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youalreadyhavefullresults · 8 months

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the mindset journey

So hi.

My mindset has been evolving a lot ever since I started this journey, and I thought I'd lay it all out in one post. Subliminals, mindless affirming, scripting, visualization, states. I've tried so many things out, and I think I've finally figured out what works for me.

TLDR:

Stop “trying” to manifest or checking the 3d, you already have full results, creation was over like since forever.

Sure you know that you’re God, as the posts and everything you’ve seen tells you, but have you really embraced that internally?

It doesn’t matter how many posts you read, it’s up to you to actually change your mindset.

Logic is literally useless, be delusional (don’t you just wanna go ape-shit :), go get your fucking desires)

Time is not linear, and means nothing when manifesting.

Revision is so powerful, use it.

It’s just so easy guys, please just make sure you’re actually applying the information you see instead of just passively scrolling through.

And the rest is under the cut, happy reading <33

I started off in the subliminal community in Oct 2020 and just had so many limiting beliefs, it was sad. Not to shit on the community or anything, some of them are wonderful people and most of them have changed their mindset as well, but my initial knowledge prevented me from getting to this point until now. But, now I’m here, and a day after I wrote this in my drafts, I literally manifested my ideal life. I originally started this blog to collect advice from loa blogs, but honestly, I don’t need any of it anymore. Though I do like helping people, so if you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an ask.

The Initial Mindset:

I always read through countless posts that say “You’re God” and “You literally can get what you want without even trying.” While I understood the text and adopted the mindset, I still did little subconscious things that contradicted it. While I affirmed my self-concept was perfect, I would also cram-study for exams and worry I would fail. I would say I look perfect, but then also worry about the way my body looked. Also, the way that I literally became obsessed with loa media? I spent hours watching Sammy Ingram videos, looping subliminals, and reading tumblr posts on “how to manifest faster and better”. During this phase of my life, my mind was plagued with intrusive thoughts and my self-concept was slowly getting better, but still absolute shit. I would manifest things here and there, but nothing life-changing.

The main problem however, was the fact that I would treat manifesting like a task I HAD to do. Now that school was back in session, I literally would zone out during specific classes on purpose and just affirm to myself. I would feel bad if I hadn’t listened to my subliminal playlist for the day because I “wasted time in getting my desires”. There’s nothing wrong with vainly affirming or listening to subs if you believe it works, but for me, treating manifesting like a task meant that I was looking for an outcome. Clearly, now I know better, that everything is always done and that there’s nothing to complete, but back then, this was probably the main reason why I struggled to see full results easily. I was acting out of desperation and didn't believe manifestation already was done.

When Everything Changed:

I know that it’s different for everyone, but my “aha!” moment was probably when I read this post. Seriously, go read it, it made me realize that I was going about it all wrong. Now, it wasn’t learning how to perfect my manifesting, it was learning to pull out the tiny limiting beliefs that had burrowed its way into my subconscious.

For example,

“I need to do xyz so that I can get my manifestations.”

Why would I would need to do anything if I already have all of my manifestations hmm? It’s literally already done. Like there’s no need to put in that effort into something that’s already perfect right? So why do I need to even need to try? I literally get whatever tf I want without even trying. This doesn’t mean that every method out there is useless, but in the end, you are the one doing the manifesting, not the method.

“But... this makes absolutely no logical sense! How would this even work?”

I know that STEM me loves finding the logic behind everything, so that’s why I struggled a lot with the logic and time aspect. But darling, it doesn’t need to make sense. There are literally so many things in the world that scientists to this day can’t explain, including just how powerful and complex your brain is. Not to mention the fact that concepts such as logic and science are literally man-made too? What’s the point in trying to deal with logic? Just let go and have fun.

“I affirmed so hard, and I believed it. But then it never showed up when the time came.”

First off, your time spent affirming means nothing, sorry to break it to you. It’s about the mindset(your state if you will) you currently exist in that truly makes a difference. And just because it didn’t show up today doesn’t mean that you missed your window of opportunity. Revision is still manifesting, because time is not a linear concept. Anything at any time can just change with a snap of your fingers. You want to change all of your test scores? Bam, it’s done. you wish WW2 never happened? Bam, it’s done. You want to relive the past 5 years of your life? Bam, it’s done. It doesn’t matter what the event is, what time it is, or that you “didn’t do it before the deadline”. Whenever you do get it(which is instant/soon if you're persisting properly), it will be there, seamlessly blended in with your 3d. You don’t need to worry about a damn thing, your subconscious will take care of everything for you.

“Oh no! I just had intrusive thoughts, did I just mess up my manifestations?”

