#great instructor

[ffcrazy15]

"Oh so when James Kirk refuses to believe in no-win scenarios it's 'changing the conditions of the test' and 'commendable original thinking,' but when I, Bradward Boimler, can't accept the possibility of failure and retake the Kobiyashi Maru sixteen times–"

#lower decks #star trek lower decks #brad boimler #in my headcanon his first performance wasn't *great* but he did technically pass #but by refusing to accept that he hadn't beat the test and insisting on retaking it he turned his pass into a fail #and he *kept* retaking it until the instructor point-blank told him that there was no way to beat the program #And that the whole point was to experience personal failure #And *even then* Boims was like “so you mean by failing I actually HAVEN'T failed at all!” #“No that's not– ugh you know what sure. Gold star kid. Just get out of my office." ”Did I get an A+?“ ”OUT!“ #Completely missed the point of the exam and they basically pity-passed him after the seventeenth try #Mariner on the other hand already knew what the point of the test was ahead of time #(She didn't cheat she was still a goody-two-shoes at this point) (An older classmate or friend happened to mention it around her) #But she *did* think it was a bullshit test and just pretended to be humbled and accept defeat in order to get a good grade #She doesn't believe in no-win scenarios either #It's part of what makes them a good team

[chemblrish]

23 February 2024

First week of the semester went well! I enjoyed myself a lot more than I worried thought. I made a new friend, had fun in ochem lab (and afterwards lol), sent a scary email + made a scary phone call, and studied a little. Seems it won't be an easy semester but that's fine, I can do hard things :)

#all my new profs seem great too which is always a relief #my pchem lab instructors are absolutely hilarious and it's clear they're good friends so that's fun :)) #mine #studyblr #chemblr #studyspo #study motivation #chemistry #stemblr #sciblr

[feralgirlfeelings]

thinking of writing some zayne x reader smut with some dirty talk in chinese :333

#ty to my ex who was a great...language instructor #zayne love and deepspace #zayne x reader #zayne #zayne smut

[zmorowanie]

wip of jules albert teaching nico how to drive They Argue A Lot

#this is in honor of me getting my drivers license #can you tell i disliked my instructor #btw i think nico just would learn how to drive just so he could say he can do it #'yeah i can drive' 'great can you pick us up then' 'no' let him be mean #i dont think he would actually drive around #by himself i mean #drivings tiring drivings hard #why do that if you have a cool skeleton chauffer #ang's art

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

~ Dancing Noodle Boys ~

Bonus:

#this reminds me of that 'Toddlerography' segment from the James Corden show #where Fred is the 'adult' in the dance class and Wes is the toddler dance instructor #and the way Wes keeps looking at Sam while he's dancing like he's trying to make one of the Buckingham Palace Royal Guards crack #and John was holding down the fort with that great beat #that was a cute and fun intro to Faith and it made me wanna dance too while watching it #funny how the same band that can make ya Break Stuff can also make ya wanna wiggle your hips and shimmy your shoulders #Limp Bizkit #nu metal #Fred Durst #Wes Borland #Sam Rivers #John Otto #down the rabbit hole

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

hello! as a celebration of me finally getting my driving license (shoutout to my instructor, he is an absolute saint and has forever changed my perspective on cars and car nerds), i thought i'd ask about your opinion on the cars my family owns — the Škoda Fabia I (the specific one we have is a combi from late 2004. slowly perishing, mainly of rust) and Kia Cee'd (2013??). is there anything remarkable about these two?

Ah, the Ceed, as Kia cowardly renamed it in 2018, in a decision I deliberately reject as I keep on referring to it as Cee apostrophe d, as Top Gear liked to call the earlier model they gave celebrities to go try to get themselves killed on tape, Tom Cruise getting the closest because of course it would be him.

Notice how nary an ounce of steering was given up whatsoever. Man was just balancing the car with the throttle in the true racing driver spirit of "If I die I die and if I don't this'll be a good time".

However, this is a bit of a sidetrack, as that's not your car - that'll be one o' deez, which whether as a 5 door...

...station wagon...

...or its bafflingly named coupe version (Pro_Cee'd????)...

