#engage student

[the-cimmerians]

The Biden administration yesterday rolled out its latest tool to tackle the student debt crisis, and as we discussed earlier this year, it’s a good one. While the administration is still working on a broader debt forgiveness plan that it hopes will survive the Trump/McConnell Supreme Court, the new income-driven repayment program, called the “Saving on a Valuable Education” (SAVE) plan, should drastically cut the amount of student loan payments for lower-income borrowers, and for many, will actually get those payments down to zero.

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With the SAVE plan, the Education Department will no longer charge any interest that isn’t covered by the monthly loan payment, putting an end to the interest-accumulating hamster wheel that so many of us know all too well, where you make your payments on time but your goddamn loan balance keeps growing. As the fact sheet explains:

For example, if a borrower has $50 in interest that accumulates each month and their payment is $30 per month under the new SAVE plan, the remaining $20 would not be charged as long as they make their $30 monthly payment. The Department of Education estimates that 70 percent of borrowers who were on an IDR plan before the payment pause would stand to benefit from this change.

As with other income-driven plans, once a borrower has made payments for 20 years (for undergrad debt) or 25 years (for grad school debt), any remaining balance will be forgiven — yes, even if the monthly payment amount was zero for some or all of that period. Explain to your rightwing uncle that such forgiveness is not a new gimmick Joe Biden made up; it’s how IDR plans have worked since Congress authorized them in the 1990s.

#student debt relief #SAVE plan #us politics #in support of an informed and engaged electorate #recommended reading

[thetimelordbatgirl]

The portraits of younger heroes and villains in totally-not-EAH-and-SFGAE-rip-off Merlin Academy, if anyone's curious. And like, before anyone goes at me for that nickname for Merlin Academy: the villains group portrait literally has 'V.K students' under it, implying they themselves are children of villains, which just opens up the idea that these kids basically became evil like their parents before them and the only ones to not be evil are the prior Descendants main characters, aka, similar to main characters in EAH and SFGAE. At this point, Disney is losing their right to complain if EAH does ever return because the only one copying right now in Disney.

#disney descendants #descendants #descendants the rise of red #the rise of red #seeing ella's blue hair...god its a crime still like older her's hair and chloe's hair #again what is wrong with their natural hair color... #and why does bridget aka younger QOH have pink hair and red as an adult #could have fixed this with black hair like animated just saying #non-magical hair colors isnt a crime just pointing that out #granted not over mal and ben having to share a portrait for their students one #if that even is their students one #it has no writing so like #so it could be king and queen one for all i know but its got D3 mal who was only engaged at the time not coronated #so like i dunno but if they are sharing a portrait for former students rip #imagine not being able to have your own portraits because your king and future queen and have to always look like a perfect couple #also thats the mal mention counter up to 2 times now #uma mentioned her and uh now this portrait #that wasnt even properly defaced like the other portraits like come on #dont be scared to deface bal portrait #i would do it instantly

[villaincock]

high school aged elusians

#kagetsu #ivy #zelkov #ivy fe #ivy fire emblem #zelkov fire emblem #kagetsu fire emblem #elusia #fire emblem #fire emblem engage #engage #fe17 #fe engage #my art #doodles #kagetsu is an overly friendly foreign exchange student #ivy is valedictorian but secretly has cringefail tendencies #and zelkov is your resident goth kid #(and yes that is a sleep token shirt. if u knew that already then i have feelings for you)

[communistkenobi]

there are valid reasons to have an antagonistic relationship to academic scholarship, but those reasons are overwhelmingly not raised in graduate classrooms, where students instead bitch about theory in general, jargon in general, making them sound ultimately like conservatives, who view any attempt to systematically account for social phenomena as a form of useless intellectual degeneracy

#you’re in a PhD program and you’re bitching about reading theory? Aren’t you just a little bit embarrassed? #this is a vague about my graduate cohort lol don’t mind me #I have increasingly little patience for grad students who refuse to engage with anything even slightly abstract or dense #you are literally in a social science graduate program. That is like one of the primary tasks you need to do in grad school #If you want to engage with it for the purposes of critique that is completely acceptable #but seeing a word you don’t know and immediately quitting and dismissing it as useless nonsense is not going to get you very far #we have to read Capital for our comps lol. what are you gonna do then