Why are you giving intrusive thoughts the power to do anything? Sure, you may get them, but that doesn’t mean that they have any effect on you. It’s the doubt they make you feel in your mindset that truly messes it up. Don’t give in. Acknowledge the thought, accept that it literally means nothing, and continue to persist. Your thoughts only have the power you give them.

“Nah, everyone has to be lying, this doesn’t seem real.” / ”Manifesting must just be a coincidence, there’s no way this is real.”

Oh? So you’re saying, the amount of posts you’ve seen, all of the success stories, all of the followers and comments, are you saying every single one of them is lying? No. I’m not saying that every single one of them is truthful, but there’s no way that every single one of them would lie and put this much work into something that’s not real. If you find yourself struggling to believe in the law, I’d suggest you try to manifest something small, and then build up your belief from there. I sure as hell didn’t believe in any of this from the beginning, but then, I manifested consciously for the first time. Again, and again. It became easier, and my life got better. It soon becomes apparent that literally everything you think happens. I always used to wonder how things I randomly thought in the back of my head always happened even though I literally didn’t do anything about it in the 3d. This proved to me that your mental state is more powerful than it seems.

“Can I manifest-”

Yes. Just yes. You’re GOD. GOD. Why tf is God asking some random loa account if they can manifest something or not? Ofc God would know that they can manifest whatever the fuck they want instantly. Do you think when God said “Let there be light”, he first asked people around him if he could? No. He took that shit and just fucking ran with it.

“But-but, what if-”

Uh-uh. I don’t want to fucking hear it. Like I said in the previous section, stop overthinking everything you do. Just go. Run with what you already know and manifest the life of your dreams. You don’t need to keep looking for new information, some specific post that changes everything for you. All they can do for you is steer you in the right direction. You’re the one who’s going to have to figure out our mindset and pull yourself together, no one else can do it. Take back your power, embrace it. I don’t care if you unfollow every single loa account or delete tumblr, just stop looking for the next post. Why would you need more information when you already have everything you need?

I wrote down everything I struggled with, forgot about it, and continued to persist in my new mindset. I ignored any negative 3d circumstances, and just vibed in the feeling that my desires were already here, that feeling of contentment someone has when everything in their life is just amazing. The main question I asked myself was, what would a person who had ____ think, and I went from there. Soon the things I wanted just started popping up in my life, just as I knew it would. I feel like the things I’ve said in this post are pretty much the same concepts you see all over loa tumblr, which is why it’s so important that you actively take in the information that’s being given to you and actually apply it. I was obsessed with tumblr and kept on scrolling through countless blogs and posts, and I was only able to fully manifest after I stepped away from all of that. There is no big secret. There’s no miraculous method that will fix everything for you. There’s just... you. And your subconscious. Whatever you tell your subconscious, goes. As simple as that.

How about, instead of scrolling to whatever next loa post you were about to see on this app, you close tumblr and just go live your best life? Don’t overcomplicate it and just do whatever feels natural to you. I hope this post helped, happy manifesting!

-cinna

#self concept #motivation #loa #law of assumption #manifestation #subconscious #success story #mine #mindset #neville goddard #manifesting #loassumption #law of manifestation

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charmedreincarnation · 1 year

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hii! i have a bit of a success story with your result transfer experiment.

I have found myself calming down a lot and not over emphasizing my studies to the point of near " self-destruction "(for a lack of a better word). Im finding it easier to digest what im studying thanks to what you've sent me and I cant thank you enough.

i know its not much, but im sure that if i keep up the routine that you gave me i maybe able to ace exams w/o studying just like you! 🤍

speaking of that, how were you able to manifest that if you dont mind me asking?

Vami 🛐 I’m super proud and happy for you. And yes you’ve worked so hard!! haha you’ve studied to the point where you’ve consumed so much info to last you decades.. so it’s time for the easy scholar life now.

And ofc, this was back in 2020 when I just got into manifesting. I did generalize affirmations about school, beauty, confidence, and etc. I would write it down everyday and repeat it to myself in the mirror and use subliminals. Now adays I just do my homework and assume that’s enough for me, since it worked in the past. After I got confident, well where I am now I just include grades in my general assumptions of things that work out for me. I think after I graduated senior year even after I didn’t care about my life or grades by just assuming it would work out helped me so much. I did less than ever yet had the best grades. Funny how that works i suppose

Also in general we tend to be dramatic. I let myself do nothing for a test for Ap calc. I mean I seriously slept throughout class, didn’t show up or pay attention. my friends were asking me what I’d for the test and I would shrug and say idk but I’m fine. Girl I took that test making up my own formulas, I mean I literally knew nothing. I still don’t even know what the topic was till this day. Anyways I got a 70% and I mean that’s passing… and I went in with 0 knowledge so that’s impressive tbh. I remember my teacher getting mad bc I wasn’t showing the right work (or work at all) but I was still getting the right answers. It also did 0 damage to my grade so I was kind of like yo why was I killing myself for my grades in the past. It kind of woke me up tbh, that nothing is that serious Bahaha and I’ve been a little delulu ever since then and it worked out. I was also diving in the law a little at this point so I was like yo this shit is kind of real.

