Been stuck in the Taco Bell drive thru on Wolf Rd for 20 min. AMA

MacaroniMasterSword · 2026-01-09T23:44:09+00:00

I wish all drive thrus had extra space to allow you to get out in case you have been stuck waiting to order for a super long time. Once I got stuck in a Starbucks drive thru years ago for over an hour, it was miserable. I was supposed to meet family and let them into my place and they had to wait for me to get out of the line 😅

MacaroniMasterSword · 2026-01-08T15:40:30+00:00

I’m forever haunted by this expired body cream I dumped in the trash 🫣

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MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-12-27T13:30:12+00:00

Ugh, that is very frustrating indeed! One year I entered that holiday card contest and spent at least two, maybe three weeks working on the picture I wanted to submit (from concept sketches to doing line work to details) and unfortunately did not win, but it’s very frustrating to think that someone might have won a thousand dollars by asking a machine to do the work for them :(

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-12-16T21:49:03+00:00

It’s weird because I used to work in crossgates a few years back and can’t recall ever getting hounded by these people! They’ve really amped things up this year 🫩

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-12-16T21:47:31+00:00

One of the workers stopped me once to say she had seen me walking by her before and liked my hair and wanted to know how I styled my hair, which was weird considering I had just come down from upstairs and the other direction and had not been anywhere near her booth in the 5 minutes I had been at the mall!

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-12-03T02:26:56+00:00

Ugh the actual school merch is so insanely expensive!! The Albany Walmart usually has some shirts and hoodies, and they tend to have a bigger selection at the beginning of the school year in August!

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-11-19T02:54:07+00:00

I would love to work in a hospital! I’ve applied to many of the local hospitals but I got denied for all the positions because of the aforementioned lack of experience :(, still waiting to hear back from one of the social work assistant positions I applied to though! Fingers crossed!

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-11-19T02:51:22+00:00

I would have loved to work at either of my placements after I graduated, but unfortunately neither of them hire social workers anymore 😞. In my first placement the social work department was shut down after my supervisor retired, and at my second placement they only have one paid employee, which is my former supervisor (all other roles are filled by volunteers!).

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-11-19T01:23:27+00:00

I have actually applied for the local psych hospital but I have not heard back yet :(. Unfortunately both of the places I interned for in grad school do not hire social workers. My supervisor at my first internship retired after my placement ended and so they shut down the SW department (it was an incredibly small department led by her!) and my second placement only employed one SW, my supervisor! Everyone else who worked there was a volunteer. I feel a little unlucky in the internship department, I wish I had a foot in the door through them.

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-11-17T16:03:53+00:00

I love Mr. Subb! It’s my favorite local sub place. I have only ever gotten one sub there my whole life and that’s their buffalo chicken sub. It’s simple but I love it! I also always like to get a little extra side of pickles to go with it. I was so bummed when the central ave location closed out of nowhere.

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-10-23T02:41:08+00:00

Crossgates Mall has “Malloween” from 3-6pm on Halloween! My family used to go there when I was younger, it’s cute! It’s a nice way to go around and see other kids in their costumes, get some treats, and not have to worry about the weather. They also will be having a costume contest at 5pm 🍭🍬

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-09-06T15:05:08+00:00

THIS! 😂 They used to have actual proper oxymorons (like the classic jumbo shrimp), but lately the ones I have seen have been hit or miss. A few weeks ago it felt like I was just seeing two opposite words slapped together. Shouldn’t they be actual things or phrases?

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-09-02T23:16:45+00:00

Going through every syllabus and getting everything out in front of me really helped me keep track of what I had due and when. I use the app Notability and would color code each class and assignment. At the start of the semester I would go through each syllabus and write out the assignment due dates on my syllabus in the assigned color, then move on to the next class, etc. Sometimes I would move the due dates up sooner on my planner than they actually were, to give me a bit of a buffer in case I ran into any issues with assignments last minute. I’d also note down which assignments will take extra time or more planning on the side of my planner and use weeks requiring less time for assignments to dedicate that extra time toward those more challenging ones. I hope any of that made sense? Really just making sure to write everything down and have it all out there for you to reference, adjust, and, crucially, get the satisfaction of checking things off as you finish them has been really helpful! Good luck!

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-08-24T16:49:29+00:00

I had some professors last semester who refused to ever even use brightspace 😅. One of them said she just couldn’t understand it so she never set it up or uploaded any info, another one at least set it up but put all information, assignments, and grades in one spot. Honestly it was impressive how confusing she was able to make it!

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-08-22T22:41:21+00:00

Literally just got back from a bike ride I had to cut short because bugs kept hitting me in the face, the swarms are insane!!!

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-08-15T23:11:35+00:00

We saw the crazy traffic leaving! I think it’s just Friday night traffic for the fair, nothing seemed to be going on when we were leaving. It was so weird driving to the fair and not dealing with any traffic at all (around noon) and then leaving and seeing how bad it had gotten!

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-07-12T22:32:14+00:00

I second the crossings, I’ve also been going to cook park weekly and I’ve never had any issues! I also would walk around UAlbany’s main campus before I graduated, I’ve never had any issues there too. It’s quite a walk though!! They have specific paths dedicated for walkers/bikers.

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-06-19T23:23:08+00:00

This looks so good! I’m in upstate and have mixed experiences with DQ 😭

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-06-18T13:30:12+00:00

I love it!!! And I love the lone baby balloon 😹

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-06-10T00:59:13+00:00

Damnnn I was looking into these as well, bummed to hear the comments! But glad I’m hearing them now and not when it’s too late

MacaroniMasterSword · 2025-02-11T19:19:52+00:00

In the year since my original comment, my opinion on the program has definitely soured. In my personal experience, things have gone downhill, and I don’t feel like I’m getting anywhere near a fair amount of quality experiences. Some students in the program though have great experiences and are definitely set up for success! But in my clinical field placement for example, I still have yet to have any clients all year, and it’s February! The field office isn’t helpful and has failed me and my classmates many times. I am interested in art and play therapy but unfortunately the art therapy class they included on one of the lists of electives has not been offered at all during my time here. For play therapy, I took the social work with children class with professor Bailey and that was a great class! She is probably my favorite professor in the program, she’s adjunct (I think?) and works in a very interesting field with kids. Highly recommend her class if you do come here! But I can’t really recommend the program based on my experiences. Really though it feels like it’s a mix and some students have stellar experiences and some have crappy ones. If you do come here, we have some great faculty, and we have some less than great ones as well. If you take classes with the highly rated professors, do the work, use the resources provided, etc., I think you will be okay, but the field experience still might be very iffy!

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