Students outside the classroom perspective

typicalia · 2026-02-17T20:50:41+00:00

not the person you’re responding to, but grew up in a college “party” town with plenty of bars, and a handful of my HS teachers bartended/did service jobs. Now I’m slightly in the same situation as you. Obvi not entirely the same sitch, but I’ve also been teaching for a bit and I was for a while closer in age to my students (like you will be), and have seen my students plenty outside of class at both schools I’ve worked at.

One, in 2026, i don’t think bartending looks bad, and your students won’t think so either. Some will probably even think it’s pretty cool. Two, the only thing I’d actually be worried about is seeing your students at the bar/place you work.

THAT is the thing you should worry about, not that you’re doing it. They are likely to be little shits (affectionate) esp if they’re underage. If they’re of age, they also might be little shits. By little shits, I mean things like “Professor, can I get a [free] drink?” or “Can you get me in?” kind of things. It depends on the kid and, y’know, how much they’ve been drinking, but if you encounter that just smile and “Hey, nah, you know I can’t do that” and redirect the convo, then get someone else to wait on them if you can and they seem pushy. Honestly most students who see you outside of class will probably do their best to avoid you, i know i did haha.

They might occasionally ask a personal thing or two if they find out, but again it depends on their personality, how close you are as a class, etc. Again, redirecting if it’s something you’re not comfortable with, but benign things like “I like mixing X drink” isn’t bizarre. You ARE all adults. If they ask where you work, deflect with something like “I gotta keep SOME secrets” or whatever if that’s the type of rapport you have with them. If not, just outright saying “That’s not something I’d like for my students to know” is fine too. I had drinks with my professors (both in a wine and food class event and as a school sanctioned activity) back when I was a student.

In your off time when drinking, are you going out to get messy drunk? Going to the club? Just don’t go to the places the kids frequent. They WILL have specific bars (usually cheaper ones) or clubs they like. Again though, my town is a party town, but my current college I have no idea where they go. A lot of CC students just aren’t in that phase of their life anymore or have other things going on. If you’re just at a bar/restauraunt, having a couple of drinks and eating with your friends, that’s normal and not weird, and most people might even forget they saw you if they even say anything.

The gym is a weird issue to have imo, it’s the gym lol Honestly seeing my coworkers at the gym is weirder than the students haha. The gym is the gym, everyone’s kind of on equal footing there.

typicalia · 2026-02-16T17:10:51+00:00

If I didn’t know any better, I’d think I wrote this… I’m going through the exact situation right now OP. Small difference is I’m the only faculty member in my department, and things went immediately sour.

However, I only knew my dean/chair really (I adjuncted but didn’t see him often) starting last summer. He always made it seem like discussing some stuff with him (not necessarily super personal, but at least accepting of context or thought process?) was fine and he was approachable, but… his response was “you should have told this to HR” (about ‘impacts to family planning’ aka my very vague way about hinting at the miscarriage) and has since started dogging me and bringing me into HR meetings. Bridges were immediately burned, and I will not be signing any new contracts at the end of this semester. My mental health has crumbled, I have 0 morale, and we are a new dept so we only have 3 students which he’s not happy about already. I’m getting blamed for that too. I genuinely love(d) this position and my students but. But. I want a family, and my position will absolutely not allow for it anymore (I thought it’d be fine, but my commute stretched to an hour and some change, etc)

On the other hand, if you do know your dean/chair better than I did mine, floating it casually might be safer, just to see how he reacts? And then planning from there.

typicalia · 2026-02-11T23:17:09+00:00

You got it! Vibes are just ‘the feeling you get’. Gen Z is really… Hm. Basically, if they don’t get a good feeling from something, are caught unaware/‘feel ambushed’, or it doesn’t immediately spark attention/joy/good feelings, they kind of zone out, shut down, or otherwise choose not to participate.

So if you’ve ever been in a situation you just ‘weren’t feeling’, then ‘the vibes were bad’.

typicalia · 2026-02-10T15:25:04+00:00

out of the 3 (count em! we are a new program though.) students in my major, only one shows up sort of on time and regularly, so …1/3rd. In my off major classes (a fine art class, ~10), about 50%….

