#as well as my english professor

[miodiodavinci]

collapses to the ground like a deflated balloon

#my god #stage one is finally complete . . . . . . . . #if you can recall that poll i reblogged about passing out #that important contact i received was mr. seto of the vocaloid team #who messaged me asking about a collaboration and quite literally nearly caused me to pass out #i read the message preview on my phone #stood up #saw stars #and collapsed onto my bed and had to lay down for like. 10 minutes before my body would stop feeling distant and weak w #i similarly felt ready to pass out today when i sent a message to ask when the announcement tweet would be #and they tweeted it. immediately after w #no joke rice and i were scrambling behind the scenes to get our act together and figure out what we wanted to say KHGJGSJKFHGKJ #all the while screaming because yamaha said they'd be posting it on valentine's day and we thought they meant our timezone w #because the whole point of this collab was to get the zolas more well known in the english-speaking sphere w #EITHER WAY #i am. so so tired and now i need to pass out so i can get enough sleep before more internship tomorrow w #which is heating up because my seminar professor wants a detailed plan of my final project goals This Friday #but my mentor won't know anything about where to fit that in until Thursday at the earliest #and my supervisor just hounded me over email to coordinate with the two other people at my station and choose an activity to lead #but that requires. planning. that our mentors won't have until thursday........ #perishing . . . . . .

[shackleton2]

YALL

I was editing and looking at this sentence in my past-tense draft: "This would be so much easier to get a grip on if only she was here with him." and going like ??? why does 'was' feel like it's supposed to be 'were' here? It's not plural, am I a dingus or just tripping myself out? And I had to google it, got the result I thought, except!!!! that last part!

wtf is the subjunctive mood, I asked

from this page: "The subjunctive mood expresses wishes, suggestions, demands, or desires"

Desires!! Like the "if only" in my sentence!!

Oh English, you absolute rascal. Ever since I embraced the notion that grammar is largely vibes it's actually gotten hella fun to learn about.

#who else thinks this is super interesting & exciting #i told the cat but she was mildly interested at best #writing #which word to use #language moods #grammar #my linguistics professor was awesome and I'm not gonna explain this half as well as her #but: Grammar rules ARE rules; they're just the rules of what sounds/reads right to English speakers #they're not some set in stone Commandments of Proper English that don't change #which means yes! those overly restrictive teachers who made a big deal that they insisted on “Proper English” were in fact just being dicks #& also often racist!

[derpinette]

this year i really had a module called "british culture" &i got my best grade on it out of all of them this semester

#wooed the corrector/maybe my professor if he was the one doing the correction bu laying out my Television Interest faxxxxx #that were in the textbook we had to read now i know so much about those Isles & i hate the english so much #& i am scotland & ireland biggest fan #i also found the contents of my textbook in some chinese learning(?) website that looked a million years old #like for chinese people who were probably going to the UK to learn about it & its history ETC #the reason why i even retained so much is because i got hooked by the mentions of my TV Interest sprinkled in & it developed from there #like cheese in a mouse trap #shockingly the most i retained is the history bit starting from the iron age to like now ( well the late 90s/2000s anyway ) #my professor was probably like wow she really did read the textbook. which i did but only because of the Mentions here & there #otherwise i would not really GAF as much as i did #i am physically incapable of caring about anything unless it is tangentially related to whatever my interest is #which is why i graduated highschool by a miracle from the Heavens last year because i literally had nothing but my Interest #in my mind no matter what i tried especially during prep days. i graduated with a 10/20 flat BTW that is 10.00 ... Trve Miracle

[tardis--dreams]

Embarrassing being an adult and crying over not understanding your homework. I'm 28 years old. This is so fucking stupid

#why do i even care #it's not even like knowing old English grammar is going to help me at all in my life outside of this class #i don't get credit for this class at my home university #i don't even have to do well #i have literally 1000 other things i could worry or cry about #and yet #i feel like an 8 year old having to turn in a half empty answer sheet for homework #who's gonna get scolded and penalized for not having applied enough effort #(or you know a 13 year old or 16 year old or 18 year old #whatever. I'm not in school anymore and i don't have to care about what my professor thinks about me when i don't even #care about the topic/have other things to concentrate on) #also every fucking week i make the same mistake and wait until the day before class to prepare #and find out he's hidden some extra homework at the very end of his lecture #i should just not worry about it so much #who the hell cares #goddammit #void screams

[gworlinterrupted]

the last push i needed to realize i wanna change my major is the prof walking into my social determinants of health class and going omg i havent seen most of you since covid its so nice to see ur smiling faces without the masks

