lucy
snr ui/ux designer (among us, stray gods, king of the castle etc.) ◆ illustrator, dev, musician. ffxiv enjoyer.
work: www.lucyamorris.com ◆ art: www.instagram.com/knitebrite ◆ ffxiv: https://bsky.app/profile/atoastedbun.bsky.social
- treated myself to existential crisis ditto to cheer up
- he multiplies
- dreams shattered. feeling awful. i wish i had studied this instead of what i did originally when i left high school but the intense pressure to pick anything and get a degree before i even knew who i was was crushing. now trying to retrain in my 30s it seems impossible unless you have mad money
- i asked student support what others in my situation have done to study and keep working with a timetable that changes every week and she said 'i dunno, they never complain so i guess they all figured it out. we've never had this issue'. so now i also feel like a moron
- also got told to assume 'i'd be busy tuesday to friday' which they know i can't because i ENROLLED. PART TIME.
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View full threadim going to go stare at the sky for a while
- universities are usability nightmares. i have no idea how i did this when i was 18
- i have no idea how i taught at one for two years
- so far: - have spent 2 months trying to enrol because i'm (the first??) part-time & no-one could handle it - paid $150 to have my previous Hons. credits reviewed so i don't have to do 'beginner' academic writing again. they still haven't reviewed it but invoiced me for the paper lol
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View full threadi might have to withdraw because of this and that's devastating
- the competition is fierce but i think elon musk may be the most pathetic human ever to have lived on this planet
- unpopular take: school holiday length is still based around the concept of a nuclear family with a ft stay at home parent, especially in nz
- it's wild that kids finished primary mid dec and are still not back at school until the second week of feb??? again nz with the 'let's just pretend a quarter of the year doesn't exist'
- if you're a solo parent, how are you supposed to work?? unlikely you can afford childcare or holiday programs too, unless you're rich and a longer holiday is like 'oh neat another two weeks on the yacht'
- and before the argument 'don't have kids' is brought up, circumstances change either custodial or financial that then make your situation incompatible with us just deleting a quarter of the year
