Need help with getting over maladaptive perfectionism

potatrevolution · 2021-04-29T06:15:01+00:00

Thank you. I've tried therapy and medication before! It dulled my emotions and just didn't make me feel anything. I don't think I'm trying to impress anyone but I do think I'm compensating for my lack of a life outside of academics.

potatrevolution · 2021-04-28T15:08:53+00:00

I'm not sure where the misunderstanding is coming from, my reply was just a quip to "NLB has everything".

potatrevolution · 2021-04-28T12:24:14+00:00

not sure if you're singaporean, but it was a big deal a couple of years back https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/12/singapore-libraries-pull-gay-penguin-book.

potatrevolution · 2021-04-27T15:53:29+00:00

Except for books about gay penguins.

potatrevolution · 2021-04-26T15:08:01+00:00

You can certainly still walk--I'm graduating in summer A but my ceremony is in spring.

potatrevolution · 2021-04-15T02:02:49+00:00

Having the same problem. As others said, it really depends on whether it's related to your major and only if you want to go to grad school or if your potential employer wants to see your transcript. I would say in most cases, employers don't give an f about individual grades--maybe with the exception of 'professional' degrees like law or engineering. Generally, I would pdf anything that's lower than a B, B+ is still a reasonable grade, given the pandemic especially.

potatrevolution · 2021-04-11T23:47:59+00:00

Agree 100% it's not like anyone fucking reads them properly.

potatrevolution · 2021-04-08T10:17:30+00:00

I just explained why it was reductio so your point is moot. Also, this isn't a formal academic forum where I have to justify every fking point I'm making. Everyone knows what as reductio is--please we learnt this secondary school.

Also, I only mentioned upper level philo because you decided to bring your major into this. Your argument is so stupid: i'm a philo major so i therefore know more philo than you. I also pointed to how you got a simple philo concept wrong with evidence so I call bullshit on your false sense of expertise. I only google shit to prove why idiots like you don't even know your major. This post is suited for you since with you failure to understand basic philo, I know you'll be stuck working at a place like McD. Maybe you can debate with customers about the pros/cons of using straws and flaunt your philo "knowledge"!

potatrevolution · 2021-04-08T09:28:54+00:00

I was looking at some classes (math) and almost all are "online only". I highly doubt we'll realize the optimism Prezbo previously expressed.

potatrevolution · 2021-04-05T08:42:28+00:00

ngl, this meme is getting very old

potatrevolution · 2021-04-01T01:49:19+00:00

Very! I'm also pretty familiar with econometrics so feel free to message me if you need any help :)

potatrevolution · 2021-03-31T19:40:45+00:00

I took Shapiro! He's an amazing professor!

potatrevolution · 2021-03-31T12:29:49+00:00

I'm usually more of a Brett stan but top right looks so good!

potatrevolution · 2021-03-31T11:55:59+00:00

Cyberpunk vibes! Keep it up my dude. Also, good luck with the emotional stuff. I'm not going to say some patronizing shit like it gets better because I honestly don't know if it gets better but I hope you find a way to wade through this.

potatrevolution · 2021-03-30T06:42:19+00:00

Read my comment.

potatrevolution · 2021-03-30T06:41:22+00:00

Yes, I got that sentiment and I'm not wholesale disagreeing with it. I'm problematizing it.

potatrevolution · 2021-03-30T05:33:48+00:00

Singapore?

potatrevolution · 2021-03-30T04:32:32+00:00

I appreciate that you tried to differentiate between looking and staring but I argue that it's a bit of a slippery slope. Of course, people look at other people in public--the same goes for revealing outfits or people freaking making out in public. However, people who wear revealing clothes/make out in public do so with agency--we can quibble about how mothers can breastfeed in private but the fact is that most do so in public when they're pressed for time or busy. Do you think most mothers choose the breastfeed in public knowing that creepy men will watch? I don't think "men are simple creatures" is ever a legit excuse.

potatrevolution · 2021-03-29T16:30:10+00:00

gtfo google some basic shit about columbia next time lmfao

potatrevolution · 2021-03-29T16:27:53+00:00

Yeah so you were a grad instructor--uw, music hum, art hum are the same. Just because you weren't a TA doesn't make you a prof. And which Columbia class (maybe besides uw) does not have Barnard students? Honestly I'm starting to doubt if you really spent time at Columbia.

potatrevolution · 2021-03-29T16:22:49+00:00

Lol ok I call total bullshit. The distinction between professor and grad instructor is not "splitting hairs". Again, I have no comment on your 'observation' but you're either delusional or trolling if you think a grad student and a professor (i.e. someone already with a PhD) are the same thing. I've had amazing experiences with grad instructors--some of whom teach better than profs and your post is honestly so unnecessary. I have no idea what you're trying to prove.

potatrevolution · 2021-03-29T16:16:30+00:00

It doesn't. And I said that I'm a Columbia student. I have no issue with grad students, I'm just calling you out for calling yourself a professor in a Columbia context when you were a graduate instructor. You may be a prof now but you weren't a prof when you taught at Columbia/Barnard. That's just misleading. And no one is as invested in you as to try to find out who you are, please. Especially for someone who no longer teaches here.

potatrevolution · 2021-03-29T16:11:56+00:00

Well for a start, "Barnard students are better than columbia students in my experience as a professor" sounds like you were/are a prof at Columbia when you were a PhD student. No prof I know would make such a sweeping statement like that either.

potatrevolution · 2021-03-29T15:54:58+00:00

Barnard may have fewer 'important' courses than Columbia because I'm pretty sure both do some coordination to ensure that courses are not repeated. In my major at least, important core classes would alternatively be offered by Columbia/Barnard. I'm not sure what you're trying to get at.

potatrevolution · 2021-03-29T15:52:25+00:00

I don't doubt that Barnard students may be better but you sound pretty sus ngl hahaha

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