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13421981:*DUMBCAN* said:
thanks for your worthless link...so your class rank is at 65%?? which translates to upper second UK rank...your looking at 3.0-3.33 GPA
good for you
http://www.fulbright.org.uk/pre-departure/academics/marks
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thanks for your worthless link...so your class rank is at 65%?? which translates to upper second UK rank...your looking at 3.0-3.33 GPA
good for you
http://www.fulbright.org.uk/pre-departure/academics/marks
*DUMBCAN*
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13421937:cddlswthsqrrls said:
Idk why that was cut short... Anything below a 70 is failing. It depends on if the grade is curved though. English usually isn't, but when I took Evo Bio the class average was a 35% and it was curved about 50 percentage points. So a 35% ended up being a B. Kinda an extreme case but most of my classes are curved so that the average grade is around a B- to B. Sometimes it doesn't really what your grade is. What matters is where you fall compared to other people.
13421957:406 said:
You sir are ignorant as fuck. Grading schemes are different for every country. (in britain, including oxford and cambridge which happen to be some of the most prestigious universities in the world, 70% and above is a first which counts as a 4.0 or an A)
Also, those GPA conversion calculators aren't an exact science as it usually varies depending on who's counting (my marks were counted differently when I applied to different universities in canada)
Blindsurfer
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towels should be absorbent and waterproof at the same time
connecticunt
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More of a sad rant but a rant nonetheless.
My mom has a ton of shit planned tomorrow for Mother's Day. We are going to take one grandma out to lunch then go to the other grandparents house for dinner and I'm going to cook my mom breakfast and I got her some cute shit but I just don't want to participate in any of it. I just want to lay in my bed and be sad all day and be exempt from all that shit because I'm supposed to be a mom right now and I'm not. I didn't realize how much it would get to me and it is getting to me and I feel so pathetic and useless because I'm usually so good at pretending I don't have emotions and I'm just sad and angry and I don't want to do shit for Mother's Day besides cry and look at my old ultrasound pictures and be sad.
My mom has a ton of shit planned tomorrow for Mother's Day. We are going to take one grandma out to lunch then go to the other grandparents house for dinner and I'm going to cook my mom breakfast and I got her some cute shit but I just don't want to participate in any of it. I just want to lay in my bed and be sad all day and be exempt from all that shit because I'm supposed to be a mom right now and I'm not. I didn't realize how much it would get to me and it is getting to me and I feel so pathetic and useless because I'm usually so good at pretending I don't have emotions and I'm just sad and angry and I don't want to do shit for Mother's Day besides cry and look at my old ultrasound pictures and be sad.
Being next to a major highway in the rain. Also the building always runs hot, you gotta keep the window open sometimes even open the door on the deck to get it a nice temp. The window and door face the highway and the buildings are just above the highway. So when you're trying to watch a movie at night and not blast the volume you hear the stupid cars and trucks going by non stop.
Then do you crank the volume and wake everyone up, shut the window and try to watch without burning to death, or open the window with low volume and guess what's happening.
FACKING RAIN YO
Then do you crank the volume and wake everyone up, shut the window and try to watch without burning to death, or open the window with low volume and guess what's happening.
FACKING RAIN YO
GayWolf420
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13422211:theabortionator said:
Living at the top of a mtn pass a major interstate runs thru would make your mind go nuts. Engine brakes are really just awful fuckin nuisances.
connecticunt
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13422173:B.Gillis said:
No it was not. I had a second trimester miscarriage.
13422214:DeebieSkeebies said:
Actually other than the volume thing I don't mind it that much, not on a huge hill here though, far enough away from the base of vail pass that it's nothing wild. Where I lived in ny was on a main route(small 2 lane not crazy traveled) through the mountains. Lots of logging though and I lived at the base of a hill with a tight corner. You'd hear the logging trucks raping their trannies slowing down last minute. Got used to it eventually though.
You should be able to filter out words on facebook. The last couple years the news feed function really went to hell.
I would probably put in all sports teams. Even if I watch whatever game is being talked about the facebook posts are always lame IMO.
I would love to filter out things like "Mom" and "mothers" today. Sure it's great you love your mom but I don't want to see 100+ status' about peoples moms.
I fucking hate group stuff like that where everybody has the same status. Like why the fuck do you think I care facebook?
