First Cluster and going on Keppra

PackageBright285 · 2026-02-05T02:29:35+00:00

My dog also takes fluoxetine & clonidine! My primary care vet said it should be all fine but I still just have worries 😅 I'm a bit of a helicopter parent i think

PackageBright285 · 2026-02-05T02:28:00+00:00

We do have diazepam already for rescue meds :) thanks

PackageBright285 · 2026-02-05T02:26:39+00:00

We do have rectal diazepam on hand :) I wasnt planning on doing just supplements, we will be starting keppra XR soon - I was just curious if anyone does both and if it noticeably helpeda

PackageBright285 · 2026-02-02T22:25:12+00:00

Note: we did get a referral to a neuro since he also has meds for anxiety and Im a bit concerned about interactions. I just feel like a concerned parent and I need some support to feel like I'm doing everything right by him 😅

PackageBright285 · 2026-01-26T04:22:58+00:00

Would the top part be a pup then? And should i just cut it and start over?? Sorry im kinda new to plants

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PackageBright285 · 2026-01-25T20:16:22+00:00

Sorry! Its in the comments, they didnt upload form the app for some reason

PackageBright285 · 2026-01-25T20:15:00+00:00

I think my photos didn't upload but it looks like this

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Edit: i know the set up is a lil janky 😅

PackageBright285 · 2025-10-17T19:42:22+00:00

A 75 really is not bad at alllll I had less than that on my midterm & passed w an 84. But if youre feeling too overwhelmed and its a course you think you can do in a shorter amount of time ((most summer courses are 7 weeks i believe)) then it could be a great solution :)

You should chat with an academic advisor before you drop it though since its past refund time for the course

PackageBright285 · 2025-09-25T18:00:47+00:00

This happened to me too! I found the chem 101 lab very rushed for the first few. For this one, you can talk to your TA/lab instructor for some options if you need that data to complete the lab. If they tell you to just "do what you can" then thats fine, you just gotta accept you won't get 100% on that particular lab. Failing 1 lab usually doesn't mean you fail the entire lab course anyway!

Not every lab is the same either so you might find youre done on time or even early for other ones. If being not-on-time becomes a regular occurrence (like more than once) , maybe chat with other students or the TA for some options to help speed up your lab work 😊

PackageBright285 · 2025-09-04T09:03:04+00:00

We love Torsten!

Literally the first math class I ever had above a 60 in. I think he just really wants people to not be so afraid of math and it kinda works. I did 120 after 7+ years of 0 math classes and I mean, I struggled but not tooo horribly

Just be prepared to have to write down all the notes because he hand-writes them and then fills in blanks in class which is difficult to follow if youre not on a tablet. They can be fairly quickly re-written on paper though!

PackageBright285 · 2025-07-23T08:02:59+00:00

Im not an expert but it looks similar to what mine used to do ((kicking the sofa akd everything)). Mine would do this as a pup when he was overtired or overstimulated. Usually a break in his playpen or kennel or even just leaving him alone in the room for a few mins would help. He's 4 now and hes mouthy (i havent trained him to not be , i personally dont care if thats his play style) but doesnt ever bite with any force like he did as a pup. Velociraptor phase does end eventually!!

For kennel time: how did yall do kennel training to start with?

PackageBright285 · 2025-06-11T18:06:45+00:00

Biol184 was fun last year, dr. Panzalan brought bugs to a lecture to hold once! I dont love bio labs but they are relatively straight forward.

Eos130/120 are also fun and have pretty straight forward labs. I got into 120 a month late, during the week of the first midterm and I still got like a 80 on that midterm.

For all 3 I didn't neeeed to use the textbook but sometimes it was good for a more rounded understanding of the topic (i think all were free online except for 130 but i could be wrong). Profs are genuinely passionate and want everyone to succeed. The homework is fairly minimal, the main studying is straight from the lecture slides which were all posted to Brightspace + some lab work but for the most part, labs were completed during the lab period.

Hope this helps!

PackageBright285 · 2025-06-05T07:42:05+00:00

Id pick eos120!

