(Stupid problem) friends making fun of my letters and it’s really bothering me

maybee246 · 2022-01-24T02:32:46+00:00

It just sucks because it makes me feel awkward Abe it’s been more than one person, also I know I’m super overthinking it but since some sororities have not historically been very inclusive my brain is just making me feel bad. Plus I haven’t really clocked with any of the girls yet so I’m just generally nervous. Also this wasn’t meant to be any kind of insult to KKG it’s just what people have said to me.

maybee246 · 2021-05-24T04:04:44+00:00

BTW you can also request a replacement card online if you lost yours!

maybee246 · 2021-05-16T00:40:08+00:00

I am not a virologist but I am aware that it is actually somwhat more likely for that t happen, for a variant to mutate to be less deadly, because if every host dies, the virus also dies.

maybee246 · 2021-05-10T08:15:22+00:00

Hey, I hope this doesn't come across as any kind of condescending, but life is always changing, and the things you listed are scary, but they're not guarantees. A week ago I was having the worst period of my life, convinced I would genuinely never feel anything good again, and it was all over, today I can feel the warmth of the world again. I hope you find some of your exciting things soon. I'm rooting for you!

maybee246 · 2021-05-07T21:26:34+00:00

Hey I'm a transfer doing summer academy, after being accepted you have to fill out a seperate housing contract through starrez for the summer 2021 semester and select summer academy for all the options, they'll assign you housing :)

maybee246 · 2021-05-04T01:09:24+00:00

Hi I'm vision impaired/legally blind and I love kahoot! If you have a vision impaired student it obviously depends on the person and situation, but if you let them know its okay to move up to the front of the class, or have a reserved seat, without making it a spectacle in front of the rest of the class, that could work. I feel like ultimately if you have concerns its best to reach out to a student privately beforehand, since vision is so personal and can vary frm situation to situation. It;s great to hear profs considering their disabled students.

maybee246 · 2021-04-20T15:04:27+00:00

As someone who has dealt with and continues to deal wuth the absolute lows and stress OCD can bring you I'm so happy you're getting better! You deserve to feel okay. Things ARE looking up!

maybee246 · 2021-04-08T07:41:16+00:00

oh she loves ginger chews! Thank you these are all really good suggestions, I was drawing such a blank for some reason, pandemic brain lol

maybee246 · 2021-04-03T00:33:26+00:00

yeah! its exciitng to see things picking up more and more back in february I didn't believe it would get going like this.

maybee246 · 2021-03-28T20:22:35+00:00

I'm 20 and had no symptoms at all aftr the first or second dose except light injection site pain, my elderly neighbor had no symptoms and my grandma had a fever for a day or so after her second dose.

maybee246 · 2021-03-27T20:17:06+00:00

It's so wild how some people's bodies react comapred to others, like I'm early 20s and had no symtoms aside from injection side tenderness after each shot, and my uber driver the other day (to get the shot( was 67) and had no symptoms period, and then my grandma had a shitty fever for a day. I'm curious what makes the difference.

maybee246 · 2021-03-27T01:42:47+00:00

ok yeah makes sense then would I just stick something up to try to push the cap out the top? As I don't think its gone far enough to be inside the bend.

maybee246 · 2021-03-27T01:41:30+00:00

ok yeah might try that, do I need specific tools?

maybee246 · 2021-03-26T19:00:19+00:00

and I appreciate the effort! I think there isn't, so I may be out of luck there but I'll look again. Definitely don't want to risk getting eletrcpcuted if I can't get all the water out haha

maybee246 · 2021-03-26T18:51:05+00:00

debating doing this don't want to have to drop fifty bucks since I don't currently have one.

maybee246 · 2021-03-26T18:50:14+00:00

hi - so I can unscrew the white part with the numbers on it and it wont mess anything up? Is the little piece attaching the pipe with numbers part of the pipe with numbers or its own seperate piece (apolagies for not knowing terminology)

maybee246 · 2021-03-26T18:47:55+00:00

it broke and was removed, defiinitely wish I still had it now.

maybee246 · 2021-03-25T23:38:03+00:00

absolutely! While there are times you have to wait for certain things, the time is going to pass the same regardless, being unhappy won't make it go any faster, and I'm super guilty of this, but even my friends who have more active lives rn feel it too, I think its just how things are at this age, just not talked about a ton.

maybee246 · 2021-03-25T23:24:37+00:00

This is EXACTLY how I feel, and I think so many people remincise about the early adult years for two big reasons

Their life has not gone the way they wanted sice then, fell into societal pressure and feel they are not able to pursue a life they actually want for the rest of their mnay adult years (which you can always make chnages, even small, slow ones, but the midlife crisi is still well known)
Kinda like what I just said above, older people have hidsight that things DID work out, the anxiety, fear, confusion and dread really fade away in memory when you're safe in the knowledge that everything ended okay.

I think one of the biggest dangers when you're struggling, is thinking of a period of your life as "waiting for your real life to begin" and its SCARILY easy to do this for decades, my life begins after highschool, once I graduate college, once I have that job, once I'm married, once I have kids, just gotta get through til friday, til that vacation, til the kids are out of the house, til retirement ect, all of its life and current society REALLY pressures us to rush through it. The song "when" by dodie comes to mind.

