#Personal Tuition

[bixels]

The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.

#also idk how to tell you this but even if it were true. wealthy children potentially sacrificing their educational careers to protest is #a good thing actually. idk how to tell you that caring about people from other nations is good #personal #“this war has nothing to do with most students cuz nobody's getting drafted” idk how to explain to you that we should be angry #that our tuitions of 10s of thousands of dollars that we pay every year for an education is being used to fund a genocidal campaign #also the implication that if you go to a uni institution you are automatically privileged by participation no matter your bg #i didn't /want/ to go to this school. i was supposed to go to a school with an art/animation program. but i realized my immigrant #parents have been working their whole lives to get me here. and turning the opportunity down would be a disservice to their sacrifice #this is getting into convos of “what 2nd gen kids owe their parents” which is different for everyone but. yeah #i just get pissed off at seeing people misrepresenting student bodies as “wealthy” and “privileged” and “elite” when it's such a blatant li #i remember a year ago a friend told me they can't fly home to hong kong for winter break because the plane tickets are too expensive #so they have to find temporary housing around the area #last quarter for a film doc class my film partner made a doc on a small group of marxist grad students from india discussing praxis #during a rally a few months ago in response to police presence the coalition invited palestinian students to speak about their experiences #and lead songs and read poems they wrote. these are STUDENTS. are they elitist too? #this is not to disregard my own personal privilege either. #this whole narrative's just to rationalize a lack of empathy to me. seeing a 19yo student get shot by a rubber bullet and your first #reaction is “HAW! HAW! bet richy rich didn't see THAT coming when she put on her terrorist hood!” #newsflash. these big uni campuses are HAUNTED by the violence of past protests and revolutions and police brutality. we know. #why do you think these coalitions have been making reinforced barricades at record speed

[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

[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

[frobisher-smythe]

thinking about how eddie said he saw kt in his dreams and all of sibuna immediately thought it was a shit pick up attempt when they knew these bitches Literally hear voices in the walls like ???

#personally I would’ve believed eddie #I’d be like damn which ghost is it this time #mine #hoa #house of anubis #eddie miller #kt rush #sibuna #also soz for coming on here every six months with a random thought #in a surprising turn of events I’ve decided to go back to school and am grinding to make them tuition payments

[blueskittlesart]

it’s a good thing that zine is selling well tbh because i just had to spend TEN DOLLARS to print 3 pieces of standard size matte cardstock for my fucking illustration crit tomorrow. what the hell

#$3 per print is INSANE for a school that requires printed illustrations for crit. sorry #i love art school but really considering how much tuition i pay you’d think they could afford to give us a free fucking printer #personal

[anotherrosesthatfell]

Well I am in the hospital now but I can't stay since my parents are out to overseas (image going to a vacation leaving your children alone 💀)

#no longer the guardian #undertale au #who say terminally ill person can't draw #killer sans #dream sans #passive nightmare sans #corrupted nightmare sans #June Keira #July Keira #I drew this at tuition 💀 #wattpad #ao3 #story #lazy art #decembertale #december

[qqueenofhades]

Briefly lost my mind and considered doing a second PhD last night -- which, we can agree, is quite probably the worst idea I have ever had.

#hilary for ts #school stuff #i was in bed but i did the mental equivalent of sitting down until the thought went away #but the university i work at offers tuition waivers for faculty + staff #and has a top ranked international studies program that would work well with my history + current events + international politics interests #i just. i thought about it all right. #because i am exactly the kind of person who emerges from that and goes hmm. that was awful. we should do it again.

[thevioletcaptain]

whoever stole my account information in order to spend $127 on [checks notes] roku purchases, i hope you have incurable hangnails on every finger and toe for the rest of your shitty life.

