I think a big part of why I read way more fanfiction than books is that there’s just a hell of a lot less exposition
the first 10 pages of most books are always “these are the main characters and here’s some background on each of them and this is the setting etc etc” and it’s such a fucking hassle getting to the plot sometimes
fanfic is just like “fuck it you know all of this already let’s go”
Some of them are so chill that you can ditch most of class so long as you can handle the final.
It’s all about playing it by ear.
YOU DON’T ASK TO GO TO THE BATHROOM PLEASE SAVE YOURSELF THE EMBARRASSMENT.
It is NOT harder than high school. You’re more or less ready for it if you do ok in high school, ok?
Seriously. I got A’s in AP classes yet was terrified that I wouldn’t be able to handle college.
Surprise surprise?
AP classes are harder than college classes.
No joke.
College professors are a lot more liberal on what counts as a “right” answer.
Plus they give you points for caring.
Some classes give you points just for showing up.
There’s an atmosphere of controlled panic, and you are not the only one.
You can pretty much go up to anyone and say god life is a nightmare and finals are gonna kick my ass, and they’ll go saaaaame, regardless of how genius they’re supposed to be.
Seriously.
College student here.
High school teachers are the WORST of liars.
They’ll tell you college is a “whole nother level” but that’s such horse shit.
High school is a standardized sheep counting facility.
College is a research lab full of cats that may or may not do what you expect.
Honestly my parents have been talking to me about college for years, and I’m legitimately drowning in anxiety. This is the single most helpful, relieving, beneficial thing I have ever fucking heard, and it’s off a shady website where we go to rant about our fandoms and political views. And I am 100% okay with that.
This is such a bad post holy fuck can we all stop giving advice to minors on here ?
No, YOU can stop giving advice right. Today and forever actually. This post is true. This is coming from a person who is actually finishing college this summer. College is a beast that high school teachers and the federal government try to use a method of control for the underage students in the classroom. Nothing like you’d expect. And not anything like you imagined.
College is a fiddle where you have to learn which tune fits your symphony. I can consign that.
Thanks Kira 😘
It’s been longer since I was in college[1] than the folks about to enter it have been alive, but, yeah, this is the fucking truth.
high school: you have go to classes more or less straight through from 8-3 with a lunch break every M-F, and you will take subjects that are both germane and utterly irrelevant to your educational goals
college: you can, with some luck, schedule yourself somewhat sanely (10am start times, gaps in your day, some days busier than others); you will take courses intensely relevant to your goals, as well as some ancillary courses that, yeah, may be minimally relevant, but they’re not the majority of your time, and you can at least find ones that look fun or interesting.
and. and! if you change majors, because you discover that what new-to-college-you had an inaccurate idea about what you wanted to do? the shit that was your meat and potatoes suddenly fulfills all those elective requirements, so you can focus almost exclusively on your new major.
discussion classes are a thing. you are literally graded on your ability to think and synthesize information, not just regurgitate it (though there’s still some of that). you think you’re wasting time on tumblr or in fandom? THE DISCOURSE IS THE POINT. analyzing, dissecting, and providing a critical opinion of stuff is literally what a lot of college classes are about.
don’t let anyone tell you your degree is worthless, regardless of what it is – the main skill you’re learning as a college student is how to manage your time and complete challenging and often contradictory tasks. your diploma is a piece of paper that says, essentially, “i can do the thing,” not “i know a lot about this particular topic” (that’s what post-graduate degrees are for)
[1] i attended a liberal arts school, initially as a mechanical engineering major with a philosophy minor,
though i graduated with an english degree and a concentration in
creative writing… so, naturally, i work in fucking tech support.
We give Japanese cartoons a hard time for recycling the same episode premises in every show, but if you think about it, not only do North American cartoons do the same thing, our stock episode premises are weird as hell.
Like:
Japanese cartoons have beach episodes.
American cartoons have that episode where the protagonist accidentally creates a whole bunch of duplicates of himself, all of whom later die horribly, with the last one standing giving the protagonist some valuable bit of life advice just before expiring.
Japanese cartoons have tournament episodes.
American cartoons have that episode where the focus character misuses time travel and accidentally erases herself, then goes on a tour of a world where she never existed and discovers that everything is terrible, because apparently her presence was literally the only thing holding back the Apocalypse.
Some Japanese cartoons have that episode where they parody Alice in Wonderland
American cartoons have that incredibly weird trope where something inside of them that shouldn’t be there, so their friends shrink down and go into their body to get it out and inevitably get attacked by the immune system
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