3rd year of Mechanical Engineering. No internship. No club experience. Grades are mediocre (slightly below 7 but trying to get that up). Only just started applying for internships. Feel a bit fucked ngl. Worried I won’t graduate with my mates because of struggling to get an internship, and actually getting a career is feeling even further away.

I posted here in good faith a while ago, and I was really excited to be learning about quantum physics for the first time at 38 as a woman.
The responses I received were so mean, snarky, and cynical.
Obviously, I cried (healthy, normal response to undeserved cruelness) and felt embarrassed to be so excited to learn.
Good, earnest people exist. That is like learning. Perhaps think before responding on a thread labeled “askphysics” if you are so disenchanted with the field that you'd crush a new learner.
Oh, and my IQ (for those that implied I was dumb) is 135 as of 3rd grade , so maybe not a big ole Einstein.. but smart enough to appreciate physics? I wasn't trying to disprove centrifical force ;) or anything.
I'm sorry you lost your joy in physics, but I relate as I lost my joy in being a therapist. Maybe get into psychology? We can swap? We could certainly use some analytical minds there... maybe you guys could therapize the software engineers because I sure didn't have the magic touch w them.
Anyway…we could try being nice to the “14 year olds” in age and in heart. I'm tired of being cynical and depressed personally. World’s on fire, I'm trying out chaotic and illogically hopeful for a while. Feel free to join.
https://www.reddit.com/AskPhysics/s/zyLCefmKch

Kanina, I was eating with my family at Marugame Robinsons Antipolo Branch for our dinner. My dad and I had our ears cleaned by an otolaryngologist because we were having hearing problems. While I was walking to go to the restroom, I saw a couple having a romantic date. The girl was leaning on her boyfriend's shoulder. I am envious of them
When I was watching a sex scene from the Netflix film Kissing Booth, I was in awe.
I still remember the moment I almost had my first kiss with my first crush when I was in 3rd grade. My classmates shipped me with him.
I realized I'm a sucker for physical touch. Lord when kaya ako magkakajowa? I'm ready to have a partner now.

A few months ago, after their proposal and discussions with his teacher and counselor and school psychologist, we agreed my 1st grade son will skip 2nd grade and go straight to 3rd grade when school starts again after summer break.
So of course I've done the stupid thing of looking at old posts in this sub with same question, and majority responses are "don't do it, they're not socially/emotionally ready, i did and was too socially awkward" etc etc.
Obviously this is a key concern for me too, but the main driver from the teachecounselopyschologist was exactly the fact that he is socially/emotionally set (besides test results) and would fit right in with his new peers. He already has a few friends in that grade.
Other advice in threads against skipping is instead to give them "enrichment in classroom, advanced subject classes, get him to assist others, just let them read in class when they're done". Problem is, he's already doing that, teacher provides him with extra work, he has set activities to do when he's finished, he's already helping the other kids.
A brief look at studies/articles shows if he's ready, this is going to be good for him.
I therefore want to find out, does anyone have any positive experiences of their kids skipping a grade because they were emotionally/socially/academically ready?

The Mediatore’s are the perfect definition of the term “Long Island Trash”.

In 2003, when I was just 13 years old, I was molested by my uncle Ronald Mediatore (now 58), who was and still is a 6th grade teacher in Denver, CO. No one filed a police report. No one took me to a child psychologist to get the story out of me. 21 years later (about a month ago) I found out that not only did the pedo confess everything to his sister (my Aunt Kathy Stover (now 60)- a nationally recognized librarian and published author, who deemed these actions “textbook molestation") just months later but Kathy told my mother (54), who then told her mother (my grandmother (82)- retired nurse/paralegal) and her other sister (my Aunt Stacy Heinz (57)- a 3rd grade teacher).

So here I am, 21 years later, knowing 4 adults who knew exactly where this man’s hands went on me just months after the incident and did nothing about it. And now that I’ve started asking questions about what happened to me, they’ve all closed ranks and cut me off. The victim deserves answers, and these cowards don’t have the backbone to talk to me face to face w/o a therapist present (probably to keep the conversation confidential). Every adult in my life at the time let me down and didn’t give me justice. Instead, they all covered up the family pedo to keep the peace and so he could go back to teaching 6th graders.

I, and my 2 younger brothers, were reintroduced to this man via my mom asking, "Are you ok with Uncle Ronny being there?" 6 years later and the family reunions went on as if nothing happened. And since I wasn't told how wrong this was and everyone else showed nothing but love and smiles, I was lead to believe everything was fine- textbook manipulation. That is a very powerful tool to use on a person, especially when you start at the age of 13; it can carry on through adulthood. And it did.

The statute of limitations in NY prevents me from taking any legal action, for sexual misconduct or pain and suffering, so I’ve been turned away be every attorney. Only way to hold these sick fucks accountable for their actions is to blast them on social media, since they refuse to talk to me about it.

Share the story and don’t forget the name Ronald Mediatore. I have text messages and voice recordings via zoom sessions with my mother that confirm every detail of this story, and a lot more. The family betrayal hit me hard as I went through the grieving process and if there’s a lawyer out there that will take my case, please reach out.

I'm doing the hard thing that no one else had the courage to do when I needed help: filing a police report (so that's it's documented, even if it's too late) and talking about it openly.

