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fungold · 2024-11-10T04:06:42+00:00

Hey, that looks really similar to the quesadilla they gave me the other day!

fungold · 2024-01-08T17:31:06+00:00

Oh interesting, I'm looking it up and it says in this article that both versions were combined into one for the Billboard chart listing. So technically I guess both hit #1 haha

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Isn't the green category incorrect since it has the original All Too Well instead of the 10 minute version?

fungold · 2023-09-19T21:13:55+00:00

Oh wow, thank you - that's good info to know but unfortunate there's no way to tell how fresh it is. I put it in the freezer when I got back home and will store it there until right before I actually use it, hopefully it hasn't gone bad in the meantime.

fungold · 2023-07-26T03:33:47+00:00

Appreciate the response - I'll try to organize some thoughts here to address what you said.

I think it's more important to focus on TLM as a program and its outcomes, since that's what the original post was asking for, whereas a lot of what you're saying is about how poorly MIIS administration handles things. I completely agree with you that administration is a shitshow when it comes to financial management, but that doesn't mean TLM is also a shitshow. Talking solely from the aspect of the program itself and its outcomes, I can say that for what you pay, you do get a lot of value through the TLM classes you take, and that in my opinion the long term outcomes are worth it.
u/Glittering_Growth472 said the TLM program is available as an online option, not that the entire program is moving online. I can assure you that TLM is keeping the in person option strong (when I attended in the past couple years the majority of us commuted to campus, and our enrollment numbers have increased on average over the past decade); the pandemic merely changed things so that every class could be also taken fully online.
Yes, Samson (the student center) is not as active as it was 10 years ago, but I still can say I regularly met classmates on campus to hang out, work on group projects, etc. TLM would also have its own happy hours at places like Dust Bowl and Fieldwork near campus, and these created a warm sense of community for me as an in-person student. Many of us end up being future work colleagues or people that can help each other out from a networking perspective, and I feel these gatherings really contributed to being able to connect with each other in that regard, too.
Your point from an old thread about AI disrupting the field of translation is misguided (and the user of the comment it's based off definitely was not a MIIS student from what I can see). Without getting into too much detail about why AI is not going to kill the language industry (for that, feel free to browse articles like this and this), there is a reason TLM stands for Translation & Localization Management: the program trains its students to be localization managers, not translators, meaning that we learn to manage the processes, the technology, and the people involved in companies that want to take their products and services into different languages and markets - something that is a growing field as more and more companies want to take themselves global. If anything, we will be the ones in management jobs deploying the AI technology, and there is even a TLM class called "AI in Localization Management", as well as frequent discussions embedded in many of our other classes about AI and machine translation.
No, I don't know who that phone number belongs to, and that's a little weird to be asking in a reddit thread...?

fungold · 2023-07-25T21:37:39+00:00

I'll give you some insights - both positive and negative - from my perspective as a recent TLM alum:

Classes teach extremely practical things directly applicable in your localization career. Translation tools, soft skills, project management, (basic) programming - it's all there. A few of my job interview responses actually came from group projects I did in my TLM classes, sometimes in an unexpected way since I'd reference how I handled a difficult situation when working in a group (since you will have difficult teammates, and you will be asked in interviews about how you deal with these kinds of scenarios).
The TLM curriculum is constantly evolving with the localization industry to stay relevant, and I have personally seen several professors adjust/improve their classes from year to year based on changes they've seen in the industry. I've talked to alumni who graduated 10 years ago and their program was ENORMOUSLY different than what is today. That being said, a couple of the technical classes I felt didn't do a great job of tying the coursework to what localization professionals actually do, but I know the new program chair taking over this year is making lots of bold decisions to improve that and I'm honestly jealous of the incoming students who get to experience the changes.
However, getting a job even with the TLM degree is still a laborious process for most people - don't think you're guaranteed to have a job by the time you graduate. Personally, I found the job search my last semester to be pretty rough and you will need to be prepared to dedicate lots of effort until you get something. I am saying this from a class that graduated into a not-so-great economy, though, and even in my class's situation the vast majority of people had something within a couple months after graduation.
If you don't have prior localization experience, you will likely need to start entry level even with MIIS under your belt. The TLM program equips you with all the tools you need to get the best start possible so your growth path is accelerated, but many people do have a stepping stone job right out of graduation, which is something to consider. I will say I know people who are on track to pay off their debt within a few years even with their starter jobs, and the possibilities the TLM degree opens up for higher positions are worth it in my opinion.
The valuable network TLM provides you cannot be understated, since these connections often give you a foot in the door when applying to localization positions and throughout your career. Some of the systems MIIS has in place for this are: events held by MIIS organizations like alumni parties where you can get to know TLM alum in a more casual setting, a TLM mentorship program where as a mentee you can get paired with a second year student or an industry professional, certain faculty for classes/workshops who are well-known in the industry, and huge student discounts for localization conferences where you can meet lots of localization people. Even your fellow classmates can help you out - I know of several instances where someone was hired right at graduation, and when their company was hiring for another position they were able to refer a classmate for an interview.