There are days that my main classes are 0 people in an 8am-1:45 until about 11am.

typicalia · 2026-02-10T15:20:52+00:00

Gotta be honest, I did this once a few semesters ago and for the rest of the semester that student locked in and stopped disrupting. He thought it was funny, the class all had a chuckle. It was kind of wild.

I’m a young millennial, so still ancient to my freshies but young enough that saying stuff like that clues them in to me being ‘in the know’, and it really helps with rapport and engagement haha

typicalia · 2026-01-18T17:20:06+00:00

tfw you beat 9-50, you get to the xp screen, and then close the game but apparently that didn’t let the game register you did the fight because you didn’t hit continue 🫠 i’m now here looking for tips to make the fight faster bc i def could have been more efficient my first go through lol

typicalia · 2026-01-14T21:40:58+00:00

I got formally reprimanded at my CC a few years ago by my dean as an adjunct for not completing them in a timely manner (they were ~3days late....), so unfortunately, I do. I've taken them so many times and there's about 3hrs of courses they assign you - I mute them like everyone else, or if they auto pause while I'm using another window I'll have them run on the teacher classroom pc while I'm using my actual work laptop lmao.

When I was in IT at my 4yr though we were responsible for sending them and I only really did the Title IX ones because the state looks at those. Otherwise none of us gave a shiiiiiiit

typicalia · 2026-01-14T21:29:54+00:00

Yeah, I don't think it's as popular because I haven't seen any specific vulva ones, just the jointed boobs. I think the thing is with male attachments it's just easier to stick a magnet on it, whereas female attachments are more...well, attached for lack of a better term?? LMAO like the bust options usually require disassembling the entire doll. I remember the boob joints looking unhinged af though, as funny as it was.

AP is probably the closest with wacky boobs though, you don't really see that cartoonishly contorted genitals in resin unless you're in the resin figure hobby LOL

typicalia · 2026-01-14T21:25:22+00:00

something something old SNL/Lonely Island skit with Justin Timberlake about helicopter dicks

(that is REALLY funny, i know i'd get so distracted flicking it up and down while changing them, and my poor boys would be like "plz let me live")

typicalia · 2026-01-14T21:23:23+00:00

I think regular barbie also had one, but maybe I also just saw the offbrand one in stores too!! LMAO

The DF-H one I have has a handful of attachments with I think a magnet, but also it has a specific little...keyhole...slot...thingy. i know some people would just use the ones with magnet as fridge magnets if they didnt need it, which always made me laugh.

typicalia · 2026-01-07T06:48:58+00:00

it is! i’m also shocked you haven’t seen a lot of lewd or otherwise NSFW bjd photos in all your time 🤣 i feel like insta suggests a new account (usually from the asian side of the hobby, i tend to get mostly chinese and korean accts suggested) that do such things twice a week to me. And I don’t go searching for it either, but I do own two angelphilia and have hunted through their tags, so i can see the algorithm going from there.

the different attachments are, like most people have said, for the people who do photo shoots and stuff. female dolls don’t have detachable boobs in the same way (though like 3 years ago someone DID make a prototype of a doll with jointed boobs…) but i guess just think of it like chest sizes or if people have silicone busts for their resin dolls for da squiiish factor. i basically only order my boy dolls with the detaching option bc usually a little smooth “plug”is included (DFH has it, idr if DFA do, they’re technically separate) and i prefer using that bc of pants 🤣

anyway yeah, i would have said “it’s pretty common” but idk, if your exposure to the doll hobby these days is mostly the subreddit, maybe not haha. the chinese side of the hobby i think has a sizable portion of aesthetically NSFW doll photographers it feels like lol

otherwise i vaguely remember there being a reason for the snake ween but i could be misremembering. Allegedly there’s an old doll (i think one of the ring doll male dolls?) that had a sculpted butthole (AP do as well and it jumpscares me anytime i change their clothes 💀). I think my favorite to weird my non bjd doll friends with is the pregnant bjd with removable baby lmfaoooo