#my asks

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lemon-box · 11 months

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My ideal scooby doo gang dynamic and their respective guiding personality traits:

Fred: AUTISTIC HIMBO WITH PARENTAL ISSUES & A SPECIAL INTEREST IN TRAPS! Pretty obvious, I basically think the mystery inc version of Fred is the most perfect one, minus the obsessive behavior he had towards Daphne in early season 2… I don’t think enough people talk about that side of MI Fred? It was honestly pretty uncomfortable, I think we could write it differently while still keeping the “I have abandonment/attachment issues w my girlfriend and it’s impacting us both” message. Either way, Fred is the himbo leader who owns the mystery machine, loves his friends, is reliable, and serves as comedic relief as well. He’s interested in mysteries because they’re the best way to make use of his traps & test out new ones.

Daphne: Daphne needs to be the one with social skills. That’s the one thing she has that the others don’t: she can network, has connections, and can use her parents’ infinite pool of money to just make any accommodations happen? Despite that she’s still very sweet, considerate, and one of the main 3 clue finders (them being Daphne, Shaggy, and Scooby). I don’t really mind her being in love with Fred or Velma (sorry Shaphne shippers), but I don’t think love interests should be necessary for any of the characters. In one of Daphne’s character profiles released in 1999, it stated that her life ambition is to become a mystery novel author. AND I ABSOLUTELY ADORE THAT I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH!!! That is such an easy yet clever way to not only give her more depth as a character but curiosity & motivation for these dangerous situations as well, I think it’s such a shame that no scooby doo media that I’ve seen has utilized that for her :(. Daphne is a people person, is resourceful, athletic, and the resident fashion expert. She’s interested in mysteries because they help & inspire her with her writing.

Velma: Velma is the dork nerd with a tumblr blog on mysteries/unsolved cases and is an absolute academic weapon. You KNOW she took AP chemistry in freshman year and got at least a 4 on the exam. She’s super smart, confident, her only hobbies are studying and solving mysteries, and I think she has the least social skills out of everyone which makes it a really fun dynamic with Daphne! She’s very observant, serious, and despite how hard it is for her to show affection, she really loves her friends, they’re her found family after all. I don’t really like iterations of Velma where she thinks everyone around her is an idiot and it feels like she actually hates the gang. If we can portray her as a teen with trouble showing affection instead of a teen who actually doesn’t feel it, I think the anger issues she had in MI could work really well. Velma is a nerd with sass, biggest believer in ghosts/monsters, walking encyclopedia, and dependent on her friends to get through when she can’t find a solution. She’s interested in mysteries because she is a naturally curious person who’s hungry for knowledge and for a chance to study the supernatural.

Shaggy (and scooby): Shaggy is the anxiety ridden, emotion driven anchor of the group. Yet despite his overwhelming feelings he’s the one who keeps everyone grounded. Everyone else gets so carried away with investigations, clues, and their ambition that they forget where the line is sometimes. But Shaggy is unaffected by that, at the end of the day he seeks security and safety, and he can remind everyone to stop and consider new perspectives. That makes him great at finding clues, him and scooby are always looking where the others aren’t, especially using scoob’s sense of smell and shaggy’s sense of taste. In the 2020 scoob movie they described them as the heart of the group, and in one scene daphne said “with shaggy and scooby gone there was no one to remind us to eat lunch…” AND THAT’S EXACTLY IT. THEY’RE COMEDIC RELIEF, THEY BRING EVERYONE TOGETHER, AND THEYRE GOOD AT FINDING CLUES. I also love iterations of Shaggy where he’s a chef. It’s not his lifelong passion, but he loves food so he loves making it, both for himself and everyone else. He believes food tastes better when shared with others. Shaggy is interested in mysteries because despite the dangerous situations, he feels emotionally safe around his friends, and he also likes traveling if it means he gets to add more food profiles to his palette! Solving mysteries allows him to grow not only as a person, but grow out of his very sheltered life which left him rather naive about the world, but he doesn’t know that yet :) thats where the character development comes in.

Short Scooby part: Along with Shaggy Scooby is a big part of the heart. He’s basically everyone’s emotional support dog, especially shaggy’s, and as a dog he can’t help but go where his weird nose takes him. He brings everyone together, is loyal to his empathy, and he’s interested in mysteries because he’s just happy to be around his friends. I think MI gave him a much bigger and more important role than scooby has ever had before, and frankly I think that’s an excellent use of his character, he makes for a great plot device, I need writers to utilize that.

