#tuition time

[handweavers]

i've been so fucked up for months i haven't been able to go downtown to pick up my work from last spring from my school's textile studio and they always have a cutoff date like if you don't pick up your old work by x date they toss it and they're pretty strict about that unless you arrange with the studio tech beforehand, and the studio tech doesn't like most people she's pretty curt with most students. not rude but just keeps things professional and a bit distant, a very serious person. but i know she grew to like me over the past few years/warmed up to me a lot and we'd chat a lot about different textile things and she would say really kind things to me a lot which felt rare and special, and she let me have special treatment with some of the equipment because she trusted me to use it properly. and i haven't seen her in nearly a year and i expected her to have tossed my work out when i didn't come to pick it up last fall and emailed her to explain why and dropped off the face of the earth, i made my peace with losing that work and accepted it, it is what it is, i will survive, etc.

but she emailed me earlier this week and said she didn't have the heart to toss my work and has kept it safe in her office for me if i'm ever able to come pick it up and if not she's going to keep it as an example piece to show other students when teaching weaving because it's too lovely to get rid of and my heart swelled like 10 times its size bc she didn't have to do that and it meant so much to me that even a year from seeing her last she was still thinking about me and being kind to me. and i emailed her back and picked it up today and saw her and we chatted for a bit and it was so nice. I love her I miss my school's textile studio and weaving in there and talking craft with her... sigh

#ill never able to finish that program because i cant afford tuition anymore & am ineligible for student loans now #so ill never get to weave in that studio or work with her again and i didnt have the heart to tell her its just too sad #but we exchanged personal emails and instagrams so i know we'll keep in touch #being sick at home 95% of the time makes it easy to forget how nice it feels to interact with other people #who see you as like. an independent competent adult they respect as a colleague of sorts... its really really nice

[front-facing-pokemon]

#ducklett #this angle makes their bill look Much bigger which honestly is just what i say whenever i look at my college tuition #also by the time this posts i'll be in class. on my birthday. which is really awesome that i have to be in class until 6 pm on my birthday

[posallys]

i will NEVER not be pissed that most colleges cost about 40k A YEAR on average and that if YOUR PARENTS make over 120k AS A GROSS INCOME you're practically immediately disqualified for need-based aid???? like do you really believe anybody can afford to throw an entire third of their annual income to their kid's schooling, when they probably have several thousands of dollars in loan debt themselves??? in THIS economy??? eggs are fucking $7 a dozen where i am right now but GOD FUCKING FORBID i get any financial aid because "well your upper class" NEWS FLASH 120K IS THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS AND JUST BECAUSE MY PARENTS MAKE OKAY MONEY NOW DOESN'T MEAN FUCK ALL WHEN I CAN REMEMBER ALL THE NIGHTS THEY DIDN'T EAT WHEN I WAS GROWING UP BECAUSE THEY ONLY HAD ENOUGH FOOD TO FEED ME AND MY SISTERS I need to hold everyone involved at gunpoint because i really don't think a single fucking one of them understands "oh but you have money :/" there's literally a reason i work FULL FUCKING TIME while double majoring and it's because my parents can't even send me money for fucking groceries, let alone fork out FORTY FUCKING THOUSAND DOLLARS GOD DAMN YEAR for a degree that'll be FUCKING WORTHLESS in three years anyway i worked my ASS off and graduated with a 4.7 to get scholarships because i knew that's the only way i'd realistically be able to afford school. and then the fucking fafsa goes "oh but you have money in your savings! you can pay for your own school" bitch i have 4k and it's for my fucking rent!!!! my parents have like $600 in savings do YOU SEE THE ISSUE that's what being forced into credit card debt for 20 years fucking does it puts you in an unescapable hole so even when you're making good money YOU DON'T GET SHIT!!!!!! NOT TO MENTION THE ABYSMAL CREDIT SCORES MY PARENTS HAVE SO GOOD FUCKING LUCK TRYING TO GET LOANS FOR ME!!! COSIGNER? I'VE NEVER HEARD OF HER IM GOING TO KILL PEOPLE!!!!!!