#ma'am u have a doctorate in epidemiology #obvs a lot more going into this decision but like. im so fucking ready to get a degree in ANYTHING and get out as painlessly as possible #and i have a ton of english credits banked up so i think i can make the switch and still graduate on time but im meeting w my advisor #tomorrow to check #but yeah im still passionate abt public health but i hate the program at my college its so disorganized #so i might as well get a useless degree in something i enjoy w professors i get along with

[thebirdandhersong]

:'))))

#currently editing four papers to submit to our English department's annual academic conference #it's a fairly informal event because. like. well the advertising for the lit department is so bad that literally no one hears about it #and only eng lit people show up anyhow i think #but anyway i am so excited but also so nervous #this is the first time i've tried to do anything that i've already marked in my head as Ambitious and Daunting #but my professor told me to dream big when i went to ask him for advice earlier this week and i was like. okay sir i will #so i am dreaming big (and starting here) and i am trying to be Brave #it's so darn hard but at the same time it IS strangely exhilarating to try something new

[emilyaxford]

okay the poet dean fic was bad but beat sheet is incredible. i started reading it this morning without looking at the chapter count and i got so giddy i had to check, thinking i was almost done, but in fact there are 9 chapters of like 100k more words to go

#i'm glad this is living up to the hype because poet dean fic reallyyyyy let me down #i was willing to try to move past making jack sam's kid #but i had to quit when it said that cas - as an english professor - didn't know tolkien was from the wwi era #that completely broke my suspension of disbelief like he may as well have been a physics prof who didn't know oppenheimer invented the bomb

[selkiecoded]

adhd is so frustrating lolllll i like to think myself as a smart and insightful person but i also have Unorganized Inattentive Forever IPad Baby Hell Disorder that kind of cancels all that out. death and destruction forever and ever.

#requesting extensions from my english professor because im so behind pained grin and he was like you ask good questions and are a #pleasure to have in class (REAL STATEMENT) and your previous writing was really well done and im like thanks. should i go and kill myself. #Id like to sincerely apologize for being a beady eyed little fuck-freak. Im hell's shit. Im dog shit's ass. Brand me with a hot iron. Sorr

[arabriddler]

I’ve had normal experiences

#Re last reblogs yeah my most meaningful internet relationships happened with not native English speakers yes I don’t understand their #Langauge yes we’re talking in English #BUT it’s . Yeah. Have a hard time getting along with English speakers #Like yess some stuff confuse me #but sometimes I feel like people think less of me you get me #Or treat me like a baby #Like just yeah just be normal I guess. Nice too. If I’m confused about something I’ll ask #This isn’t just in the internet American/British professors were. Well.

[peachcitt]

oh my god college life

#peach stuff #i was supposed to work on my final project for my english class today and i didn’t #but i wrote a page and a half yesterday. gonna spend all of tomorrow workin. so . maybe it’ll be alright. who knows. #i have a full unit assignment due a few days after American thanksgiving that i haven’t started i don’t really know what’s going on there #presumably i’ll have that done by next monday #next friday i have my capstone (thesis? end of major project?) presentation that ive invited my family and my teacher that I’ve been #showdowing for the past year. as well as all of my professors. so presumably it has to be good #and good god all my shit is catching up to me. i don’t really have much of breaks. but i am taking breaks anyways to get drunk. #god . college life is so fucked up #go to college but also keep your expectations for it normal. you’re not going to do more #(unless you’re not for sure neurotypical in which case. have fun) #but if you’re neurotypical or undiagnosed. be sure to pack coping strategies or learn new ones #because holy fuck. goddamn. .i have not beeen doing well #anyways goodnight unless i say something else . in which case who gives a fuck. #just . don’t ever listen to me. that’s the lesson to be learned #goodnight

[necromancy-savant]

Who remembers the time in my first year back at college at a new school when, in my first ever Linguistics class, my professor asked me to research alternative terms for "penis" on Urban Dictionary?

@memey-dreams

#tagging my friend whom I met in that class hopefully he's still on here and remembers this assignment #I know he remembers our first day where the professor spoke all Romanian to us for an hour and gave us a Romanian lesson #I felt so smart that day ngl bc I clocked it in half a second #I was like this is a Romance language that looks kind of Slavic: must be Romanian #we all were speaking it really well though if I do say so myself #and with no instruction in English whatsoever #and then he came clean lol #oh anyway the conclusion of this story is that he had said specifically he would only give the word penis to guys and vagina to girls #and frankly he was making a lot of assumptions about my body and also my comfort level and so I begged #please don't make me look up penis on Urban Dictionary I already know where this is going #and he said ok why don't do meth instead? and I said yay thank you! :D #so the next class nobody else did meth though so I got put with a group doing weed and I named like 6 slang terms for weed #off the top of my head that I've heard people say all the time that they didn't already even have on their lists