#i think scooby doo is a special interest of mine-#i know the scooby doo revival has passed since velma hbo is no longer relevant #but i am literally always thinking about scooby doo #scooby doo mystery incorporated #scooby doo #mystery incorporated #fred jones #daphne blake #velma #shaggy #scooby

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ronancestyle · 4 months

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In honor of 2024 rapidly approaching here’s a list of things that would send 2020 me into a coma

The entirety of Junior year.

Band camp.

The SAT/ACTs.

AP exams

The fact that I do actually have final exams now

The Eras Tour/everything Taylor Swift related that has happened this year

The college application process + waiting for college decisions

The fact that I don’t watch cartoons anymore because I outgrew them, and instead prefer parks & rec and gilmore girls

The fact that my dream school is our local state school’s longtime rival

The fact that we met some of the best people and found a place where we were actually happy in high school

Theater didn’t work out. (And that’s okay!!)

I still don’t have my license lol

I’m going to Europe this summer!

My ideal wardrobe consists of brandy mellville, lululemon, h&m and old navy (this is not a joke)

We stopped trying to force ourselves to be someone we’re not. We’re a basic bitch and that’s okay! We finally found ourselves, and we’ll probably keep finding ourselves over time.

Bonus because it’s funny but true: we’re straight.

#14 year old me is rolling in her grave #I’ve still got love for her #I wish I could tell her about all the good things to come #personal

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thebreakfastgenie · 1 year

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I took my first AP exam in ninth grade (I was advanced but also I did badly on it because I found I had an aortic aneurysm the week before) so I had a solid eight years of AP exam and college finals the week of my birthday. In the five birthdays I've had since then, there was 2020 and 2021 (I had just gotten my first vaccine), and this year when I actually had COVID.

#a resounding success for first week of may babies

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thenamesofthings · 8 months

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A paper published in the last 10 years, documenting a sequencing study of the Ashkenazim with the largest sample ever taken, is out there somewhere but I've lost track of it. The study's conclusion is that the Ashkenazim are a "unique hybrid race" of, surprisingly, 50/50 Semitic/Caucasian genetic origin. I would be eternally grateful if someone could provide me with a link or a copy. Thx.

“A strange collapse”

The early to mid-twentieth century seems to have marked the peak of Ashkenazi achievement in science, the arts, entertainment, industry, and academia. A decline then set in. Ron Unz presents several lines of evidence for what he calls "the strange collapse of Jewish achievement":

U.S. Math Olympiad – Over 40% of the top students were Jewish in the 1970s. During the 1980s and 1990s, the percentage averaged about one-third. From 2000 to 2012, it was 2.5%.

Putnam Exam (a mathematics competition for American college students) – Over 40% of the winners were Jewish before 1950. Between then and the 1990s, the percentage was 22-31%. It has been under 10% since 2000, without a single likely Jewish name between 2005 and 2012.

Science Talent Search – Of the national finalists, 22-23% were Jewish from the 1950s to the 1980s. The percentage was 17% in the 1990s, 15% in the 2000s, and 7% from 2010 to 2012.

Physics Olympiad – Jews were over one-quarter of the top students from 1986 to 1997. During the 2000s the percentage was 5%.

Biology Olympiad – From 2000 to 2012, only 8% of the top students were Jewish, and none from 2010 to 2012.

Computing Olympiad – Between 1992 and 2012, only 11% of the winners had Jewish names.

Siemens AP Award – Between 1992 and 2012, only 8% of the winners had Jewish names.

Chemistry Olympiad – From 2010 to 2012, none of the winners had a probable Jewish name. (Unz, 2012)

The post-1970s decline has also been described by Chad and Brym (2020):

[…] the proportion of Jewish recipients of the Fields Medal, awarded to mathematicians under the age of 40, is 65.3% lower thus far in the twenty-first century than in the twentieth century. Prior to 2000, Jews won the majority of world chess championships. Since then, not a single world chess champion has been of Jewish origin. The number of American Ph.D. recipients with distinctive Jewish names has been falling since the 1970s. The declining rate of Jewish winners of middle school spelling bees and high school science olympiads in the United States leads us to anticipate a continuation of the trend into the next generation

Among students at the University of Toronto Medical School, Jewish representation reached a high point of 26% between 1958 and 1978. It then fell to 18% in 1988, 17% in 1998, 14% in 2008 and 11% in 2018. If one adjusts for the size of the Jewish population in the Toronto region, the decline seems to have begun during the 1970s (Chad and Brym, 2020).