Also the new way they're trying to throw 2 posts from the most random people on your friends list at you. Cool, we've been friends since 05 or 06 because of high school, never said anything on facebook or at least not in a decade, why the fuck would I care what you have to say about somebody I don't know, or that you're going fishing or whatever.
That site really started to go to hell around 2008/2009.
I would probably put in all sports teams. Even if I watch whatever game is being talked about the facebook posts are always lame IMO.
I would love to filter out things like "Mom" and "mothers" today. Sure it's great you love your mom but I don't want to see 100+ status' about peoples moms.
I fucking hate group stuff like that where everybody has the same status. Like why the fuck do you think I care facebook?
Also the new way they're trying to throw 2 posts from the most random people on your friends list at you. Cool, we've been friends since 05 or 06 because of high school, never said anything on facebook or at least not in a decade, why the fuck would I care what you have to say about somebody I don't know, or that you're going fishing or whatever.
That site really started to go to hell around 2008/2009.
xxACIDTRIPxx
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99% of people annoy me
It's not even cold inside my apartment ( i don't think) get's pretty warm actually to where you gotta keep a window open and sometimes the door during the day.
Anyway fever to the point where my fingers are kind of numb like if I was working outside in the winter with no gloves. Crazy chills, head feels like shit, just not doing so well. I've lost almost 15 pounds in the last week or two. I don't really need to lose any weight, def not this way.
Considering dropping the $90 to go see the doctor again. Shitty part is I'm supposed to be getting better and good to go sometime between wed and sat.
On the plus my car is done(hopefully everythings good) just need to put new tires on it and then drive it. That said I can't even get to walmart and buy tires because of how shitty I feel. Like just getting up to move around the place is an ordeal. I had to walk to to walgreens yesterday, and it was a nice day only a 10 min walk but that was about as adventurous as I'm been in a couple weeks. Really wanted to be doing some hiking right now. At the moment I would take not feeling like shit for a small amount of time.
Kind of scares me because I just went off health insurance, so if I'm fucked I'm fucked.
I can't think of a time where I've ever been this sick in my life. It's kicking my ass and making it hard to not be depressed. Catching an hour ish nap here and there if I'm lucky,not sleeping at night well just in short bursts.
Hopefully I can pull off the trip back east. Might spend sometime at my parents. At least then I can mooch off some food etc. I have money but just getting out of a chair to make something, and then getting back up to check on it or eat it is too much.
I'm fucking worthless right now.
Thank god for planet earth on netflix, just been going on a huge binge. Probably watched each episode 10+ times, just start it somewhere and let it ride all day.
I feel bad because even though I paid rent, it's kind of lame to have a dead person in your house that doesn't do anything or go anywhere. That said I can't. I want to be hiking, I want to take some pictures of clouds and the mountains, I want to be outside, but I just can't do anything.
I'm thinking of leaving my car for a while and flying back to ny to my parents to recover. I don't like the idea of being worthless there either but they're far more likely to understand and they've only seen me for a few weeks in nov/dec for the last year so it wouldn't be a major burden/I have money. I just still don't like the idea of rolling up in shit condition like this and being like hey I'm worthless, can I crash here for ______ until I'm not feeling like I'm dying?
Lot's of words.
Sparknotes: Sketched out and feeling like garbage. Barely able to get around the apartment, not eating really(trying to fore myself) not getting outside at all, pretty rough shape the last 2 weeks. Dropping pounds like the biggest loser because I'm not eating enough I guess. Not so good.
But pretty stoked to hear the car is good. Fucking HOPE that thing is legit good, I can get her back on the road and at least have the ability to go somewhere if I ever get better.
Anyway fever to the point where my fingers are kind of numb like if I was working outside in the winter with no gloves. Crazy chills, head feels like shit, just not doing so well. I've lost almost 15 pounds in the last week or two. I don't really need to lose any weight, def not this way.
Considering dropping the $90 to go see the doctor again. Shitty part is I'm supposed to be getting better and good to go sometime between wed and sat.
On the plus my car is done(hopefully everythings good) just need to put new tires on it and then drive it. That said I can't even get to walmart and buy tires because of how shitty I feel. Like just getting up to move around the place is an ordeal. I had to walk to to walgreens yesterday, and it was a nice day only a 10 min walk but that was about as adventurous as I'm been in a couple weeks. Really wanted to be doing some hiking right now. At the moment I would take not feeling like shit for a small amount of time.
Kind of scares me because I just went off health insurance, so if I'm fucked I'm fucked.
