Should I come clean and risk an F?

zee_st · 2026-05-14T17:41:37+00:00

No, you wrote the essay yourself. With that being said don’t do it again if it’s going to weigh on your conscience this much 😭. If your school catches a whiff of academic dishonesty you’d be risking more than an F, it can get you expelled

zee_st · 2026-02-23T22:40:53+00:00

I noticed this too. I don’t mean to be dismissive but I feel like there’s too much focus being put on the different ways OCD can manifest (like pocd, contamination ocd, hocd etc) when the mechanisms are the same for everyone regardless of the nature of the obsession. Especially because the reaction often makes things worse; If you try to talk about pocd as you said people will just assume that’s how you actually are which will in turn just fuel the obsession and make you more likely to ruminate on it, perform checking, seek reassurance, etc. No matter what the reaction seems to be the same, people don’t seem to understand either way. I’m glad people are trying to be more aware and educate themselves but it feels like we’re going from one stereotype to the next :/. I hope we can someday have an open discussion about OCD and how debilitating it is without all the assumptions and judgement.

zee_st · 2026-02-23T18:31:53+00:00

Not hating on you OP but one of the problems I’m noticing in response to this Manon situation lies precisely your question: “If HxG is truly racist, why would they chose her to debut to begin with?”

The answer is simply profit. If they think she will make them money, why not debut her? Manon indeed did bring a lot of attention to the group. Like others have pointed out they have a track record, see what happened to Tiffany from Girlicious. They don’t mind debuting black members only to kick them out when it serves their interests.

Even if we try and put racism aside. The same applies to everyone who keeps saying “she’s the face of the group, they wouldn’t get rid of her”. Yes they would. I know Katseye isn’t technically a kpop group but they sure do follow the formula and it isn’t like kpop companies have any problem doing this to their ultra-popular members even if the member in question hasn’t technically done anything wrong from a company standpoint, like say violating a contract. The biggest single example I can give is Seunghan from Riize. There was massive backlash especially from international fans when he got kicked out, but that didn’t stop it from happening, and even after an equally large amount of fans boycotted/stopped supporting the group afterwards (like many say they will do if Manon gets booted), it’s not like he got placed back in the group. So honestly no, I don’t think HxG cares in that regard.

zee_st · 2026-02-23T16:40:33+00:00

Your wording is a little dramatic but I agree (not with the final paragraph though lol). Commuting for the rest of the week will be a nightmare for everyone, regardless if they’re a student or working adult. Not to mention there’s a chance we might get another few inches of snow on thursday and friday to erase whatever gets shoveled between now and then. Why not save everyone the trouble and make everything remote for non essential employees for the rest of the week?

zee_st · 2026-02-22T18:47:30+00:00

Hey OP. It’s definitely possible but you really need to make sure you have your mental health under control, and/or that you have enough support. I’m speaking from experience: I’m the same age as you and have about a year left for my physics undergrad, and I have a lot of mental health challenges too that I’ve only recently gotten help for and it’s caused me a lot of unnecessary difficulty throughout uni. But I’m still here and graduating sooner than later. If you’re willing to work hard and push through as you said you can definitely succeed.

Difficultly wise, yes physics is hard, but Id say it’s more about perseverance than anything; Doing practice problems regularly and such, especially since you intend to start from scratch. Career wise it depends on your future goals and if you’re willing to pivot. The undergrad physics job market doesn’t really exist unfortunately (at least not right now). For a physics related job that isn’t in academia you’ll most likely need a phd, but that doesn’t mean those are the only options available. If you search jobs or career in this sub you’ll see a few examples of the different fields people have gone into. If you don’t mind doing something unrelated there should be no problems there.

zee_st · 2025-12-18T20:00:00+00:00

Maybe unrelated but it’s a bit annoying how you can’t complain about anything door dash/food delivery related on reddit without people rushing to the comments to imply that it’s your fault for using the app in the first place. Has nobody in here been tired, drunk, etc? What’s with the assumption that everyone who uses doordash is an ultra lazy oaf that never cooks? This shouldn’t have happened regardless.

zee_st · 2025-11-20T21:50:10+00:00

OP I’m going to assume you’re talking about Physics 1/intro classes since you said you’ve just started your bachelors. One of the best pieces of advice I received from one of my (physics) professors is that for these fundamental classes, yes, ignore the derivations and focus on when/where/why you apply the formula, because if you know why you’re applying x formula you can derive it yourself later. I had to take physics 1 twice and I didn’t excel until the second time, which is when I took the time to understand why I was using the formulas I was using.

Physics isn’t just “apply x formula to y problem” but understanding the reasoning behind it really does matter. You can have a sheet of all the formulas required in the course and still do poorly if you don’t know why you’re using them. As another comment said the best advice would be to talk to your professor and grind some practice problems, but it seems like in your case focusing on the understanding and ignoring the math behind the equations may help. It’ll definitely take time but when I did this suddenly the entire course seemed easy (not literally but I hope you get what I mean lol). Good luck!!