What has been driving that decline? For Unz (2012), the cause was loss of immigrant values: "today's overwhelmingly affluent Jewish students may be far less diligent in their work habits or driven in their studies than were their parents or grandparents, who lived much closer to the bracing challenges of the immigrant experience." This is also the explanation favored by Chad and Brym (2020). If the cause is indeed loss of immigrant values, it should correlate with use of the Yiddish language, which began to decline during the 1930s among foreign-born American Jews (Wikipedia, 2022d). Yet academic achievement would not begin to decline until four decades later.

In support of his argument, Unz (2012) points to the Jewish winners of the Math Olympiad during the 1990s and 2000s, up to half of whom were recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union. During the same period, however, almost a million Soviet Jews moved to Israel, and yet that country’s mean IQ has fallen from 101 in the 1960s to 95 today (Rindermann 2018, p. 148).

Perhaps the Soviet Jews who left for Israel were different from those who left for the United States. About half of the latter arrived under the Lautenberg amendment (1990), which authorizes the entry of religious minorities "with a credible, but not necessarily individual, fear of persecution." In Israel, they arrived under the Law of Return, which lets in anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent or a Jewish spouse.

Israel is thus more open to immigrants from the former Soviet Union, as long as they have some sort of Jewish affiliation. The affiliation is often weak:

In 1988, a year before the immigration wave began, 58% of married Jewish men and 47% of married Jewish women in the Soviet Union had a non-Jewish spouse. Some 26%, or 240,000, of the immigrants had no Jewish mother (Wikipedia, 2022c)

Intermarriage has increased considerably in the source countries of Israel’s immigrants, not only the former Soviet Union but also the United States, Canada, and France. If Jews are becoming less and less Jewish by ancestry, it should be no surprise that anything specific to them genetically is likewise becoming less and less, whether they live in Israel or in the United States.

Conclusion

The decline in Jewish achievement since the 1970s may either support or refute a genetic cause. Ron Unz argues that "the innate potential of a group is unlikely to drop so suddenly." But that is true only when the group has a closed membership. According to a 2013 American survey, the intermarriage rate is now 58% among all Jews and 71% among non-Orthodox Jews. Yet 81% of all Jews still raise their children as Jewish (Goodstein, 2013). "Jewishness" is increasingly self-defined and self-ascribed.

A secondary cause is the sharp decline in fertility among the most intelligent women of Western societies (Kanazawa 2014). This may explain the recent slowing down and reversal of the Flynn Effect and the increase in reaction time since 1980 (Flynn, 2007, pp. 143; Frost, 2014; Madison, 2014; Teasdale and Owen, 2005). The same differential fertility probably affects Jewish Americans.

In sum, mean cognitive ability has been declining in successive generations of Jewish Americans for two reasons: (1) intermarriage; and (2) lower fertility of those with higher cognitive ability. When the baby-boom generation dies off, we may see an end to the remarkable Jewish presence in American life.

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lokigodofaces · 2 years

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Okay, I don't talk about real world issues a lot on here, but I've felt like I have to say something.

Covid has affected everyone in so many ways, even those of us that haven't caught it or lost anyone to it. And I know that there are people who have lost friends and family and have nearly died because of Covid, I get that. And I give my condolences to anyone who has lost someone. Let me make it clear that I am not trying to diminish your suffering. But I am tired of being told that my experiences during this pandemic don't matter because I never got Covid and none of my loved ones died of it.

I had multiple friends who were trapped in abusive homes because of the lockdown.

I had to watch my brother struggle in school because his teachers almost entirely disregarded his IEP during online school.

I watched my other siblings, who were in elementary school, only have half an hour of school a day the end of the 2019-2020 school year, and when the new school year started, all of the teachers were surprised that them and their classmates were behind because they didn't have Zoom calls, they had a couple of assignments to do without help for months.

My sister was half a year old when the pandemic started. Once things started opening up, it was apparent that she had fallen behind in social development because the only people she saw were her family. She's doing fine now, but you have no idea how worried I was for her before.

I was in two AP classes when the pandemic started. Both of my teachers fricked off and didn't teach us anything, instead assigning us huge amounts of homework without giving me adequate instructions. Additionally, I stressed for months over I got college credit because the tests were one question each (for most AP tests). $90 one question test. And, I may be wrong, it's been a while, but I believe they took a type of question typically on the tests, and shortened the amount of time we had to write it as well. Also, so many of my friends were unable to submit their tests because the servers were poorly built and the College Board didn't tell us about all of their "security measures" (I had two cousins who took the same class. They were in the same home, so they had to take the test at the same time, but they were in different rooms. They weren't allowed to submit it because they were on the same Wi-Fi, and the College Board seemed to forget siblings exist and that this might be an issue for some people.). I was lucky that I passed both of my exams.

I basically had to do both my work and my brother's, because I had to help him read since his IEP was hardly accommodated for.

I didn't live in an abusive house, but my relationship with my parents was definitely more tense leading up to and during the first six months of the pandemic. It was scary, having an increasingly tense relationship with my family when I couldn't leave the house.

