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GETTING A JOB CHEAT SHEET!!

perfect resume for someone with no experience

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how to get a job fast as hell

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how to answer interview questions

career and employment masterpost

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34 crucial tips for your next job interview 

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white baby naming culture but instead of the same boring name spelled 20 different ways, they start repurposing the names of every day objects

consider: a kindergartner named Silica Gel  

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**I am sharing this Gofundme on behalf of Le, a wonderful and talented individual I've been acquainted with earlier this year. Our teeth are so important, and yet dentistry is still not covered by Canadian healthcare. Please share this post and consider donating to Le's surgery! Anything you give would be of great help ♥️**

Hi my name is Le!

I'm a 22 year old Chinese-Canadian trans artist living in Tio'tia:ke/Montreal. It's my birthday soon, and it would be amazing if I can get new teeth and smile again.

I don't think many people know this because I've hid it for most of my life, feeling ugly showing it, but I have a rare genetic disorder called dentinogenesis imperfecta (essentially all my bones are weak/discolored and I only have a few teeth left), I have 1 molar tooth left and it's recently infected and I think it's time that I get denture/implant surgery.

It's been a daunting burden physically and mentally because I can't eat what I want to or speak without feeling self conscious, and also financially because the surgery is very expensive and dentistry is the only thing that isn't covered by Canadian health care. I've applied for government funding several times already and each time they have rejected me. I also recently went to see if the University of Montreal can do it, but they told me that I'm too special a case to take in. It's just been an overall big source of anxiety and I've been denied again and again.

It's vulnerable and hard for me to reach out for support but I am starting a gofundme to start this surgery as soon as possible. The full surgery with dentures on top and implants on bottom done in Montreal costs $45,500 CAD. The surgery / recovery takes about 3 months for the top, and the bottom another 3 months. If you can share it with your friends or help out. Any donation will help even if it's only a little, it would mean a LOT!

**please share and consider donating ♥️**

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Everyone collectively needs to understand that they don’t hate technology, especially not accessibility technology, they hate capitalism.

“digital books are bad before they can be deleted by the seller and you can never really own them!”

Ok. The seller is the one who should not be allowed to do that.

“At home releases of movies alongside theater releases are bad because it would kill small theaters because movie distribution companies already take like 90% of the revenue to allow you to even show their movies!”

Cool. Those companies should not be allowed to do that. On top of that, no company should own so much of the industry that not being able to show films from them would destroy any theater.

“Voice controlled things are bad because they record you and sell the information!”

I feel like it goes without saying that secretly recording people and selling it should be incredibly illegal.

My point here is that the improvement of science and technology is a good thing that’s often exploited, but not having it is exploited,too. None of the legitimate problems with these technologies are in any way necessary to their function. They’re all things that are added on by corporations to exploit people and squeeze more and more money out of them. Trying to stop the progression of technology will not stop that, only directly addressing the issues of regulation on corporations will.

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While Apple Sauce seems to have people’s attention

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Ok this wikipedia article is pissing me off so much 

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Me: *listening to Bohemian Rhapsody* “THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTNING VERY VERY FRIGHTENING ME!!”

My earphones:

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i have a bunch of shit to do today and im gonna need a distraction later so rn i’ll say “while many couples in the literary canon had previously demonstrated classic tenderness there is a Modern Tenderness™️ that was 100% invented by beatrice and benedick” and hope somebody asks me to explain

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Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

HAMLET (2016) dir. Simon Godwin

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My graveyard is finished 🖤

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Too much discourse about whether the secret history characters doing murder is sexy and aesthetic or horrible and immoral and not enough acknowledgement that we're supposed to be conflicted about that

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This is a post where you can find all of my advice given in long text posts and asks very easily, all in one place, so you don’t need to search through the tags. My ask box is always open if you ever want advice or support. I will try my best to answer as fully as possible and help you out. I will update this post with the posts as I do them. 

How To Start A Studyblr 

this is one of my most commonly asked questions so here is a really long post where i give you all of my tips on how to start a studyblr and also get involved in the community

How To Stop Procrastinating

in this post, i give you some of my tips for how to stop procrastinating and getting productive. i include both some conventional tips but also some unconventional ones that you can try out.

How To Annotate

i give you all of my best tips for annotating - both in general and more specifically for literature (novels, plays and poetry) - from my own experiences and some research 

My Experiences With GCSEs

in this post i talk about what i did to revise for the first external exams i’ve done. even though the title sounds very specific, it mostly gives all my advice on revision techniques and preparing for exams.

The Best Apps for Students

as the name suggest, in this post i give some of my favourite apps for students and the ones that i use all the time

List of Essay Questions for Foreign Languages (for Beginners)

this was answer to an ask but i think it deserves to be in this section. basically i give a bunch of questions separated into different categories that could be used to build an essay or just as writing practice for beginners in a foreign language. they are all given in english but they can be easily translated. 