In the 19, nearly 20, years I have lived my life, I was raised a Christian by American conservatives in a middle class environment and am fortunate to experience countless memories of joy, laughter, and growth with (mostly) everybody I have met. Each memory with the people in my life holds a special place in my heart, and I will forever cherish the bond we built.
The thing is that until the end of eighth grade, I had a strange obsession with East Asia. Looking back, it was very embarrassing and I condemn my parents for enabling me to become a weeaboo (by “weeaboo”, I mean “a person who is overly obsessed with East Asian culture, especially Japanese culture, to the point that they fetishize the culture in an unhealthy way”). I was the textbook example of a weeaboo who had a terrible case of “yellow fever” (sexual preference towards East Asians). Loving the image of East Asian culture without having any real idea what it stood for and seeing the East as a utopia, my fetishization of East Asia, especially Japan, was born out of the shame I have with the Western culture I was raised in. I never felt like I could fit in with my Western peers who I often looked down upon and did not want to be associated with. It got to the point that I became unsatisfied with my home town, my physical appearance, and even my closest friends. This combined with the surge in anime, K-pop, and other media on the internet really got me hooked and believing really fetish-y things about the Sinosphere. I hate being reminded of it and have tried to move on.
However, I am thankful for my exposure to Eastern culture, though it was through a very bastardized, Westernized lens. I am grateful for my exposure, even though it started out with something as intellectually undemanding as Vocaloid music (songs sung by a Japanese voice synthesizer). The best part about the exposure was that it helped me leave Christianity and join Buddhism at age 11, which greatly helped with my mental health considering I was experiencing suicidal thoughts since the age of 8. Though I had awful misunderstandings of Buddhism in the beginning and still do not really have a Buddhist teacher, I am glad that I have the resources to connect myself with other Buddhists and take refuge in the Triple Gem.
As I left my gross misconceptions of the Sinosphere behind back when I was 14 while still having a healthy interest in it, my eyes were eventually opened to perils which threaten not only the homelands of Buddhism (East, South, and Southeast Asia), but also the sustainability of modern humans. These two perils are Western culture and capitalist fascism.
The West exoticizes and misrepresents Buddhism and the culture of its home, the East, as a whole. I am ashamed to be born in a culture where this was encouraged, which I am worried could lead me to fetishizing Eastern culture again.
But what I know for sure is that the West’s hyperindividualism is harming people, both those whose lands are invaded and its own people. This combined with the West’s growing rejection of education, including that of the knowledge the West itself has given to the world for humanity’s benefit, makes it clear that it is lacking some of the Sinosphere’s cultural strengths. Everybody should hold collectivism and education to the same degree that the Sinosphere does, otherwise we would be left with an unsustainable society that would destroy itself.
There is nothing wrong with speaking Western languages, eating Western foods, watching (most types of) Western media, wearing Western clothes, and especially nothing wrong with using Western inventions, but we are now seeing that the West’s hyperindividualism and rejection of education is destructive and spreading like a cancer.
It is only Buddhists who make an effort to assimilate to the East (had they not been born into it) who can see the West with its hyperindividualism and uneducatedness, promoted by its creation of its spreading ideologies such as capitalist fascism and social Darwinism, for what it really is: a cancer. I can now see the direction the United States, the most populated and powerful country in the West, is going due to the rise of ultra-capitalism and/or fascism supporters.
Rarely the phrase “Western”, as in “formed by the combined foundations of Greco-Roman civilization and Western Christianity” (Gabbe), raised positive thoughts in my mind since I learned about it shortly after discovering Buddhism. “Western” when used in the context of medicine is an exception to this, but we are now seeing more and more Westerners dishonor the progress their ancestors made towards modern, mainstream, dare I say, Western medicine as they fall for anti-vaccine and anti-mask pseudoscience.
Nowadays, some who use the word in a derogatory context are uneducated reactionaries that bash anything and everything Western, yet hypocritically promote the Western political ideology of fascism. A strength that a majority (though now a decreasing number) of Western countries have is their progressivism, supporting scientific advancements, women’s rights, racial equality, and the LGBT+. However, this is not just becoming less common; being a progressive Westerner is not enough, not enough to end Western imperialism, to save the sacred truths taught to us by the Shakyamuni Buddha, or to empower the working class.
Although I never fully approved of Western culture after my weeaboo phase ended, my early teen self still ended up falling into the anti-social justice warrior side of YouTube that I now recognized hindered my understanding of what actually ruined my country, the United States of America. I still did not feel comfortable calling myself a Westerner but mainly because the West did not widely accept Buddhism and has several times in its history persecuted Buddhists. At the same time, I was deceived by a bastardized form of Buddhism common among Westerners (known as “secular Buddhism”, which picks and chooses aspects of the Buddha’s teachings instead of accepting them as a whole), so I was a bit more of the classic, stereotypical atheist neckbeard who fetishized the East up until 2020. Since then, my views became more progressive similar to those of American liberals and I denounced traditionalist Western beliefs, but like the average American liberal, I did not see Western culture, both traditional and progressive, as the peril I now see it. It was not until around the end of 2023 when I discovered the Western problem.
It was a slow burn that started with my discovery of Buddhists on the internet talking about how the West misrepresented Buddhism to appeal to “self-help” consumerists, Christians, and New Age followers. In the Westerner, I originally saw only a person who followed harmless customs, traditions, and other norms that came from a part of the world where Buddhism was not the dominant religion (if you could even call the non-theistic dharma as taught by the Gautama Buddha a religion). And so, I did not believe that Western civilization needed to fall for the safety of the dharma, let alone for its own people. After all, I thought to myself, the West has contributed so much to science and the modern world as we know it. I still believe to this day that there are no superior cultures and that each one simply has its own unique strengths and weaknesses, some of which are only subjective. However, while looking through Buddhist forums, I was shocked to hear about the West’s pollution of Buddhism and my knowledge on Buddhism skyrocketed as I learned that I fell victim to the Dunning-Kruger effect. I started reading sutras and immersing myself with Buddhism by listening to those who have much more experience than I do. There are hardly any Buddhists in my community and the only Buddhist center within reach is a New Kadampa Tradition meditation center (FYI: the New Kadampa Tradition must be avoided since it has a reputation for financially exploiting members and its monastics have allegations of drug trafficking and sexual abuse), so books and the internet are all I have left.
Practicing Buddhism in the West is nearly impossible without a community, without a Buddhist teacher, without any resources written by Eastern Buddhists. Reddit user u/Tendai-Student, a “lay Tendai Student [sic] with aspirations to become a Priest [sic]” states the following:
It is exceedingly challenging for a Westerner who is interested in Buddhism to find reliable information. Bookstores' Buddhist sections are rife with myths about the religion (we will come to some of these misconceptions below). Buddhism-related disinformation abounds in university classes. Misinformation about Buddhism abounds in publications with a Buddhist theme. Even Buddhism-related english-speaking [sic] Reddit boards are prone to carry false information.
Buddhism is constantly distorted in the same way: to make it more agreeable to Abrahamic faiths(especially Christianity in the west) [sic]. To imply that it is subject to Western standards, Western religion, and Western consumerism and materialism.
…Asian teachers are frequently excluded from English-speaking Buddhist places (meditation centers, university forums, periodicals). Asians make up the majority of Buddhists in the United States, despite the fact that popular images of Buddhism in the West make it appear otherwise. In the minds of Westerners, Buddhism is a religion of white converts. They don't even pay attention to the odd lack of Asians in some Buddhist areas. (u/Tendai-Student)
It is no wonder that I went through a phase when I was a weeaboo with “yellow fever”. The Westerner commodifies and commercializes these Buddhist practices and East Asian customs like they do with several other cultures. Its misuse and stealing of Buddhism is the worst because its teachings are for us to end suffering by ridding ourselves of the three poisons: greed, ignorance, and hatred (which the Westerner promotes).
My realization of this drew me away from the West, similar to when my obsession with the East began. The difference is that my interest in the East now is not because of a fantasy born out of misguidance, especially not a sexual one. I now know that there is more to the East than its pop culture. But I cannot help thinking that none of this would have happened and I would better understand Buddhism had I been born to and raised by Buddhists in East Asia, or even a majority Buddhist country in South or Southeast Asia.
However, the possibility of a cycle starting with a yo-yoing fetishization of the East makes me anxious. When I realized what I was doing at first was fetishization, I did further research and found out that the West is to blame for its portrayal of the East in its media. This in turn makes me denounce the West and brings me back towards my obsession with the Sinosphere, which could lead to more fetishization.
Despite this, I am glad that at the very least, my interest is more than just wanting to live a kawaii lifestyle, hoping to have a “submissive housewife who will look young forever”, or all that neckbeard squick. I do have to say that there is something else that is drawing me towards the Sinosphere, not to mention that it is the region where Buddhism is dominant (the same is true to a lesser extent with the Indosphere). Even though I am not a huge fan of tradition since I am very progressive, when a region’s culture gets something right, they get it right. In addition to Buddhist values, the Sinosphere holds education and collectivism to a high degree. It is no wonder I find their people so much more intelligent and caring than people from my culture.