Honestly, it wasn't until part way through the 2020-2021 school year that teachers could kind of teach online. Most of mine didn't even have Zoom calls for a long time, and only assigned homework for things we had to teach ourselves. Only my math and physics teachers really did anything to teach us.

About half way through the 2020-2021 year, we had to start doing Covid tests in order to do extracurricular activities, and a few times to even go to school. These were performed by random faculty members, and they didn't know what they were doing. I was honestly terrified for my sinal wall, the way they shoved the swabs up my nose. And those swabs were only supposed to go a centimeter up your nose.

I know of at least two people (there were probably more) who were supposed to be in quarantine because of contact tracing, but weren't told that by the health department until after the period they were supposed to quarantine. Also, we weren't always told the results of our Covid tests to stay in school or extracurricular activities.

I was in marching band, and we were almost shut down several times despite the social distancing, masks (yes, in a marching band), etc. Yet the football team and cheer teams could do whatever. Seriously, someone on the cheer team posted a video of her and her teammates not social distancing, sitting closer to each other than is normally socially permitted, and everyone knew about it. The school did nothing about it, yet they shut down another team the week before. But cheer can get away with anything in my high school.

My high school was under construction, so there was a dust problem. If you have never experienced your mask being covered in dust and not having a spare, you should be grateful.

For the first half of the 2020-2021 year, more than half of my school was under quarantine at any given point. I am one of the rare people that was never quarantined. We were told by the administrators that we all probably were asymptomatic because we were young, which is why we would go online with like 1% confirmed Covid cases. It wasn't until January that everyone in the school got tested that we found out that it was actually only one extra person that had Covid (and she had been making out with one of the other people with Covid). Doesn't sit right with me that we were all told that we probably all have had Covid at least once without realizing it. And then to forget that was ever said and act like no one ever thought that when multiple school wide tests showed that the vast majority of students did not have Covid all at once.

We were all told we had to social distance no matter what, but they expected 21,000 students to fit in a tiny cafeteria. It was split up into three groups, but still, that's a lot of people in a small cafeteria.

After a while, my school made a requirement that teachers had to use Zoom. Including band/choir/orchestra/theater/etc. You can see why that would be hard. If I were a band director, I would have my students fill out practice charts or something, not make them play on a laggy Zoom class.

When I graduated, the plans for graduation changed every week leading up to graduation, including two days before. You can imagine the stress that put on my parents and I.

I feel sick when I think about having to have online classes now.

My mental health tanked in the first six months. I wasn't suicidal, but I was pretty close.

School sucked for me, so the fact that I almost cried when it was announced that we would have in person classes because I was so relieved to get to go and not just do horrible online classes is saying something.

My dad is an assistant manager at Lowe's (an essential business). He worked ridiculous hours because people couldn't work in the day anymore. Daycares were closed, so parents had to watch their kids. My mom is a stay at home mom, so my dad was able to go to work at any hour. In January 2021, half of the managers had Covid. There always has to be a manager in store, so my dad and the other manager had to work every day, switching off shifts, losing all of their days off (my dad had a few days off scheduled because of his birthday). I basically didn't see my dad for two weeks.

And these are just a few of the things that have happened off of the top of my head. And I have been relatively lucky to live in places with less Covid cases, so things opened up faster. I know that lives have been lost, and I am so sorry. I understand that I have suffered far less than so many people I have been lucky to not lose anyone and to not get Covid myself. But I am tired of being told that I didn't suffer, and that I am just being "whiny" and that I need to shut up. I get it, people have suffered far worse than me. But if people could acknowledged that I suffered some too, and stopped calling me whiny and recognized that I had legitimate problems, that would be nice.

#liv won't shut up #covid #felt nice to get that off my chest #i just hate how my experiences are dismissed #i mean i was borderline suicidal how can you dismiss that?#suicidal thoughts tw #still wouldnt claim to be suicidal but i was definitely getting close...

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thebestucollegeadmissions · 2 months

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A “New Flavor” of Testing Policies?

What Changes to test optional policies really mean for students

You may have heard that Yale University is the most recent of the elite colleges to announce that testing is back in admissions. What caught our attention in the announcement is that Yale’s Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan touted a ‘new flavor’ to their now test flexible policy…

Read on for what these changes to testing policy mean for admissions in the years to come –

What’s the latest news on testing policies in admissions?

In February 2024, both Dartmouth and Yale announced changes to the test optional admissions policies they have held since the early pandemic in 2020

● Both institutions will require the submission of test scores for a complete application to be considered beginning with the college class of 2029, also known as the high school class of 2025. Dartmouth and Yale are notable for being the first Ivy League schools to return to testing requirements, and follow MIT which reinstated the testing requirement in 2022.