#sponsored by me working on transfer applications and the fafsa telling me to go fuck myself ✨✨ #i need to strangle ever single fucking person in charge of uni pricing #give me ONE fucking reason your school costs 40k a year when you have thousands of undergrads #'non-profit' my FUCKING ASS lets do the math. #i currently go to a small school so 4500 undergrads (rounded down) #tuition ALONE is 43k. not to mention housing and food #but i'll be generous #so 4500 x 43000 = 193.500.000....which is ONE HUNDRED AND NINTY THREE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS?????? #there's 315 full time faculty and 240 part time #i've talked to professors and the MOST tenured ones here make about 130k a year #so JUST FOR A MOMENT LETS ASSUME EACH FACULTY MAKES 130K.... (240+315)(130000) = 72.150.000 #OKAY SO 193M - 73M = 120 MILLION LEFT OVER AND I KNOW GOD DAMN WELL THAT NOT ALL OF THAT GETS PUT BACK INTO THE SCHOOL #THE DECREPIT FALLING APART DORMS AND CLASSROOMS??? THERE ARE FUCKING RATS IN THE ONE BUILDING LIKE HUH????? #NOT TO MENTION THAT YOU ONLY PROVIDE HOUSING FOR 2 YEARS AND ARE LOCATED IN THE SECOND MOST EXPENSIVE CITY FOR RENTERS IN THE US........... #'we're non-profit :)' MOTHERFUCKERS WHERE IS THAT 120 MILLION DOLLARS FUCKING GOING THEN. EAT MY DICK

[dillydallydove]

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[astranauticus]

snapshots of what could have been

#rolling with difficulty #rwd starship #i think thats the tag? #havent drawn gay shit in a while heres some gay shit! #the only times i ever to proper lineart is when the sketch looks so disgusting i feel compelled to go over it again #still not very good at robit expressions. hm #drew all the sketches for these while my friend was giving online tuition on the other side of the room #me，gleefully: ‘(youre student) doenst know that im drawing gay shit in the background!’ #for even MORE gay uhh Noir mentioned in the discord that he hcs forehead bumps as mechanite kisses so yeah. context #in hindsight that caption is quite a bit of violence even for me #art i made

[joysmercer]

ostensibly the descendants were placed in anubis (and nowhere else) for a reason, but victor wasn't seeker so he couldn't have known who the descendants were. but it also wouldn't take a genius to figure it out, especially since details like the members' names, the kids' scholarship records, and everyone's pictures (the easiest clue of all since they're all identical) were probably easily found via the internet or trudy's office or the school or the house itself. so there's a very high chance he actually did know, by the time s3 rolled around, that he had the descendants under his roof and who they were, even though the show made it seem like he was clueless. so perhaps victor knew a lot more about everything than he was letting on but did a damn good job of covering it up…starting with who were (or weren't) the paragon and osirian.

#house of anubis #(re: scholarship info -- trudy knew nina was there on scholarship and the details of it which means she likely knew about the #others #especially since if someone was late on a tuition payment or something she wouldve been the one to notify them etc since she was likely the #one in charge of their finances and stuff in general?) #also you REALLY think this man #who spent several quarter-centuries waiting for a gullible chosen one to show up #wouldn't have verified her birth-time for himself #like

[stareesm]

life has been insane i just cried infront of my violin teacher 😔

#⠀౨ৎ⠀𝓶arie's 𝓻ambles⠀. #please let me quit violin #i keep on playing wrong notes out of tune 😭 #THERES A RECITAL BUT I DONT HAVE TIMETO PRACTICE #like how??? my school ends at 4:30 and sometimes I have tuition afterwards #plus a shitton of work 😔 #violin is fun but I just feel like I don't have the time for hobbies anymore #I do admit that it's also my fault though bc I should have practiced ☠️ #sorry for venting I just need to let this out somewhere :(

[ride-a-dromedary]

The media literacy on this site has gotten *so* low, people just expect things to be spoon-fed to them on a little silver dish, huh?