It is common knowledge that countries such as Japan, China, South Korea, and Singapore have the highest average IQs. To add to this (unbeknownst to many), even less developed countries, e.g. Mongolia, with high Buddhist populations around the same region, have average IQs higher than developing and undeveloped nations outside the region. The most agreed upon reason for this is cultural factors rather than genetic or economic factors. To conclude, Buddhism combined with values in the East Asian cultural sphere creates the best “brains” to represent humanity, thus the West should make way for them, especially considering the East’s superior collectivism.
Of course cultures do not stay the same forever because they change over time. One big thing that is different now in the Sinosphere and Indosphere (the latter I am mentioning because it is where Buddhism came from, though it is not as dominant in the cultural region as it was) is that they are generally much more patriarchal and anti-LGBT+ than they were up until the last several centuries. However, Buddhism treats same-sex relations and being transgender the same as heterosexuality and being cisgender (preferring celibacy among monastics, though depending on the school of Buddhism, those in the monastic order may be treated as their birth gender, even if they are transgender), and in addition, the Buddha taught that women are just as capable of attaining enlightenment as men. Even outside of Buddhism, there are records of same-sex relations as early as the Shang dynasty in China and the temple walls in Khajuraho, India depict homosexual activity. As for feminism, China was matrilineal until the Han dynasty era, when Confucianism and filial piety became mainstream in the area, while India, home to over 100 different ethnic communities, has had a few matriarchal and egalitarian societies pre-European colonization. In the modern era, numerous people in the two cultural spheres are becoming more supportive of gender equality and the LGBT+, which in some cases may be due to Westernization (not that it redeems it) or simply the individuals’ progressive political views not influenced by Western culture.
What has stayed the same for the most part, besides Buddhism, is the Sinosphere’s and Indosphere’s value of collectivism in honor-shame societies and the former cultural sphere’s emphasis on education; this is what Westerners, as well as people all over the world, need for themselves. If the West is going to fall due to hyperconsumerism, late stage capitalism, and uneducated leaders, those living in the West would be better off joining Buddhism and assimilating to the East. Arguably, the best way to do this is to move to a majority Buddhist country, preferably one in the Sinosphere (its core countries being China, Japan, the Koreas, Taiwan, and Vietnam). Leave everybody you know from your home behind, especially non-Buddhists. Just to make things clear, Westerners are not necessarily evil and it is not their fault they were raised in a Western culture, but having these people in your life will hold you back from collectivism, quality education free of anti-intellectual quackery, and above all, understanding the dharma.
After you have left everybody in your life and started anew, you can immerse yourself in the culture. Again, abandoning Western food, media, clothing, and especially inventions and scientific breakthroughs is very unnecessary. Your main focus is reprogramming your mind to think like a person (specifically a Buddhist person) in the Sinosphere/Indosphere, utilizing the high educational standards, putting the collective over the individual, and taking refuge in the Triple Gem. Before moving, though, it is best to make yourself familiar with the customs and learn the language of the place you are moving to. To aid your assimilation, it would not hurt to start dating one of the locals who strongly identifies with the culture, regardless of their race. Someone living there who is not ethnically East, South, or Southeast Asian who is still very involved in the culture would be very helpful to your assimilation as one who is ethnically East, South, or Southeast Asian (I am clarifying this to discourage racial fetishization). This may be difficult as you would have to win over approval from their parents, let alone convince them to see you as another Easterner, but if you manage to do so, that would be fantastic. To make things easier, you could plan to move to a country where people treat women as equals and are relatively accepting of the LGBT+ so you would not have to worry about gender roles or whatever. Think of places in the Sinosphere such as Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, or if you are planning on going to the Indosphere (which is not too big of a step down) since they did give us Buddhism after all, Nepal and Thailand. Your most important goal, however, is to rewire your brain to think in a more Sinic or Indic way and be more in touch with Buddhism.
You can hardly consider yourself a Westerner if you manage to do so, being Western only in your country of origin (and possibly race as well). I am definitely not like those other “people” from the West who strongly cling to Western culture because they just do not understand. Western cultural merit is almost solely from the proxy of our ancestors’ inventions, scientific discoveries, and political revolutions. Considering that the West is being brought towards the wrong direction in the modern era, we should get out of there culturally, if not physically, until it all hits the fan.
If the West continues its defilement of the rest of the world, when it falls, it will bring it all down with it. We must not lose or else everybody loses.
This pressure has a good side; because the bigger the great threat becomes, the more we will push ourselves to assimilate and raise children to fight for us. Considering the infectability of Western anti-intellectualism and “main character syndrome”, how could our Western peers know better? Buddhism is not a proselytizing “religion”, so our best bet is eliminating the promoter of the three poisons, the Westerner (especially the Christian Westerner), from our own lives. How it will run to us as its society collapses under itself and we welcome it to assimilate but say “we told you so”! The older I get, the better I know the Westerner. The better I know the Westerner, the easier it gets to excuse hostility against them, especially from the Sinosphere.
From my perspective, the ones to blame are not the angry, low-middle class white males in the rural United States nor the boba conservative bananas and right-wing coconuts who suck up to the West’s biggest scum, but rather the ones who have brainwashed them to fall for chauvinism, reactionarism, and laissez faire capitalism.
Realizing this, I am now closely investigating the sources of these beliefs which make up the foundation of social Darwinism and, when combined with totalitarian thinking, capitalist fascism. This is after I noticed that these systems are unsustainable and would destroy themselves from the inside out. The slow, painful destruction of communities who fall victim to them are well known to me. If one looks carefully, they can see the consequences that have been unfolding since the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic. You may wonder: were the founders aware of this? My guess would be that they were not but were evil nonetheless because they were too selfish to think about the future, their descendants.
If this is the case, then it is the duty of us, the opponents of these ideologies, to spread the word faster than the ideologies are currently spreading in the West. It is hard for me to believe it is not the case considering that both Western political ideologies are fundamentally reactionary. Besides, I doubt they would want civilization as we know it to collapse.
I have a social Darwinist as a maternal uncle who sometimes meets with my parents, maternal grandfather, and younger brother and with his political conversations, often sourced from flawed studies, Russian news, and 4chan, I can easily study the principles of its theories. Both of my parents are also conservatives who support Trump and other immoral American politicians. Being raised by the two of them, I bet I could disguise myself as a Western right-wing traditionalist, maybe even a social Darwinist, since I know the way they speak, to whom they flock to, and how to make them give one their full attention. It would probably be easy to do this as some right-wing grifters can fool American right-wing audiences into thinking that they share the same beliefs (e.g. Thomas MacDonald).
Their kind are gullible because they do not listen to fact checkers and often do not do research to see if who they are listening to really practices what they preach.
Even though there are Westerners who are not like this, the West cannot coexist with Buddhism, let alone the cultures where it is dominant, as the West ruled by colonizing tirthikas and it will likely always be for as long as it lasts. And just because their culture is not as viable as the one founded on Buddhist, Sinic, or even Indic values does not give them the right to imperialize the rest of the world and bring it down with them. We can welcome the Westerner willing to change its ways, turn it into one of an Easterner, and have its culture go through a quick and painless demise, or the Westerner can continue its power trip, destroy everything it touches along with itself, and society will suffer a slow and painful death. This is what the conclusion that I have come to so far as I examine capitalist fascism and Westerners’ connection to it.
The Western doctrine of capitalist fascism rejects an aspect of maitrī, fulfilling beings’ basic needs, and substitutes it for a privilege towards the bourgeoisie and the exploitation of the workers’ labor (also known as Vergegenständlichung or “objectification”). Thus it denies the worth of the collective, only concerns itself with greedy individuals, and thus is immoral. Unlike what the non-Buddhist capitalist wants people to believe, all beings have an altruistic Buddha nature, but it is corrupted, being difficult to notice as it has only conditions without a beginning (listed in the Avijjā Sutta). Abandoning capitalism, both fascist and non-fascist, gives power to the people as it ensures a more guaranteed right to life instead of having not even one thousand billionaires own more than half of Earth’s population combined, more than each one of those billionaires could ever spend in their lifetimes.
Should the Westerner, especially one who pushes capitalist fascism, strengthen its grip on humanity, it can be said that it would make its own naraka.
And so I stand by my plan and encourage others to do the same because it is in the name of the Unsurpassable Enlightened One. By protecting our kind against the Westerner, we are defending the Triple Gem.
If it is not already clear, the disapproval I feel towards the societal values and prevailing norms of the West has led me to question my place in this environment. I believe that meaningful change can only be fostered if the West is put into its place and the Sino-Buddhist East motivates our minds.
In Vietnam, where the culture is predominantly Sinic with some Indic aspects and little European influence, we can see the promotion of quality education, collectivism, and Buddhism (practiced by a forgivable 15% of the population), very unlike the nearby country of the Philippines. In the Philippines, its citizens cling to the Anglo-Saxon and Hispanic culture brought to the country by American and Spaniard imperialists. The effects of this are very clear in their average IQs (Vietnam: 89.53 vs. Philippines: 81.64) and PISA scores (Vietnam: 1403 vs. Philippines: 1058). They are both developing countries in Southeast Asia that were colonized by the West, but because Vietnam kept its culture more pure and stuck to Buddhism (or at least Sinic philosophies), its people are better educated compared to the nearby Westernized countries in a similar economic situation.
In short, Westernization leads to the following:

1. The native culture becomes diluted
2. If Western thinking intrudes, mental degeneration takes hold of the native population and its society slowly degrades along with the West itself as it eats itself from the inside out

Those who cause this to happen must be stopped, especially those who endanger Buddhism. We must not wait for the fruition of their karma for their sacrilege of the Tathagata’s teachings because by then it would be too late, and even if it is instant karma, every bodhisattva’s job is to end suffering.
Those who spread the harmful ideologies bring themselves and others away from the Buddha’s word are polluting humanity by having them join their rat race that will only end in their own demise. They are leading to the ruin of many and thus, I do not consider them to be human but instead parasites.
There is a disgraceful Western belief that for a short amount of time was not held by the majority but is now very pervasive in the West and also is the foundation of reactionarism, chauvinism, and capitalism in all cultures. It says: “My individual rights matter the most and freedom means my right to violate the rights of others.”
This Western babble is followed by numerous all around the world and sows disharmony in societies where it becomes the norm. This idea provides basis for several types of Westerners, including but not limited to:

• the “Karen”; a middle-aged, entitled, often white and anti-mask/anti-vaccine female who makes trivial complaints
• the “Chud”; a racist, misogynistic, right-wing male (usually young) who browses 4chan everyday and has a high likelihood of becoming a mass shooter
• the dayangma (Hanzi: 大洋马); a sex-obsessed young adult Western female, majority white but sometimes POC, is conventionally attractive (to Westerners), sleeps around, and in some cases creates spawn that do not know their father(s)
• the angry white male; self-explanatory, right-wing and traditionalist (sometimes a social Darwnist or capitalist fascist), commonly rural, evangelical Christian and have never seen a POC before
• the “Trad Wife”; a prudish, sometimes uneducated, female who lets Western males walk all over it and raises spawn who are likely to become angry whites
• the New Agehippy; generally a teenager or young adult, a well-meaning but poorly educated white liberal or social democrat who misappropriates Buddhism and appeases Muslims
• the AmeriKKKan fathegrandfather; a middle-aged to elderly, chauvinist male with children, sometimes also grandchildren, and is unconcerned about social justice and similarly to the “Karen”, falls for pseudoscientific conspiracy theories
• the neckbearded otaku (Hiragana: おたく); a hairy white male with “yellow fever” and mediocre hygiene, for the most part subreddit/Discord server moderators who stalk and kidnap East Asian ladies (if not teenage girls)

