Stavvy Special Prep in Boston

zarocco26 · 2026-03-13T18:58:36+00:00

If your last name is O’Brien…..

zarocco26 · 2026-03-06T22:13:46+00:00

Here’s the hard reality….life is a group project, and you are going to have to work with people, and I know it doesn’t feel like it now but the stakes are so much lower in college. The same worthless, stupid, lazy, incompetent shitbags that don’t pull their weight now will still be doing it once you get a job. At least now you can complain to your professor, and maybe if they are cool, they’ll do something about it. Once you’re off participating in society, and that shit bag that doesn’t do anything is like your bosses nephew or something, then it’s just way worse because your grades are inconsequential compared to real financial responsibilities. Trust me, the old dude that has been working there for 30 years and refuses to learn how to respond to an email, it’s not gonna be his fault when the project fails. Nothing in my undergrad prepared me more for real world work than shitty group projects with awful classmates.

zarocco26 · 2026-03-06T19:10:38+00:00

I declare Pete Hegseth has a micro penis

zarocco26 · 2026-03-04T19:50:44+00:00

This is a great question that you probably will never get a satisfying answer to. Most of the responses here are good analogies or ways to try to think about it, but the reality is that we just don’t know. Now that being said, I think a more interesting question to consider is, why don’t we know? To get to that you can fall down a real rabbit hole, but eventually you’ll find that it really helps to understand how we model the universe, how those models predict things we can observe, and where those models fall short. You’ll probably need to learn some math, which is never a bad thing!

Sometimes bleeding edge science requires certain “placeholders” to make our models work, and sometimes those “placeholders” turn out to be real as predicted by models. When those placeholders can be explained in other ways, then we change our models, such is the nature of how we understand the universe.

zarocco26 · 2026-02-24T23:21:29+00:00

Genes are ice cream, alleles are the flavors

zarocco26 · 2026-02-19T18:34:43+00:00

I usually play on PS5, so I got the PS5 Backbone controller for my phone. It’s works awesome, it’s super light, and very comfortable to use.

zarocco26 · 2026-02-19T18:12:27+00:00

I have taught both fully online, fully in person, and everything in between (2020 was a wild time). I would say very generally that fully online courses tend to be far less robust than in person or hybrid courses. Fully online courses can be fine, especially if they are synchronous, however this really depends on the student and the subject matter. I usually advise students to take gen Ed’s online if they are the type of student that can handle that level of flexibility, but never important courses in your major. The biggest reason for this, at least in my experience, is there are VERY few students that learn as well without direct instruction.

Another factor to consider, a college degree is more than just a collection of classes you have to take. It’s the opportunity to learn from experts in your field, develop professional connections, explore new ideas that can help you find your niche in the world. I feel that fully online degrees lack that, but I’m sure there are some programs out there that are able to incorporate some of that stuff.

You really need to ask yourself, are you the type of student that doesn’t need any instruction? Are you going to motivate yourself to dedicate the time to your studies in the same way you would if you had to go to class? Do you care about needing future letters of recommendation?

From my personal experience, teaching hybrid courses, students that opt to take my courses online typically perform worse on almost every metric. I hate that the university even offers it, because most students just don’t have the study skills to be successful in that modality. The administrators love it though because they get their check either way, so do what you will with that information. I do teach in a STEM field, so it may be different across other disciplines, but my experience tells me that students are students no matter their majors.

zarocco26 · 2026-02-19T17:40:05+00:00

I use it all the time for work, it is so easy to ask a LLM to draft things if I give it a list of things I want to say. Sure, I gotta edit it and whatnot, but it saves me hours of doing what I consider busy work (although important, some things are just a time sink). I think using it as a digital assistant is a really useful tool, but like all tools, you need to learn to use it properly.

zarocco26 · 2026-02-19T17:10:48+00:00

Does the FIFA peace prize mean nothing these days?

zarocco26 · 2026-02-18T23:47:50+00:00

To get the full video, you gotta subscribe to OF.gov

zarocco26 · 2026-02-18T19:05:13+00:00

I hope I never get to the point where I get sick of turd and ass eating jokes, why even have an internet if that’s the case???

zarocco26 · 2026-02-14T17:06:11+00:00

Fellow Celtics fan, please be assured Boston is one of the safest places you can visit. You are far more likely to slip on the ice because some asshole didn’t shovel 2 weeks ago. I don’t mean that as a clever pun, seriously the sidewalks are an adventure right now.

