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 No.11485[Reply]

Has anyone here dropped out of collage or university? Was it a good decision? How did it affect your life? I'm dropping my course and I'm pretty bummed out. I feel like a failure.
Sorry for un-comfy
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>>11485
>Has anyone here dropped out of collage or university?
Yes actually.
>Was it a good decision?
For the time yes. I was very inexperienced and had little means to pay for it. Me back then wasn't going to be able to pull it off. My second go around we're getting that degree though. However long it takes.
>>11486
>I've dropped out of law
Ooh how was it? I've considered pursuing a degree in that field. Its been a long time dream of mine to get behind the civil rights movement like my grandfather and his father before him. They were in the offices of the NAACP and LULAC back in the day as an accountant and a treasurer. The lawyers were the real warriors though, and that's where I want to be.

 No.11638

I was heavily encouraged to go to university after school but had no real ambition or direction. I decided to study biology because it was one of the few subjects I enjoyed in school but quickly fell behind, failed all my courses, and dropped out after a semester.

>>11486 has the right advice, working menial jobs for 5 years was really useful. I think a sense of pointlessness and depression is just endemic to who I am because I've never been able to shake it but at least now I have the maturity to sustain full time study in something useful.

Don't feel like a failure, it's just part of growing up. Spend the next couple of years figuring out what it is you want to do if you need to, just try not to waste it. My main regret is simply not going back sooner or using my time to have more interesting experiences. Still, it's good to know that it's never too late; I know a chick who quit her job as a pharmacist to study CS because she was bored of her career. There's no shame in being in education when you're older, not everyone follows the same trajectory in life.

 No.11653

I studied pre-med for 3 years but had to drop out because I was just doing what I was told and wasn't really coping and ended up in a psych hospital. I spent about 5 years in and out of different life stages and only last year I finally went back to University to study what I really want to.

It obviously really, really affected my life and its progression but I would never say dropping out was a mistake. It's just part of the tapestry of my life it took to get where I am now.

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>>11485
Drop out and work a 9-5er.

 No.18422

I had thought of it many times. At many times, I felt like college was trying to keep me in for as long as they could, but I finally escaped. I have ADHD. I can't really function like a normal person. When I was failing classes or missing assignment dates I felt like a legit failure, just like you are now. Now that I'm out, I don't feel anything like that. I feel free, in fact. Funny thing - I didn't know I could graduate once I finished the current semester / classes until I went to a councilor, and when I finally finished the class, I went in again because I hadn't gotten an email about graduating. Well, I was queuing up to see another one, and I was waiting to see one when I checked my email and found the email saying I had graduated. I went to the front desk and said, "I don't need to see the councilor anymore. I just graduated." and walked out of the building. I then took a drive, looking at the different buildings I went to when I was doing gen ed and everything was in person. Then, I never went back to that place again.

If I gotta say anything, you should speculate on what makes you feel this way and get help for it. Like, if you legit have personal issues or disabilities like ADHD, you should ask for different treatment from your school and seek medication for any disabilities. I would have liked, even loved to have quit, but that overall would have made my life a lot worse in comparison. I hope you make the right choice for yourself regardless.



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 No.3089[Reply]

What do you rolls do to keep a healthy body and mind?
I find that one of the best ways to do both consistently is training yourself in martial arts. An good starting point for learning shaolin kung fu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f8zb_QKZEo .

One of the ways I train mentally is by doing regular meditation. If you are new to meditaion and don't know what style to pick, start with Zazen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL2XUTeoUsM (turn on captions). Some other techniques that I like are detailed here: https://tricycle.org/magazine/tibetan-buddhist-meditation/ .
I think it's important to learn to feel what the chinese call qi. That does not mean you have to become religious or convince yourself that it is anything more than a phychological phenominon, but the reason I think it's important is that it can be used to reach a meditative state even when going about your daily activities. I'm not an expert, but I think a good method is to sit or lie in a position that allows you to breath with your stomach (make sure to remove constraints like belts), close your eyes and take slow, deep breaths with your stomach. As you breath in, imagine energy slowly rising from the base of your spine to the top of your scalp, and as you slowly breath out imagine that energy sinking from your scalp back down to the base of your spine.
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 No.16062

>>16025
If you don't mind me asking, what do you stuck up your ass?

>>15989
==ALL WEIGHTLOSS SHORTCUTS ARE UNHEALTHY==, no exceptions. Pursue a sustainable and consistent routine, don't try to take shortcuts. At best these shortcuts will give you momentary results that quickly disappear, or you'll seriously hurt yourself. Exercise more, eat less, and be consistent.

 No.16073

>>16062
Medicine. I take anti-inflammatories by suppository because of a colon disease. It is not fun, it is not sexual, and I get no pleasure out of it. If I could do it any other way, I would.