The growth of these groups is evidence of the degradation of Western culture, showing that it must retire as the dominant culture and make way for the much more sustainable East. Once the manuṣya realm on Earth is completely tainted by the West, Buddhas can no longer arise in the world because the dharma would be known by nobody and the Vinaya are forgotten or destroyed.
The future generation will not remember the dharma unless we halt the growth of the parasitic culture that promotes overconsumption, hyperindividualism, and anti-intellectualism.
The Westerner has a remarkable contrast to the Sinic or Indic. The Westerner has a grasp on this world so strong with its weaponry since the 16th century, using force to disrupt the traditional lives of whatever native people it saw, safe for those in a few countries (even though some of those countries are still being Westernized). The Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish built colonies from the Americas to Southeast Asia. The kingdoms were blessed with powerful militaries, strong economies, stable governments, and advanced technology that allowed their cultures to spread. But after half a millennium and looking back, was any of this really earned? And is the Westerner’s conquest over yet?
Since the Great Schism of Christianity, the Westerner trained itself for roughly one thousand years. It trained itself in several aspects, but it forgot an important piece, the dharma. The cunning Westerner, blessed with advancements, used them to tyrannize other peoples on a scale never before seen. This was the beginning of the Latter Day of the Dharma. The dharma is declining because of the savage Westerner. And so, it leeched off of any people it got a hold of, including predominantly Buddhist peoples. Even during the decolonization of the 20th century, fundamentalist Christianity spread and threatened the dharma. To make matters worse, previously Buddhist peoples clung to Christianity as taught by their colonizers; the French in Vietnam and the Spanish and Americans in the Philippines. To this day, the Philippines is a lost cause along with its majority Muslim neighbors in Maritime Southeast Asia. The cunning Westerner turned the Filipino against us and now Buddhists make up only 2% of the Philippines’ population. Now, the Westerner sees Buddhism as nothing more than an aesthetic, a self-help lifestyle, or a decoration that they can commercialize and cherry pick aspects to integrate into their religion or lack thereof.
It is excellent for someone from the West to learn the dharma as this will turn them into a more compassionate and wise person, but they must not enforce the Western gaze onto it and discard parts of the Shakyamuni Buddha’s words they do not like. To be fair, some aspects of Buddhism would be nearly impossible for a Westerner to understand unless they assimilate.
Buddhism is not materialist or blind belief without evidence and it belongs to the East, so stop pretending to be something you are not while pushing stereotypes of Asian Buddhists.
However, even though Buddhism is not materialist or very in line with the Western worldview, it is uniquely human. Walpola Rahula, a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and writer explains it this way:
Among the founders of religions the Buddha (if we are permitted to call him the founder of a religion in the popular sense of the term) was the only teacher who did not claim to be other than a human being, pure and simple. Other teachers were either God, or his incarnations in different forms, or inspired by him. The Buddha was not only a human being; he claimed no inspiration from any god or external power either. He attributed all his realization, attainments and achievements to human endeavour and human intelligence. A man and only a man can become Buddha. Every man has within himself the potentiality of becoming a Buddha, if he so wills it and endeavours. We can call the Buddha a man par excellence. He was so perfect in his 'human-ness' that he came to be regarded later in popular religion almost as 'super-human'. Man's position, according to Buddhism, is supreme. Man is his own master, and there is no higher being or power that sits in judgment over his destiny. (Rahula 3)
How could one even consider the Westerners who diluted Buddhism human themselves at this point? If it were not for them, Westerners may have a better understanding of the teachings of the “man par excellence”. We are lucky that the only Westerners who necessarily see us as inferior are white nationalists and fundamentalist Christians, otherwise the Westerner could have committed a genocide that would have left millions of us dead. Westerners are competitive beings, so they rarely act in concord towards each other. It is only when there is something that draws them together or away from a common danger.
If everybody on Earth becomes a Westerner, they would wallow in their shamelessness and would have nobody left to exploit except for each other until they destroy themselves.
Until they are the only ones left, they will vilify and exploit anything non-Western until they only have each other, then leading to a chaotic world of undignified militaries, economic inequality, corrupt governments, and little or no innovations.
Unless the Westerner considers even the slightest of inspiration from the East, it will continue to follow hyperindividualism and have apathy towards its education. That is why the West is falling. Those from the West who are smart enough to realize that the West’s flaws that it spreads are deciding that the West is not worth maintaining and its resignation is overdue. If those from the West abandon it to assimilate to the East, it would make the West’s death quicker but more dignified.
This is more than a fad but rather the realization that Western society would be best being a passing fad itself. The West gave us great inventions, food, clothes, scientific discoveries, etc. and once it is gone, the East can pick up where it left off just fine.
We will never abandon the Triple Gem because we recognize it to be more than a spiritual, exotic aesthetic or trend. To do so would make us just like those others in the West who Asian Buddhists look down upon. When the time is right, each and every one of us will surround ourselves with the people who know the dharma better than anyone you have met in the West and we can finally be at their level. We shall be Western only in our country of origin and/or race, but in every other way, we will be Easterners; Buddhist Easterners who will take back what rightfully belongs to us.
When we (and hopefully Buddhists outside of both the Eastern and the Western world) do this, consumerism will lose some of its biggest prey. Even though it may not seem like it at first considering we are abandoning everyone we have ever known, we are doing our ancestors a favor by joining the culture that strives towards the end of suffering. We will be leaving our cultures’ ways of thinking behind, but doing this will save face for our lineage, especially the Western lineage as we would be preventing the creation of more “Karens”, “Chuds”, dayangmas, “neckbeards”, and other degenerates. We will not be annoying dorky nerds and certainly not “neckbeards” who are overly obsessed with and fetishize the culture but people making an effort to get closer to the dharma and surrender to the East.
Although we are collectivists, we must seek personal liberation first for the good of other beings. Once the West collapses and its former supporters come running to us, we shall welcome them. If some do not recognize this before it is too late, well boo hoo! They will have a better birth with the world we will create. Some of them, especially their unlucky spawn, would probably be better off dead and reborn into a better life, maybe even the Pure Land.
The way it is looking now, the West is falling and becoming the world’s laughingstock, which is a good thing. The quicker it falls, the less painful it will be for the Westerner and everybody else. Western culture will not be missed, but we can keep the best of it and continue the innovations that the creators would wish to see. We will remember the legacy of them and be thankful while never forgiving or forgetting the ones who ruined the West.
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I'm practically a NEET or a "palamunin" since 2018 pa. I was supposed to move up from Grade 10 that year, pero nagka issue ako sa school ko about being an accomplice to a theft that my classmate committed kaya natanggalan ako ng scholarship then to make matters worse, nagdrop-out ako entirely sa school months before our moving-up ceremony kase nawalan nako ng gana dahil nung natanggalan ako ng scholarship, binalik ng school yung mga bayarin namin na 21k plus yung utang pa namin last year na tuition na hindi rin namin nabayaran ng mama ko. Prior to the incident, bulakbol talaga ako. I know, I'm an idiot. Dalawa lang kami ng mama ko sa buhay tapos 60 na siya ngayon at wala kaming stable income. Diskarte ng nanay ko lang talaga ang bumubuhay samin ngayon. Hindi nako nakapag-aral na dahil nagkaroon ako ng health complications nung nagka GERD ako or severe acid reflux nung pandemic. Dahil din sa horrible lifestyle ko dati. Pero nung medyo okay pako, nag modular learning ako nung 2021 para matapos ko yung grade 10 ko. Late ko na nalaman na pwede pala mag enroll sa public school gamit lang ang LRN. Pero hindi na ako nakapag SHS after that. Medyo lumala na kase yung sakit ko. Dagdag pa yung nasa bahay lang ako palagi at hindi na ako lumalabas. Tapos sa katangahan ko dati at sa kahirapan namin sa buhay, nagka severe anxiety disorder ako. Di rin ako nakapaghanap ng trabaho because of that. I've contemplated commiting s*icide for almost 5 years na, but I can't do it because of guilt. Dahil sobrang awang awa ako sa mama ko. Hindi ko siya gustong iwan. Matanda na siya. Kahit alam ko na sobrang disappointed siya saakin, hindi niya parin ako pinabayaan. Hindi niya pinamukha sakin na failure ako at palagi niya ako ineencourage na magpatuloy lang sa buhay. Wala siyang pagkukulang talaga. It's all on me. Hindi ko rin kaya iwan yung isa pang mahal ko sa buhay. nagkaroon din ako ng girlfriend na nag-aaral ngayon ng Dentistry sa NU MOA. LDR kami at 2 years na kami ngayon. I have a bestfriend kase na idol na ngayon sa South Korea. Member siya ng Hori7on. Yung gf ko, fan niya dati nung Tiktoker palang siya at nagkakilala kami ng gf ko nung inadd ako ng bestfriend ko na yun sa group chat nila. 3rd year na gf ko. Alam niya ang situation ko, pero tanggap niya parin ako. Hindi ko rin siya gustong iwan. Sobrang swerte ako na nagkaroon ako ng jowa na katulad niya. Nahimasmasan na rin ako ngayon. Akala ko dati wala na talaga akong pag-asa to turn my life around. Pero buhay pa ako. Tama na ang constant rumination ko sa sarili ko. I don't want to stay like this forever. Marami pakong chance. Kaya gusto ko sana mag-aral ulit. Gusto kong mag ALS para ma skip yung SHS at dumiretso nako sa college. I think I'm capable sa college kahit magskip. Nung pandemic kase, nagkaroon ako ng sideline na taga answer ako ng modules ng kapitbahay ko na SHS. Hindi naman mahirap sagutin kahit wala pang chatgpt that time, lol. Pero marami din nagsasabi na icontinue ko nalang ang pag SHS. Pero kase 23 nako. Mga barkada ko ngayon maggagraduate na ng college. Alam ko na di karera yung pag-angat sa buhay, pero kase tumatanda na mama ko at gusto ko na makatapos agad para makapag trabaho para magkaroon ako ng stable income para sa kanya. Hindi ko alam kung san ako magsisimula. Gusto ko na nga mag call center sana kahit dati pa pero hindi ko alam kung kaya ba ng katawan ko dahil hindi parin ako cured sa GERD ko at minamanage ko lang yung symptoms at flare ups neto hanggang ngayon.
TL:DR, 23M, Di nag SHS, NEET since 2018. Gustong mag-aral ulit pero di alam kung magpapatuloy pa sa SHS or mag ALS nalang para diretso college na.

