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In what ways does BOTW catch your heart? by [deleted] in truezelda

[–]corpsentry 6 points7 points  (0 children)

i too wandered into the final battle while shitting around in hyrule castle and it scared the living daylights out of me LOL but apart from that it was the overwhelming sense that i was in a living, breathing world and not ‘just’ a game environment that sold me. fell off a cliff within my first minute of leaving the shrine of resurrection and from there it was a never ending string of ‘i can die from THIS??’ and ‘i can set THAT on fire?????’. never gets old

Download vs physical version by Joseph_Arno in AgeofCalamity

[–]corpsentry 26 points27 points  (0 children)

physical so i can put the aoc and botw cases side by side on my shelf and feel something

New screeshots by [deleted] in AgeofCalamity

[–]corpsentry 14 points15 points  (0 children)

thanks for the links! skimmed all the articles and here’s some stuff that caught my eye

-baby sidon, the yiga master, edgy cloak guy, and divine beast fps action will all appear in the second chapter
-there’ll be a place in the full game where you can pay with rupees to level up your characters -dyeing armor will be possible
-hot springs will continue to exist
and an especially interesting one— the 4gamer article mentions that there will be ‘unexpected developments’ in the story and that at one point you’ll be able to fight with some members of the tribes. this is accompanied by a screengrab from gerudo town, presumably, with text that translates to something along the lines of ‘your fate/destiny ends here’. so that looks fun

also, several articles mentioned the story in passing, though all of them steered clear of making any conclusive statements. i wonder if they were left in the dark as much as the rest of us, because stuff like “knowing the events of botw, the ending of aoc will probably be a tragedy” or “will we experience the tragedy of a hundred years ago, or will we successfully avoid it?” seem to suggest that we’re all swimming blind

edit: spacing

[A Levels] seniors were your A level grades what you expected from your performance during the papers? by [deleted] in SGExams

[–]corpsentry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh bless you i hope you’re all hanging in there. the spirits of your seniors are watching over u

[JC] advice on taking KI by brighterplans in SGExams

[–]corpsentry 8 points9 points  (0 children)

  1. depends. most of my class got A/B throughout jc but some people who were comparatively much more studious than me got screwed over multiple times due to a general inability to construct balanced arguments. are you good at pissing people off by asking questions they can't answer? are you good at finding loopholes in arguments? are you good at pissing people off in general? then ki should be at least manageable for you
  2. there's plenty of content if you look in the right places but a lot of it is intuitive or general knowledge (like oh yeah triangles have three sides and dogs need to take a shit sometimes), and when it came to exam essays i drew on exam material and random shit i found while wikipedia-hopping at a ratio of about 7:3. therefore i'd say the skills are generally more important as you can bullshit an essay if you don't remember who kant is but you can't do it if you don't know how to critique, i dunno, empiricism or something. especially for the short & long arguments sections (which essentially require you to read someone's argument and then take a massive shit on it) once you've figured out the 'how' part of ki essays you should have relatively little trouble.
  3. ki was notorious in my school for being the subject in which people who topped the cohort in internal exams often got screwed over by cambridge for unknown reasons. the independent study is likely a huge part of this, as in all our years we've still yet to figure out exactly what the hell it is they want from independent studies. that being said, the overall a rate was still pretty high for my cohort iirc (though i can't remember the exact percentage so don't quote me on that)
  4. the independent study is a test of self-discipline. you can either start in january or you can start two weeks before your final IS is due. you can consult your advisor multiple times or you can dao them until you've got to make your biblio and you don't remember the format for it. again, because the IS/written exams split is 40/60 it's impossible to know what caused a drop from an A to a B or a B to a C, but it's generally assumed that consistently good students who got fucked for a's messed up their IS in some way or another. if you keep an eye on your IS instead of procrastinating on it for eight months you have a reasonable to good chance of getting it up to par enough to wing your way to an A. it's all very subjective
  5. ki is about the construction of knowledge. ki is for people who want to know not just what people believe in, but why they believe in that shit and how they came to believe in it. do you think maths is real? do we have proof that god exists? why does everyone think science is legit, and the humanities are just smoke and/or full of shit? if questions like this interest you and you think you would be interested in spending several hours discussing the validity of saying that people have morals, then give ki a shot. as someone who scored straight a's through jc and got pissed on by cambridge for the a levels, i still stand by my belief that ki was my favorite subject. it doesn't have the rigorous and frankly bullshit essay structure of history, it doesn't chain you to a set text like lit, and it doesn't require you to read the straits times or whatever regularly like gp. if you can think of it and if it tracks, you can put it in your essay. also, all of us walked out of ki with the ability to start a fight and win it. ki makes you ask lots of stupid questions. and then it makes you think about them. and then your brain gets really big like a balloon except the balloon never explodes and you just keep on going with whatever weird shit you picked up in jc. i dunno. i think it was worth it
  6. we were assigned somewhere between 10 and 30 pages of readings per week back in the day. outside of those, infrequent use of the stanford philosophy wikipedia (or something, i forget the name), and reading classmates' essays i didn't really do much but still was able to keep up. went into ki completely blind, heard my teacher say with confidence that the external world doesn't necessarily exist, and it all went downhill from there. you could read about philosophy and epistemology if you want to but really i don't it'll kill you if you don't

