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Hi. I am currently grieving a relationship of mine and can’t really talk about it without sounding crazy to anyone in person so I decided to come here.
Relationships can mold people in many ways whether that be platonically or romantically. Unfortunately I grew up in sort of a colder house hold, always craving some kind of touch from my family, but my father was always deployed or working and my mother was always working as well. I guess you could say I developed an anxious attachment style with my friends because of this. Even as a kid, when people hurt my feelings I still wanted to be their friend so badly because I had so much forgiveness in my heart. Sure I was independent, I was the oldest sibling, but I really just wanted to be heard by someone. Even if that meant they’d hurt me, as long as they listened I didn’t care. I had a lot of terrible friendship experiences, especially in high school, but more so terrible dating experiences.
Past relationships.
My first serious relationship was with an older man, I was 16 and he was 20. I won’t go into the details about this relationship because this story isn’t about him, but he wasn’t good to me. He cheated, blackmailed me and abused me both mentally and physically. But for some reason. I stayed for 9 months. And he continued to block me, unblock me, block me, repeat until my face turned purple and my eyes couldn’t cry anymore. It hurt me so bad. I knew I didn’t do anything wrong, but he would hurt me so bad. And before you say, “why didn’t you leave?” He would record us during intercourse and threaten to send it to my high school so I was too scared to leave. I also had a lot of health issues in this time, cancer to be specific, and at school everyone kind of already thought I was weird because I was the girl who came back from summer vacation and was skinny and had a cut across her throat. The assumed I attempted, but it was just from surgery of a tumor removal. I was alone for the most part outside of him. I finally did leave though once I ended up in the hospital because of this man. I didn’t feel anything for him anymore, he would ruin me then and for the rest of my life. Because of this entire relationship, I think I developed ptsd or bpd. Apparently some form of mental illness runs in my family so this just triggered it. To make a long story short though, it ruined me. I struggle a lot still because of it, maybe I’ll talk about the whole story another time. But i didn’t get any help afterwards. i did get offered by my mother to go to therapy. I just considered it not that big of a deal, i didn’t want to be affected by this. I just wanted to try and move on. Even after everything he had done to me. I just wanted to let it all go. I was a kid after all. A few months after, I had built myself up a little and was now 17, I met another guy, 19. I was a Senior now, had some friends and actually started enjoying life. Sure that’s all great but guess what? He also cheated on me and mentally abused me. I had only stayed with him so long because my mom had cheated on my dad so I didn’t want to be home a lot because of the fighting. So I clung to him. And again I was in another relationship where I obviously wasn’t wanted. But this time he actually tried to leave instead of stringing me along. This was very early in, around the 3 month mark. I don’t know why… I just broke down and instead of letting him go because I’d caught him cheating, I drove to his house and begged him to stay. I drove. to his house. And begged him. to stay. Constant texts, calls on every app possible, knocking at the door. I was passionate, but why? I just didn’t want to have to go home? I don’t even know why I was so stupid. But we stayed together, for another 9 whole months. Patterns right? Well we finally broke up because I’d caught him cheating one last time and he just didn’t want to deal with me anymore because he knew he really just didn’t want me. Which is ok. There’s alot of things that told me I wasn’t the one for him but again, this story isn’t about him, we can talk about this another time. So what did I do? Well the second I got blocked by him one by one on every platform, I again felt intense rage and sadness and started spamming and calling and this time even making fake numbers. I feel ashamed I was so alone I felt the need to try and cling to these men. It is disgusting. I wish I was better. But after about a month and a few hookups I was back to normal and didn’t care. Well this time I stayed single for two years. I understood I needed to work on myself and actually become an adult now that I was 18. I did go to college for a about two months but ended up dropping out because I’d realized with all the health issues, abusive relationships and lost times I had in high school, i wanted to find myself. So I saved up to move out my parents house, started playing more video games and making more friends, moved out and partied a lot. Lots of live shows and concerts, I was thriving. I finally wasn’t depressed and actually felt like I had meaning. I was getting a lot of attention online, getting recognized at every party or show. I felt really good. For the first time in my entire life, I felt good. I wasn’t just the sick girl anymore.
The confession.
