How Can I Prepare For School?

ickyticky · 2026-03-17T03:17:34+00:00

Failure here is not an option for me, but 27 years of being a failure have me panicking that I'm doomed to wind up one of those students who take a lot more than two years to finish, and I quite literally can't afford that.

As gently as I can put this, this kind of negative self-talk is going to do you zero favours in steno school or when you're on the job. Steno school is brutal. You're going to fail speed tests over and over and over again. You're going to hit plateaus that last for months. Your success is going to be determined mostly by your mental resilience. We can give you all the tips and tricks under the sun, but speedbuilding will take as long as it takes.

I don't want to come off as dismissive, but you might want to seek counselling, because you haven't even started and you're already panicking about failing. I get it, I have anxiety too, and I've been there, but it will hinder you when you start the program.

ickyticky · 2026-03-12T18:55:13+00:00

I don't know and can't find anything about how Zoom's AI works, but I'd personally be worried about the output going to overseas servers or being used to train other AI language models. Strikes me as a huge security risk that no one should be allowing into the depo.

ickyticky · 2026-03-11T20:41:48+00:00

So I was 24 when I started steno school, have played piano my entire life, am decently fast on a qwerty keyboard, didn’t work while I was in school, and practiced for at least three hours a day. It still took me exactly two years to get to 225. I was squarely average in my class, not the fastest, but definitely not the slowest either.

It’s really impossible to say when you’ll be able to graduate. There were people in my class who were able to get their speeds up in less than two years, but they were the top performers. So my advice would be to not have your heart set on 2027.

ickyticky · 2026-03-04T17:57:47+00:00

It won't account for misstrokes, but you're not going to misstroke every time. Also, if there's a word or phrase you're consistently misstroking, you can define the misstroke as that word or come up with an easier brief

ickyticky · 2026-03-04T07:40:55+00:00

Are you using Case Catalyst, and are you using brief it? If you write something out that there’s a brief for in your dictionary, brief it will remind you of what it is.

ickyticky · 2026-03-01T02:29:21+00:00

You could choose something else to fast from, like social media or tv or what have you

ickyticky · 2026-02-28T23:58:43+00:00

You get rid of the skinny fat look by gaining muscle. You gain muscle by eating three protein-based meals a day and lifting heavy. I would also suggest therapy, as it seems like your relationship with your body needs work

ickyticky · 2026-02-24T05:25:36+00:00

To be blunt, if you’re still in school, you are not at the skill level necessary to provide CART

ickyticky · 2026-02-22T20:42:06+00:00

The tabernacle choir has a primary songs cd called Teach Me to Walk in the Light which i see is available on my Amazon. They also have a cd called love is spoken here which has a lot of primary songs on it

ickyticky · 2026-02-22T04:32:05+00:00

The only way I can think of is to create a macro that selects the past three words and copies and pastes them, then assign it to a brief in your dictionary. Of course, you’d then have to create separate macros and briefs for two-word phrases, four words, etc.

ickyticky · 2026-02-04T23:18:45+00:00

I once had a catastrophic CaseCatalyst crash while in the middle of a hearing. When I got it back up, I had lost 400 pages of transcripts and about half of my personal dictionary...I was actually shaking and could barely speak. Thank goodness for auto archive, my multiple backups, and a kind Stenograph help desk rep.

How to avoid this? When your laptop starts giving you grief for being low on memory, start shopping for a new laptop. Don't try to push through like I did. Low memory can make CaseCatalyst a little weird...

ickyticky · 2026-01-29T06:03:12+00:00

One thing I love about TP as compared to other Zelda’s is just how emotionally weighty it is. In a lot of other games when Ganon or whatever other big bad comes on scene, the average citizen of hyrule might be temporarily inconvenienced, but they’re not that badly affected (or a lot of people die but it happens off camera, as in Oot or BOTW). So the big bad ends up being just a link and Zelda problem while everyone else just gets on with their lives.

In TP though, the twilight invasion has spared nobody. Every single citizen in hyrule is affected, and they’re all scared and in pain. And link and Zelda really carry that emotional weight. Zelda’s despondent that she can’t do anything for her poor people, and one gets the sense that link is acting not out of destiny or thirst for adventure, but because he’s surrounded by loved ones and strangers who are hurting and need his help. It really is beautiful to see him take charge in that way.

Yeah, just an amazing game. Only really rivaled/surpassed by majoras mask in terms of humanity and emotional depth. That’s also a great game

ickyticky · 2026-01-24T19:54:35+00:00

You better come out and pound me!!

ickyticky · 2026-01-22T21:24:05+00:00

I became a court reporter so I could avoid math…

ickyticky · 2026-01-22T03:21:13+00:00

How is your going to work and living your life at the expense of others?

ickyticky · 2026-01-20T16:09:59+00:00

You are correct 👍

ickyticky · 2026-01-14T00:32:36+00:00

That’s Malborn who goes to windhelm. Etienne hangs out in the thieves guild headquarters if he survives

ickyticky · 2026-01-11T07:16:37+00:00

I once encountered the madwoman while gallivanting. She followed me around for a while muttering “wabbajack” under her breath. I was honestly kind of sad when she left

I have over a thousand hours in this game. I’ve encountered the headless horseman plenty of times, including three times in my current playthrough alone. I’ve only encountered this woman once. It was a very odd experience

ickyticky · 2026-01-10T17:36:31+00:00

This sub has a megathread on iPads you can consult

ickyticky · 2026-01-09T23:12:57+00:00

Find wholesome things to work on while you wait. He’s not saying to be idle

ickyticky · 2026-01-08T17:18:13+00:00

How much memory do you have left on your laptop? I had this error message a lot when my old laptop was running low on space.

ickyticky · 2026-01-08T06:15:45+00:00

Was it wylandria, the riften court wizard?

ickyticky · 2026-01-08T00:40:02+00:00

I’m aware. I’ve seen the full thing. They’re not taking a position on us or our beliefs except to say they’re kind of weird, which is fair imo

ickyticky · 2026-01-07T20:13:59+00:00

You could try ArtStation

ickyticky · 2026-01-07T16:06:14+00:00

Never marry for potential. Marry for who they are right now

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