[wind-becomes-lightning]

i could cry really

#nisi reads nart #i have sooo many feelings about mentors and their students #about losing students that you cared for that were like kids to you and about #how it must go to engage your former students on th ebattlefield because you feel you have to #hiruzen and orochimaru #minato and obito #kakashi and sasuke #idk ... .... its just.. ah... i love that thats a theme in this manga yk? #that students rely on teachers andt hat good teachers stay good mentors for life #that teachers geqnuinly care for children and #having to fight them or lose them it must tear one apart yk? #many many feelings that make me sad when i think about it too much

[nyansequitur]

wanted windflit to feel right at home so i made a dorm for him <3

#the true columbian college student experience #i gave him some rugs thats enough luxury right #ignore the chair #asked a couple people i regularly engage in verbal pvp with (affectionate) if i should give him a nice or realistic dorm #they chose realistic #he doesnt have a roommate thats already enough of a luxury #arknights #windflit

[annmariethrush]

Born to listen to Sufjan Stevens and write the most unbearably sad drabbles about Destiel

Forced to actually write another 7,500 word paper for my master’s degree

#this is literally something I functionally like #I am writing about two of my favorite films #but also the books they’re based on which are far less engaging #huge rip #grad student life #spn #supernatural #destiel #Sufjan stevens #dean winchester #castiel #deancas #casdean #meg mumbles

[zubeia]

now why does this encapsulate barnard students getting arrested by the nypd and evicted by the college they once called "home for the next four"

#don't engage with this if you're a zionist/anti-palestine i don't have the fucki g energy :) #context for those who don't know - barnard and columbia students were arrested for peacefully protesting that the uni divest from israel #i'm a barnard alum btw #barnard college #taylor swift #ttpd #free palestine #the tortured poets department #florida!!! #rchl tlks #columbia university #columbia

[averlym]

,,, little lemmings in line...

#adamandi #needed this. idk. shameless fluff. i. sjdhdjfhfhfhfhf viewing this doodle just makes me happy ok #something silly. i feel like lately i've been a lot more earnest on this blog and it's nice!! #the imagery that the lyrics evoke.... goes so hard actually. consider this maybe an outtake of the last 'where can i run' thingy #yes i get the whole lemmings off a cliff thing but also i think taking it at face value would be cute therefore this #since basically they refer to the rest of the students as lemmings.. he's human in this one i guess. #quincent thoughts. many many. but also i have been maybe avoiding engaging with quincy on a more intense level? until i am in a better #mental state to do so. because the whole academic perfection and self harm is a Thing i would like to engage with Properly without spirals #yay on me for being healthy about media! not normal and never normal. but healthy is good i guess #... hm. family is being iffy lately because you're supposed to have good acads And not stressed but i refuse to feel guilty anymore. #after this period i'll go bonkers over him and in the meantime unfortunately they won't feature as much in the content.. :< #anyways. fun fact about lemmings is that it's not necessarily a derogatory blindly leaping to deaths thing when it comes to the actual ones #like that's the phrasing and connotation right. but apparently it's more of they leap off cliff into water below or smth to migrate and onl #the rare few die (skill issue??um) and apparently the whole association was propagated by some documentary wildlife drama thing that kind o #.... hastened the chasing of the poor things off the cliff and filmed it. a bit messed up. and like i guess what a nice metaphor for the #academic context here? or a different one at least. where only a few die so they keep doing it but also for the Average lemming following #following the system is not inherently bad.. maybe i'm projecting. #anyways peep the tiny character shorthands now.. ambrose has the jacket/ bea has the hat and gloves with strings: portia has the bow on hea #quincy has the bowtie and glasses /(beatrix also has glasses. i forgot about those until i was drawing quincy's.) #'avvy why are they standing up' you ask? because four legs looked weird with ambrose's jacket. 'why did you give lemmings glasses?' ummmmm #i guess recognisability? don't look too much into it #outtakes of this include vincent standing in a circle of lemmings. it's badly drawn and frankly hilarious because they're all tiny and #below the knee. #'avvy these don't look like realistic lemmings' you are very right. i am sorry. i looked for a crowd of lemmings on google images and all i #found were political cartoons... i Can draw animals technically i swear #anyways! emotional support adamandi doodle out. going to start work now! #oh i forgot to tag the characters... hm... i guess i'll leave out the lemmings.. #? #vincent aurelius lin #.

[the-cimmerians]

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in two cases challenging President Joe Biden's student debt relief plan, and dear readers, we hope you are sitting down for this: The Court's rightwing majority didn't sound very open to the idea that the administration has the authority to forgive student loans, even under the 2003 law that the administration says is designed to allow exactly that. We won't know for sure until the Court rules in the case, probably in June.