[swankpalanquin]

ugh i hate reading stuff from like the late 2010s that is basically the direction my (admittedly amateurish) research and ideas about the old english advent lyrics in 2012 was heading in

#maybe if i had actually taken my professors' advice and gone right into grad school for english #my life would be very different now... but oh well #it both sucks and feels good cos like at least i wasn't completely off track with my ideas #despite not knowing oe and having terrible research and writing skills lol #perhaps with a firmer guiding hand in undergrad i could have maybe been a good scholar #(and like if various personal and family tragedies hadn't happened) but again... oh well

[malewifebillcage]

sorry i’ve been so inactive and noncommunicative today friends!! i see all your tags and messages and asks and i love you for all of them i just don’t have the time to answer them right now 💔 but please keep tagging me in things and sending me stuff!! i love it!!! 🥹

#im just urhsgdjfhsgjrs because apparently im failing organic chemistry rn!!!!!! AND i have a c in anatomy which i rlly wanna fix!!! #ive never done this shitty in school ever ive never even gotten a c before #well except one time in a high school english class but that was because my bitch of a professor refused to grade my final essay #which was worth 25% of my grade :^) #but yeah im . not doing well rn y’all! and i DO want to fix this so im having to buckle down and cut back on tumblr besties time :( #so ill get to everything when i can but it may take around 2-5 business days because everything is hell rn </3 #real talk tho this semester has absolutely sucked ass. i feel like nothing is going right for me and i’ve tried everything :/ #i messed up really bad by taking 3 upper-level science courses at once and now i am paying a pretty huge price #BUT spring break is in one week and we’re going to adopt a new kitten then so there’s light at the end of the tunnel!!!!!!!! (temporarily)

[theygender]

Did anyone else know that Demi Lovato came out as nonbinary?? They use they/them pronouns in english and elle in spanish

#nonbinary #demi lovato #trying to see if i can use my preferred pronoun elle in my college's spanish class #its an in person class and its conducted in spanish and like #of course id appreciate it if my professor and the other students would use the correct pronouns for me #but my main concern is since in spanish you have to conjugate nouns and adjectives to match the gender of the subject #i dont want to have to misgender myself for a grade... #anyways i was looking up articles from spanish lgbt orgs about nonbinary pronouns #bc i figured it might help if i can show the prof that elle is a relatively well established neopronoun in spanish #and one of them had a tweet from demi lovato coming out as nonbinary #im happy for them #y tambien estoy feliz porque probablemente ahora haya mas gente que esta familiarizada con el pronombre elle #anyways. i think ill reach out to the host of my colleges pride club to see if theyve had this come up in the past and if they can help me #they help people talk to their professors about using the correct pronouns in their english speaking classes so hopefully they can #i reached out in the pride clubs discord to see if anyone else is in a similar situation but no one has responded #even if no one has run into this issue before then at least i guess i can make it easier for the next person #rambling

[buysomecheese]

Very very stressed, so clearly time to cope by listening to dndads character playlists and trying to decide how they’d cope

#I’m also sick-ish so. not vibing. #on my Link playlist rn but may go to Meryl Streep or Nark #idk yet #anyways fuck English class idk how Grant liked that shit #this is why I love projecting onto TJ- we know Almost Nothing except that he subs for theater class #as far as I’m aware he’s a medical professor at the local college and just subs for theater recreationally #he’s got a 100% pass rate for his students even if he’s not there all the time (med students) #because he has Banger free tutoring sessions #maybe he reached pre-med idk I’m not in college yet #he’s not at Med School just Teaches Medicine #but yea he’s such a blank canvas he’s just like me #went through a ‘I hate my parent(s)!’ phase and came out respecting them (but of course there’s still Tension because Duh) #is always second place/side character to best friend(s) (namely Nicky in this case) #gets along really well with said best friend and their bf (Nark) #likes Science And Theater (shut up I said so) #recovering therapist friend #I can do whatever I want with him and he doesn’t even care. he doesn’t even know. #I love him so much #I need to take a shower jeez

[1997berserk]

for once in my life I would like to have a skill or pro or strength that is anything besides "parents are english professors"

#“well at least youre well spoken” my parents are english professors “you have a good vocabulary” my parents are english professors #do i have anything? besides that? ever? ive heard my weaknesses 600000 times but it seems like my strengths to people are #well you have a complex vocabulary or i can make a weird comment about your body