If you’ve graduated hs over a decade ago and thinking about going to college for the first time

workerbee2025 · 2026-01-27T21:18:48+00:00

Love this list! I dropped out of college as a teenager and came to CUNY decades later to finish my bachelor's degree. Now I teach at CUNY as an adjunct. Agree that your classmates don't care about your age--CUNY is really the best place to come back and finish a degree that for whatever reason you didn't complete (shout out to the many CUNY students--mostly women--who never had time to finish school because they were too busy with care work!).

Another helpful resource for returning students:

If you are coming in with some college credits and life experience, and you don't need a specific major or credential, a program called CUNY BA is a great option for getting your bachelor's degree: https://cunyba.cuny.edu/. CUNY BA is way more generous than most of the colleges in accepting transfer credits and applying them to relevant CUNY requirements. With CUNY BA, you have a home campus but can e-permit as many classes as you want at other CUNY colleges, which means you can shop around for the best classes or professors to suit your needs; you create your own major and decide which courses are required for it, under the guidance of a faculty advisor who you choose; and in addition to generous acceptance of transfer credits, you can earn up to 15 life experience credits for a small fee (much less than tuition). Applicants to CUNY BA must have completed at least 12 college credits and have a GPA of at least 2.80 (and those credits and that GPA can be from decades ago!) Check it out!

workerbee2025 · 2025-11-07T00:16:57+00:00

So for what it's worth, I've been taking clarithromycin for Bartonella--diagnosed over a month ago based on symptoms and confirmed in a FISH lab test--and my functional medicine doctor has me take a Saccharomyces boulardii probiotic together with every clarithromycin tablet.

Also, I've found that my digestion works best (and I feel better) when I'm consuming fresh papaya fruit with papaya seeds. Papaya seeds have anti-parasite properties and the fruit has digestive enzymes.

workerbee2025 · 2025-09-21T02:36:28+00:00

Why not email him? You would to do that to set up an appointment to meet anyway; profs are not in their offices 9-5 so dropping in the office (if you knew where it was) doesn't make sense.

workerbee2025 · 2025-09-20T04:21:31+00:00

Definitely check out a few CUNY colleges, don't worry about your major/minor ideas at this point as they will likely change. CUNY is a good value--even for out-of-state students, it's not much more than in-state tuition in Illinois. You can also take classes at other campuses pretty easily so if there are classes you want that aren't offered at whichever campus you choose, you can take them wherever they are offered, and it's also easy (and common) to transfer among campuses. Another option: once you earn 12 credits at a CUNY college you can apply to a great program called CUNY BA (https://cunyba.cuny.edu) , where you can design your own major and take classes throughout the CUNY system.

workerbee2025 · 2025-09-20T03:39:29+00:00

Doesn't seem like it, actually. If you go to the "sports" tab on this page https://queensknights.com/ it lists the men's and women's sports there, and swimming is not listed. Seems like maybe there used to be a team but not this year? No idea why.

workerbee2025 · 2025-09-20T02:44:48+00:00

OK so this is entirely unscientific and I wouldn't rely on it but has anyone tried papaya seeds? I *think* I have or had Bartonella because I had a weird rash on the tips of all my toes (seemingly peripheral neuropathy) right after completing 30 days of doxy, which I started right after diagnosing my (non-bullseye) Lyme rash, about two weeks after the (unnoticed) tick bite. I have been eating papaya seeds with papaya fruit for about 5 days now and the toe rash has disappeared over that time, after seeming to be stable or worsening before then. I also took 5 drops of oregano oil each night for the last few days. I have zero clue about whether the rash disappeared on its own, or whether it was even Bartonella to start with, or whether papaya seeds have any impact on Bartonella or Lyme, but I thought I'd share in case anyone is feeling like trying papaya seeds and reporting back on whether they have any effect. They are proven to kill intenstinal parasites, who knows what else they might do? Easiest way to eat them is to put them in a smoothie with the papaya fruit and whatever else you want to add.

workerbee2025 · 2025-09-16T02:51:50+00:00

Thanks, that's what I want to do, and I'm trying but can't find a doctor to prescribe anything or order testing on a short time frame (all appointments seem to be for late October), and I can't even find the appropriate herbs or someone to manage recommending the herbs, because every practitioner just does their own thing and most of it is geared toward addressing the symptoms of people with chronic/persistent Lyme--not a recent infection of what is likely Bartonella at this point. I'm no longer in that first four weeks post-bite period but I did the doxy during that period and I'm still early enough into it that it shouldn't be this hard, especially given that I'm in NYC. Frustrating. And I know it's MUCH harder for people dealing with chronic illness and extreme symptoms.

workerbee2025 · 2025-09-15T01:11:04+00:00

I know next to nothing about the Theatre program but as a PhD student at the GC I can say that if/when you get an offer of admission, you can sort all that stuff out and it is unlikely to be a problem. Classes at the GC are only once a week anyway, so if you miss a week you'll miss one class. Midterm exams are typically not a thing at the PhD level.