...looks sharp as a goddamn tack in my books. In fact, wanna know how that's not just cheap flattery? That station wagon was actually the car I was pushing for our family to get when ours needed changing! Life didn't grace us with the opportunity, however, and so we ended up replacing our grey Citroën Picasso MPV with another (the ole' Xsara Picasso to C4 Picasso pipeline) which served us decently over a couple years before developing woes and getting passed on to family friends more willing to deal with them. Weird car, that C4 Picasso. Most of the steering wheel didn't turn.

Now, you may ask why those French folx would do that. And the answer is in the word French. I can just imagine the designers asking feedback about the handbrake and getting all giddy as they look at them struggle to figure out where it is. Actually, go on, you try!

Wait, wait, we're once again getting sidetracked, we've still not addressed the Fabia! And that's a crime, because it was a hugely important car for Škoda: as Volkswagen's involvement with the company had turned from shareholder to owner its involvement in the cars had turned from help to codevelopment, making the Fabia a humongous departure from Škodas of old. However, for the latest Octavia, no closer to those hunksajunk, the rave reviews had been no match against Škoda's brand image, which was so terrible that even Wikipedia feels comfortable saying they were laughing stocks.

So for the Fabia, Škoda turned to marketing agency Fallon London for a very bold advertising campaign. So bold in fact that I didn't even stumble into it through my passion for cars, but through my study of marketing. And it's so simple you could miss it. (...it's in the lower right.)

This simple idea, and how hard they doubled down on it...

...completely turned Skoda's fortunes around, in a brand repositioning so successful that all of Fallon's Škoda-related ads received awards. Including this one.

That's not even an ad for Škoda. That's an ad for themselves.

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#i've heard great things about the spaciousness of the Fabia wagon #also sorry for making you wait well over a month - see one of my last posts about why #anyhow so cool you got your license!!! how's it going? and please do tell us about the instructor! #kia cee'd #skoda fabia #skoda octavia #the great catchup

[l00k4tm4m45c415]

Caroline Girvan

#caroline girvan #fitness instructor #online personalities #great arms #washboard abs #muscle lady

[essektheylyss]

After stalling for a week your bitch is ALMOST back to being excessively ahead on classwork. Goddammit.

#REALLY what i need is to finish this one fucking programming assignment so i can move onto the later stuff #i mean i already moved onto the later readings cuz i needed it to do a thing i wanted in this assignment (by instructor suggestion) #but if i finish it then i can jump right to the next assignment which would be great. #I do also need to do 7 readings for a different class. it's fine. it's cool. that's pretty simple. #i can finish all of that tonight right #(to be clear this is a joke) #however i AM done with literally everything I'm possibly able to do for my copyright course which is very exciting #hoping to get to that point with my other courses soon. unfortunately for programming that means finishing the damn thing. #megs vs mlis

[tectoniccyborg]

My latest storyboarding assignment!! We needed to do an interaction of more than 2 characters and had a choice of a South Park or Extras audio clip so I went for the little ladies of course

#south park #sp #south park wendy #south park heidi #wendy testaburger #heidi south park #it’s not great but you know what it’s finished so hopefully my instructor doesn’t think it’s too bad :)

[striderepiphany]

I know I’m getting older because “secretly very knowledgeable about politics” has become a compelling character headcanon to me

#Richie tozier genuinely enjoyed his community college polsci class #but got kicked out because he kept tormenting his peers. and the instructor #he goes on podcasts and Twitter rants #and people are like. aren’t you that moms pussy joke guy #he gets a lot of ‘devastating: the worst person you know just made a great point’ #in response to his takes

[oldmanffucker]

I have fics in progress of:

Wilson hearing house jerking it to porn circa s6

Fellows & hilson happy hour ceramics class

Hilson first-kiss by shotgunning a joint :)

#first and last inspired by tumblr posts #middle inspired by me being a happy house ceramics instructor and wishing they were in my class #happy hour*but what a great fruedian tho #text post #house md #house #fac #my post

[bookwyrminspiration]

YOURE PLANNING ON MINORING IN LINGUISTICS??? TELL MR HOW IT GOES BC IM CONSIDERING IT AS WELL

also what languages are you learning atm 👀

I AM DOING IT CURRENTLY!!! It's so much fun I haven't had this much fun doing such specific, concrete work (as opposed to the no right answer theoretical discussions in english classes) in YEARS. I got legitimately SAD this afternoon because there was like a timing error with the homework file from today and I can't access it yet. like I have genuinely wished the assignments were longer because i'm just!!! language!!! and my dad's also studying linguistics but a few classes ahead of me, and sometimes i sit next to him while he does his homework and i'm just like. wow. I can't wait till I know how to do that that looks like so much fun <3