 No.16091

>>15990
>Lifting weights causes injury
It can cause injury if done improperly or too aggressively. That doesn't mean it's not still the best way to actually become stronger. Bodyweight exercises are great since they cost very little and can be done in many places but they provide diminishing returns and can also cause injury if done in an unsafe manner. I've had more injuries with bodyweight exercises than with weights since it can be harder to quantify my limits with the former.

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 No.18326

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I fly planes and test my G-limit.



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 No.18315[Reply]

What kind of lies are you planning for the day?

 No.18324

>>18315
Lies? But it's April 2nd? I'm pretty sure you missed april fools sushi…

 No.18325

>>18315
Getting people to play chess against me thinking I'm a Grand Master when I'm actually sub 300 ELO



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 No.8700[Reply]

The tomatoes are ripe along with many others! with more on the way!
What are you growing sushi?
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>>14131
There's a lot of good channels on youtube as well for this type of stuff, that's where most of my knowledge comes from (I've only been actively growing things for 3-4 years really).

Channels like Epic Gardening, Self Sufficient Me, Huw Richards, TheKiwiGrower are all really good. Mostly just watch them for entertainment but I end up learning a fair bit regardless.

 No.17694

>>14126
>>14132
Gardening is about consistancy (kind of like ten-pin bowling). Heh.

 No.17708

>>8700
My rosmary died? I'm hoping it will come back to life in the spring.

I have too much rosmary. Just two bushes and I've already got a litre of the stuff and don't really know what to do with it all… Crops are way more bountiful than I ever thought they would be. It's a good problem to have thought…

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Winter is a time of stillness.
Can't wait for spring.

 No.18317

April 1st! Hearing the birds chirping outside at 6 am makes me think that spring is well established here. Can't wait to see my plant grow few more leaves.



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 No.8788[Reply]

I'm bored sushis. How do I become not bored?
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 No.12891

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>>12309
when I was in university (about a decade ago now), there was this girl I liked. one night after some deep conversation she confided in me that she liked to draw but she kept it a secret because she expressed all of her deeper, more hidden emotions in her drawings and she didn't want people she knew superficially to see them. Right before I left for a study abroad program she shared her deviantart username with me so I could see her work. She had been very secretive about it until that point but she was academically very talented so naturally I was very curious to see what she was capable of.


What I found was some depressingly bland pictures of sad looking gothic lolitas. The art wasn't terrible, but it wasn't good either, just kind of in an uncanny valley middle where the facial anatomy and coloring and everything was just slightly off to be uncomfortable. Especially the faces, there was just something offputting about the faces, like they were just too chunky and generic.
I never asked about her art again.I wonder if she knew it was bad and that's why she never told anyone about it.

It's all still there in plain sight on deviantart though. I think her last update was in 2014.

 No.12893

>>12891
Some people just like to draw for the sake of drawing. There's something to be said for art that isn't "good" but you really pour your heart and soul into. I probably wouldn't tell anyone either, though.

 No.17696

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Do your daily chores; don't skip them.

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>>8788
Open your queue of ideas to implement, pick the first entry and work on it for a while. If such a queue is not present, make one with everything that you wish you were able to do and you believe it would be possible with enough of your time. Please make sure you spend more time working on the stuff present in the queue than on the queue itself.

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Just Do It ~ Nike, goddess of victory



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 No.17492[Reply]

anyone from minilauta.org here? RIP
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 No.17627

me

 No.18198

it got revived

 No.18225

good

 No.18234

I'm happy it got revived

 No.18267

kuin ikuinen



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 No.6973[Reply]

been feeling depressed lately, gonna sit in my roomu today just listening to music and drinking coffee and wait for it all to pass.
oh well, life goes on i guess
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 No.13464

>>12710
When I was learning Chinese I found that HelloTalk was a good language exchange app

 No.13813

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>>12710
i had met her through HelloTalk, however I met a lot of girls through the Japanese classes at the college I was going to at the time. more film pics for content

 No.13814

>>13464
>>13813
ironically we had broken up like a year after I started this thread feelsbadman

 No.17695

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>>6973
Walk and talk, man.
Don't give up totally.

 No.18232

Piano & Violin



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 No.16334[Reply]

i want to talk about egirl fashion. i really enjoy the vibrant colors and creativity of egirl makeup. also i like the outfits that egirls wear because i like the designs and they look very comfy to wear. i like womens fashion because of the diversity in it unlike mens fashion which is very boring. i love to hear your opinions on womens fashion
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 No.17825

>>16334
I found e-girl fashion interesting because I worked at a make-up store, so I kind of saw the behind the scene's of it. The aggressive use of make-up in e girl is a bit harder to pull off then the natural hidden makeup. If you're using a couple dots of concealer perfect color matching doesn't matter, but if you're smearing blush all over your face you will 100% notice if the pink's off.
Also e-girl fashion is interesting because it works best in picture's of short-form media with filters. No matter how hard skilled you are or how expensive your products are there is no hiding the fact that you have a crap ton of make-up, giga lashes, and a synthetic wig. All three of those things are blatant if you see them irl or without filters. This is a style needs a filter to smooth over the weird shine in synthetic wigs/over dyed hair, noticeable caking from to much blush, etc. Alongside that the make-up gets really melty if left on for more than 5 hours, so it has to be short form content.