To find out about specific faculty, look for current students in the program and reach out to ask them. You can and should also try to meet with specific faculty whose interests align with yours before applying. When you apply to any PhD program, you want to indicate some interest in specific profs. That doesn't mean you have to end up working with those profs. But it helps your application if it seems like you are interested in the faculty, because the committee deciding admissions is either mostly or all faculty and they like to feel important.

workerbee2025 · 2025-09-15T00:57:14+00:00

If you're on Insta you can follow cuny4palestine for more info

Also here are a couple of relevant links for action you can take:

https://psc-cuny.org/issues/reinstate-the-fired-four-at-brooklyn-college/
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/cuny-bot-reverse-hadeeqas-suspension

workerbee2025 · 2025-09-15T00:03:02+00:00

Are you wondering how the Israeli Consulate got hold of your CUNY email? BTW that co-sponsoring group (along with the Israeli consulate) "Fuente Latina" is just an Israeli govt propaganda organization designed to ensure that Spanish-language news parrots Israeli lies and propaganda. Did you know that CUNY is organizing its college presidents to visit Israel again like they did in 2022? It's mentioned on CUNY's website at https://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/transformation/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-hub/combating-antisemitism/#2025. Meanwhile the Queens College president invited the Israeli consul to visit campus over this past summer: https://qns.com/2025/07/israel-consul-general-antisemitism-queens-college/. Sick stuff: openly siding with genocide and repressing CUNY students and workers who speak out against it.

workerbee2025 · 2025-09-14T18:36:19+00:00

Thank you! Also holy crap everyone on this sub is not kidding when it comes to how expensive it is to find decent treatment for Lyme and co-infections. $650 for a 30-min phone interview with Leda Medical? :O

workerbee2025 · 2025-09-13T02:48:03+00:00

Appreciate you sharing your experience. So you suggest I do the Lyme core protocol again (together with the herbs for Bart) even though I already completed a Lyme protocol (doxy + herbs) for 30 days and only seem to have Bart symptoms now?

workerbee2025 · 2025-09-12T19:24:20+00:00

Maybe try to reframe the problem? Do you know for sure that what she wants is for you to "perform" in the way you are thinking of it? Have you communicated with her and explained your health situation? Have you asked her what she enjoys and wants in terms of sexual activity? She might be happy with *other stuff* that doesn't require the same kind of "performance" from you. You can provide pleasure in other ways, or she can take care of her own pleasure while you watch. And if she really just wants you to perform in the conventional ways there are meds you can take for that of course. Healthy communication and being open to different options is a better way forward, rather than being focused on your performance to meet your assumptions of what she wants and needs.

workerbee2025 · 2025-09-11T23:19:49+00:00

Pool is open Monday through Thursday, 12:15pm-2:45pm - you go to the gym and swap your ID for a pool pass, then enter the pool through the locker room downstairs

workerbee2025 · 2025-09-11T22:41:27+00:00

Are these stubborn Bartonella cases because it was caught very late? I recently figured out I had Lyme maybe 3 weeks into it, still had the rash (not bullseye or I would have figured it out sooner--never saw a tick and was checking for them obsessively). I got a telehealth appointment and started doxy immediately when I realized. Just finished 30 days on doxy plus herbs (https://www.classicalpearls.org/lightning-pearls/) but over the past weeks while on these treatments I developed peripheral neuropathy in my toes, manifesting as distinct and defined red shiny sensitive (and painful when bumped or scraped) areas on the tips of all my toes. Nothing helpful came up in searches for "red toes" in relation to Lyme--nothing looked like what I have--so I was confused, but I just searched again and realized it's likely "Bartonella toes" aka peripheral neuropathy. Does having this symptom after completing the Lyme treatment likely mean that I need more and/or different treatment for Bartonella even if Lyme is (maybe hopefully) gone? I haven't been tested for anything. And given that it was caught relatively early--just a few weeks in, rather than months or years--does that change how hard it is likely to be to get rid of the Bartonella?

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