I am doing my 3rd year in chemical engineering. I don’t see myself working on site as a process engineer so I have been looking into different careers I can do with my degree when I finish. I am struggling in school and I am just passing with 50s so my GPA isn’t that great. I am worried that I won’t get a job when I graduate because of my bad grades. I recently fell in love with coding, so I have been looking at whether it would be possible for me to get into the data engineering field with my degree. I know from now on till my final year, I would have to self learn and work on the skills that are needed in data engineering. I’m also not sure if the companies need a computer engineering degree and maybe they won’t even consider my application with my chemical engineering degree.

What do you prefer to assign? Lately I've been working fully online (hopefully temporary) and I've been assigning only digital work of course but I remember as a student using paper too and in my first year teaching in person struggling with paper hw (student's loosing the worksheet, carrying a lot of paper around ) so now I'm thinking that maybe when o I go back to a classroom I could stick to asking for a pic of their worksheet or letting them use whatever tools they want to edit the file.
I think it really is more convenient for everyone, I'm grading papers on an ipad which make it way faster and more convenient for me as I can do it on short bus rides or while waiting for my coffee idk.
what's your opinion on going fully digital for HW and how do you do it? What apps do you use? I've been using telegram as it allows you to draw and annotate over the picture and send it immediately to the same number you got it from, you can't have WhatsApp on an ipad and I think google classroom is more inconvenient for kids this age. Lmk your thoughts! I'm a little scared of being back in a real classroom and the mess of papers flying around

I have just started my jee journey and have a choice to stay in my current school which I have faith in and I leave at 2:00 or to join a new school where I can go home at 12:30 which will help me focus on coaching. I have stayed in my current school since 3rd grade and I really don't wanna switch I feel like I will be able to handle it with my coaching being in the afternoon 3:30 to 7:30. The new school will help me focus more on jee prep whereas I trust that if I stay in my current school I will get at least 90 percent plus in 12th boards. This is going to be a very impactful decision for the next two years of my life. What should I do?

So I’ve had this childhood crush since I was five. He moved in next door to me when we were kids and I had the biggest crush a kid could have. He would swim in the neighbors pool with me and all my cousins. When we would have random fires he would come over and play with us. He was at my house more than his own because we wasn’t allowed to watch family guy. We had BB gun wars in our yard and he always came over and was part of them. We had bike races around the block (8 of us and 9 including him) and he would always participate with us. His dad would push us in his tire swing together.
Eventually in the 3rd grade he moved away. He came back in 8th grade and we immediately clicked again. I didn’t have a crush on him anymore though, but we were inseparable. In 9th grade he was dating one of my closet friends that I set him up with and the feelings came back. I tried to deny it and didn’t tell anyone and acted normal. Eventually they broke up and the next year rolled around. Me and him started talking and he admitted he had a crush on me when we were younger and when he came back. Feelings grew and we ended up getting together.
About a month after that I broke up with him. I was dry and just constantly not giving him attention that he deserved. 2 months later he got with another girl. A month before that I planned on telling him I still had feelings. When I saw them walking around together I backed off because I didn’t wanna be the thing that ruined his happiness.
Well recently we were talking and we admitted we still liked each other. I have always had a problem with coming off vulnerable but I played out everything for him. I’ve been infatuated with him since we were 5. I’ve loved him since I was 13. And I’ve been inlove with him since I was 15.
But he’s with another girl. At the end of the day he said he wanted to be with me but he didn’t want to leave her and wanted to see how things went because they were happy. I understand that. At the end of the day I can’t be upset because he’s also my best friend. At the end of the day I was the problem. I’ll never not admit that he is what I’d consider the loml. If other lifetimes exist then I believe we find our way to each other in every single one.
But I owed karma and it was paid in full.
We both admit we love each other still.
Any advice??

Hello!
I'm doing a Predoc with 2 solid professors who have had some strong placements but, apart from getting strong letters, I'm hoping to get some advice on what courses to take during my predoc to maximize my chances of getting into a top program. Here is my current profile: GPA: 3.95+ from Ivy
Math Courses: Multivariable Calc (A+), Linear Algebra (A), will take Real Analysis during predoc
Stat Courses (all grad-level courses): Probability Theory (A+), Statistical Inference (A), Linear Regression (A-), Nonparametric Statistics (A-), Causal Inference (A-) [PhD course where we had to write a research paper], Machine Learning Theory (A-)
Econ Courses: Intermediate Micro, Macro, Econometrics, Advanced Econometrics, International Trade, Development Economics, Environmental Econ (all A's)
Coding Background: p good w/ R, Stata, Python (used all in past RA experiences / classes)
Research: main research is with development econ lab, she'll probably write my 3rd letter. apart from that, just busy work with business school profs, busy work w/ an econ prof.
TA: did TA and grading stuff for stats for 1 sem each
Rec letters ideally come from the one prof I did meaningful research with + my 2 Predoc profs.
Main question is what else should I take apart from real analysis? Was thinking either a PhD micro course or measure theory, but I'm looking to get some thoughts and feedback on anything I can do to strengthen my application