I'm not very far into it, but everything so far has been so incredibly appealing to my interests. IPA and IPA transcription, how each sound is produced and where in the mouth, how language is acquired, what makes human languages different from animal, how words are formed, how they change over time, the development/relationship to writing, region and social variation. It's literally studying the concept and function of language itself! like the core of every other language you've learned!

also currently my focus is on Nahuatl! that's the one I'm actively taking classes for at the moment--i'm on the second semester. though because it's taught in spanish I'm also brushing up heavily on spanish via necessity. nicamati nimomachtiaz ceyoc tlahtolli :)

#quil's queries #that-glasses-dog #can't guarantee that grammar is 100% in the last sentence #but it's supposed to say I like to study other languages #anyway yeah 100% do a linguistics minor if you love language could not recommend enough I'm having the time of my LIFE in that class #also helps the instructor's great but I can't speak for you on that regard #every day I show up like tee hee words and such <3

[pepprs]

halfway thru my first drivers ed session. idk if i can do this aftually lol

#purrs #there’s like 30+ ppl in the class and most of them are high schoolers who already have like at least 20-30 hrs and i have 3. also the #instructor is really nice and means well but she is also a little clueless and she embarrassed me in front of everyone (or maybe i #embarrassed myself) bc she had us all introduce ourselves and say what we like to do and i said play video games and she was like oh are you #a bit of a gamer 👀 have you been to any of those conventions. LIKE 💀😭 NO I JUST PLAY SILLY LITTLE PET GAMES….. #but ajyways um. i don’t have enough driving experience to start behind the wheel lessons yet 💀💀💀💀💀 and we r watching videos rn and it’s so s #scary like istill have such trouble even maneuvering the car around how am isupposed to develop situational awareness and be driving on high #hihways and shit. this is so overwhelming. it’s like ‘every moment ur behind the wheel u and the ppl around u are at risk’ well idont want t #to be at risk or risk others lives. but also i need to move out. help 💔💖 #anyways this class has INSANELY long breaks (like 15+ mins thank god) and we might be able to end early every day too so. fingers crossed it #wont be that bad and i’ll actually retain stuff and learn to drive fucking finally. but im so scared #also on thursday we are watching a video depicting a graphic c*r cr*sh so. that’s just fucking great #drivers ed tag

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Month 3, day 1

Once again, I haven't gone to bed yet, it's still the day I started working on this! :P

Still following the snowman tutorial, this time I had to do a bunch of troubleshooting with renders because even though the scarf is supposed to look all fuzzy now, it wasn't doing that, like, at all, even though I followed the tutorial steps down to the 100th decimal on settings. So that took an hour and I'm still not convinced it looks right, but I'll fuck with it tomorrow. ... "Tomorrow" meaning "sometime after I wake up" lol

#the great artscapade of 2024 #art #my art #blender #blender 3d #blender render #cycles render #I think the main problem is a hardware difference #something about the way my computer (Mac) processes things must be different enough from the instructor (Windows) to make a difference #either that or I modeled the scarf all wrong and I'll have to redo it again... again lol #I think what I'll do is up the samples for a better image and let that run while I sleep #not that I think it'll take all night #this render only took... eight minutes? I think? #but I don't want to stay up any longer than I already have I have to get my sleep schedule back on track since I go back to work on Monday #so overnight rendering it shall be

[kai-ni]

Can't articulate to ya'll the sheer joy it brings my soul to be behind the controls. To FLY.

Just wish it didn't cost so much lol

#man is truly wild inventing flying machines #anyway I had a great lesson #my instructor deadass was like getting close to soloing! #me: hah. NO #also me: and i huh. i wuh #kai flies #aviation

[nat-20s]

Ooo baby guess who's gonna fill out the form for a different job this evening

#nats job diary #lifeguarding isnt like. BAD but swim instructor seems soooo much fucking nicer #not having to work an 8.5 hour shift with only MAYBE 15 (closer to ten) minutes breaks sounds great #also my manager was like you didn't fill out this form i told you about at orientation #and i was just like oh okay #even tho i was. not told about that form even slightly