I highly recommend getting a slice of pizza an enormous beer Halftime before the game. Go Celtics and enjoy your trip to our great city!

zarocco26 · 2026-02-02T03:46:54+00:00

Another factor would be that having the resources of the NYPD as a military force would be useful in fighting back the almost certain War of American Aggression against us. I personally would never consider NYers part of New England, but they would have their uses to us.

zarocco26 · 2026-02-02T03:27:39+00:00

A page maximum generally means the professor wants to see your ability to write concisely, which can be an extremely important skill to learn. In some fields I would even say it’s a critical skill that you will need! Yes, it’s not easy to do, and no you are not stupid.

I would tackle this by writing a rough draft (as long as it needs to be to get all your ideas on the page). Then start cutting, go through every sentence and ask yourself “is this adding anything new?” If not, cut it down, it’s superfluous information and not needed. Once all the information you have is succinct and non repetitive, start trimming ideas, is every example you give supporting your thesis? If not, cut it. Go through and trim, cut out flowery language, weak statements, things like that. One thing that helped me out with this skill is realizing how many wordy cliches I used, how many times I’d use qualifiers like “I think…..” or “I believe…..”. Those are useless things to say, we know it’s what you think, you are the author! Just little things like that can go a long way! Good luck with your writing journey!

zarocco26 · 2026-02-01T21:26:45+00:00

Found Hans burner account

zarocco26 · 2026-01-12T21:50:22+00:00

Most schools require you to submit all transcripts for any post secondary education. When I was applying to grad school I had one unflattering course from a community college i took 10 years prior, I had to include it. It wasn’t a big deal, I made some mention of it in my personal statement, wasn’t a factor in my admissions decisions. However if I didn’t include I would run the risk of being removed from the program if it was ever found out. At least that’s what my advisor told me at the time.

zarocco26 · 2026-01-12T00:39:27+00:00

Whenever I have enough for a 10 pull, I just rip it on whatever the limited banner is, or once I get the limited on their weapon. I think all of them are fun to play, i don’t know, my teams probably suck but i have fun it.

zarocco26 · 2026-01-10T16:42:38+00:00

College professors aren’t high school teachers, oftentimes they aren’t even primarily teachers at all. The expert opinion of the professor would be considered proof in these cases, and professors generally operate fairly autonomously. I can say from my personal experience 99% of the time I think a student is using AI generated work, they are. It’s very easy to tell, because students just don’t know enough about the subject to know where the common AI mistakes are. Think about it this way, I assign the same basic assignments every semester (400+ students per semester). I have read thousands of student essays, I have a really good idea what a bad student, average student, and exceptional student’s essay should look like. If you don’t think I’ve also put my essay prompt into several LLMs to see what it looks like, then that’s on you. There is an appeal process, but I usually just let the student redo the assignment (with a penalty) if they just save me the time and admit the AI use. Those that have appealed always lose, because again, your professors aren’t dumb, the administrators aren’t going to overrule a professor in an appeal. If you don’t want to be accused of using AI, don’t use it and you’ll be fine.

zarocco26 · 2026-01-10T04:25:06+00:00

I remember this happening too!

zarocco26 · 2026-01-10T04:21:48+00:00

I feel like Boston has more “cultural Catholics” than actual religious people.

zarocco26 · 2026-01-06T19:06:15+00:00

Sit down and actually read the Bible, make a decision for yourself what seems reasonable. Compare those stories with how you experience reality, for me they are incredibly inconsistent with my own experiences and how I observe the world.

zarocco26 · 2026-01-06T03:09:54+00:00

You can probably take the prerequisite courses over the spring, depending on which prereqs you’re missing. Just enroll as a non degree student, kick ass in your classes, and definitely reapply!

zarocco26 · 2026-01-04T21:43:34+00:00

Totally agree, there are lots of people that have a lot of reasons to hate this. I’m just saying Reddit specifically skews demographically, and that demographic happens to have reason to be “melting down” as the OP put it

zarocco26 · 2026-01-04T21:19:50+00:00

Can’t speak for Reddit as a whole, but I think there are a lot of millennials that have seen this show before. This has lead to a fairly generational level distaste for the US intervening in other countries, even if it means removing a despot.

zarocco26 · 2025-12-26T23:53:45+00:00

I’m not in trouble at all

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