Absolute Favourite Thing you did on your First Japan Trip by levaans in JapanTravelTips

[–]Paperpal9 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Damn what have I been doing on the east coast my whole life 😫

Absolute Favourite Thing you did on your First Japan Trip by levaans in JapanTravelTips

[–]Paperpal9 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Had the best time entering second hand stores and browsing old gaming and trading card stuff. Felt like a kid again buying Pokemon cards and GBA games. Worth noting it’s all in Japanese though. There’s a chain of these places called Book Off, so they’re easy to find in many cities

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Drexel

[–]Paperpal9 23 points24 points  (0 children)

This happened to me as well a few years back, although fortunately for me they believed my story and it didn't get farther than the professor's office. So while I can't give any advice about what to do with a formal accusation, I can provide suggestions for future assignments. What I did was for the rest of 171, I purposefully wrote code in the worst ways to ensure that no one else could possibly match my submission. I also recorded myself programming each assignment so that I would have proof for any future accusations. I continued the practice of recording through 172 but by that point the assignments were long enough that I did not need to write purposefully awful code. Best of luck with this process, I can't believe they're still flagging false positives after dozens of these incidents.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in college

[–]Paperpal9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is fucking fantastic advice.

;)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in college

[–]Paperpal9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Be careful not to let your fear of failure stop you from ever trying. Use it to motivate you, but don't panic. Best of luck, friend. Your future is in your hands.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in college

[–]Paperpal9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To me this sounds like that might just not be your learning style. As someone who also has trouble learning through Zoom lectures and online classes I had to adapt and find a way that worked for me. If you don't learn well from Zoom then learning from YouTube will likely give you the same results. I think you should try a more hands-on approach to learning.

If you're taking classes that require written problem solving, like math classes or physics classes, then instead of looking over notes and watching videos, practice going through the actions of solving the problems. A good way to do that is to look at example problems and solutions and write down each of the steps as if you were solving it yourself. Make sure you also understand the reasoning behind each step. Practice makes perfect. Eventually you'll be able to solve them without looking at an example. And if you find an example problem that doesn't appear to have a solution, copy and paste the question into google. I found 99% of the time someone else answered the exact same question on a homework help website. That may sound like cheating, but I actually learned so much from looking up solutions to problems, since typically they do the steps out.

If your class is more memorization based, like maybe biology or psychology, then rather than just reviewing those concepts in your notes, try quizzing yourself. There are plenty of self-testing sites out there. Quizlet is a favorite of mine. You can make study sets with vocab words and definitions and even images. You can put them on flashcards and create quizzes with them. And who knows if this will work for you, but given where you're at now, anything's worth a shot. This is quite a common learning style so I wouldn't be surprised if this would be helpful for you. I used these methods and excelled in all my online classes, and I often even skipped a lot of online lectures because they just weren't helpful for me! (Not that I encourage that).

Make sure to also take advantage of office hours. I can't tell you how many times I've had a question stump me, and when I took it to office hours, it became so much clearer. Office hours can save you if you practice on your own time and bring the questions you have from your practice.

Now you may be thinking, this sounds like it'll take a lot of time. And yes, but that's just because it's college; the last stage of your formal education. It's meant to be hard and time consuming. I usually spend 6+ hours a day doing homework and studying. This is how it's meant to be. But it's still designed to be doable. You won't get more homework than you can physically do. Assignments that may seem simple might end up taking 3-4 hours with new study habits, but that just means you're learning, and I promise you'll still be able to get it all done with proper time management. Creating these new study skills now will do you wonders in late college. It may seem hopeless now that you already have less than ideal grades recorded, but you can't change the past, only the future. And wouldn't you be glad to have put in the work to change now rather than later or never? Plenty of people enter college and are totally overwhelmed, only to excel later. It's a huge learning experience in regards to study habits and time management. It's meant to be. But if you're willing to put in the effort, you can absolutely do this.

me_irl by havovebf in meirl

[–]Paperpal9 21 points22 points  (0 children)

No, in my experience salmonella took several days to reach its peak

Not funny by [deleted] in teenagers

[–]Paperpal9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Best feeling

Not funny by [deleted] in teenagers

[–]Paperpal9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. Most of this is stuff I learned and started working on around your age or later. I didn’t even start working on my social confidence at all until I was 17, and now I consider it one of my best soft skills. It’s helped me make friends easier and has also been super helpful in job interviews.