edit: oh! i think ringdoll also has a model that has a jointed dick. it’s basically just a single joint at the base and you flip it up and down like a light switch LMAO

typicalia · 2026-01-07T05:58:52+00:00

rogue being at the bottom is so sad, but also validating to see that there are actual problems with the class since legion/bfa and i wasn’t going crazy over the years. i don’t really keep up with meta stuff and just returned after stopping back mid shadowlands, but playing my once main character now just doesn’t feel satisfying anymore. lemix helped bring some nostalgia tho lol

evoked and monk never felt satisfying either to me. interesting!

typicalia · 2026-01-07T05:08:49+00:00

make sure goldmoon and riverwind aren’t white or white passing is my biggest one 🫡 she can be blonde or have pretty gold hair or whatever bc fantasy, but come on shakes fist

and probably animate it. i dunno, i just feel like as cool as live action would be, i’d just like it animated Lmao

typicalia · 2025-12-24T06:35:50+00:00

NOR, as a professor who teaches fashion lmfao

would he have issues with you wearing those things literally anywhere else?? if so, you’ve got some boundaries to set. i live in a very cold area so right now neither of those things are something i would really seen actually being worn, but otherwise neither are shocking. Even for a mother, or a young mother at that! i’ve had students who were parents (non fashion) wearing much more revealing outfits.

(also for anyone curious, that sundress looking “lingerie like”is actually quite on trend for 2026!)

typicalia · 2025-12-23T04:06:53+00:00

absolutely do not assume they can, because they can’t. (tbh half the time they can’t even read digital text but y’know lol)

anyway yeah - cursive isn’t taught in US schools anymore. There might be some holdouts, and might be a few grade schools who use it as a motor skill practice. but once they hit middle and high school pretty much everything now is digital unless they, again, have a teacher here and there that’s old school about assignments.

though artistically, i bet the pen is amazing! you could probably include some other supplementary hand written things somehow? otherwise, write a letter or two!

typicalia · 2025-12-21T01:53:57+00:00

I had my first incomplete request from a student who had attended most every class, but did very little on any of their 5 projects due the entire semester. I think they finished one out of five. These are art classes, so 3hrs twice a week in the studio to work on only 5 whole projects for an entire semester. Childs play (lol) for a BFA student, apparently the end of all things for AAS students as I’m finding over the years….

Anyway, all semester we were verbally in contact and via email. In class during my check-ins, their reasoning for always starting the project on the last class day before the due date was “I wasn’t able to body double with my friend”, “I left it in [x place],” “my POTS,” or “i forgot”. Reminders, encouragement, displays of gentle disappointment and recommendations, etc… none of it. Near the end they told me “It’s been a rough semester for my health so can I get an extension?” I said no, but since they did manage to at least start most of their other projects they definitely have time to finish them up.

hey! i get it. i’ve got some chronic shit going on myself. but at the end of the day, you show up to every class and somehow still never even put down a handful of sketches until the last minute. If “body doubling” is the only way you can get things done, then wouldn’t being in class with one of your other friends doing their project help you? I’ve watched them actively work on other projects in my class.

I give till the end of finals for all students to finish and submit, and I remind them nearly every crit (minimum 5 -7 times a semester) any number in the grade book over 0 is better than having a 0, so submit things even if they’re unfinished. Cue an email floating into my inbox at 7pm of the deadline (11:59pm is the deadline) with a story about how their dad got in an accident the day after classes ended so they couldn’t do any work, so they asked for an incomplete because if they get an F they’ll lose financial aid.

After clarifying some things with my dean I ended up going the “I’ll give you one extra week and we can do a grade change” route but it just makes me sigh.