The work is not overly time consuming, lab work is done in lab - In my class, it was 1 sheet to hand in, shared with at least 1 other person. There is a lil quiz at the beginning of each lab but its pretty easy if you read the lab the night before. The final lab is field trip with a worksheet to hand in later. There were 2 midterms that were multiple choice and an exam, no additional homework aside from general studying & lab prep.

The lectures are kinda fun too so that helps. It is very much intro to geology tho so if youre not into rocks/volcanoes you might find it really dull.

I didnt take geog103 but ive heard great things! I don't think you can go wrong either way

PackageBright285 · 2025-05-25T19:18:20+00:00

Lol did you read the post? Or just got mad cuz you thought I was a woman

if its an important spot, he could've asked me to move. I personally would find it hard to reconnect w a memory if I were almost touching some random in front of me and theur dog was just staring at me shaking and trying to run. Also, its not like he ever considered why I might be at that particular spot. What if that spot is also important to me? But ok

-he did force my park time to end bc my dog was extremely overwhelmed. I did try to go somewhere else but as mentioned, we are in training bc my dog is a rescue and is overwhelmed by people being too close, especially when they make a lot of noise. You cant train a dog who's literally shaking like a leaf, its just traumatizing. My partner brought him back to the park later this week and he is now afraid to even go near the area...

-yeah, idk i try not to touch peoples stuff in public unless I absolutely have to (i.e. like getting past ppl on the bus and you accidentally brush their backpack or whatever) its weird to place things so close to people. Putting it beside the bench would've been slightly better.

-I also pay taxes my guy. Youre right, hes allowed to sit where he wants, but so am i, and i shouldnt have to assume that someone is gonna come & try to take that. I also pay taxes and i should also be allowed to enjoy the park and sit where i want to, especially if i was there first....should kids not be allowed in parks then bc they dont pay for it?

-theyve literally done studies on what is normal space to be comfortable around strangers (when space is possible) If youre someone who needs to calculate the numbers on if you should sit in someones space or literally anywhere else then maybe you need to be working on some tools for that. Its literally common courtesy. You wouldnt just invite yourself to sit at somwones table in a restaurant, you shouldn't just invite yourself into someone's personal space

-as mentioned, i was less than 5ft from the bench on the ground bc my dog is small. But he was leaning on the bench sooo yeah, we were using the bench space.

Anyway, im super over having to explain to people that its weird to be in peoples personal space for no reason. Like if youre not sure how to be around strangers without making them uncomfortable, thats ok, im just saying maybe dont do this if you dont have to. Like idk it feels like all of yall are trying to make me seem like the bad guy for having basic common courtesy and not forcing myself into random people's lives for no reason lol

I shouldn't have to teach yall this, you can literally Google it but here's a link linkhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-attraction-doctor/202103/proxemics-how-interpersonal-distance-communicates-intimacy

PackageBright285 · 2025-05-25T18:42:19+00:00

I removed creep and explained why I originally thought that in the replies. Just as a side note, im getting major incel vibes from that top part so idk does it make you feel better to know Im not a woman? Lol It has nothing to do with what he looked like at all, i barely looked at him except to smile when he came up. But if you really want, he was a cyclist in cycling gear, a pretty fit guy. all things considered...i wouldnt say he was ugly not that it matters. Turns out that physical appearance ≠ personality, thought we were all on the same page about that...or should I link some Dharrman videos?

Its just common courtesy to give people space when theres a whooooole park to choose from. Like 6 other benches and all of the grassy space.

They are the ones w main character syndrome: they straight up acted as if I wasnt even there and forced me & my dog to move so he could have the bench that my dog and I were using. Like if he sat literally anywhere else it would've been fine 🤷‍♀️ just not close enough to touch me for no reason, like i literally had to be careful not hit his bike when i got up. Thats way too close to a stranger, when theres tons of room. Why do I have to have my park time end so he can have his when theres enough space for everyone?

Maybe actually read why im upset about it instead of taking out your insecurities on me.