I can't think of a time where I've ever been this sick in my life. It's kicking my ass and making it hard to not be depressed. Catching an hour ish nap here and there if I'm lucky,not sleeping at night well just in short bursts.
Hopefully I can pull off the trip back east. Might spend sometime at my parents. At least then I can mooch off some food etc. I have money but just getting out of a chair to make something, and then getting back up to check on it or eat it is too much.
I'm fucking worthless right now.
Thank god for planet earth on netflix, just been going on a huge binge. Probably watched each episode 10+ times, just start it somewhere and let it ride all day.
I feel bad because even though I paid rent, it's kind of lame to have a dead person in your house that doesn't do anything or go anywhere. That said I can't. I want to be hiking, I want to take some pictures of clouds and the mountains, I want to be outside, but I just can't do anything.
I'm thinking of leaving my car for a while and flying back to ny to my parents to recover. I don't like the idea of being worthless there either but they're far more likely to understand and they've only seen me for a few weeks in nov/dec for the last year so it wouldn't be a major burden/I have money. I just still don't like the idea of rolling up in shit condition like this and being like hey I'm worthless, can I crash here for ______ until I'm not feeling like I'm dying?
Lot's of words.
Sparknotes: Sketched out and feeling like garbage. Barely able to get around the apartment, not eating really(trying to fore myself) not getting outside at all, pretty rough shape the last 2 weeks. Dropping pounds like the biggest loser because I'm not eating enough I guess. Not so good.
But pretty stoked to hear the car is good. Fucking HOPE that thing is legit good, I can get her back on the road and at least have the ability to go somewhere if I ever get better.
looks like a $90 trip the the doctor tomorr.w Hoping he can help me and I don't need to go to the hospital. If I have to go to the hospial I'm fucked. No insurance.
Sucks that I just went off a month or two ago.
In such bad shape at the moment. This is insane.
Sucks that I just went off a month or two ago.
In such bad shape at the moment. This is insane.
S.J.W
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13422031:dodge said:
let's be honest, that fucks over your education. How many times do you hear idiots say "well atleast you passed", dude you got fucking 53, study harder you fucking idiot. It messes with people and people slack off as they think just passing is good enough for them.
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13423657:S.J.W said:
I strongly disagree with what you're saying. You obviously haven't taken a difficult course at uni - not to mention four of them at the same time alongside working a job. Then maintaining a social life.
Passing IS good enough for a lot of people. Unless you're seeking scholarship, marks don't really matter.
In high school, what affects students more (at least it did for me) was how my marks sat amongst the other students. I didn't care if I got 45% if the average was 20%. ya feels me
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13423734:S.J.W said:
I think you missed what I meant. The marks may be better purely through numerical representation, but because of the relative difficulties a 50 would have been a 70, only now the teacher didn't have to change what the fail mark was. This is what scaling is, and is what I'm trying to get at.
I.e Set the tests so a pass would be a good mark (so as to reduce the effects of lazyness that you mentioned) then scale it later.
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13422147:connecticunt said:
The music never stopped sista!
S.J.W
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13423804:dodge said:
Yeah scaling works great in Australia where we have a centralized test at the end of the year. And schools marks are scaled from that and you get an ATAR. However, in other countries like Canada there is no central test, so a teacher could make a test super easy and everyones get 100 but then they'd be fucked over in Uni. So instead of making a test extremely hard so a 50 will be scaled to a 70, a teacher needs to find a way to motivate his/her students in a way which will help them in uni as well so they don't freak out. Understand what I'm saying???
Update: I didn't die
YOLO
Had a fever around 103 last night though, was dizzy, puking, collapsed when I tried to stand, etc. Was seriously considering going to the hospital. If I had health insurance I 100% would have. Honestly felt like I was dying. Went to the docs today, ate some pills, got an injection, and a script for some strong ass antibiotics and hopefully I'll get healthy again.
This last 3 weeks has been the worst my health has been in my whole life. Hopefully with these meds and everything I'll start to get healthy.
YOLO
Had a fever around 103 last night though, was dizzy, puking, collapsed when I tried to stand, etc. Was seriously considering going to the hospital. If I had health insurance I 100% would have. Honestly felt like I was dying. Went to the docs today, ate some pills, got an injection, and a script for some strong ass antibiotics and hopefully I'll get healthy again.
This last 3 weeks has been the worst my health has been in my whole life. Hopefully with these meds and everything I'll start to get healthy.