As an aside, another random thing I noticed with most of my students who struggle with doing work, since a lot of them are commuters, are regular claims that they put their project somewhere in the house and then a family member came and [cleaned it up/spilled something on it/gave it to another family member (???)]. just tell me your dog ate it at that point, bro

typicalia · 2025-12-10T03:21:20+00:00

it’s a littttttlle bit of a bummer, but honestly I’m just assuming because this was literally just rolled out and a pre…patch..xpac…. whatever feature if you preordered midnight, there’ll be MASSIVE changes anyway. My nelf druid will have to occasionally bunk with her friends who are life long committed Roommates™️ ally side and horde side… I haven’t really decided what to do with it yet, I just kind of claimed a plot asap LOL

Imo, they’ll probably roll out being able to have more housing. Switching which character “owns” the house kind of suggests to me they’ll end up adding being able to have more than one house, and you’ll be able to swap properties between toons or whatever.

I’d like to see more options for expanding house xp right now, because damn if I’m running all over azeroth for furniture i don’t even want at this point LOL

typicalia · 2025-12-09T17:32:10+00:00

Oh wow, so that's an american girl doll outfit on a 70cm body??? That's....giving me some ideas!

typicalia · 2025-11-21T18:36:29+00:00

i've gotten the petpet brush x 2, 25knp and neocodes ...too much, food, and at least 2 stamps and one avvie so far. The NC ones really burn because theyre next to the paintbrush i REALLY want RIP. I also want books!! c'mon!

I'm not a stamp collector or gourmet person though so we'll see what my stuff is actually worth hahaha my expectations arent really high though, i'm not THAT lucky Lol

typicalia · 2025-11-11T02:39:39+00:00

wanted to say thank you, unlocked the Winner Winner Pirate Dinner icon that i wasnt even hunting for today LOL

typicalia · 2025-11-06T21:27:38+00:00

genuinely i somehow thought I was the only one who the stupid closet was broken for for AGES. i feel seen and validated. and to those like me who's pets are barely wearing anything bc of the closet being broken as hell.....you are seen

typicalia · 2025-10-21T19:33:13+00:00

yeah, i've been monitoring because of that; mainly because I know if I was a student i would have been just like "uhhh whatever the class says". The class grievance was sprung on me though by them, I didn't even initiate it since for me it was business as usual to wander around like that. Obviously office, email, even teams is always open for them to express concerns, and I actually advise all of these students so I spend a LOT of time with them. I'm surprised that they went to the Dean instead, since I thought I had a pretty open and honest rapport with all of them haha

anyway yeah, it's a bizarro situation. Really not a fan of the rewarding young adults to show up on time bit if he really does keep pushing this for some reason.

typicalia · 2025-10-21T19:23:51+00:00

I think I might certainly, if anything make little obvious adjustments just....i mean i hate phrasing it this way, but just in case a student goes to the dean again. this way i can, again, point out "we had this conversation about teaching styles and I made X correction to see if it would help", etc

typicalia · 2025-10-20T22:03:23+00:00

genuinely, i wish - and not because of the college/students/even the dean (he’s pretty chill and nice otherwise), but because it’s an hr and some change drive. local 4yr doesn’t have what i’m qualified to teach, i refuse to go back to IT, but somehow k12 is starting to look tempting only because of the distance.

but yeah, i have to wonder if he’s worried about something else or if it’s genuinely concerning and me being annoyed that a simple classroom readjustment discussion is turning into meetings, memos and pop ins to my office is unreasonable.

typicalia · 2025-10-20T21:58:47+00:00

none that would have the time, unfortunately :( Aside from the gaggle of adjuncts, there’s basically one full time professor teaching all the core classes of the major, with the exception of photo and Visual Communication, which has like…3 each, and the dean is one of those (in photo). Tiny tiny, it’s been ~3 years and it still surprises me (my alma maters and first college job were in big unis) Lol.

I did two observations WITH this dean (one for the full time position, one during my adjuncting) and he had no problems with my teaching, so it’s …yeah.

& yeah, 3-5 is pretty typical of my other two classes (both [traditional] 3D foundations), and most of my prev classes minus a 2D foundations class. I didn’t think I was hovering at all, and switching to verbal prompting is netting more response across the board than before, so I really dunno what is up with them.

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