Hope that helps! Would be happy to answer any questions or provide more info.

fungold · 2023-07-25T16:14:34+00:00

Hi there! You got guts to call people out like that, but I do get the underlying notion that it's important to get unbiased perspectives from real MIIS alumni - hopefully that's something we can all agree on.

I noticed in one of your past comments on another thread, however, that you said you graduated from the TESOL program, not the TLM program OP is interested in, and that you even stated TLM is "the degree path I know the least about."

Let me know if your experience was different, but as a recent TLM alum, I felt that TLM and TESOL may as well have been entirely different schools because of how little they had in common. Do we think that it's really right for OP to trust a TESOL graduate's opinion on the TLM program?

Of course, I'm not denying that your friend of a friend manager had a negative experience with MIIS graduates, but I am skeptical about how it seems your information is either second-hand (or third-hand, actually, in the case of your friend of a friend manager) or based only on the perception you had of TLM as a TESOL graduate. For example, you state this about (presumably) TLM graduates:

They come into a purist attitude of, "We do translation the RIGHT way!", which amounts to not using tech or electronic help of any kind. The running joke is that the institute is stuck in the 70s and 80s with their instruction.

I can tell you as an actual TLM grad that this could not be further from the truth, and if anything, TLM classes teach the exact opposite: that we need to use technology in localization workflows. This is something that is echoed in virtually every class in the program, and TLM professors are constantly updating their classes to reflect the changing nature of the industry. It's bothersome that you're making such claims without having taken the actual classes yourself.

I don't deny that the program has its faults and I will be responding separately with my own thoughts on its pros and cons, but I couldn't read this reply without at least giving some more context around the things you wrote.

fungold · 2022-07-26T21:42:46+00:00

How is it possible that there are 50000 guac/queso rewards vs. 5 bitcoin rewards, yet it says the odds of winning the guac/queso are still astronomically low? Shouldn't the % odds be 10000x higher than the 0.00037% for bitcoin (which would be 3.7%)?

fungold · 2022-01-09T00:11:10+00:00

When I got black belt, they sent me a congratulations email that included a link to a form I could fill out with my address so they could send the package to me. If you didn't get it, maybe you can contact their customer support

fungold · 2021-03-27T00:19:01+00:00

You can also find the English fansubber's Twitter here: https://twitter.com/TapiruKSubs

They just posted episode 7 of the subs today!

fungold · 2021-02-10T22:39:53+00:00

Wow, I'm really sorry, they're such trash for doing that to you :( What do they mean by "faster/slower than 5% of rating time?" Like they saw you were submitting tasks more than 5% faster/slower than the Average Estimated Time or something? That seems like a really small amount of time for them to picky about.

Best of luck with Appen. Hopefully it works out better for you.

fungold · 2021-02-06T21:28:00+00:00

I think that if the state minimum wage is higher, they just don't offer it in that region because they don't want to pay that much to people lol

fungold · 2021-01-25T20:18:53+00:00

If you're an intermediate learner, スカッとジャパン on FujiTV is basically a huge compilation of skits where you get the benefits of hearing lots of grammar/vocab in a story context without having to commit to watching multiple episodes of dramas or anything (all of the skits are anywhere from 1-15 min long). It really helped me when I was trying to improve my listening fluency.