Well that brings me to September of last year. After two years I was finally ready to love, have a real nice good relationship to be in. You know, meet my husband or whatever. The only problem was that I’d gone on dates a little and I was on dating apps, but everyone in my city goes to this really fancy art school and they’re all really stuck up and ugly so I wasn’t really into anyone locally. But tiktok, tiktok had some beautiful men. And I am quite the escapist so the idea of a long distance relationship didn’t seem so bad. So that’s where I met him . I woke up one day to a new follower and I was instantly impressed. He posted niche things that I was into like current hardcore music recommendations or books that he found interesting. Most importantly though he was so pretty. Actually the most gorgeous man I’ve ever laid eyes on. So we texted. We texted everyday and I found out he’d actually visited my city before and loved it. The only problem was that he was 7 hours away. But it didn’t matter to me. Usually with new guys I was extremely skittish, hard to open up, usually ghosting men or friend zoning them. I am a hard nut to crack, but I think we can agree opening up can be hard when your trust gets broken. With him though, we texted all the time and FaceTimed and I just wanted to meet him so badly. Well we were all great until I’d looked through his following casually and found out he kissed another girl behind my back after we’d talked about being exclusive. When I found out I immediately confronted him and he just blocked me. And it happened again. I started begging him on another app he didn’t have me blocked on to stay and give me a chance. And he eventually answered and stayed with me all night talking about how he was sorry and he wanted to meet me and he was just using her in that moment to forget about me incase i wasn’t real. It was still so upsetting for me, but I do have to admit I didn’t want to let him go because there was something so charming about him. I also had told him about my past relationships and health issues etc and it felt like he really understood me. He was always gentle with me, very considerate and always at my call if I ever needed him. He hadn’t messed up until this moment and I don’t know, something told me he was different and I just needed to relax and realize that long distance is hard for some people. So at this point I was determined to meet him in person. The cycle never breaks I guess. I then planned a trip on Halloween to go see him and I did and it was probably one of the best decisions of my entire life. His financial situation was a lot worse than mine, still living with his relatives. So I paid for everything except for the food on this trip and every trip going forward. The second id seen him in person I could feel shock waves of warm throughout my entire body, like I was meant to meet him. It was really awesome because I’d never had this kind of experience with anyone in my entire life. After four days of being together, I remember leaving and for the first time in my life, someone cried over me. I watched him cry as I was leaving the hotel parking lot, crying with him because I didn’t want to leave. I wanted to be there forever. Something in me changed that day, I felt so healed. I don’t know. We ended that trip as boyfriend and girlfriend and for the next three months we would call every day, text a lot and just have a good time. I visited him again on his birthday in December and ended up also meeting his friends. It was good, everything was so good. I felt so extremely connected to this man. He used to be silly and say things to me like “I’m not a spiritual person, but I really think we were meant to meet. I swear we walked down the same street somewhere in (my city) or touched the same sign. It’s like I’ve known you my whole life” and that was extremely reassuring. Until the first week of January. On New Year’s Day he told me he was excited to spend this new year with me, but now, a week in I’d called him about visiting on my birthday and he told me not to come. I was so upset. I went to see him for his birthday, so what was the problem with mine? Well he said for money reasons. Which was true, we both weren’t financially well at all and we were both working 35-45 hours a week just to see each other, but I had enough, I was coming. It was my 20th birthday and I wasn’t about to leave my teens without some kind of memory and I loved every memory we had. I didn’t see anything wrong with that. Throughout the next few days after that he got more and more distant and it was tearing me apart. Which I should’ve expected this, but he eventually did send that awful break up text. He claimed it was because of depression, but it didn’t feel right. I’ve dealt with depression the majority of my life and I can say anytime I’m feeling alone he’d make it all better. It was easy to ignore things with that kind of support, it was the first time I had anything like that. So I told him I’d be here for him, we didn’t have to break up, I would be here for him and we could work through this without giving up. But he didn’t want to and blocked me on everything except for discord and Snapchat. So what did I do at 1 am when I received this text, I drove to see him. I thought maybe if he saw me, maybe the distance is the problem, maybe I could go see him and calm him down. I’m stupid. I’m crazy. Once I got there I immediately called him and well… I didn’t get to see him. He was extremely upset I’d just drove 7 hours after he tried to break up with me and did not want to see me. After an hour of talking and trying, eventually I drove back home. He did make sure to call me during my trip and felt extremely bad for not seeing me, but I was so mentally defeated by now. Once I got home for the next week we talked about things and decided for my birthday I would still come and afterwards we would go on a break and take some space to deal with our mental problems so we could come back as better people. I don’t like breaks. I understand they are usually just the slow end, but