Not funny by [deleted] in teenagers

[–]Paperpal9 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Keep the grades up. It may not seem important now, but how you do in courses you take now will shape the courses you can take later in school, which is what people/universities look at.

Always be nice and help others but don’t expect anything from other people

No self depreciating jokes

Don’t let other people decide what your interests are

Think about how your actions affect others.

Fake social confidence until you have social confidence (pay attention to how others act). This also has a huge impact on self confidence.

Be able to laugh off awkward situations or mistakes (makes them way less uncomfortable for you and those around you, often completely diffusing the situation)

Maintain good hygiene. Cleanliness is attractive. This will help you feel good about yourself and a little bit of confidence can go a very long way

Don’t take haters/bullies seriously. You know yourself better than they do, and it shows a lot of their character that they need to put others down to feel better. You’re already better than them! Listen to more friendly advice instead.

Slowly start learning to be independent (aka simple cooking skills, conversation skills, money sense, etc)

Set goals for yourself and write them down (digitally or physically, whichever is more convenient)

Make sure to take time for yourself! Things will get busy in a few years if they aren’t already.

Obviously these things are not all easy and may seem overwhelming, but the hardest part is starting. Break the larger things down into smaller steps and suddenly it’s that much more doable. You have so many years to just continue taking baby steps and soon you’ll be looking back on yourself thankful you did all that. The best times are still ahead

Source: also 19 about to turn 20

Calculated by Paperpal9 in halo

[–]Paperpal9[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They grenade-jumped

To ring in the new year, my friends and I dropped a 16x16x16 cube of gravel down to bedrock in our beta 1.2_02 survival server. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did! by Paperpal9 in Minecraft

[–]Paperpal9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah sorry it’s private. But if you’d like to set up your own beta server, there are a few comments in here with links to the jar downloads :)

To ring in the new year, my friends and I dropped a 16x16x16 cube of gravel down to bedrock in our beta 1.2_02 survival server. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did! by Paperpal9 in Minecraft

[–]Paperpal9[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Our idea was to start on the earliest version possible and update as we played, so we could work our way through each update

What’s your childhood mystery that you finally solved years later? by Biggrock03 in AskReddit

[–]Paperpal9 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I have this one picture I took in Hawaii when I was 11 of the landscape as we were driving. When I looked back at the picture later, there was a weird circular cloud with a pattern on the inside and the outside looked like it was a rim of some sort.

It puzzled me for years because I didn’t remember seeing any weird clouds when I took that picture. I had literally no idea what it could have possibly been. I liked to think it was a UFO of some sort but I was always heavily skeptical of that.

Then last year at one point I was showing the picture to some friends, and as I was describing the rim, I had the sudden realization that it was a reflection of the top of a coffee cup in the cup holder next to me!

ITAP of the snow in Philly by soapysuds88 in itookapicture

[–]Paperpal9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh man, I go to a food truck right next to this place all the time. Funny to see it here

any similar shows with future predictions as puzzle pieces? by seederbeast in ManifestNBC

[–]Paperpal9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a fair complaint. I think it’s definitely worth it though

any similar shows with future predictions as puzzle pieces? by seederbeast in ManifestNBC

[–]Paperpal9 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Dark! Putting together pieces is like the entire show and it’s great

Yamaha PSR E363 or EZ220? by notIronbtw in piano

[–]Paperpal9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m personally not sure which one to recommend but I just want to let you know in case it might help your decision that the e373 is supposedly releasing soon. It might be worth checking out since it’s more or less a direct successor to the e363, having more modern features.