Hi, I’m a fashion design student and I don’t want to finish it anymore.
I was originally pursuing a premed course but pandemic came. Online learning made me shit like using google during exams or assignments made by gpt and such. I wasn’t learning anything thru online so I decided to stop after 1.5 sem, got a formal job for a break, entered the fashion world, and now I’m in crisis again. At first, I wanted to do it for fun, I had goals but not long term. I’ve been really invested in fashion since I was a child. Ideas would come to me naturally kahit noon pa but my procrastination got worse after I became a fashion student like doing a midterm project on the same day of our deadline🤯. I don’t know if it’s because of the school, of the lifestyle, of the profs, or just me. I just know my love for fashion & arts at the moment is not as much as before. The last time I felt happy while sketching was around January or December, bago matapos yung 2nd sem ko. I still sketch, and do things but I feel like para nalang sa grades, not because of passion.
I wanted to be a fashion designer based in Japan so that was my motivation back then. I even made a playlist on YT with around 100+ videos—all about Japan (fashion, life, food, etc.) for me to watch every single day, to stay motivated. But I don’t feel like watching them anymore. I’ve been thinking of different motivations every day like my mom, but I don’t pity her anymore. Sometimes, I would think about my parents dying and leaving us alone, but that won’t bother me anymore also. I know my mind is fucked up.
I’ve been thinking about stopping since my 2nd sem. Now, we already paid more than 100k in full for my 3rd sem. I won’t get a refund, even a bit, kasi tapos na rin midterms. I had a beef with my prof recently. Nagstart sya nung 1st day ko sa class nya and until now, ganun pa rin. It has been draining me, dumadagdag sya sa workload stress ko. I think that triggered my thoughts such as gusto ko na magdrop, period. That unbothered feeling pero pano ko sasabihin sa mom ko yun? Nahihiya ako kasi 2nd time ko na. She’s very supportive, and I know she’ll let me do it but yung guilt, I know it would kill me. I don’t know what to do anymore. I’m also tired of thinking. I want to study something else, but I’m scared of spending more & gaining nothing.
You might view me as a super lazy person, but I’m telling you, I’m not. I’m pretty consistent sa gym, lots of panganay duties & so on. Can someone enlighten me or like what’s your take on my situation? I’m very very confused right now. Be harsh or anything, just want to learn from different perspectives.

This post is rather long but it’s the best way I know how to express what’s going on right now, so bear with me. Here it goes…
Back in 2nd grade, 1997ish, I had been having a lot of behavioral issues in school. My parents were at the end of their rope, and I think I was on the verge of being sent to alternative school. Shortly before giving up, my parents took me to a Psychologist, who for the purpose of this story, we’ll call Dr. Jones. His name wasn’t Dr. Jones, but we’ll say it was. I began seeing Dr. Jones, and our sessions had an amazingly positive impact on my behavior in school.
Almost from our first appointment, I had always looked up to Dr. Jones, aspired to be like him, and held him in very high regards. Dr. Jones, in my opinion, was second only to God himself throughout a significant period of my childhood.
He had a profound impact on who I became as an adult. He was a role model, a guide, and a listening ear. He taught me how to deal with the crap going on in my life, and completely changed my outlook on life.
I continued seeing Dr. Jones through the rest of my elementary school years until he abruptly stopped seeing me in 2001. He had rescheduled our appointment in September and then sent a letter to all of his patients shortly before the rescheduled date, stating that his practice had suspended appointments indefinitely “due to personal reasons”.
Through a chance meeting, I made contact with Dr. Jones again sometime around 2004, and he explained that he had had a heart attack and it rendered his health such that he was unable to practice. That encounter in 2004 was the last time I saw him in person.
Since that encounter in 2004, I have occasionally tried to look him up, if nothing else to thank him for the help he gave me when I was younger. I’m in my 30’s now and have since gone through college and am a practicing therapist myself. I feel that I owe this accomplishment to him, for guiding me back to the right path, and I have always wanted to thank him for that. To date, I have not had any luck finding him or his practice, and have always assumed he probably retired.
Well, last Friday, I got another burning desire to look Dr. Jones up again, and I decided to try to find him on LinkedIn. I found him, but he looked like he had gone about 5 rounds with Mike Tyson in the profile picture on his LinkedIn.
When I knew him, he was always clean- cut. My first thought was “maybe that’s his son?” My next thought was “well, he would potentially be pushing 80, maybe he just didn’t age well…” but I also couldn’t help but notice that there was no mention of him ever having been a psychologist on his LinkedIn page. Nothing at all.
That’s when I did something I wish to hell I hadn’t have done. I don’t know what possessed me to do this, but I went to the state licensing verification website and looked up Dr. Jones. And that’s when I found out what I wish I didn’t know.
This person, who I held in such high regards, who I felt was an expert in his field, who I trusted, and loved… was not who he said he was the whole time.
Dr. Jones has never held a license to practice Psychology in my state, and the lesser license he did hold as a Professional Counselor (a license that requires a person to work under an independently licensed supervisor in my state) was revoked because of multiple instances of professional misconduct.
A 27 page consent agreement from 2005 outlined 24 findings of fact. I had to stop reading after page 13, I couldn’t take it anymore. I couldn’t believe what I was reading.
He had been passing himself off as a psychologist since 1993, and had been busted for it 3 times. The 3rd time resulted in a permanent ban from ever holding any professional license in my state. 2 of the reprimands happened while I was his patient.
I looked up to this man. I believed he was who he said he was. I believed he was indeed a psychologist because I had no reason to not believe him. The consent agreement made it very clear that a lot of what I believed to be true about his qualifications and background were all fabricated.
There was no heart attack. He closed his practice down on the fly because the state threatened criminal charges if he continued practicing psychology without a license.
This information hit me like a ton of bricks. In the moment, so many emotions coursed through my body it felt like I was going to puke. I’m still at a loss for words. It feels like my whole childhood was a lie. I’ve had a week to deal with it and I’m still in shock
I’m okay now, still rattled, but I’ll be okay. It’s just… shocking.

i skipped a grade a few years ago and currently im a rising junior. the vp of my school specifically pulled me from the hall out of nowhere in the last minutes of the last day of school and was like "ur request for ap lang and comp wont be fulfilled" and i was like bruh y not and she wouldn't even tell me. i told her "so im only doing psych, pre calc and bio next year?" and she pulled out her phone and was like "nope, ur not taking ap bio either, we have u down for normal physics." when i literally wanted bio to pursue my career and she was like "well you'll be a junior and that's still 3 ap classes!!" on sum bullshit like it's illegal for me to take more than 2. i told her my peers are taking lang pre calc and some r taking a 3rd ap but she just brushed that shit right off. complete utter bullshit i do nothing but work my ass off to get where i am but now i have to be in a normal english class that makes me look like a fucking idiot or something along with a random ass science class that i don't wanna take. this is so unfair because i know neither of the ap classes are full. can they do this? just potentially ruin the image im trying to build for colleges to see?