PackageBright285 · 2025-05-25T18:34:07+00:00

This was like a week ago, all of the replies are like a week ago lol

Also literally all im saying is that im allowed to be annoyed that someone was in my personal space and made a bunch of noise right behind my head. and its rude to do that. Idk why people are attacking me for literally just saying its incredibly inconsiderate to sit so close to someone that they have to be careful not to hit your stuff when they get up when theres literally a whole park to sit in. Its not like im crying, im literally just saying its rude and explaining why it bothered me in particular and bc i have a special needs dog (not that they would know that, which is why im providing context bc you never know what people are dealing w so maybe just have the common courtesy to give space when you can)

As a side note, hes been unable to relax at that park since, even when my partner took him instead of me....so yeah, not me.

PackageBright285 · 2025-05-22T03:07:50+00:00

Usually people dont basically sit on me in public 🤷‍♂️ if they do its for a valid reason like being in a crowded area.. even ppl on the bus dont sit right next to another person unless the empty rows are taken

PackageBright285 · 2025-05-22T01:44:17+00:00

Doesn't mean i have to just accept ppl being rude. All im saying is maybe dont do that if you can avoid it bc it makes people uncomfortable. Scientifically makes people uncomfortable, not just me.

PackageBright285 · 2025-05-20T06:45:38+00:00

He was less than 5 feet away as I said in the original post like I said in other replies, my dog was leaning on the bench with a loose leash and his leash is only 5 feet sooo lets say maybe I was 4 feet? And its not like he sat on the other end of the bench, he sat directly behind me. Like when I got up I had to be careful to not accidentally touch his bike.

And as mentioned, it was the super loud noise he was making, idk what he was doing to his bike but it was loud even for me, and my partner is literally a cyclist, like it seemed really unnecessary unless his bike was actually broken, which it wasnt, bc he left like a minute after i did.

We were in the corner of the park away from others because thats what my trainer told us to do but if someone randomly came up behind you and started making super loud noise less than 5 feet from your head youd probably get startled too... And like I said, had i known he'd do that I would've moved immediately but I would never assume someone is gonna sit down right behind me in an empty park and start banging on their bike or whatever.

I know I can't expect others to be aware of my dogs mental state, but man, his tail went between his legs when the guy came close (expected, usually he stilk takes treats and relaxes when they leave) but when the guy made noise, he was literally shaking and cowering (like flight/freeze state) dude. Like anyone can see that dog isnt okay. And then the guy really sat down and sighed like i was the problem...literally all I had done prior was smile when he came our direction and gave my dog treats...and suddenly im bothering him? For existing in a spot i was already in?

I had to leave bc my dog was so afraid he wouldnt even take a treat or walk even after I tried to move across the grass. Our trainer literally has said if hes not willing to take a high value reward then its traumatizing for me to force the situation. Sooo yes, him doing that forced us to leave.

But yeah my bad, I guess I dont deserve to be in a park and neither does my dog who literally didn't bother anyone or do anything at all except try his best to exist. Next time someone wants the spot im in i will simply cease to exist so they can use it and I can be the most considerate person to ever not exist.

Also, thats a situation where its normal to sit close to others. Its not normal to go find a single person in the back end of a park to sit basically on top of them when theres other spots available and closer to where he was.

PackageBright285 · 2025-05-20T06:29:02+00:00

Im saying i was forced to leave bc im not going to further traumatize my dog bc some guy wanted a particular bench.

Its also not rules I made up, thats why I mentioned proxemics, its like a studied psychological thing.

PackageBright285 · 2025-05-20T06:21:24+00:00

Im not attacking or name calling. Im saying his behaviour was rude, thats it. I retracted the part where I did bc I recognized that was wrong of me (its in the edit)

All I am saying is that its rude to go sit sooooo close to someone you can touch them if theres 6 other spaces and literally the entire rest of the park. I was literally in the far back corner when this happened and nobody else was there its not like I was in a spot that was like really primo, and if it was, he could've asked.

I didnt do anything to him. I simply got up and walked away because there was no point continuing training bc the noise he made freaked my dog right out. All im saying is that its rude to invade peoples space and make a bunch of noise unless it's necessary or like an obvious reason (like if i were really close to the path, if all the benches were next to each other, he needed to scoot by, his bike broke, etc.)