● While other Ivies including Princeton, Harvard, and Cornell have extended their test optional policies through the high school class of 2025 at least, Columbia has stated that their test optional policy will remain permanent.

● An announcement is expected in the coming months from Brown University where a committee is currently reviewing admissions policies regarding testing, early decision and legacy admissions.

● In the University of California and Cal State University systems, admissions became test blind in 2022 and is expected to remain so.

● Currently, more than 1900 colleges and universities maintain test optional admissions policies, but changes at high profile elite universities may be a harbinger of more changes to come.

What’s different about these policies?

The ‘new flavor’ of testing policy at Yale and, to a lesser extent, Dartmouth is where things get interesting.

● Yale is now offering what it calls a ‘test flexible’ policy. This means students must submit test scores but can choose to submit SAT, ACT, AP or IB scores.

● Notably, if a student opts to submit AP or IB scores the expectation is that the applicant will provide all scores for exams taken. This means a student cannot opt to submit APs, but pick and choose only those exams where they’ve earned their highest marks.

● At Dartmouth, US applicants will still be required to submit ACT or SAT scores, but international applicants will have the flexibility to report either 3 AP exam scores, or final or predicted results of IB or British A-Level exams. This is meant to acknowledge the difficulty in accessing ACT or SAT testing for some international applicants.

● Both institutions cite a desire to shift the testing conversation away from a narrow focus on the middle 25-75% of scores to consider exams in a local context. Among other reasons for this shift, this is meant to encourage students attending high schools with lower average scores that they will benefit from the consideration of the strength of their scores in the context of their school or local community. We can expect scores will be evaluated not just against the typical admitted applicant, but in the context of a student’s high school and community.

What does this really mean for students?

For one, we encourage students and families to recognize that while the policies are changing, the practices of admissions offices are not shifting dramatically. In truth, requiring scores is probably a more transparent approach, as scores have continued to be an important admissions factor at the most selective universities, even while test optional policies have been in place. It has continued to be the case that students with scores that look like typical admitted applicants have a stronger likelihood of admission and we don’t expect this to change; however, testing has always been only one component in a constellation of admissions considerations.

While it continues to be advantageous for most students to prepare for and take either the SAT or ACT exam a couple of times in preparation for the admissions process, this is not the only way forward. There are many excellent colleges that have had a historical commitment to evaluating students holistically without test scores – these institutions have had test optional admissions prior to 2020, and in some cases have held these policies for decades. For any student who feels testing is not the best representation of their strengths, we would encourage them to build a college list that includes these historically test optional schools.

As we go forward from here, we expect to see more colleges revisiting their pandemic test optional policies, and we anticipate seeing more schools adopt ‘flexible’ approaches. Looking honestly at the test scores of admitted applicants will continue to be one important factor, but never the only factor, in determining your own admissibility to a college of interest.

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Recruitment of children by armed groups in Syria is on the rise, even as fighting subsides

Posted Wed 28 Jun 2023 at 9:12pm, updated Wed 28 Jun 2023 at 9:12pm

Hamrin Alouji's daughter was recruited into a militant group at age 13. (AP: Baderkhan Ahmad)

When a 13-year-old Kurdish girl went missing on her way home from a school exam last month, after being approached by a man from an armed group, her parents immediately feared the worst - that she had been persuaded to join the group and was taken to one of its training camps.

The girl, Peyal Aqil, was with friends when she encountered the man, who turned out to be a recruiter for a group known as the Revolutionary Youth.

She followed him to one of the group's centres in the city of Qamishli in north-east Syria. Her friends waited for her outside, but she never emerged.

Peyal's mother, Hamrin Alouji, said she and her husband complained to local authorities, to no avail.

The group later said Peyal joined willingly, a claim rejected by Alouji.

"We consider that at this age, she cannot give consent, even if she was convinced," by the group's program, Alouji said, sitting for an interview in her daughter's room, filled with stuffed animals and school texts.

Armed groups have recruited children throughout the past 12 years of conflict and civil war in Syria.

A new United Nations report on recruitment says the use of child soldiers in Syria is growing even as fighting in most parts of Syria is winding down.

The number of children recruited by armed groups in Syria has risen steadily over the past three years - from 813 in 2020 to 1,296 in 2021 and 1,696 in 2022, the UN says.

Among those allegedly recruiting children is a US ally in the battle against Islamic State extremists - the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), according to the UN.

In 2022, the UN attributed half the cases, or 637 , to the SDF and associated groups in north-east Syria.

The report also said the UN had confirmed 611 recruitment cases by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army, which has clashed with the SDF in the past, and 383 by the Al Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al Sham in north-west Syria.

The report cited 25 cases of child recruitment by Syrian government forces and pro-government militias.