Now that the first round of the BITS entrance exam is over, many of you with scores enough to get both these branch types would wonder what you should be going for. So, here are answers to a few FAQs to remember to help you choose the more suited option.
Q- What's the difference between ECE/EEE/ENI? A- Honestly, nothing significant. All the Phoenix students will have the entire 2nd year in common, as well as a few 3rd year courses. All the branches differ by at most 3-4 courses, which you can also take as electives. Moreover, their average packages differ by about 2 lakhs at max, further strengthening my point. I'd recommend treating all of them as equivalent and prioritising them on the basis of campus.
Q- Is taking a Dual worth it? A- Depends on person to person. If you have enough capital and are a sincere student who doesn't think of studying as a burden, it should be worth it, as you'll get branches like CS/MnC at a much lower entrance exam score. All this provided you get close to 8 CGPA in the first year, which isn't very hard, but that doesn't mean you'll slack off. Assuming that you did slack off, the cutoff for ENI should be around 6.8 for Goa, so you should at least end up with an electronics branch, if not anything better.
Q- How many dualites get CS? A- Well, Goa has close to 340 dualites as of now, out of which around 90-95 will get CS. Around 270-290 (or even more) dualites will end up with circuital branches, which is a great percentage of people.
Q- How easy is it to score 8+ in the first year? A- Fairly easy; you need a B grade (usually awarded at average +10-15) in all your subjects to be an 8-pointer. Some courses, such as GenChem (which is just JEE Chemistry), are fairly easy to score an A in, whereas labs are mostly an easy A- if not A, so it shouldn't be very challenging to score a CG good enough for CS in the first year (again, provided you're a sincere student, which you should be able to gauge by yourselves now that you've been through the JEE rat race).
Q- Is Electronics difficult? A- Yes, compared to other branches on campus, the workload is higher. The grading is also a little unfair and more on the worse side (but it might change for Goa since the HoD was recently changed). But maintaining a good CG (8+ if not 8.5+) is, again, not a mammoth task. I know a few seniors in Goa phoenix who have good enough CGPA in spite of being in a Phoenix branch. It all depends on how serious you are and your interest towards academics.
Q- So, an MSc or Electronics? A- Well, if you think you'd like another chance at getting a branch like CS, have enough capital to afford the 5 year fees comfortably, and are willing to work for it in the first year, then MSc is a great option. Worst case you'll end up with an electronics branch, which is still great RoI. If you prefer enjoying the first year of your college life and being stress-free or aren't willing to pay that much money, Electronics is the way to go.
If you have any other queries related to the college, feel free to comment!

Hi,
I am a recent graduate who has a degree in Architectural Science at BCIT - British Columbia Institute of Technology. I also carry an Advanced Diploma of Architectural Technology at George Brown College. I would like to know other possibilities if I did not meet the minimum of the GPA grade? My transcript shows my overall GPA at "74%", although my other courses for my 3rd and 4th year of the BCIT Arch Sci are in the 73-85% range.
What are other elements that I can use to qualify myself as a potential candidate instead of my GPA (despite being 1% off) . I'm getting abit concerned if I'm better off applying to universities that are not in the Toronto area.
Also for anyone in the program, what are some recommendations to prepare for the March program? (Ex: learning a new program (Rhino), enhancing my design knowledge (practical or moreover a parametric matter?)
Just a note, I am graduating this year, but I will plan to apply next year.

So, I moved to my current school for 4th grade (2017). I go to a preK-12 school, and the gym & health teacher for the entire school is one man who's been teacher for around 15 or so years.
He starts "subtle" in 5th or 6th grade, always getting really up close with the girls. He seems to think in 7th grade that we became free range, and starts openly harassing us. It started with grabbing my one classmate by the feet and making weird comments about "how small and petiet your feet are". Then we had a 12 major muscles test, he grabbed a girl's ass and stated the muscle there. He watches us workout, stares at our asses and breasts, and even stands outside the locker room to hear our conversations.
We take his classes through 10th grade, having both health & gym the last 2 years. This year, he started asking us about our sexual turns off and turn ons. This didn't pertain to the class, we were learning about cancers at the time. He also kept these sheets to grade and never handed them back. (These werent from a program, they were clearly hand typed. I have pictures of all of them) When we stretch in class, he stands there and pretends to stretch, but aggressively crotch thrusts towards the girls. He also often asks us about if we sleep with guys or what our opinions on sleeping with older men are.
We've tried multiple times to report him this year, but every time, the girls backed out (they didnt want to "ruin his life") and the school year ended. Today, I was talking to the school librarian at the local diner, and I decided to speak up. Being a mandated reporter, she sat and listened to me and my friend for almost 2 hours about everything he's done. She went to the principal and reported the teachers behavior.
Now, the principal would like to speak with me and my friend next week with the sheriff about the correct steps to take. I live in a small, conservative town, where things like this don't happen, and if they do, you don't talk. I've decided to change that for the girls who have put up with him and the girls whi are yet to.
I know to print & bring my pictures of the worksheets, but not what else. Does anyone have any advice or tips for when I go to see the principal and sheriff? It's me, my friend, and our librarian who has to be involved (mandated reporter rules.) Really, any advice helps!!

or context my ex best friend [33 f] and I [31f] were friends from the 3rd grade till about 2 years ago. When we had a following out it was a long time coming. We had a few fights leading up to the following up where we'd go weeks with out talking where she'd block me on all socials. We both grew up in decent homes and both parents on each side raised both sides well. From my POV or any one that knows her well enough [ we live in a small town] knows what how babied/sheltered/kid like she Is. She never had any kind of exposure to adulting [the best way I can put it] I can give examples all day long but won't get to the true question. But that's what I feel like caused out falling out was I stopped tip toeing around her snd was honest with her in her eyes I was toxic. One of the talks we had before we had before we had the falling out when things were a little rocky was me confronting her about something her husband did with a girlfriends [before they got together] daughter. I just found out about before I told her by word of mouth. I wanted to tell her just incase something happened to her. Or they had a kid. She as far as I know wlstikk wants kids. I felt was something you'd considered when having kids with some one. If they'd do something bad to them. I expected her to freak out on me and take me home. She eneded up confirming a second instead that happened with a him and a neice of his. His neice confronting her issues. She told me that she never told me about because there was one time where she watched my two kids and wanted us not to worry about them being around her husband. Thay pissed me off because she put my kids in possibly worst scenario any parent is afraid of. I asked her about having kids with him her response was I just pray he doesn't do anything to his own kids. Fast forward to about a month ago. There was a corrections officer that worked at the prison where I live that got arrested for a bunch of gross stuff dealing with his own kids. What made this stir up slot of bad emotions for when it comes to my ex friend. Is they dated in high school. And ad adults her and her husband hung out alot. That and him and her husband worked together at the prison. So made me thing what if there more instances with both of them being creeps. Even if there is I want to expose them to her family. Even though we aren't friends I still love her parents and her sibling that I still talk to. It could be therr future grandkid or neice/nephew that has a creep for a dad. Wiba if I exposed the creep to her family?