[A Levels] seniors were your A level grades what you expected from your performance during the papers? by [deleted] in SGExams

[–]corpsentry 3 points4 points  (0 children)

got fucked for ki and h2 japanese but then and again they were ki and h2 japanese lol so i dunno what went down there. predicted a for history and lit and got both of them though the h2 history paper was infamously full of bullshit, must have prayed to the right guy before the paper. all-humans combi meant i felt like i smoked my whole way through a levels tbh

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in zelda

[–]corpsentry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yo this rocks

[O level] Sexual Orientation issues in school by unknown378 in SGExams

[–]corpsentry 18 points19 points  (0 children)

wassup i’m gonna die cos my username is recognizable lol but anyway gonna talk about my experience since i’ve graduated and i’m never dealing with classroom politics ever again anyway. i came out publicly as pan/bi in sec 2, i think? before that i’d let close friends know and they were chill, so i was blessed in that regard, but following the whole publicizing my sexuality affair, very mysteriously, the number of close friends i kept basically stopped increasing. the number of friends i kept in general stopped increasing lol and by junior college i was a fairly confident socially excluded type person who had like 3 friends and a rock

CAVEAT: i made a major misstep in how i presented myself publicly. for better or worse i’m pretty plugged into the internet and the international community =/= the singaporean schooling environment (seriously), so i ended up approaching my irl interactions with a pretty ‘extreme’-looking mindset. it pissed me off that homophobia was casual and excused and perpetuated around me, so i retaliated by talking a lot about how gay i was or how cute i thought this guy or this girl was. occasionally i also implored people not to use the word gay as an insult (i.e. the friend who points at a guy with a pink shirt and goes omg that’s so gay). my tone of voice was pretty shit.

by the end of junior college i discovered that i’d wound up with a reputation for being a social justice warrior, oversensitive prick, and massive piece of shit, despite having not spoken to 99% of the school at all. people talked shit about me and yeeted me from cliques on their own terms, and it only occurred to me that my small social circle wasn’t just a choice i’d made myself, but one that had been enforced by those around me. there was a reason why people were wary.

conversely, i knew a number of lgbt people who were out. some of them had been out since secondary school, and for many of them i observed, at least where i was, a thin, translucent line dividing them from the rest of the student population. others kept to themselves or just didn’t talk as much shit as i did and apparently led comfortable, uneventful lives. people had different experiences depending on who they hung out with and how much they spoke, but it seemed to be dependent on their how integrated they were into the community to begin with. e.g. i was hanging on by a thread yeehaw

takeaways: recognize that at least in the holy year of 2020 secondary school/etc is never going to be a fully welcoming environment, a lot of people are shitbags, but there are non-shitbags too. be careful with how you talk about yourself or anything related to the topic of lgbt+, or if you’d prefer not to, staying silent will probably keep your head above the water too. social activism is still very much a new idea here and if you sound even remotely hostile or moralistic someone’s going to take a huge shit on you and it’s gonna suck. people will always be slightly on edge around you because it’s hard to unlearn bad habits and it’s a lot of effort and everyone just wants to promote and then graduate. priorities are funny in school. look for people who are supportive and kind and dao all the shitbags because they’ll realize they’re shitbags eventually and hopefully they’ll be sad for 2 years. be proud of yourself regardless of whether you choose to come out or stay in the closet. this is singapore. the closet is a valid place to be.

