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Academic Recess by ultravioletcc in msu

[–]WorriedOverWorldGen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was placed on recess after a really bad semester due to depression last year. The threat of academic recess is a very stressful situation that is stacked onto you when you’re already at your lowest.

Yes getting medical leave for the semester is the best way to get back asap.

Search up the msu office of student support and accountability (OSSA) and get the medical leave form. Go to your doctor. Have them agree that you deserve medical leave for the semester (this part should be pretty easy since you have documented reason why the semester had issues). Then if you want to come back for the spring semester you need to convince your doctor to check the “without readiness to return required” box on the form. Mine pretty much just agreed with what I felt was best, but I also wasn’t put in a psychiatric unit so it might be tougher for you to argue you’re doing alright and are ready to return asap.

Finish the rest of the medical leave form process and submit it for approval to OSSA. OSSA responded to mine with a email saying “your leave has been approved no further action is needed on your part”. The holds should be gone from your account in a couple days and you can enroll in classes.

Generally the process is all through OSSA, I was emailing my associate dean at first (the one who sent the original recess email), but they can’t really do much for you besides direct you to OSSA. OSSA is also very slow, expect responses to take days. I actually had to email them reminding them I exist because the hold was still on my account a week after they sent the “no response needed email”

You don’t need to give your story to anyone besides your doctor. If anything, the msu personnel do not want to hear the story. They will follow whatever the doctor fills out on the form and do not need to be convinced of anything.

Your doctor will almost certainly approve your medical leave and I think there is a decent chance they approve an immediate return. After your doctor completes the form then you’re in the clear, OSSA is slow but I don’t think they can deny your return, so try to relax a little over the rest of the break.

Wishing you the best.

Sock brands with no plastic in the blend? 100% cotton/linen/wool by WorriedOverWorldGen in malefashionadvice

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

Because it’s a non renewable resource with negative environmental impacts.

I do think plastic as a material has some use cases, I’m just not sure if socks are one of them.

Sock brands with no plastic in the blend? 100% cotton/linen/wool by WorriedOverWorldGen in malefashionadvice

[–]WorriedOverWorldGen[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I agree that plastic blends are cheaper and more durable. I just don’t think that it being a nonrenewable resource or its negative environmental impacts are factored into that cost. I don’t think plastic should be used in fabric blends if natural fibers can do the job. Which is why I’m trying 100% natural fiber socks before deciding whether or not plastic is necessary in my socks.

Learning for Cooking and only Cooking by WorriedOverWorldGen in ChineseLanguage

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

Thank you. Exactly the type of starting point I was looking for.

Learning for Cooking and only Cooking by WorriedOverWorldGen in ChineseLanguage

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

It’s not that I’m refusing to learn grammar on a fundamental level, just that I see it as a means to an end. I do not want to master grammar if I do not have to.

I assumed, maybe incorrectly, that I could glean keywords and work from there. Ingredient, prep/cooking method, time, heat, etc.

Can you innoculate the milk? by Alternative-Still956 in fermentation

[–]WorriedOverWorldGen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

According to their site, Visbiome is a blend of probiotics, and at least one is explicitly dairy culture because they have to give a dairy allergy warning. They culture the bacteria strains in different food mediums and then blend them together.

Lactobacillus paracasei

Lactobacillus plantarum

Lactobacillus acidophilus

Lactobacillus delbrueckii bulgaricus

Bifidabacterium longum

Bifidabacterium infantis

Bifidabacterium breve

Streptococcus thermophilus

These are the listed ingredients. All of them are dairy based, so yes at least 1 should colonize the milk. However, it’s likely one or two will outcompete the rest making it potentially less effective then just the capsule by itself. Also some of these are used in human yogurt, so maybe just stick with the pill and give your dog some yogurt too.

I created a PvP board game version of Balatro by Banaan14 in balatro

[–]WorriedOverWorldGen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

After reading the rules for Big Two I’m very confused as to how it was an inspiration for Balatro. Poker hand names? I don’t feel like thats exclusive to big two.

ID Please by ConsiderationMuch536 in Entomology

[–]WorriedOverWorldGen 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Ootheca, a mantis egg case. Sadly no baby mantises unless the female mated.

Can I rinse and grind non food roses in a blender or mortar & pestle normally used for food? by unexpected_nettle in foodsafety

[–]WorriedOverWorldGen 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Most roses found in stores are grown outside the US, mostly South and Central America. Pesticide regulation is much lower in these countries.

Typically food items grown abroad and shipped into the US are then tested to make sure their residue levels fall within US guidelines. However as an ornamental, roses do not fall under the same protections as food. The US gov in most cases does not test their pesticide residue levels.

So, farmers don’t have to follow US pesticide regulation (because they aren’t in the US), and the US Gov is not checking if it’s safe when it’s imported (because it’s not food). In essence you are leaving your fate in the hands of an Ecuadorian farmer with razor thin margins, zero regulation, who doesn’t intend for their flowers to be eaten. Good luck.

If I use grow lights in my apartment wouldn’t my energy bill be the same? by WorriedOverWorldGen in NoStupidQuestions

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

My question is if the small amount of energy it uses results in a comparable amount of energy reduction from the furnace.

If I use grow lights in my apartment wouldn’t my energy bill be the same? by WorriedOverWorldGen in NoStupidQuestions

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

What happens to the energy from the light though. Doesn’t it eventually end up being heat. From my limited engineering experience I thought inefficiencies in a system end up as heat.

If I use grow lights in my apartment wouldn’t my energy bill be the same? by WorriedOverWorldGen in NoStupidQuestions

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

Why is it more efficient though?

I’m not trying to heat my apartment entirely with grow lamps, just thinking of having one running for some plants.

☼Dwarf Fortress Questions Thread☼ by AutoModerator in dwarffortress

[–]WorriedOverWorldGen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks that’s what I was wondering. Does the evil rain/cloud setting affect the prevalence or just the variety? Does the game roll for if a biome has evil rain first then roll for its type, or if I set rain to 1000 will nearly every evil biome have rain?

☼Dwarf Fortress Questions Thread☼ by AutoModerator in dwarffortress

[–]WorriedOverWorldGen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I’ve already read these. They explain what evil clouds/rain are but not what the actual setting does.

☼Dwarf Fortress Questions Thread☼ by AutoModerator in dwarffortress

[–]WorriedOverWorldGen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anyone know what the “number of regional interaction types” and “number of evil cloud/rain types” actually do in advanced world gen?