#does that seem disproportionate? #i promise it's not #because my former manager decided that me being in australia dealing with my dad's death #and me attempting to contact said manager about a dozen times and getting no response #and then me opening multiple HR tickets and getting NO RESPONSE #equates to me ''abandoning my position'' #so i currently have no income and only $43 to my name since someone decided my broke ass was a good candidate for theft #plus because of all the fraudulent charges i had to lock my account #which had the utterly ridiculous and undisclosed effect of not only blocking charges to my account but CREDITS #which means that when i decided to make a sensible mental health decision #and withdrew from the class i was taking this quarter so that i could give myself time to grieve #with the intention of enrolling in the same class next quarter instead #the tuition refund got blocked #and is now just like. hanging in no mans land. #so i can't enroll in the class for next quarter yet because i can't access the money i intended to use for it #and the classes only have space for 15 students #and it's going to take 7-10 days for the bank to issue my new card and for my account to be functional #so now i've got a new thing to be stressed about #when i was specifically trying to give myself a break from stress #so yeah i hope the person who stole from me has a shit day forever #hope they get little bits of egg shell in everything they eat #and that they can always faintly smell dog poop as if they stepped in it but can never find the source #cass says things

[caimitos]

saw a post about projecting your ethnicity onto a character and started missing vespa ilkay. so so bad

#pov u grow up in a 3rd world country(/planet) where healthcare workers are exported by the thousands like cheap produce to richer countries #it's your ticket out of poverty as long as you can deal with the loneliness the separation from everyone you know the discrimination etc #ive never talked about my hc that vespas mother was one of them sending money every month visiting every couple of years until it just stop #like why return to the swamps when youre doing fine working on a richer planet w much better living conditions #cost of living rises every year. sending home a % of your salary used to be enough to support your husband and daughter and then it isnt #you know how it goes #vespa is also dead set on this path until ranga realizes that hemorrhaging healthcare workers leaves them with little to none of their own #students on scholarships or in community/state universities are bound by return service agreements and are forbidden to leave the country #until theyve rendered a few years of work on ranga to pay back their tuition + as a really shitty solution to the brain drain problem #this is real in my country btw but my professors say a lot of ppl do break their rsa's and fucked off to work in other countries LOL #our state unis can barely afford decent facilities they do nottt have the budget to chase down their own alumni in other countries! #but the mental image is a bit funny #vespa ilkays first crime: tinakasan ang rsa #i do also think it lines up with her having a network of med friends everywhere in the galaxy (heart of it all) you kind of go into pre/med #expecting most of your classmates to leave to work in other countries eventually. mine are aiming for the usa / uae / europe / japan etc #anyway whether vespa breaks her rsa or not she leaves ranga asap decides to switch careers and the rest is history #i also deeply love the fact that she's superstitious i'm very sad it wasn't highlighted more (i've only heard s1-3) #as someone who did grow up in a rural area and went to more albularyos/folk healers than doctors in my childhood. (they never failed me) #lots of folk illnesses (ex. balis; pasma) local medical superstitions (dont eat noodles in hospital; youll have a really toxic shift) etcc #theres also a lot of potential in tying her past as a rangian + med student + assassin to me idk how to word this properly #being raised on cautionary tales of not to touch/disturb anything in the swamps then being given free reign to poke & prod at things in her #lab classes (now with the proper ppe)....she was having so much fun with the curemother prime too lmao #years of walking hanging bridges docks boathouses in ranga etc gave her great balance & stealth #cracking open alien shellfish in the swamps to cutting open bodies for studying then for assassination.... #I MISS HER SO MUCH BALIK KN SAKEN 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #i get why most people + the canon focuses on her being an assassin bc people find that cooler i guess #but vespa being a swamp girl > 3rd world med student > assassin is so personal To Me. the whole pipeline. eugh. #skl.txt

[dreamertrilogys]

i wish i was american so bad rn specifically so i could have more uni choices without having to pay intl tuition…like there’s approx 3 cities in this whole country imagine if i could go to california instead. i’d be so happy (<- delusional, lying, simultaneously also 100% NOT lying)

#.txt #guys what if i did my masters in california. or australia. literally the world’s my oyster (insane person behaviour) #actually nvm i just looked it up why the fuck is there such little diff in out of state vs international tuition. and why is the jump from #in-state to out of state so fucking massive. i forgor the us operates on such an uncohesive basis state by state i mean #uni