PeppermillReno
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13424082:theabortionator said:
Good luck try sitting in the sun when you can some fresh air and the right anti biotics should fix you up feel better!
13424396:dodge said:
Yup.
13424492:MCsugarcat said:
Yeah I might try and get out a bit tomorrow. Couldn't really today honestly. Just laid down on the couch, ate food, puked it up and sweated like crazy. When my roomate came home I guess I was talking to him and struggling to form sentences, being confused, and sounding drunk.
On the plus I only got charged $33 for the visit today and my prescirption was only $4.
Was scared I was gonna get charged $90 for the visit and $20 for any pills.
Can't wait to feel decent again. Hoping in the next week I'm back in good shape. It's been like 2 and a half weeks I think and pretty much every day in that period has been miserable. At a few points I didnt feel that bad for a short while here and there but for the most part straight garbage.
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I'm having a tough time getting a person out of my head. I was eating at a restaurant with some friends about a week ago kindof acting as the third wheel when I noticed a little girl (probably 6 years old) sitting with her mom and father. Her mother was really heavy and her father was skinny and was wearing a cut off shirt. Both had infected track marks on their arms and the man was definitely high on something. Now don't get me wrong I am really not one to judge and I feel people should be able to do what they want with their life. HOWEVER as soon as you have a child, all of that needs to stop. the girl was wearing a long dress which I didn't think much of until lifted it part way up. Both her legs were black and blue. Her face was also dirty as if she hadn't took a bath in a few days and she looked absolutely exhausted. She also was very restless and wouldn't ever look either of her parents in the eyes. It honestly almost brought me to tears when I walked out.
People seem so occupied these days with themselves that they hardly notice what is going on around them. I feel this has really allowed cases of abuse such as this to go unnoticed. Having been through such situations I know how it can feel. Luckily I had a way out (not a very smooth way out) but for many that is not the case. It really pisses me off how difficult our law system makes it to get kids in these situations out and into a better home. Child abusers can burn in hell for all I care. Please be vigilant people and speak up when you see abuse.
People seem so occupied these days with themselves that they hardly notice what is going on around them. I feel this has really allowed cases of abuse such as this to go unnoticed. Having been through such situations I know how it can feel. Luckily I had a way out (not a very smooth way out) but for many that is not the case. It really pisses me off how difficult our law system makes it to get kids in these situations out and into a better home. Child abusers can burn in hell for all I care. Please be vigilant people and speak up when you see abuse.
I can feel my lungs getting weaker and I've only been home for 2 days. My mom still is smoking in our house and even when I do what I can to air out my room I can still feel it. I've been asking her to go outside since I was still in high school but she keeps telling me if I don't like it that I don't have to live here. So I signed a lease to move into an apartment near my school but not I can't move in until August so I'm not sure what to do about it.
Fuckin crazy how much of an affect it can have on you in so short of time. Granted, my lungs are already very weak compared to the average person, but it's still insane that in 2 days it's gotten this bad. Kinda scared to go to sleep. Really scared that I'm gonna end up in the hospital again but I think its gonna happen by the end of the week. I've been trying to stay out of the house as much as I can and I'm gonna keep doing that, i'm just nervous that it won't be enough. I don't really know what else I can do.
Fuckin crazy how much of an affect it can have on you in so short of time. Granted, my lungs are already very weak compared to the average person, but it's still insane that in 2 days it's gotten this bad. Kinda scared to go to sleep. Really scared that I'm gonna end up in the hospital again but I think its gonna happen by the end of the week. I've been trying to stay out of the house as much as I can and I'm gonna keep doing that, i'm just nervous that it won't be enough. I don't really know what else I can do.
Byron_tha_gr8
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13424720:cddlswthsqrrls said:
Alright I have always been super skeptical about the effects of second hand smoke, it reminded me of the now debunked "Got Milk?" campaign. Like a way for cigarette companies to spend what they were ordered to by congress without actually hurting cig sales.
On a related note, almost all of the anti smoking campaigns you ever see are paid for almost entirely by big tobacco corporations, and they do get a say in what goes into the ads, so I have never taken what they've said seriously.
But if you have lung issues so bad you ended up in the hospital because of your lungs doing something awful like filling with fluid, why in the fuck is your own mother not smoking outside? Does she just give 0 fucks about your health? You've already been to the hospital for this shit, does she not care if you end up there again? That would infuriate me.