If there's any chance for the policy to escape being overturned, it probably hinges on whether the Court decides that the plaintiffs in the two cases have standing to sue at all. If the Court decides they don't, then it won't address the legality of the program either way.

Of course, this being the Alito Court, it's also possible the Supremes will just make shit up and decide that even if the plaintiffs lack standing, some obscure principle pulled from Brett Kavanaugh's beer cooler — if you know what we mean and we're not sure we do — makes it OK to address the merits of the case anyway.

#student debt relief #US Politics #SCOTUS #Marty Kelley #Wonkette #in support of an informed and engaged electorate

[oatbugs]

i understand being tired of the oppressive systems around us and having to pay for good therapy and the NHS sucks and job market sucks and capitalism sucks etc etc and i understand how shitty it must be to be told that the solution to fix The Ailments caused at least in part by The System is to engage further w the system but i swear to god wallowing in depression and doing absolutely nothing to better yourself or change things for yourself is not the rebellion you think it is !! you're not rejecting the system you're just existing within it doing nothing and being horribly depressed while resigning yourself to horrible depression for life !!!!! being like "yeah well the nhs sucks so i wont even TRY therapy what does talking to someone do anyway. what do meds do anyway." etc etc bc smn on reddit said fluoxetine didn't work for them and not contacting any of the ppl who you ghosted bc you got anxious abt it like 2 yrs ago is not a flex it is not a rejection of the omnipresent system it's not making u special or More Vulnerable Than others at some point u have to choose to get better bro omg.

#im actually frustrated asf but i will zip it irl #like i cant help ill just nod ive tried so hard i feel like . it must be exhausting to continue on w that mindset #of taking 0 accountability for ur own mental health like YES things suck but you have to at least fucking try !! #at least try once and then sure if u give it a good go and it fails then fine resign urself to lifelong depression ig #no job no universal credit bc u dont want a job no education no therapy just. abject misery #bc u dont want to engage w the ppl who love you or systems that have even a 5% chance to help u or student loans that can get u away or #etc etc #im ok !! #🥴 #ranting here bc it is Not Abt Me so as i said shutting it irl but it is getting a bit exhausting to repeat the same thing omg

[werewolf-transgenderism]

starting my favorite unit in my comp class and I really hope my students enjoy it. like tomorrow we're spending time looking at a bunch of cool art and music to talk about using them to make real world change and it will be fun and interesting Or Else

#like. I've got Carrie Mae Weems art in there and public murals responding to structural violence #and music about land repatriation responsing to the Wetʼsuwetʼen pipeline protests a few years ago #and a video from Te Papa about a photography exhibit about environmental restoration and the whakapapa of the landscape #if they don't enjoy it I'm gonna be sooooo sad #me in my classroom exhorting my students to be community engaged

[libraryleopard]

Young adult contemporary coming-of-age story (releases 4/16, I read an early copy from Netgalley)

Follows two first-year students at Wellesley College who run dueling anonymous advice columns and befriend each other in real life as they bonded over both being aroace, unaware of the other's internet identity

Platonic love story

Explores themes like aroace identity, finding community, being the queer child of immigrants, and trying to find your place in the world as a young adult looking towards the future

Love letter to platonic/familial love and finding community

Aromantic asexual Chinese American protagonist; aromantic asexual gender-questioning/nonbinary (she/they) protagonist; lots of QPOC side characters

#i got an arc of this and read in basically one day while on a road trip! #i found it very engaging/easy to read #the feud between the main characters is very petty but they're both still quite likable #sophie is very relatable to me as someone who until recently was also a type-a student at a liberal arts college #i think the characters balance each other out very well also #like sophie is very organized and jo is a bit more of a mess #but jo is also less confident in her identity #this talks a lot about aroace identity and i hope that will make a lot of people feel seen #personally i really loved seeing a college coming-of-age story about friendship #because the friendships i formed in college were personally wayyy more important to me than dating #so even though i don't identify as aroace part of me still felt very seen #(that and i knew a lot of aspec people in college) #their feud is kind of petty and terminally online but that's kind of the point in the end #okay i do have to say though #jo's music taste as a dj is SO basic #also this comped to loveless and the half of it so it did amuse me that those are name-dropped in the story #actually there are some aro/ace books that are mentioned though not by name #i think i caught a reference to elatsoe and another one to fire becomes her? #that was cute ngl #dear wendy #ann zhao #2023 reads #lulu speaks #lulu reads #lulu reads dear wendy #books