[bulletsxlattes]

I'm still BLOWN away at how much of a coincidence it was that I went for an interview at JK comic book school ... idk around 2009, i took my portfolio with a comic i made of Robin vs. Robin fighting each other on gotham rooftops only to have batman interrupt and force them to stop. To then, months later, read Red Robin #14 on the stands and see a very similar fight. 😂 I guess my line of thinking at the time was very similar to what the writers were going for. Cause it never left my mind for years how similar it was. I was very, very young at the time, so I had a range of emotions but mostly confusion (and ok, maybe a hint of anger because I avoided Red Robin and Tim). These days, I suppose I was just in tune with them. And maybe I needed a bit more confidence in my ideas since professionals had similar ones. It took me years to appreciate tim as a character and sit down and finally enjoy Red Robin.

But look, Im only thinking about this because I lost a bid to buy all the Red Robin issues. I hate u random person who made it go all the way to 132 dollars. Yesterday, it was 46 dollars. U dick.

#personal post #i had some character growth ok? but im still angy at that one guy who bid too high #I should probably add here that I was accepted to the school with my portfolio and all. but I never got around to attending because #a medical emergency had me hospitalized and having no insurance made me spend all the money I saved for tuition on the medical bill instead #dude I never recovered emotionally from that

[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

[spooky-dice]

“fhjy is not sad” some of us are lonely and in tuition deficit!!!!!!!!!!!!

#dimension 20 #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #the way my guts curdled throughout the episode!! this shit is Not broke and depressed college kid friendly!!!!! #(really like what they’re doing it’s just hurting me personally) #they’re so me when i pay my rent and ignore another email about my tuition overdues and i eat a sad meal cause i can’t afford good food #nor do i have the energy to make any. and i feel like none of my friends will love me forever. and i want my parents.

[cyberdragoninfinity]

always thinking fondly about college AU 'pre-canon timeline' Aster and Sartorius, long time besties hanging around downtown Chicago or in the van Sarotorius and his sister have been living in and out of for the last couple years. Neither of them in school cuz Sartorius dropped out and Aster likes to spite his shithead foster dad by just not going (and he can self teach himself a much more advanced education, duh 🙄). The Kumar kids make a better family for him anyway.

#ygo posting #ygo spinoff college au #i like themmm part of why aster moves from chicago to NL is to follow sartorius after HE moves to go help serena with her tuition #what they dont tell you about elaborate AU crafting is you will be havin TIMELINES you will spawning LENGTHY personal histories #and it RULES

[kdsburneraccount]

Pepperdine men’s basketball team did something crazy is now a good time to say I almost ended up going there for college

#random kdsburneraccount lore drop there #relieved i did not bc its six hours away from home and the tuition is expensive #but that happened #if you want more details ask away #i took a tour of the campus and had to wake up at like 3 am to drive there #basketball #ncaa basketball #personal #kind of

[brookiidookiii]

the reason genderbent jo sucks is bc hed be a carbon copy of every single other misogynistic total drama man which we need less of not more

literallyyyyy

i think if jo were a joe people would be more sympathetic to him tbh. which really sucks. hed be a man insecure in his masculinity who takes it out on the other women around him, blehhh

and i say people would be more sympathetic because everyone feels bad for brick "aww hes a guy that likes fashion and is embarrassed about it poor guy" (personally i dont even think his interest in fashion is even that deep as the fandom makes it out to be,,,). joe would be a man who secretly wants to enjoy feminine things without judgement and everyone would sympathize with him.

#ask #personally i think bricks embarrassment about fashion in ep6 comes down to the fact that hes bad at fashion #bc we see how he gave the yeti a bad outfit which made it angrier. then cried in the confessional and said he'll never touch fashion again #or maybe the reason he didnt go to fashion school could be a money issue. a lot of military academies pay for your tuition if you make it i #sorry for a bit of a tangent lol