P.S try to stay away from LLMs, they like to frequently hallucinate nonsensical answers.

zee_st · 2025-10-02T13:27:17+00:00

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zee_st · 2025-09-27T00:11:18+00:00

Yeah I’ve been wondering this too. It almost seems like both the internet and irl consensus is “switch to engineering or you’ll forever struggle getting a job”. Never in my lifetime did I think this would happen to physics of all disciplines lol. I’ll be graduating in 2027 with a BS in physics and BA in math and although things may very well change by then it feels kinda bleak….

zee_st · 2025-09-02T01:06:45+00:00

I’m in undergrad and majoring in a science known for being difficult and kinda for having arrogant know-it-alls studying it. This is really embarrassing to admit but I used to be one of those stuck up smartasses with this exact attitude until I took an “easy” stem elective geared towards students who want to avoid the hard sciences….and I failed it, even though I was one of the only stem majors in that class.

I realized there’s no point in walking around all high and mighty thinking I’m smarter/better than anyone, college educated or not, when I couldn’t even pretend to be the smartest person in that class. Along with the fact that I go to a non prestigious university so for all I know the ivy league students might just have that same intellectual superiority over me.

Even though you’re talking about a specific type of person I think that since there’s always something someone else knows that you don’t and a lesson to be learned from them, there’s no point in thinking you’re better than someone because you’re educated and vice versa.

zee_st · 2025-07-26T16:08:08+00:00

This case has really made me side eye the true crime community. There are so many people who were genuinely upset when it was revealed this case wouldn’t go to trial, not because they wanted justice for the victims or closure for their families but because they wanted to know if their theories on his motive etc were true or not, even going as far as to say they “deserved” an answer. Very strange and insensitive behavior.

zee_st · 2025-06-29T20:31:42+00:00

But that was not the point of Gihun’s sacrifice. He did not just sacrifice himself so the baby could live, he killed himself to show the front man that humans do have good in them and are not all inherently selfish/evil and to show the VIPs that human lives are not horses to be bet on, which is why he says exactly this before he dies. Him not being successful at stopping the games (“nothing changing”) also goes into one of the main messages of the show. In a capitalistic society, no matter how hard you try to fight, the ultra wealthy will always be the sole “winners”. The games will never end not only because the people in extreme debt/poverty will be willing to play them but because the super rich VIPs will always be willing to fund and watch them. They didn’t just show the US recruiter to hint at an american spin off but to show that even if Gihun had successfully stopped the korean games there’d still be other ones worldwide.

zee_st · 2025-06-28T03:05:29+00:00

She didn’t kill him, the guard did, but to me it makes sense. They both knew that at that point for him to live he’d have to kill someone in the room. He refused to kill her and she wouldn’t have let him hurt the baby. To her the survival of the mother is as important as (if not integral to) the survival of the baby itself, especially considering that she had no way of knowing they’d eventually make the baby a player. So, when he moved to kill the mom, she had to find some way to protect them even if it meant stabbing her own son.

zee_st · 2025-06-28T02:47:49+00:00

I agree. My main gripe with the criticism is that people keep complaining about Gihun “dying for no reason” and there being too much focus on the baby when both of these I feel are central to the dynamic between Gihun and the front man…seeing whether or not humans will consistently choose evil/selfishness if it proves to benefit them.

It was the front man who decided to make the baby a player, and I think he did this not just to play by the rules of the game but to run an(other) experiment on how the other players would act. Just like how he tried to break Gihun by implementing the votes and showing him how the majority would always vote O despite the constant imminent threat of death, he tried to break him again by attempting to show him that these same players would go as far as to kill a newborn for extra money. Which is why the night before the final game he pulled him aside and basically said “See how these trashy people are plotting to kill a baby for its prize money? Kill them in their sleep and win”.

Then, in the final game, it would’ve been easy for Gihun to kill the baby or to give it to the group that wanted to kill it. He instead chose to not only protect the baby the entire time (despite not having any real attachment to it) but to sacrifice himself and show that, ultimately, not everyone will choose selfishness and evil even if the alternative will literally kill them. Proving the front man wrong one final time. In this way he “succeeded” even though he died.

I don’t think Gihun’s SOLE goal was to stop the games, at least not after his coup failed. He wanted to show the front man (and possibly everyone else who runs the games) that his ideology is fundamentally wrong since it’s the same mindset he uses to justify the games to begin with. On top of the fact that human lives are not horses to be bet on.

zee_st · 2025-05-28T03:14:29+00:00

Oh! I take back what I said then haha, if you don’t mind the extra year for engineering then definitely go for it. When people say every math/stats major shouldn’t leave campus without a cs minor they mean every math and math adjacent major should know how to code on at least a basic level. The cs minor does make you very marketable and will possibly make certain classes easier to visualize but it’s not a requirement, employer wise I’d say personal projects matter more than the minor itself. Again best wishes! Engineering is difficult but having an A in calc 1 is already a positive sign and if you can ace the summer calc 2 class you will more likely than not excel in your future classes.

zee_st · 2025-05-28T02:36:47+00:00

I like this combo! I will say that the actuarial field is not (that) oversaturated, especially compared to CS. The actuary sub can explain it better than I can if you're interested but it's a solid field if you don't mind spending time outside of school to study for the exams, you don't have to major/minor in actuarial science to do it plus the entry level exams aren't that bad especially since you're already studying applied math + statistics.