[whentherewerebicycles]

a bunch of people have already registered for my mentoring workshop! unfortunately this means i have to plan and host a workshop aaaaaa

#i want to think aloud through it on here at some point #but i think i am going to structure it around the theme of cultivating student autonomy #because i think one of the primary goals of mentorship is to prepare students to be self-directed learners who can set realistic goals + #evaluate their own progress + reflect on what they've learned and what they still don't know #+ take initiative without sitting around waiting for someone to tell them what to do next #so i think we will do some thinking around like #when we have a student we think of as really capable or driven what qualities and behaviors do we observe in that student #and maybe ill also share some of the research on intrinsic motivation + self-direction + locus of control #which i think is all really interesting esp in light of the contemporary College Mental Health Crisis concerns #and then we will look at a range of tools + structures + strategies that i think are useful for fostering student autonomy over time #and maybe leave them with some core principles/guiding values that i think are useful when you are trying to like #avoid jumping in and doing stuff for kids #or solving their problems for them #idk i need to think through specifics a bit more #but i feel like on this campus #people do a lot of 'workshops' that are really not interactive at all #it's just someone talking from slides #and i kind of want to show off my ability to structure more engaging workshops #but idk. gotta think about how to do it well #and how to build in lots of opportunities for like crowdsourcing strategies too

[mawguai]

✨💖Cute and strong! He’s Elusia’s favorite! Rosado!!💖✨

#rosado #rosado fire emblem #fe rosado #rosado fe #fire emblem engage #fe engage #fe17 #elyos #tried designing him an outfit i would say modern but like #they kinda already wear modern clothes in the somniel #ugghhhhhh rosado.... he's my favorite #i knew I liked him in the trailer but like ouuughhhhhh #why is he so good I could cry like wow this amazing #he's so awesome i love him so much #he really is they made this character for me #like drawing and fashion and gender....kind too hes so awesome #school beat my ass so hard that's why this drawing took so long #it was so hard to have massive rosado brain rot and be a student #my art

[teledild0nix]

so i'm writing an 8th year fic and h&d are taking a muggle studies class together in which they read one of shakespeare's plays, and i'm trying to write a final project (for which they are partners) but like. hogwarts academics don't seem all that uhhhhh rigorous to me (like we see the students complaining about having to write a foot of parchment which is essentially ONE PAGE HANDWRITTEN) and i'm a little worried that my assignment is too rigorous.

it involves a lot of like. thinking analytically and using your imagination wrt the motivations of people unlike yourself, and that's not rlly something they do much at hogwarts as far as i can see. BUT it is muggle studies, and like. they could definitely all use some practice at those skills, following the recent implosion of their society.

#i showed it to my spouse who is a hs teacher #'where are they getting the books for this research? are there wizarding books about macbeth?' no there are not #the professor chose macbeth bc it has these concepts that will be familiar to them like witchcraft and prophesy #but presented from a muggle perspective #and also bc shakespeare is foundational to english literature and culture and it's good to be familiar with his work #and also bc they don't have a lot of experience with art esp language arts which is so so so sad and this will broaden their world #and ALSO bc shakespeare wrote before the statute of secrecy was signed which hopefully sparks their imaginations #to what extent might shakespeare's work have been impacted by ambient magic? or rumors of magic? #and if they had like a regular english literature education #they could talk about like the role of outcasts in shakespeare's work and whether magical people fit into that role #but they do not so we have to be a bit more literal #for the students that are prepared to like dig into this stuff it could be a very engaging experience #but most of them will prob be a bit lazy with it right? and maybe just resent the assignment and not get much out of it #and like!!!! #this assignment is literally just an excuse to have H&D putting their heads together in the library #and bring their relationship/the fact that they've been warming up to each other and spending time together out into the open #in a plausible deniability sort of way #a friendship soft launch if you will #i get a little carried away about these details sometimes #like if i mention the characters getting sandwiches i will look up menus for places they could plausibly have gotten sandwiches in that are #to make sure the sandwiches i mention are reasonable sandwiches #i heard some dumb story about meghan markle freaking out about not being able to get avocado when she was in the uk #and i remembered a fic i had written where aziraphale and crowley eat egg and avocado sandwiches #and i felt ashamed #an implausible sandwich!!!!