#jibber jabber blabber bluff #every time i read a shitty take on something i think i age three years #every time i read a *falsity* an *ignorance of consumption of media* i think i age five #maybe i'm just used to working with next to nothing content wise but like no one knows how to close read anymore huh? #they operate on a 'unless i am spoon fed and told this directly then it doesn't exist nor did it happen' #yikes #back in line with getting my tuition paid for - every time i see a bad take i need a 100 dollars towards it

[oflgtfol]

i was talking to my therapist last week about how i'm kinda excited but also equally apprehensive about starting grad school this fall because yes, i so so desperately needed a gap year otherwise i think i literally would have killed myself and/or had a breakdown big enough to land me in the hospital, and even beyond that i just needed to figure out a more concrete plan of what i'm going to do with my life in general -- while all of that is true, and i'm glad i took the gap year for it, i'm also apprehensive because i genuinely feel like an entirely different person than i was even at this exact point in time last year, nevermind anything earlier than that. it's only been a single year of me being out of school but my life has changed so dramatically, mostly for the better, and my whole personality has flipped on its head, it's just going to be so fucking weird going back to the same school, the same campus, potentially seeing my old friends around. augh

#sorry i was trying to find a post in my music tag in my archive and i scrolled so far back i got all the way to april 2023 #where i referenced sitting in a dining hall #and its like. DINING HALL ?!?!?! #im going to be sitting in the fucking dining hall again in just like four months. UGH #brot posts #it's almost similar to the separation between high school and college. where i feel like hs me was completely different than college me #and now only a mere year later i feel like. post-undergrad me is completely different than undergrad me #although now that separation is exacerbated by how short a time it was and just HOW drastic a change it was #like . a bitch goes on antidepressants suddenly theyre a whole new person. #like im lowkey excited to see my old classmates and friends again #but i also am dreading it bc like hi. hey. i have the same name and face as the person you knew but i'm someone else now. sorry #and also just the persistent fear that i'm going to regress or at least even just /feel/ like im regressing #just by being back in that environment again? #even if i'll be on meds this time and actually going to therapy and overall having so much more support than i did in the past #so as nostalgic as i am to be on campus again it's also like. hard to separate the present from the past #like despite it all. this bathroom was still the very same place i went to have a mental breakdown weekly #this bench outdoors was the place i sat by myself to eat lunch in the blistering cold bc i couldnt eat indoors during covid 2020-2021 #this bench indoors was where my friends had an intervention with me and forced me to call the on-campus mental health services #just . idk. feeling a strange mix of nostalgia and also being haunted by bad memories #oh the woes of going to grad school at the same place you got your undergrad. While mentally ill #but alas i need to save money by commuting and having instate tuition

[stinkrascal]

rich ppl are so annoying like i cannot believe im forced to read the sentence "my familys not rich my dad only makes 200k a year" with my own two eyes

#never gonna forget that time i was in college #and this girl from my high school was trying to get me to join her sorority #and i was like yea i cant afford to do that i cant even afford my college tuition im probably dropping out next semester bc of it #and she said to me and i quote #oh our sorority is one of the cheapest on campus! it's only an extra 4000 dollars a semester:) #LIKE what if i strangled you? what if i killed you with my bear hands? #bare hands? bear hands? i like bear hands more it implies i have big bear paws for hands. which i do.

[softceleste]

The fact I honestly thought I'd pull off playing College Craze and being normal about it, and then less than a week later I've already played it multiple times, made a duel MC au, a Pinterest board, and recreated some of the PopMe pages, is genuinely not lost on me.

#college craze #katie talks ifs and vns #i made psds for new contacts and calls too but didn't really have a use for them in this #also i just bs'd vidtok if it pops up I'll redo those but >.> i think you can tell who my favorite RO is so far okay (it's Pierce) #and then jay shaun ruby and trish also have me by the throat like if Trish has 0 fans I'm dead okay #I've known those characters literally like 4 days and I'd go to bat for all five of them already ok - my beloveds #anyway madeline mostly follows canon (the divergence is Ches exists and Ches is canonly the one fake!dating Shaun for Mad's tuition) #otherwise what the vn throws at Madeline she gets ok and then Ches breaks canon... so much it'd be probably too long for the tags #but this is what i get for being like 'this oc I've been writing for a decade+ would be down so bad for Pierce and Shaun lemme do a #playthrough with her and see what happens' - this happens apparently 😂 listen the vn helped me get through the entire time my mom was #in the hospital (she's home now) so tbh it was a really appreciated distraction <3 #extremely long post #long post #edits:mine #college craze: ches #college craze: madeline #college craze: madeline x jay #college craze: ches x pierce #i had fun with these though like Madeline messaging Ches to ensure she isn’t going to come in and find Jay in the dorm #and Ches being like ‘yeah my vidtok is 100% Pierce’s fault’ yikes I need to sleep I’m excitedly tired rambling #sorry if this post is annoying (and for the lines under the categories breaking future me will fix that in further edits if I post more #those may be relegated to the shit post blog though we’ll see posting oc stuff makes me so anxious ngl) #im just hitting post I’ve been staring at this stressing it like two hours now jfc

[orcelito]

I've always known that my dad loved us, but nothing's driven that home as much as everything we've found in the After.