Children are being recruited across Syria, said Bassam Alahmad, executive director of Syrians for Truth and Justice, an independent civil society organisation.

In some cases, children are forcibly conscripted, he said. In others, minors sign up because they or their families need the salary.

Some join for ideological reasons, or because of family and tribal loyalties. In some cases, children are sent out of Syria to fight as mercenaries in other conflicts.

Attempts to end such recruitment have been complicated by the patchwork of armed groups operating in each part of Syria.

Mechanisms in place to prevent child recruitment

In 2019, the SDF signed an agreement with the UN promising to end the enlistment of children younger than 18 and set up a number of child protection offices in its area.

The US State Department defended its ally in a statement, saying that the SDF:"Is the only armed actor in Syria to respond to the UN's call to end the use of child soldiers."

Nodem Shero, a spokesperson for one of the child protection offices run by the SDF-affiliated local administration, acknowledged that children continued to be recruited in areas under SDF control.

However, the complaint mechanism was working, she said. Her office received 20 complaints in the first five months of the year, she said.

Four minors were found in the SDF armed forces and were returned to their families. The others were not with the SDF, she said.

In some cases, she said, parents assumed their children have been taken by the SDF when they were actually with another group.

Alahmad said recruitment by the group decreased after the 2019 agreement, but that the SDF had not intervened as other groups in its area continued to target children.

Among the groups is the Revolutionary Youth, a group linked to the Kurdistan Worker's Party, or PKK, a Kurdish separatist movement banned in Turkey.

The Revolutionary Youth is licensed by the local government linked to the SDF - although both groups deny any connection beyond that.

The UN report attributed 10 cases to the Revolutionary Youth in 2022, but others say the numbers are higher.

In a January report, Alahmad's group said Revolutionary Youth was responsible for 45 of 49 child recruitment cases it documented in northern-eastern Syria in 2022.

Alahmad said the SDF-affiliated administration was looking the other way. He called on it to "assume its responsibilities in order to stop these operations".

An official was the Revolutionary Youth acknowledged that the group recruited minors but denied that it forcibly conscripted them.

"We do not kidnap anyone, and we do not force anyone to join us." he said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with his group's rules.

"They themselves come to us and tell us their intention to join the service of the nation," he said, "We do not take minors if they are indecisive or unsure."

Minors are not immediately sent to armed service, he says.

Rather, they initially take part in educational training courses and other activities, after which "they are sent to the mountain if they want," he says, referring to the PKK's headquarters in the Qandil mountains of northern Iraq.

Asked about Peyal, he said the girl had complained of being unhappy at home and that her parents forced her to wear the hijab.

Alouji said her daughter had given no signs of being unhappy at home, and the night before her disappearance had said she planned to study to be a lawyer.

A month after her May 21 disappearance, Peyal came home. She had run away from one of the group's training camps, her mother said.

Since her daughter's return, "her psychological condition has been difficult because she ... was subjected to harsh training," Alouji said.

The family no longer felt safe, she said, and was looking for a way to get out of Syria.

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Key lines from Elon Musk, others’ call to pause AI development

Dozens of scientists, experts and tech leaders, including Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, recently signed a letter calling on labs generating artificial intelligence (AI) to slow down production so potential risks can be studied —and researched.

Why it matters: AI programs like ChatGPT and GPT-4 have come a long way in capturing public interest, but they still have trouble convincing tech's biggest leaders that society is ready for them.

Driving the news: Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang and more than 1,000 others signed an open letter to AI labs urging them to "immediately pause" production of AI models more powerful than GPT-4 — the most recent update of its text generator engine — for at least six months.

"This does not mean a pause on AI development in general," the letter states, but rather "a stepping back from the dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities."

"If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium," adds the letter, which comes from the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit that campaigns for responsible use of artificial intelligence.

Context: The letter specifically mentions GPT-4, a generative AI tool that is considered more powerful than OpenAI's ChatGPT.

GPT-4 can pass most AP exams and score in the 90th percentile of the standard bar exam taken by lawyers. One study found it can also spout misinformation.

Here are some key lines from the open letter:

On misinformation: “Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks, and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth?"

On replacing humans: "Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?"

On purpose of AI: "Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable."

The letter urged AI labs and experts to work together "to jointly develop and implement" safety protocols for AI design and development, which should then be "audited and overseen by independent outside experts."

Our thought bubble via Axios' Peter Allen Clark: Few, if any, tech advancements are coupled with the level of forethought and even-mindedness the letter’s authors request. In the U.S., market forces have long been the primary driver for the growth of specific innovations.

Furthermore, an outreach to policymakers seems likely to land on deaf ears. U.S. lawmakers are woefully behind on how technological advancements impact the country — they’re still struggling to deal with the advent of social media.