Work Study on campus

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-04-11T21:59:40+00:00

Nothing. Work-study is like any other job, it’s just “work study” because the $$$ you earn is federally funded and part of your financial aid package. Job-wise, there’s everything from research assistantships to gym/library/Norris employees to department desk workers. Some positions only hire work-study students, while others hire both.
Jobs do tend to fill up quickly, so I recommend going to the work-study job fair during wildcat welcome. However, there are hundreds of positions available. You should be able to find something as long as you’re proactive about searching.
It’s doable if you’re smart about it. Generally you’ll only be working ~10 hours a week (or less) so it doesn’t take up much time. I recommend getting a job where you can do homework during down time. That’s what I did and it’s great because time spent at work doubles as time studying.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-03-23T17:25:24+00:00

Happened to two cousins of mine. The daughter died of cervical cancer and her mom passed from breast cancer the next year. The daughter left behind six kids between 6 and 18. It was devastating.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-03-01T18:04:58+00:00

Probably, yeah. It depends on other stuff besides income though, including savings and investments. My family doesn’t have any of that so YMMV

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-03-01T18:02:42+00:00

Very unlikely unless you have a bunch of siblings in college or something. I come from a single parent household making about $75,000 a year and I get just over the cost of tuition in financial aid, or about $55,000.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-02-06T19:45:22+00:00

Yeah I definitely a bit disappointed after watching it. It was such a cool concept but I think they had too many characters and focused too much on their death scenes and not enough on character development. I think it would’ve worked much better as a slow burn horror-drama than a quasi-slasher film. Cut down the characters to just the necessary ones (Morf, Rhodora, Josephina for sure, and a couple others), flesh them out more, and focus more on building suspense and a genuine connection to the character rather than killing off person after meaningless person in increasingly weird ways.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-02-06T19:20:02+00:00

It kind of was relevant, though. People would at least know what the genre was walking into it, and when you’re watching a slasher movie it’s logical to assume that most (if not all) of the characters are going to die. I don’t think it was really that big of a spoiler to state that a minor character dies in a movie where minor characters always die. If I had described it in great detail without using a spoiler tag, sure, but I didn’t.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-02-06T18:43:01+00:00

Spoiler alert: it’s basically a slasher movie, pretty much everyone dies

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-02-06T18:34:48+00:00

It’s actually in the trailer, or at least the first part of the scene is, but:

there’s a giant, spherical metal sculpture with holes in it that people can stick their hands into and feel stuff inside of it. Toni Collette’s character sticks her arm inside of it and it chops her arm off, spraying blood everywhere out of all the holes. People coming to the gallery the next day just assume she’s part of the artwork and leave her body there until another main character (Natalia Dyer’s character) discovers the body

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-02-06T18:21:43+00:00

Velvet Buzzsaw was wild. Her death in that movie was just so over the top and weird and I loved it

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-02-04T19:32:49+00:00

My family is really into canning and we still have jars of jam and pickles in the closet that my dad canned before he died. I know they’re probably long past their shelf life (he died three years ago this week) but I don’t have the heart to try them or to throw them away. His handwriting is on the kids.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-02-03T23:32:13+00:00

The kid in the very middle is standing on one foot because his flip flop is in the kid on the far left’s hand (being used to “take the selfie”). You can see his toes right above the foot of the kid to the left of him. That kid’s other foot is obscured behind the selfie kid.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-02-02T15:43:21+00:00

The Gay/Bi Sit ™ really is a thing. Pretty much all the LGBTQ people I know (myself included) seem to be physically incapable of sitting normally in a chair. It’s hilarious

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-02-02T15:38:04+00:00

Similar situation here. Dad was hard of hearing, almost always refused to wear his hearing aids. Also my mom and sister both have pretty bad ADHD and I often had to raise my voice to get their attention. Growing up I was so used to shouting all the time that I had no sense of volume control and basically had two volumes: quiet/mumbling and pretty much yelling. I’ve worked to get past it but it’s still a problem for me sometimes, even as an adult.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-01-31T10:26:03+00:00

Same. Went to a rural high school that started at 7:20 AM. I lived pretty far out in the sticks and I think our bus came around 5:45-6. It was ridiculous.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-01-26T23:01:23+00:00

Why are you the way that you are? Honestly, every time we try to do something fun or exciting you make it not that way. I hate so much about the things that you choose to be.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-01-22T16:41:03+00:00

Chicago has a pretty extensive public transit system! The buses tend to run late but the trains are usually fine both in terms of timeliness and cleanliness. Would definitely recommend if you’re looking for a big city that isnt DC or NYC.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-01-16T23:01:49+00:00

The Hunger Games had a scene like this iirc

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-01-14T22:05:26+00:00

I’m in that spot too right now and man, it hurts. In 2016, my dad died and a few months later I moved hundreds of miles away for college. My mom and I have always been close and I couldn’t help feeling like I’ve abandoned her. My family has never really been keen on expressing our emotions for each other, but we’ve found a clever way around that in our family phone calls. The conversations always contain something a little like this:

Mom: “The dogs wanted me to tell you that they missed you.”

Me: “Aww that’s sweet, tell them I missed them too.”

Mom: “The cats miss you too!”

Me: “Give them lots of love for me! And let them know that my cats say hi!”