My Favourite Pens (2019)

i am a huge stationery lover so in this post (which was my very first big post) i give some of my absolute favourites

My Study Routine during Exam Season

Tips for Staying Focused (with ADHD)

Motivation/Discipline tips

Talking about My Motivation

Tips for When You Are Feeling Overworked or Anxious and How Keep Up with Your Work

Tips for When You are Having a Rough Day

Tips for Taking Studyblr Pictures

My A Levels and How Hard They Are

Tips for Starting a Studyblr and How to Get Involved in the Community: [Ask 1] [Ask 2]

How to Make Friends on Studyblr

Tips for Doing Languages at A Level

Books, Films and TV Shows to Practice German

2020 Quarantine Challenge : March - July 2020

Summer Studying Challenge: July - September 2020

The Studyblr Community Challenge: Can be done at any time

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“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].” - Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

Instagram: pethalistm

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“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].” - Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

Instagram: pethalistm

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subtitles from Science Gossip, 1900

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A story that may have relevance for others, or then again, maybe not:

When I was in college, about ten or so years ago, I was a history major. I wanted to learn to dance, so I joined a swing dance club on campus. To my surprise, this club had about twice as many men as women (in high school, the last time I’d tried dancing, the ratio had gone the other way–lots of girls, and boys only that you could drag by their ears).

But apparently, there had been some kind of word spread specifically to the STEM guys that dance was a way that they could meet girls.

So anyway. I joined the swing dance club, and met a few guys. And at one point, when socializing with the guys outside of dance class, one of them asked me what my research was on. (I had already established that I was an honors history student doing a thesis, just as he had established that he was an honors… I’m not sure if he was CS or Math, but it was one of those.)

So I gave him the thumbnail sketch of my research. Now, to be clear, an honors senior thesis, while nothing like what a graduate student would do, was still fairly in-depth. I had to translate primary sources from the original late-Classical Latin. (My professor said, basically, that while there were plenty of translations of my source material, that I’d only be able to comfortably trust them if I had at least made a stab at a translation of my own. And he was right.) And there was so much secondary material, often contradictory, that I had been carefully sorting through.

But I was able to sift it into a three-sentence summary of my senior thesis work, you know, as one does.

So I gave him that summary, and then asked–since he was also an undergraduate senior doing an honors thesis–what his research was on.

“Oh,” he said, “you wouldn’t understand it.”

Reader, I went home in a frothing rage. Because I had thought we were playing one game–a game of ‘let’s talk about what we’re passionate about!’– and he had been playing another game, which was, one-upsmanship. I had done my best to give a basically understandable brief of my research–and he had used that against me. As if my research, my painstaking translation, my digging through archives and ILLs of esoteric works, my reading of ten thousand articles in Speculum (yes, the pre-eminent medievalist journal in North America is called Speculum, I’m sorry, it’s hilarious/sad but also true), and then my effort to sum it up for him, was nothing. Because his research into some kind of algorithm or other was just too complex for my tiny brain to conceive of. Because I just couldn’t possibly understand his work.

Now, the important note here is that the person I went home to was my senior year roommate. She was a graduate student–normally undergrads and graduate students couldn’t be roommates, but we’d been friends for years, and the tenured faculty-in-residence used his powers for good and permitted us to be roommates that year. Anyway. My senior year roommate was basically… in retrospect I think possibly an avatar of Athena. She was six feet tall, blonde, attractive in a muscular athletic way, a rock climber and racquetball player, sweet but sharp, extremely socially awkward, exceptionally kind even when it cost her to be kind, and an incredibly brilliant computer science major who spent most of her time working on extremely complicated mathematical algorithms. (Yes, I was a little in love with her, why do you ask? But she was as straight as a length of rope, and is now happily married, and so am I, so it worked out.)

(Still, yes, she is my mental image of Athena, to this day.)

Anyway, I came home in a frothing rage to my roommate, the Athena avatar. And I said, “He made me feel like such an idiot, that I could sum up my research to him but his research was just too smart for stupid little me.”

And she shut her book, and smiled at me, with her dark eyes and her high cheekbones and her bright hair, and said, “If he can’t explain his research to you, then he’s not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.”

Now I hesitated, because I’d be in college long enough to have sort of bought into the ridiculous idea that if you couldn’t dazzle them with your brilliance, you should baffle them with your bullshit. But she said, “Look, I’ve been doing work on computer science algorithms that have significantly complicated mathematical underpinnings. What do I do?”

And I said, “Genetic algorithms–that is, self-optimizing algorithms–for prioritization, specifically for scheduling.”

“Right,” she said. “You couldn’t code them because you’re not a computer scientist or a mathematician. But you can understand what I do. If someone can’t explain it like that, it isn’t a problem with you as a person. It’s a problem with them. They either don’t understand it as well as they think they do–or they want to make you feel inferior. And neither is a positive thing.”

So. There.

If you are looking into something and have a question, and someone treats you like an idiot for not understanding right away… here is what I have to say: maybe it isn’t you who is the idiot.

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FUCK apathy culture, fuck your "we all die alone" narrative, fuck the idea that the world is inherently cruel, or that life is meaningless, or that humans are hellbent to destroy the world and ourselves. because we're not. our bodies are meant to hold each other and be kind - we are built to care for the weak and sick, our fingers interlock perfectly, hugs are necessary for our wellbeing and we find ourselves desperately seeking out human contact. fuck your idea that we live alone and die alone. we are built with empathy. and hardwired to root for the underdog, and to pick each other up when we fall down. we are built to laugh and in every culture we create stories to explain the unexplainable, to comfort each other, to entertain. we are built to create art - from the beginning - pressing hands to cave walls and spitting paint around them to say "I was here". we look up at the sky to feel less alone and feel pulls in our stomachs to explore the inexplorable parts of the world. we are not built for hatred, or to live or die alone. humans are built to love and care for each other. we always have been.