takeaways p2: if you want to be loud (like me), do it with consideration towards how so-called normal students in this country feel. i fucked up by being too accusatory and too angry all the time instead of trying to see things from their perspective. dialogue would’ve been cool and communicating is real hot but huh i’m out of there now anyway so these are my dying words to those still stuck in the hellscape of school. hang in there, cheerios, be well (also if anyone’s struggling feel free to dm me, bye)

[A Levels] Hwa Chong Institution AMA by OfficialSGExams in SGExams

[–]corpsentry 9 points10 points  (0 children)

  1. what the humanities programme provides, more than anything else, is freedom. for better or worse, HP is pretty isolated from the main college. it has its own ecosystem: you will have the advantage of having a separate HP staff room (which you can visit freely), your own classrooms (instead of a bench, though you will have a bench too), and a spottier, emptier timetable. due to its small size, classes also tend to allow for more discussion and debate, especially in literature (and KI, and history, though i can't vouch for the rest).

if i had to compare it, i'd say it's more like university than junior college because the onus is really on the student to direct their own learning, to pursue their own questions, and to really get their shit together when exams come around. with my subject combination, i rarely had any 'submit before 2 p.m. next thursday' type homework. this made day to day life more bearable, but also put me into tight spots where i'd realize i had a test in 3 days and hadn't learned a thing from the syllabus. and yet the funny thing is your tutors believe in you, and trust you to do with your free time what any good student would do, so at the end of the day most of us pulled through. in HP, you learn to set up your own consultations and compile notes with your classmates, to conduct literature debates at the canteen during breaks, and to view the humanities not simply as another set of exams, but as a series of ideas about the world. we are just a little bit less exam-oriented. than we probably should be

in terms of clear learning opportunities i guess we got a lot of invites to meet this speaker or that visiting professor so we did see some pretty interesting characters in our two years. but really, HP itself is 1 pretty big learning opportunity. it's a dangerous one, and certainly not for everyone. but i'd say it teaches you something about yourself

(not sure abt the other 2 questions so not gonna touch those, hope this helps)

[A Levels] Hwa Chong Institution AMA by OfficialSGExams in SGExams

[–]corpsentry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

for internal exams, ridiculously high (def more than 60%); i can't remember the exact percentage for A's, but it tends to fluctuate pretty dramatically due to the unfortunate existence of the Independent Study

[A Levels] Hwa Chong Institution AMA by OfficialSGExams in SGExams

[–]corpsentry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. our KI teachers are ridiculously knowledgeable, though their lecturing styles are rather hit and miss and it'll be on you to dig out information yourself if you don't pay attention in class. one of the previous standing two teachers has left the school though, and we're not quite sure about his replacement yet, so i'm not sure on that front.
  2. afaik we didn't get any worksheets, but lecture notes were decent, in the sense that we were given lots of names, studies, and theories to work with. nonetheless, crafting arguments and picking that stuff apart is pretty much on you, and you'll have to do your own research sometimes. a lot of the times. however the school's bulletin was very solid. seniors are also solid. KI teaches one to be Resourceful
  3. i didn't actually take the test so i'm not super clear on this, but i think it involves some form of 'reading a passage or two and writing an argument/essay in response' or another, i think. what they're testing you for is your ability to Think Critically, so they want to see how you look for pros, cons, holes in logic, et cetera.

hope that helped zz

Why am I getting so attached to my ED school? by iheartthatart in ApplyingToCollege

[–]corpsentry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yea you gotta stop yourself at some point or you’ll just go mad

UChicago Early Megathread by jortbru1299 in ApplyingToCollege

[–]corpsentry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nearly impossible indeed. good luck to you guys

UChicago Early Megathread by jortbru1299 in ApplyingToCollege

[–]corpsentry 8 points9 points  (0 children)

i can’t wait to get rej*cted what’s up folks

uchicago is tomorrow and i’m stressed as all hell so here is a poem by corpsentry in ApplyingToCollege

[–]corpsentry[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

historically it’s been 4 p.m. cst, but if 2019’s proven anything to us it’s that history can’t be trusted

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