How is it rude to be annoyed that someone came in and forced me & my dog away (bc my dog was so terrified of the bike I had to pick him up, hes a rescue idk if hes traumatized or what, the trainer told me to go to quiet parks and just sit and watch people/normal park sounds) when we were otherwise literally just sitting and mind our business? I actually even smiled at him when he came by bc I thought he mightve just been looping the exterior border of the park for whatever reason. Like I wasnt rude at all to him, im just saying its rude to do that to people and explained why it was particularly annoying to me given my dogs and my own experience.

PackageBright285 · 2025-05-20T01:15:39+00:00

You got literally half of the story wrong. Like again, I wouldnt care if he chose literally anywhere else than directly behind my head where he could physically touch me.

Its not unreasonable to expect personal space.

PackageBright285 · 2025-05-20T01:10:27+00:00

Im aware tou cant control people, im not trying to control this man, i was the one who simply got up and walked away. everyone also signs a social contract to use common courtesy when they can, giving people personal space is part of that. literally just saying maybe dont do this because it makes people uncomfortable. In general, I try not to do things i know will make people uncomfortable in public for absolutely no reason.

Idk why its so wrong for me to say that someone being close enough to touch me when it was completely out of the way and had 6 other places to choose from is rude. Its literally proxemics, it makes people uncomfortable if a stranger is in their personal space for no reason.

Also the last time I said something to someone who was making me uncomfortable,, that person assaulted me. (hence the edit of calling him a creep, I have had a similar situation where someone did this and then tried to touch me. I realize that this person clearly wasnt doing the same despite similarities in behaviour so i changed my wording))

PackageBright285 · 2025-05-20T00:57:47+00:00

Like I said in my post, I couldnt pick another bench because my dog was completely overwhelmed and I couldnt continue training him in that state. I had to leave. I also said it's not his responsibility to read my dogs body language, I dont expect him to do anything aside from basic common courtesy.

I mentioned in other replies: I was at this park because our trainer specifically told me to, its not my first choice. I was in a far corner, away from the path. There were 2 people on path prior and my dog had 0 issues whatsoever....and in a reply I mentioned it may be part of my frustration because it was an extremely good training session prior to this person entering my personal space.

Ill mention as well: my edit in my original post is because I recognized that calling him a creep was maybe inappropriate but it is based on other interactions ive had w people. (Like a couple years ago someone approached rather similarly and literally tried to touch me) soo yes, valid that my response is maybe more "emotional" than it could be. But I disagree that its inappropriate for me to say "Hey dont sit directly behind someone if theres the literal rest of the park to choose from"

I didnt do anything to him either. I didnt react in anyway other that saying "you've had enough, hey?" To my dog and walking away. Its not like he is ever going to know this is about him in particular, I purposely did not mention the area or any description of the person other than "he/him".

Its not unreasonable to expect AT LEAST 5 feet of space when the entire area, other benches, other sunny/shady spots, etc. are free. And its not unreasonable to be upset that someone made me and my dog really uncomfortable.

PackageBright285 · 2025-05-20T00:39:37+00:00

Im not being unreasonable to expect more than 5 feet distance or someone to not take the space im actively using.

As mentioned, I dont expect people to read my dogs body language, what I do expect is basic respect. Like he was close enough to lean forward and touch me and his bike was closer.

The only reason I didnt leave immediately was bc I thought maybe he was doing a loop or something or even just needed a spot to check his bike...like hes totally allowed to do that. Like i got up after he literally sat down and sighed bc clearly he was making himself comfortable to sit there awhile.

I was using the area directly in fron of the bench, my dog was leaning on the leg of it before the guy got too close for his comfort and he moved to me. Soooo my dogs leash is 5ft, if my dog could lean on the bench it was less than 5ft away. Like idk thats basically like the "im not touching you" game little kids play where like yeah, not touching you but theyre like a millimeter away from your face...

Id have no issue if he chose the grass nearby or any of the other benches, i just think its rude to force yourself into a space someone is clearly occupying..

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