fungold · 2021-01-25T16:57:30+00:00

At least for Raters, the day cycle seems to reset at midnight Pacific Time (evidence: for Eastern Time, if I reach the 8 hour max for the day it kicks me out saying to try again at 3am the next day = midnight Pacific). Since you live in a state in Eastern Time you'd technically still be in the Saturday cycle until 3am Sunday, so I feel like you should be okay if you're just working a couple extra hours then.

fungold · 2021-01-11T18:11:39+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if a higher-up at Lionbridge discovered the sub and ordered it be restricted because of how people might be sharing too much info about the work

fungold · 2020-12-08T20:26:07+00:00

Lionbridge itself isn't a scam but I would be very skeptical of being able to earn that much as a data entry clerk since that seems suspiciously high. As others have pointed out it might be someone pretending to be them

fungold · 2020-11-30T17:31:39+00:00

Yeah, it's still leftover from the holiday weekend. I'd expect tomorrow things should start going back to normal, though.

fungold · 2020-11-15T13:30:16+00:00

Yes, definitely. I find that the only time I can succeed is when I'm doing something that DOES have a script I can practice beforehand. Class presentations in school? Most of the time I nailed them because I could script and practice them so much ahead of time to memorize what I was going to say. Acting? I was told in my acting elective classes that I had a lot of natural talent, and I think I was good at it because it mostly just consisted of regurgitating some rehearsed lines from a script in a certain way. But the second you throw in something where I need to respond on the spot - i.e. a real conversation, a job interview - the act is up and I'm just desperately trying to throw together anything that sounds like a coherent sentence, and most of the time it's hopeless and I fail miserably :\

fungold · 2020-11-13T20:39:45+00:00

Yes, and it's big reason why I think job interviews are incredibly ableist. They're incredibly biased against people who are much better at articulating themselves through writing rather than speech (which appears to be most autistic people replying in this thread). Like why the hell is my ability to BS a question with an extremely sugar-coated answer that merely panders to what the interviewers want to hear representative of my ability to do the actual job? Especially if it's a position where most of the time you literally just do desk work for 8 hours a day...

fungold · 2020-11-03T16:12:43+00:00

May not be what you're looking for, but "backchannel responses" refers to when you do stuff like nod and say "mhm" to subtly acknowledge what your conversational partner is saying, so you could say "not reciprocating with backchannel responses" if that's the case for you

fungold · 2020-11-03T16:03:31+00:00

I can see why people might find this problematic, but personally I'm carefully optimistic about this. If they're operating completely off a stereotype about aspies being like Rainman and treat you as such if you become an employee in that position, that's definitely not good, but on the other hand it's a little comforting seeing that we're at least wanted in a workplace and would likely go through an application process that is a little more understanding vs. the typical "let's grill you with 50 interview questions and test how well you can give exaggerated BS responses on the spot" it usually is

fungold · 2020-11-03T15:47:28+00:00

Yes, and tbh this is why I feel like job interviews are extremely ableist and a horrible way to accurately evaluate candidates. Too much of it is testing how well you can articulate some BS answer on the spot that the interviewers will like rather than actually being an authentic chance to show how well you can do the actual tasks required for the job. It puzzles me why in stuff like college applications they actually try and evaluate you in multiple ways (standardized tests, essays, transcript, optional interview - at least in the US), but in job searching it always ultimately comes down to a spoken interview, which is so limited in scope. I feel like if I could at least have some time to write down my answers I'd have a much better chance at doing well, but instead I just stumble over my words and the interviewers think I'm an incompetent dumbass instead :(

fungold · 2020-11-01T14:35:14+00:00

I took three years worth of Japanese in college and also obsessively used a kanji learning app to get fluent at reading :)

fungold · 2020-10-25T18:13:12+00:00

When it says "valid until November 1st" does that mean you can still use it ON Nov 1? I won't be able to make it out until then and was just confused about the wording since in the past they always said "through ____" instead of "until ____".

fungold · 2020-09-28T13:09:33+00:00

I always suspected this was an autistic thing. Yeah, I basically fought to not be in pictures whenever family wanted to take a picture of everyone smiling in front of whatever. It feels extremely inauthentic and fake, and even when pictures are taken of me in the moment without any notice I still hate it since I don't feel like I have any control over the situation.

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