 No.17835

There isn't an egirl fashion. Its just social media sludge, an inconsistent mix of random stuff pulled from other subcultures. So you have the aesthetic style of 2000s MySpace emo, elements of New Wave and Pop Punk, metal band shirts despite most egirls not being metalheads or references to anime, which aside from mainstream stuff, no egirl watches. The egirl is the ultimate corporate culture vulture. She follows whatever's popular and trending, a slave to the algorithm and the law of the market. What really creeps me out about egirl fashion is the lack of any real culture. When you see a metalhead covered in patches you know those patches mean something, they signal other metalheads and its a sign they're all part of a game, a common culture that gives what they do meaning. Egirls are the total opposite of this.

 No.17849

>>17835
Are you saying that egirls represent a strong nexus point of hyperreality? I think I'd be inclined to agree insofar as your representation is concerned.

 No.17981

>>17849
That's a good way of putting it. Egirls are aimless wanderers. They move from place to place, picking up the latest trending fad and dropping it again with little in the way of overall aesthetic or narrative consistency. Its hyperconsumerism pushed to its ultimate endpoint: where even the self is a commodity traded for likes and life is simply aimless wandering for the next faddish thing with the hope of increasing views, likes, and social capital. You consume the rebellious aesthetic of punk or metal without being really committed to it or even interested in it beyond superficial appearences. Its more what punk symbolized to society rather than what it actually was. Egirls are famatic consumers of signs. Even schizo nomads have community, some level of commitment to something other than self-presentation. Egirls are the ultimate aesthetic vampires. They aren't the only ones. They just stick out the most.

 No.18189

>>17981
That's prety cool tbh



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 No.10751[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

What are you thankful for today sushis?
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 No.18276

A breakfast sandwich with a nice cold glass of milk.

 No.18316

>>18228
I am proud of you!

 No.18657

>>10751
I'm thankful for kindness, for sunny days, and for having a body!

 No.19159

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I am thankful that I have never manipulated people into cutting themselves.
I am thankful I have never tried to extort or blackmail people for my own net gain
I am thankful I have never indulged in impersonating others out of spite.
I am thankful I have always been a transparent person for most of my life.
I am thankful for my mother who is now in heaven sadly enough, who has helped me and taught me a lot.
And I'm thankful I have learned to love myself enough to not indulge into people like that.
What I'm not thankful, is in who indulges in that and thinks he is in any shape or form to tell me how wrong I am. And then have the audacity to have some sort of high ground.
My only thankfulness there, is knowing that I'm better than that.

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I considered my own solitary style of living, as well as my niche hobbies, and it's in this that I found myself being thankful for the presence of my roommate.
He's hardly the ideal, he's pretty much a hoodrat struggling through life. But, his presence, even when he needs help a lot, helps ground me a to my own humanity, rather than becoming a total escapist. He reminds me of my better impulses as a person, giving me plenty of opportunity to exercise them in fact, as well as reminded me that it is natural for people to be imperfect, to be weak at times, to even be coarse and abrasive. It trains my compassion, give me opportunity to see the Golden Rule work in action, it's pretty nice all things considered.



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 No.10778[Reply]

Hey, I need some advice. I can't do anything I want to do (even simple things) because I am very uncomfortable. I'm not sure how to explain it. It's just a permanent feeling of physical discomfort. Even staying in bed is painful.
What do?
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 No.17094

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Stick to a schedule

 No.17095

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pray

 No.17141

>>17095
What am I praying for?

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>>14437
>>17141
Pray for the reckoning

 No.17910

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>>10778
Atomic Habits. Tiny changes snowball into dramatic transformations. So long as you desire it and give yourself the room to fail then you can.

Too many people are afraid to try and fail, but failure is life's greatest teacher. So give yourself the room to try and to fail because through the process of trying again and again you will learn, you will grow, and you will be transformed. Celebrate however far you've come, and let yourself try just a little more each time. Love yourself and love the process, knowing that with each strike you take you will eventually level a whole mountain! So don't ever be afraid to try, only to have never tried at all. This needs to be said, because too many people limit themselves with negative self-talk and define themselves in static terms. Picture related.

>>14437
This can be helpful, but again don't be too strict on yourself and remember that life is a process of continuous growth and transformation. You must love yourself, give yourself permission to try, and just do the best you can. You may be able to get close to the green, but don't beat yourself up if you fail to because no one is perfect. I don't always eat healthy, I don't always sleep "optimally", I don't always focus well, but I do stay curious, seek to learn, and believe that I can try.

Have a great life sushi~ <3



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