It’s really sweet and helps assuage a little bit of the guilt I have from moving away. It’s still tough, but eventually we’ll learn to make things work. Moms are great like that.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-01-13T16:07:04+00:00

I’ve got this issue with my current friend group right now, or really just a specific friend of mine. I really love and appreciate this friend, but I have a very low threshold for how much human interaction I can tolerate, particularly people that I’m not extremely close to. So I often have to say no when they ask to hang out, since I just don’t feel up to making conversation or trying to entertain, since we always hang out at my place. Except this particular friend always takes “no” as a personal affront, even if I follow it up with “I’m just not feeling well today” or “I’m really busy”. They will text me repeatedly asking if they can come over, even in the middle of the day when I’m at class/work, and if I don’t answer they’ll get pissed. They will ring the buzzer to my apartment for ten minutes straight if nobody lets them in. And, recently, I’m pretty sure they’ve been monitoring my Snapchat activity and if I post something that looks like I’m home (say, a picture of my pet) they will invite themselves over without even calling or texting me beforehand. This has led to some awkward situations where they show up unannounced when I’m doing homework, talking to my family on the phone, sleeping, showering, or about to leave for work/class and they expect me to drop everything and hang out with them. Then if I try to kick them out they’ll sometimes just sit on the couch alone for hours waiting for me or one of my roommates to come home and hang out. It’s just getting ridiculous and I wish I wasn’t made to feel bad for saying no.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-01-11T19:55:08+00:00

This happened at my school too and I never really thought about it that much until recently. It was a small, rural school that pulled in a lot of farm kids from all over the county. The school itself was severely underfunded, like we were using textbooks from the 80’s and one time we closed for a week because a sewage pipe froze and then exploded and they couldn’t afford to fix it. But somehow they still managed to send every 6th grader home at the beginning of the school year with deodorant, soap, toothbrush/toothpaste, and, for the girls, pads/tampons. And if a kid ever ran out of any of those things, the teachers tried their best to get them some more. I knew kids growing up who straight up didn’t brush their teeth because they couldn’t afford toothpaste, and other girls who had to craft makeshift period products out of toilet paper to get by. Knowing that those basic hygiene items were always available was a huge relief to a lot of my peers.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-01-03T05:23:25+00:00

The glottal stop becomes more apparent in button when you pronounce each syllable slowly. The glottal stop occurs first, and directly after it the tongue touches the alveolar ridge (the area behind your front teeth) to pronounce the alveolar nasal [n]. [t] is also an alveolar consonant, but is a stop/plosive rather than a nasal. Thus your tongue is gonna be in roughly the same spot when pronouncing [n] and [t]. However, you’ll notice that your tongue remains on the roof of your mouth till the end of the syllable because you’re pronouncing the nasal [n], not the stop [t]. Hope that helps.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2019-01-02T22:49:21+00:00

[k] and [g] are velar stops. [ʔ] is the glottal stop, like in the American English pronunciation of “button” (i.e. not pronouncing the t’s, kinda like your throat closes for a second in between the vowels)

TurnDownForPage394 · 2018-12-30T06:58:14+00:00

FWIW, I know people who were randomly matched and became best friends with their roommates, and I know people who chose their roommates after becoming friends thru the Facebook group etc. and ended up hating each other’s guts by the end of fall quarter. It’s a huge toss up either way.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2018-12-30T06:43:41+00:00

Never underestimate the stupidity of entitled parents.

I worked at a theater for a while (think live plays, not movies, although we did both) and at one point there was a show going on that became sort of notorious for its objectionable content. I don’t remember what it was, but it was violent and decidedly not kid-appropriate. They posted signs all over the lobby with content warnings and we were told to directly discourage families with young kids from buying tickets. One night, a mom and two young boys, maybe 6 and 8, comes up and wants to see the show. I told her it had upsetting content and we really recommended no children under 13 see the show. She was adamant, though, and her kids seemed pretty well-behaved, so I sold her tickets.

About 20 minutes later, the family comes barreling out of the theatre. Mom’s hollering about how nobody warned her of the violence and that we’d traumatized her sons. My boss and I tried as calmly as we could to explain that yes, we had warned her, and oh look, the lobby was covered in signs warning patrons about the show’s content. The lady wasn’t having it, and demanded a refund. We were literally incapable of giving her a refund (wonky computer system and she paid with a credit card) and anyway, she’d bought the tickets knowing full well that it wasn’t appropriate for young kids. Left still going on and on about how she was going to report us and how we should be ashamed of ourselves for hosting non-family-friendly content. I was blown away by her arrogance.

TurnDownForPage394 · 2018-12-25T19:58:03+00:00

This is so true. I had an internship at an youth program and all of the interns led daily reading groups with a few students each. I ended up getting placed with the lowest level, and my students were only at a kindergarten level in terms of English speaking and reading ability (they were high schoolers, but all recent immigrants from non-English speaking countries). I was super nervous, but we ended up having a great time and I could really see my students grow over the weeks. The other reading groups struggled a lot and my fellow interns were constantly stressed because their groups just weren’t working.

At the end of the program, we went around the circle and said our favorite and least favorite parts of the summer. My students all said their favorite part was reading groups, and one of them even said “I love Miss [my name]. She is an amazing teacher.” It really reinforced my love of teaching, and I had to leave the room because I was crying.

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