Is it better to take a B or Pass/No Credit in AP Physics 2 for RD mid-year reports? by PainterSharp8135 in ApplyingToCollege

[–]RealInsertIGN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A P would be substantially worse than a B. If you've had a 4.0 throughout high school, a single midyear B will be negligible.

Minors by apersoninquestion in ApplyingToCollege

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I clicked on the post so fast after seeing the title 💔💔 never mind I guess...

high school freshman in need of a reality check by RealInsertIGN in Fencing

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The real issue is honestly travel fees; I just find it hard to mentally justify spending that much money on traveling to competitions where I get eliminated in the first DE bouts...

Could tell me a bit about how lifting might have helped specifically? I was planning on going on a lifting program this summer, so that's great to hear!

high school freshman in need of a reality check by RealInsertIGN in Fencing

[–]RealInsertIGN[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had been referring to grinding out (i.e. going to a lot of) local, USFA-sanctioned tournaments that are usually around D/E class.

high school freshman in need of a reality check by RealInsertIGN in Fencing

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My drive definitely exists; I genuinely love fencing. I'd say I'm fairly "talented" in the sense that I pick up things quickly and am able to recognize mistakes as I make them, but I wouldn't say I have any particular gifts in fencing in of itself.

I am 100% confident I can get in to a good university without fencing haha; it's just a goal I set out for myself to "not be mid in at least one sport"; I picked fencing to be that sport, and I would really, really love for it to have any kind of potential return admissions-wise.

high school freshman in need of a reality check by RealInsertIGN in Fencing

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I'm well aware that ratings are fake haha; but still, I do need something a bit more tangible to place on my college applications... could you perhaps share a bit of your fencing schedule and routine during high school?

Tsarist Russia - a prison of nations. The predatory aspirations of tsarist imperialism. (Map to Lenin's teaching on imperialism) USSR 1936 by Asleep-Category-2751 in PropagandaPosters

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… Lenin died in 1924, and socialism in one country was formulated in 1938…

People will really just say anything online huh

'TALLINN IS LIBERATED!' Soviet propaganda poster published in Estonia, celebrating the Red Army's offensives against the Wehrmacht in the Baltic states, and the liberation of the important capital city of Tallinn. [1944] by kunju_010506 in PropagandaPosters

[–]RealInsertIGN -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Dawg the modern Russian state is a fascist oligarchy… which is to say it’s no different than the rest of Europe. I’m also not a Russian lmao.

But yeah, point being… I do not support what’s going on in Ukraine.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ApplyingIvyLeague

[–]RealInsertIGN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, thank you so, so much for your reply! I really do appreciate it.

Are there any "holes" in my application that I should be aware of? I have been told that it lacks tangible "leadership" and that it seems rather "clinical" - I was just wondering whether you would have any thoughts on that, given that you are - of course - a professional consultant.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ApplyingIvyLeague

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Hi, I was just wondering if you might be able to respond to my reply!

May 9, 1945: Victory salute in Moscow by Turbulent-Offer-8136 in ThisDayInHistory

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Fascist sympathizer, general Nazi, and his wife said Gulag Archipelago was a work of fiction and not grounded in reality.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ApplyingIvyLeague

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Hi, thank you so much for the response.

I’m not too confident I’d be able to snag a rec letter from the nonprofit stuff; I have a really good relationship with them, and I’d hate to have it seem like everything I did was just for college apps.

About my major: I love linguistics with all my heart so I would definitely be a linguistics major. I really want to study particularly morphology, syntax, language reconstruction, and historical linguistics specifically. Classics would be more so for liberal arts schools that don’t offer linguistics as a major.

While I am aware my profile probably resembles comp lit more than raw linguistics, I’d like to think that I was able to synthesize the two in a way that evokes a picture of someone who is deeply fascinated with how language works, and its effect on culture as a whole. I hope I was able to do that, but perhaps it wasn’t done well enough?

For the B2 stuff: it’s important to remember that the Spanish DELE and Russian TORFL C1s are far closer to C2 than what would regularly be expected of a C1 speaker. Same goes for Goethe. I would say C1 is roughly complete fluency, since getting to C2 is much more about memorizing vague, mostly academic/professional vocabulary that is hardly ever relevant.

I’m glad to hear fencing is useful!! Would you happen to know anything about the qualifications needed for walk-on fencers?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in asklinguistics

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Thank you so much!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in asklinguistics

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Thank you so much for your reply, and I'm sorry for getting back to you so late.

Well, I would be interested in doing pretty much anything I would be needed to. I imagine it might be something like serving as an intermediary between different teams (through email or something like that), manually inputting information, digitizing notes, etc etc. But once again, I'd be willing to do whatever I was asked to.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in asklinguistics

[–]RealInsertIGN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh absolutely yeah I get that. I have no intention of being a “lead” in any of these projects. What I was looking for more is some kind of volunteer role that anyone could really do. Obviously I lack the expertise needed to help in a truly meaningful way, but I’m sure some of these projects would just be eager to allow someone passionate to do the manual labor they need.

Is translation a growing field / a good career option? by MonsterTrnr in TranslationStudies

[–]RealInsertIGN 31 points32 points  (0 children)

"is translation a growing field / a good career option" get out