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[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Some of the students I tutored are graduating and one of them wants to become a PhD because of me apparently. So that was cool to find out.

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

That's amazing! Congrats on being an inspiration :D

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 4 points 11 months ago

That's really nice! Feels great to have a positive impact on others

[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

That’s wonderful!!

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago
[–] betheydocrime@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's awesome! What did you tutor them in?

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Primarily chemistry but they also required help with biology, physics and math.

[–] betheydocrime@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How did you get started tutoring?

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 months ago

Announcement: I'm trying a weekly post rather than daily ones so that people can keep interacting longer. Let's see how it goes, if it's a failure, we'll go back to the previous version.

[–] betheydocrime@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good afternoon y’all! It’s been a beautiful day for me so far. I’m having to work a little bit harder than I expected at my job, but my job is easy even on the worst of days so I’m not too upset about it. Thankfully, my sister is home to help out with my dog! She gave him a bath then walked him out to see me at work as a surprise.

I put in a PTO request for a vacation last night, and it’s my first time ever doing something like that. Tbh I thought I would never get that privilege, I’m very lucky to have stumbled into the job I have now

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] betheydocrime@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It has been so far! We're probably going to watch Foundation tonight, have you seen it?

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago
[–] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just got glasses! And Mexican foods! Yaaaywheeeee! wigglespins happily and see-ily!!
Apparently everycritter must know! does a goofy lil dance, shares noms :3

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

Good to see you are happy!

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

Had a good amount of sleep, sometimes I forget how important that is.

[–] betheydocrime@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

My sister can be so cool and so thoughtful some times, and so childish and so controlling and so passive aggressive at other times. It can be very frustrating at times to live with her, but I also know that she's probably a better roommate than I might get otherwise, and that it can probably be frustrating to live with me at times too.

She hasn't always been like this, she had a stroke a few years ago and either the stroke itself or the experience of having the stroke had a pretty big effect on her personality. She also spends all day scrolling reddit, and I think she's kinda been taken in by their "every conversation is a competition with a winner and a loser" mindset (and I think that because I realize reddit trained me to think in the same way and I'm trying hard to de-brainwash myself).

Sorry for the vaguepost, I just kinda needed to get my thoughts straight and vent a little bit. How are y'all doing tonight? Anyone got anything cool planned for the weekend?

[–] frozenmolar 3 points 11 months ago

It's been busy weeks, need to finish a bunch of stuff at work, hopefully can get it done before I go for holidays!

[–] SlimeKnight@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So I was yesterday at a government waiting lobby. The stereotype for this places is to have crying children. The was no crying child, but there was a woman loudly watching videos of crying children.

It was kinda funny in a cosmic sense. Still, rather baffling.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

What? That's so strange ha ha

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Good, been watching Lord of the Rings.

Party Gimli

[–] betheydocrime@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I agreed to work an extra shift today, and the event we're hosting parking for is a Scientology event. I swear, one of them hissed at me as I rode my bike past them

[–] Elaine@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I like the daily post format better. This way I have to re-read all the comments to find what’s new.

[–] betheydocrime@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I kinda agree, and posting a new top-level comment when I was the last top-level comment from two days ago kinda amplifies the void

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

Interesting, thanks for sharing. We'll probably open a dedicated thread about this topic, but personal life is a bit busy at the moment so it might be in January

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Interesting, thanks for sharing. We'll probably open a dedicated thread about this topic, but personal life is a bit busy at the moment so it might be in January