Our prominence in his home (pictures, father's day cards, gifts on display, the letter), the way he prioritized us... and a damned good life insurance policy, set up specifically so that if he died early (always a possibility, since driving jobs are more dangerous than many) then we would have enough to get ourselves Set.

He raised us to become as independent as possible as soon as possible. Made sure we knew how to cook, clean, handle our finances (though he was hilariously kind of bad at that, himself), and much more. I've been doing my own laundry since I was about 10 years old, so it's a surprise when I hear about people going off to college still not knowing. Utterly unimaginable to me.

He wanted us to finish college so we could live more comfortable lives than he did. My sister accomplished this in good time. I have not. But with his final gift to us, this life insurance money, it's a very real thing I could do. I could Realistically pay for the rest of my schooling and not even have to work through it. And in not having to work as I take classes, I can dedicate myself to them more thoroughly than ever before, and hopefully Finally finish my degree.

Just as he wanted for me.

I'll always miss him, since having him in my life was worth more than any amount of money I could have. But I'll always be grateful to him for everything he gave to me.

I dont need a mother, however much mine is trying to scrabble for us right now. I haven't had a true mother in a long time (or maybe Ever).

Instead, I had the best father I could've ever asked for. He was the only parent I needed.

#speculation nation #actually not feeling too bad right now. emotional sure. but not as bad as the past few nights. #the revelations of the day just kinda. rocked me a bit. #it's a Damn good life insurance policy. #and coupled with my in-state tuition (aka kind of a lot lower than average US college tuitions) and #yeah. yeah it really could cover The Rest of my schooling. #and ykno. he was an atheist to the end. he didnt believe in an afterlife. so im not gonna think hes watching me or anything #theres no figment of my father hanging out in heaven or w/e that's watching me & who i need to Make Proud #it's more a matter of self satisfaction. wanting to live a life that i know wouldve made him proud. #he's dead now. he doesnt exist anymore. but it would make me happy to live up to what he wanted for me. #so. in his memory. i will. i'll put my nose to the grindstone (as he'd often say) so i can finish my degree. #and as for where i go from there... we'll see. #one step at a time. finish college first. i'll figure out what comes After when i get there.

[extrasentient]

Made some fruity pony adopts to try and chip away at tuition coming up :P

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#mlp #my little pony #adopts #adoptables #adopt #ty for reading all this #im out a baunch of money atm w phone and car dying at the same time as tuition is due #so please dont judge me for chasing that bag pls and ty hugs and kisses

[saintshigaraki]

never have i ever wanted to be rich as bad as i want to be rich right now while going through the folio society's catalogue

#thats a lie i also feel this way when it comes time to pay tuition lmao #vicspeaks

[iqmmir]

Fuck.

#.mimiming ❜ #i was supposed to tutor one of the teachers in my tuition #but i lost track of time #ah whatever #i need to teach myself first #and i prefer math ovee science anyways #i can skip a day #< has ten billion things to fay #*do

[starbuck]

got a BUNCH of mundane tasks done today that i have not had time for for weeks and i am SO grateful!

#cleaned my bathroom kitchen and den #did four loads of laundry #paid off my credit card… finally secured my unofficial transcript… drafted a text to my uncle about tuition funds for next semester #made a detailed work schedule with pre-written tasks for each day over the next month or so #to make sure i stay on track #my friend came over and we watched a film and chatted a bunch #i did another Master Naturalist class #i got a good amount of this week’s schoolwork done #did i have a single moment to myself just to chill? No. #BUT i’m glad i got stuff done #it was worth it #and i’ll have chill time on Thursday #whew… #mansion tours tomorrow can’t WAIT!!!!!