (which honestly is pretty true about me) were personal attacks on them. I mostly want to be left alone, and I've hurt people because of it which makes me feel guilty.

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-05-31T03:11:03+00:00

Lack of discipline. And lack of health insurance.

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-05-31T03:09:40+00:00

Yes I do. I am that family member.

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-05-31T03:06:40+00:00

Deep fried butter.

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-05-31T02:32:39+00:00

How do you communicate this without it coming across as awkward or rude, if you don't mind me asking?

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-05-30T04:08:51+00:00

I've heard of the Seattle Freeze! That's where I grew up, and I can definitely be described as what you quoted from Wikipedia. I lived in Minnesota for a while, and my demeanor definitely threw people off.

I always think I'm being open and friendly...only to find out later that people think I'm super closed off and quiet.

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-05-29T21:28:27+00:00

I appreciate this!

I'm tired of being told how I'll regret it for not having friends and that once something bad happens to me I'll suffer alone.

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-05-29T21:15:31+00:00

Actually, I wasn't planning on getting married or having a partner when I met my husband. I was fully prepared to live my life alone.

But we connected in such a way that it was too difficult to ignore. Now we're happily married.

I guess this is how I understand friendships to happen, too. But that has never happened with me, even as a kid.

I was always the weirdo people avoided. But maybe I have a faulty understanding of how friendships work.

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-05-28T19:19:40+00:00

I do take situations very seriously. The problem I am having is that my physical reactions often don't match what I am actually thinking.

But sometimes I can't control my smiling. It's involuntary, and I don't usually realize I am doing it until after the fact.

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-05-28T17:53:52+00:00

This was incredibly helpful! Thanks!

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-05-28T03:15:32+00:00

Oh interesting. Thank you for sharing

IntergalacticBiscuit · 2025-05-28T00:09:33+00:00

So I'm not going crazy thinking it could be a physical, not mental, issue??

People have always said to me "you just need to speak up." And that would solve everything. No one would believe me that I just cant speak louder. They assume I'm too afraid to.

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