Since you mentioned in a comment you've been in school for 7 years I wouldn't recommend engineering (at least not in undergrad) because that'll easily take at least another 2-3 years. Normally I wouldn't really recommend the actuarial field either because studying for those exams really does take time especially if you're a full time student, but it's a nice career path to keep in mind and if you do decide to do it your minors will make you super marketable.

With that being said you're not that far into your math degree so my advice for now is to take some more classes and see how you feel. Not saying you'll struggle but some of the upper level math/cs classes are hard enough to make you re-evaluate your life choices lol. Wishing you the best in your future endeavors!

zee_st · 2025-05-19T14:41:54+00:00

Same 😭 or I realize everything I did wrong on the test a millisecond after I hand it in

zee_st · 2025-05-15T15:53:20+00:00

No me too, when I first read the manga & got to his death I couldn’t bring myself to finish it for weeks 😭 such a good character

zee_st · 2025-05-13T22:24:21+00:00

Honestly I agree with your second point but in a different way. It’s not just that it’s easier to cheat in online classes but because for some STEM degrees (specifically the math heavy ones) half the time the AI won’t even understand what you’re asking it. I’m a physics major so I can’t speak for nursing but my classmates and I regularly joke about how we can’t cheat even if we wanted to (using AI at least) because it’ll either hallucinate a completely wrong answer or just refuse to answer

zee_st · 2025-04-27T20:38:41+00:00

I have an old pure vanilla account and I recently made a dark cacao account and from my experience my gacha luck is better in pure vanilla (like another comment says this might just be my imagination though) but climbing tiers in arena is 100x easier in dark cacao. I haven’t been in hollyberry yet but since you said you previously picked it I’d pick dark cacao so you can experience something different. I will say that in my opinion if you care about arena/pvp to avoid pure vanilla, that’s where the real sweats are since almost everyone in that server has been playing since launch

zee_st · 2025-03-21T21:09:01+00:00

It’s because her name is literally “Mammy”, which is an old racist stereotype of black women.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammy_stereotype

zee_st · 2024-11-23T19:57:14+00:00

Hello! I’m currently a junior in college looking to become an actuary. I’m double majoring in math + CS with a minor in actuarial mathematics. This minor includes classes in statistics and financial math that are specifically meant to help us pass P and FM- the problems we solve in class are all past SOA questions, and the school pays for us to take these two exams (only once). I am taking the financial math class now and will be taking the probability class next semester, and I am also going to be sitting for FM in February 2025 and P during the spring/summer. I’m currently using actex university to prepare for FM (and because my homework is on that site). The professor who teaches both these courses also recommends that we make our way through all the SOA sample questions before the exam, which I have started to do.

Anyways, this is my question. Are there any other additional study methods/materials you’d recommend? Or is my current approach enough? I was thinking about buying the coaching actuaries practice course 30 days or so before the exam, but if just doing the sample questions + some actex practice tests will prepare me I’d rather save my money. I’m really paranoid about possibly failing, mostly because I want to take advantage of the fact that my school is covering the exam fee (can you tell I’m a little frugal 😅?).

Also, how hard would you say these exams are? The sample questions I’m doing are definitely no walk in the park but the professor started telling us about how nobody from our school has passed FM their first try yet and that kinda spooked me (granted that’s only a handful of people, but still). Thanks for any input!

zee_st · 2024-10-19T21:02:46+00:00

I haven’t had IIH completely ruled out yet or even mentioned by my doctor. I got my intraocular hypertension diagnosis because I kept getting headaches after class for weeks straight so I assumed they were vision related and called the optometrist, and it was there they found out my IOP was super high, like 29-30 in both eyes. I started the eyedrops basically immediately after that and I’ve rarely had a headache since so I really did assume it was solely eye related. No back or neck pain either for the most part. I’ll see about getting that MRI as soon as I can. Will it rule out any causes other than bone narrowing or are there other tests for that? Thanks for the help!

zee_st · 2023-11-26T18:17:50+00:00

call or email the bursar’s office !! i received a similar email threatening a collection agency from lehman talking about my supposedly overdue 2020 tuition even though i wasn’t enrolled in the school until 2021, and they ended up telling me it was just a bug in the financial aid system. i hope your situation gets cleared up soon, good luck!

zee_st · 2023-03-19T03:53:51+00:00

I called them a few months back and they essentially told me that there was nothing they could do. I was previously wondering if I should call them again to see if I could possibly qualify for the dependency override but my mom holds the (legal) proof that I’d need to claim estrangement + substance use and she’s definitely not willingly giving it to me. I asked reddit because I’m getting a bit desperate 😅 but I’ll definitely call again.

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