I would burn all her cigs in a fireplace at once. And make her watch. And beg her to hit me so i could hit her back. Then knock the living shit out of her.
GayWolf420
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kinda shocking how many people don't have a basic understanding or knowledge of American history. Kids in my English class think Vietnam and the cold war occurred at the same time which makes absolutely zero sense.
13424875:DeebieSkeebies said:
Last semester in my world civ class we were talking about like the Egyptians, something like that. This big black dude,(obvious football player) asked my TA if he believed that Dinosaurs were ever real. My TA said yes and this dude said that he thought it was impossible for dinosaurs to have existed and it was all a conspiracy constructed by the government to bring people into museums so that they could make more money. Definitely came here on a football scholarship haha.
Byron_tha_gr8
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13424894:cddlswthsqrrls said:
this is why i hate white people. Hope that second hand smoke tastes dank for the next 3 months.
TVRNTVPOOP
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i hate when borto makes eight threads of the same thing
S.J.W
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13424929:L_B said:
if ming said this white dude, would you have had a problem with it? Just because your race got the short end of the straw doesn't mean you can be a sour fuck about it. You're being just as racist as some of the fuckwits from the south. Two wrongs don't make a right
GayWolf420
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13425090:S.J.W said:
wut? US involvement started in the mid 60s and lasted till about 75, im pretty sure. Johnson pretty much went balls out after the gulf of Tonkin incident in 64, and it was all downhill from there, at least for the US forces.
and yeah, I did fuck up. eat my ass, kangaroo fucker.
S.J.W
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13425112:DeebieSkeebies said:
Yeah I fucked up on my facts. Mixed up with the end of US involvement and the end of the war with the actual lasting. My bad. But I point out that Vietnam war and the cold war were at the sam time and that you were wrong and you just insult me straight up. Fuck, must be hard being a complete retard, get more butthurt kid
People who start shitty kickstarters, especially to start a company reselling shit from alibaba.
People posting theirs or their friends shitty kickstarters on NS. The glasses kid, the watch kid, the tiny house kid, the buy my entitled bitch friend a cello kid.
Movies with huge swings in volume. There really should be an option where the sound is done 2 ways so you have the option to change it to a median setting where the sound is consistent all the way though. When you're trying to watch a movie at night and you can't hear it for shit and then 2 seconds later you could here it a mile down the road. Or where on the lowest setting it's too loud, and on the highest setting it's too quite in the same movie. What is this shit. I though this was America.
Containers that have an impossible bulletproof wrap on top, and then another seal inside. Like how fucking sealed does this need to be.
TV is pretty much on par with idiocracy at this point. The majority of the channels are so dumbed down, the commercials are ridiculously stupid. It's fucking painful.
I had a bigger list but I forgot.
Oh yeah, bees, FUCK YOU
People posting theirs or their friends shitty kickstarters on NS. The glasses kid, the watch kid, the tiny house kid, the buy my entitled bitch friend a cello kid.
Movies with huge swings in volume. There really should be an option where the sound is done 2 ways so you have the option to change it to a median setting where the sound is consistent all the way though. When you're trying to watch a movie at night and you can't hear it for shit and then 2 seconds later you could here it a mile down the road. Or where on the lowest setting it's too loud, and on the highest setting it's too quite in the same movie. What is this shit. I though this was America.
Containers that have an impossible bulletproof wrap on top, and then another seal inside. Like how fucking sealed does this need to be.
TV is pretty much on par with idiocracy at this point. The majority of the channels are so dumbed down, the commercials are ridiculously stupid. It's fucking painful.
I had a bigger list but I forgot.
Oh yeah, bees, FUCK YOU
msg
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13425411:theabortionator said:
Use VLC and compress the audio
http://lifehacker.com/5920290/how-to-fix-movies-that-are-really-quiet-then-really-loud
The only problem is that by squashing the audio you lose some harmonics, but the trade off is worth it.
13425443:dodge said:
Would be sweet if there was just an option with dvds or on the tv, netflix whatever.
I don't want to have to figured shit out. I'll hurt myself
13425847:safarisam said:
I feel you. If you already had some depression that combo with tbi action is no bueno. Hopefully things are on the rise for you. Whats up with your foot/ ho long are you out for on that?
Hopefully your head is good enough/ get's good enough to shred most of the stuff out there and have a good time. Be careful! Shred it up, hoe you're back on the slopes soon
