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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39345 on: November 03, 2011, 09:34:03 pm »

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39346 on: November 03, 2011, 10:19:10 pm »

No, but we go on plenty of tangents around here.

If you must have sadness... uh... I have to go do work now? Today's pretty happy. I'll go back to the other thread now.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39347 on: November 03, 2011, 10:28:57 pm »

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39348 on: November 03, 2011, 10:30:28 pm »

No, you're fine, it's just a conspiracy to put people in a yogurt-eating depression.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39349 on: November 03, 2011, 10:35:23 pm »

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39350 on: November 03, 2011, 10:41:01 pm »

Still feeling surprisingly bad. As I said earlier in the thread, a friend-cum-enemy committed suicide on 2/11/11. I say friend-cum-enemy because at times we were jocular and friendly, and other times just about to kill one another. I was better friends with his brother, a gentle giant who is a vegan. :P
It's the first time someone I know has done anything like that, so it's hit me hard. I know how bad he would've felt, as I went through a period of serious depression and at my lowest point I considered suicide, however when tallying up what was keeping me here and what wasn't, the good stuff won out.

But this whole incident has gotten worse. Trolls have descended on the 'RIP Creeky' page and mocked him... I heartily disapproved of it when it affects others, but when it affects people I know, I want to rip the trolls' collective balls off and shove them in their face to show how little spirit they have that they feed on people's grief.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39351 on: November 03, 2011, 10:46:54 pm »

At Activia, our motto is "You can't crap if you don't feel like crap."  x3   It did briefly lighten my mood, when I realized how silly it is.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39352 on: November 04, 2011, 12:33:18 am »

I need better socks for work. All this walking around has given me a blister. I already had one actually, but it had ceased to hurt. I got a new one today, and it's so close to the old that I can reasonably say that my blister literally has a blister.

On the plus side, blister is a fun word to say.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39353 on: November 04, 2011, 09:58:09 am »

Took a nap that was supposed to refresh me enough so i can eagerly study tonight, after around an hour i feel even crappier than before :I
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« Reply #39354 on: November 04, 2011, 11:50:26 am »

Why does everyone keep night-killing me in the early game in mafia nowadays ;_;
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« Reply #39355 on: November 04, 2011, 02:16:43 pm »

TL;DR I'm feeling completely defeated. I don't know how much further I am willing to pursue my education before it's more sensible to cut my losses, drop my old dreams, and go do something else with the other 2/3s of the life I ideally have left.


I had to put school on hold about a year ago, because the Financial Aid I was receiving wasn't covering my living expenses, and I was making payments on a car to replace the old one which was destroyed in an accident a few months before that. I had a messy withdrawal, and by the end of the semester some of these ended up as E's instead of Withdrawals. Despite meeting with the Ombudsman, Financial Aid, Registration, Student Advising, and so on, they apparently couldn't retroactively withdraw courses unless I had been hospitalized for a physical or mental reason that semester. As a result, I wound up on Academic Probation.

It's a Catch-22... I need Financial Aid in order to be able to afford to register for classes, but I need to register to retake all the courses I didn't properly withdraw from before I can get off of Academic Probation and start receiving Financial Aid again. As a result, I took a 2 semester work-hiatus, saving up by working multiple jobs, to pay for the classes out of pocket.

This afternoon, just as I was getting ready to sign up for the Winter Semester, I find a hold preventing me from signing up for classes. 6k of last semester's Financial Aid was uncredited after it had been used to pay the tuition for all the courses I got E's instead of Withdrawals for. This turned into 6k of debt, which I wasn't informed of until I tried to register. Since it had been unpaid, this debt has since been sold to a collections agency. I've got to take it up with them before I can register now.

It's like every time I seem to have taken care of the problems I face, just as my head pokes out of the hole I was stuck in after months and months of climbing, I discover that that hole just lay in the bottom of an even bigger hole all along. Though likely just depression, pushing myself forward has always been hard; on the positive side, that effort has made me more adept at emotionally dealing with disappointment. Still, there is a limit to my strength of will and tenacity. I'm getting dangerously close to it.

I want to blame the fiscal and familial situation I was born to, and a good part of it was due to mistakes and personal weakness... but I don't think that, at this rate, I will ever be able to earn the degrees I want to. I can't see a way forward, but if I give this up I'm going to need to reassess a lot about my life, and where I'm going. I really don't know what to do, and I feel like I've been generally defeated by life.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39356 on: November 04, 2011, 02:50:29 pm »

Don't give up
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« Reply #39357 on: November 04, 2011, 03:38:45 pm »

Keep going, Soli.


You want to know why I didn't get an A+ on my logic exam?

( ) <- one pair of these: worth 2 points
Multiple times in one problem I should have written ∃instead of ∀: worth 7 points despite making it very clear that I should have written the other thing based on my side statements
Didn't notice applicable genius to another part of a problem: worth between 4 and 9 points
Wrote "formulas" instead of "sentences," despite saying "sentences" later: 2 points

Number of points I received on the exam: 25/50
Number of points I needed in addition to that to get a "you are great, have an A or more:" 5.

Number of points lost due to minor error, rather than any great lack of understanding: probably around 20.

Still, I did manage to get one of the higher grades in the class.  More than half of the class got less than 15 points, which is frankly just embarrassing.


Oh, and it was a very similar situation with the set theory exam, as well.  If I'd said "0 = " on that exam, or "thanks to the recursion theorem," or "maximal" rather than "maximum" in the right places, I would have honest-to-goodness gotten an A.  Any two of the three, and I would have been in the realm of A+.

I find this incredibly depressing.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39358 on: November 04, 2011, 03:40:16 pm »

Reminds me of the BS reasons my high school maths teacher used to fail me in a statistics exam. (She hated me with a vengeance. I had gotten all the answers right)
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39359 on: November 04, 2011, 03:42:44 pm »

Yeah getting a 15/35 when it could have easily been a 25/35 or even 30/35 is frustrating.

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