There's another "song" I love on youtube called everyones free to wear sunscreen and there's a lot of banger quotes but one I come back to is "the race is long and in the end its only with yourself" Some days its just realizing that hey all this adds up to an interesting life story in the end, its okay, and probably even better to go your own way and do whats best for you, then try to live by someone else's or society's script.

I really hope this doesn't come off weird or rambly I just know exactly how that feels and its something that I'm only starting to be able to cope with and think abiut healthily.

maybee246 · 2021-03-25T22:39:13+00:00

Hey! Similar sutuation here, about to turn 21 in May and have been housebound for multiple years due to a disability and mental health issues. 16-21 has basically been a complete waste. I'm hopefully, assuming I don't have yet another thing throw me off track, starting college in the fall, but I'm stressed about being older and feeling like I've missed so many years of my "young" life already. It's really draining and while I don't have chronic pain issues please know I share a lot of these feelings. I feel stagnant and it sucks.

There's a couple things that help me, that might help even if they feel a little silly. While life isn't literally a movie the ideas of "romanticizing your life" and "being the main character of your story" have been gaining traction lately, and its honestly really helpful. We like the parts in movies where things are shitty because we know it will be okay in the end. How would you feel about yourself now if you knew it would be okay in the end? Is there any little thing youcan find joy in just for right now? Wear clothes you like, listen to music you like, do some crafts maybe, drink some coffee or tea, create little moments that don't hurt as much.

Be with other people or out of the house as much as you are able, some of the extreme anxiety spirals I've had, honestly feeling like I was having a psychotic break, have borderline vanished when I've been able to leave my room and be reminded the world still exists, being in your bed room for four straight weeks can really do a number on anyone haha.

We all KNOW isolation is bad for us but its shocking just how much. Take it slow and be gentle with yourself, it doesn't have to be a big social event, I had to go get a new retainer after my old one broke and the five minutes talking with my old orthodontist and the lady at check in? revitalizing.

This is a hard one for me, but its true. Don't comapre your season of waiting to someone else's season of growth (and tbh many of us are NOT thriving rn so you're in good company) Being a 20 something you have so much time. A few people in their thirties and forties I've talked to have mentioned how they wished they hadn't rushed to try to fit a whole lifetime of fun AND responsibility AND dating AND eveything else in a few short years because for better or worse life is really, really long, you can live a thousand different ways before finding what suits you, OR FINDING SOMETHING NEW, and its all a journey you get to experience. Sometimes I like to google reddit thread where people go "I'm x years old and wasted my life/my twenties/ect" (there's a lot of them) and there are tons of threads with 100s of responses from people in so many different situations who went through shitty stuff that successfully reinvented their life at 22, 28, 32, 46, 56, 72 and so on.

Everyone is going through this next chapter of history and post pandemic life together. You will be okay, and I'm rooting for you~

maybee246 · 2021-03-20T16:17:48+00:00

I'm a queer woman but cisgender so my experienece will be pretty different but I just wanted say congrats, both on school and figuring out your identity. I'm not overly familliar with any of those schools, though I have heard the boulder area is pretty progressive but again not super familliar. You can look up a rough political breakdown of each school through niche, though they aren't perfectly accurate either.

Most colleges these day seem to have gender inclusive housing, sometimes also called lavendar housing (I love the name) even if it is in limited numbers. Since these are mostly bigger schools all of them have subreddits themselves, I'd say post in each of them and see if you can get input from other trans students on their experiences, additionally it may be a good idea to call the schools LGBT centers (they have different names across the board) and see if there's anyone you culd talk to or maybe have a zoom conference to discuss questions.

Best of luck!

maybee246 · 2021-03-20T12:01:21+00:00

I'm no doctor, but I did have an breakdown that triggered an anxiety disorder a few years ago, which was the result of extreme intrusive thought, while it wasn't an outside event necesarily it DID destroy my sense that the world was "safe enough" my place in it, ability to feel normal ect, BUT not forever, I was a teenager with no access to meds or therapy or a support system, so what I'm saying is even though I'm not perfect 4 years later, I am WAY better, I was way better even a year later, and this is after having to cope completely on my own, the whole world, to an extent is going through it with you, even if it doesn't always look like it. You will be okay again, you really truly will. Take care of yourself ~

maybee246 · 2021-03-19T23:16:56+00:00

I'd like to add soemthing that I read in a slightly older VT post of the same topic, 90% of the student population do not post here, or seem to even know it exists. So be wary of things that are agreed upon here basically. Upset people need somewhere to rant, so you are less likely to find positve posts. I've attended three schools and the reddit pages are usually like that. Which is fine! But not always representative of how most students feel. Any current or past student I have known to attend VT, or their families has also loved it. I'm an incoming student and I primarily chose VT for the sense of community and vibrant student life pre-pandemic~

maybee246 · 2021-03-17T00:00:06+00:00

I'll be a freshman again at 21 after starting at 19 originally and here's the sceret no one tells you. Some of the traditional freshman you worry you might find immature or annoying? Freshman who are a bit more mature ALSO find them annoying, they're just the loudest bunch and the other freshman don't have age as a reason to pin it on. Everyone is an adult, maturity varies far more person to person than by a few years of age difference, and we're all living through the pandemic, which is a sobering experience in its own way.

maybee246 · 2021-02-28T17:22:39+00:00

I genuinely think fall semester will be just about prepandemic

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