I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt because I really truly did love this man. During this week before I came he did still have me blocked, but of course I had another tiktok account and noticed he’d been following tons of new girls and posting thirst traps and such that many of the same girls would comment on. This made me extremely upset. But I bottled it up because the one time I tried to ask him if he was cheating, he simply got defensive and said no. So I didn’t want to make things worse, I just wanted to see him . When I went to visit for my birthday it was a normal trip, had a good time and it’s like nothing was wrong with us. Until the last day. I casually mentioned visiting again in March so that way we could save all February and not be stressed about another trip. Well. He said “I kind of thought it would go without saying that we won’t be planning things together anymore.” I immediately began crying and went into the other room. It was really over. It was like the guy that I first met, the one who promised me the world, told me I was special and I was his forever, he was gone. But that thought couldn’t even boil properly because he was there in the room a second later, holding me and telling me to breathe. After I calmed down I of course gave a long speech about how I was always there for him, I loved him no matter what, I wanted to be with him forever and he was the person I couldn’t see myself without. And he didn’t say a word. He just looked at me with the saddest eyes I’ve ever seen and stood over me. I don’t quite remember how this all ended because it was an episode but we ended up having intercourse and he left with an I love you. Before I drove home that next day, I’d visited him at his college for a bit because I didn’t know when the next time I’d see him was. I felt like things would be okay. We took some final pictures with my digital camera and kissed a lot. It was normal. Yea until he gave me his “lucky 2 dollar bill.” He gave it to me and told me to hold onto it for him for good luck. For forever he said. Something about it was so .. sad. I kind of knew this was the last time I’d see him. Even though we kept saying “don’t worry it’s only until March!” I kind of knew. His expressions were still sad, just so empty. I just knew. So we said goodbyes and I pretended it wasn’t the last time I’d see him and I went home. Well for the next month it was horrid. The same girls showing up in his comments, no more calls unless I begged for them and a constant reminder of the break. He ruined every day. I don’t understand why things were going the way they were, but they did. And I understood he was doing this on purpose now. So in a final attempt to save this relationship I did confront him one last time about the potential cheating and I was hit with the “the truth is I don’t want to be with you anymore.” And then a paragraph about how sorry he was, a picture of us and then I was blocked. No explanation, no closure. Nothing. It went from the purest love I’d ever felt to a ghost in the snap of a finger. I was so lost. So the cycle continued. I called over and over, but this time. It was worse. I feel bad for doing this. I wish I was better, but I just really didn’t want to lose him. I didn’t know if he cheated for real, but he was a good person. He treated me so well, was so loving and considerate of me. He always made sure I felt beautiful. He introduced me to this whole new world of music and movie culture. I don’t know. I loved the way his warmth felt on mine. I didn’t want to let this go. So I got my friends to text him, and when he blocked them, I made new fake numbers. Dumping hundreds of dollars into stupid phone apps to try and contact him. He just got more and more mad but I just wanted to talk to him, I just wanted to fix this. I didn’t understand it. Eventually he did talk to me, calm me down, promise to talk to me again. But days went by, and he didn’t. So again, I called and texted and called and texted. I stalked his socials every day, waiting for a repost to know he was on his phone. I tried to “move on”. I’d went on dates, slept with another man, gone to concerts, parties… connected with nature? I tried it. But I just wanted him and I was far to depressed to even do anything other than cry at this poin. And unfortunately this continued for 4 months. I just couldn’t stop. Everytime I was better, I just got sad and started texting him again. Why did he did this? Why did I have to go? Answers that I had never received. And wouldn’t because he continued to ignore me of tell me to fuck off and leave his life. At this point I only said kind things, begging him to just talk to me and just to remember me and how much I missed him. But he was so cruel. I just wanted to talk to him. So that’s when I threatened him. Early on in our relationship I’d done some of his homework for college for him and I had all the screenshots and told him if he didn’t answer and explain why he just randomly let go is id send the screenshots to his school. He replied. He called. Of course he was mad I threatened him, but I just wanted answers and i couldn’t deal with the silence anymore. But I still didn’t get answers because he himself said he didn’t know why he randomly lost love for me. He told me he’d done this to the girl before me as well and this time with me he tried to be nice about it, but he just didn’t love me anymore just like the last girl. And with that, i grew even more depressed. I stopped calling for about a week but on a drunk night i tried my final Resort, watsapp. The only thing he didn’t block me on. And he replied. Sorta. He talked to me. Promised not to block me and that we could stay cool. He would text me when he could because apparently he was very busy. Just… letting me in again I thought. But I was stupid and of course this was just a way to get me to shut up. And again I got mad when he didn’t reply for days and eventually I figured out how to turn off my no caller Id to stop wasting money on the fake number apps and called again and again. I just felt like time was running out for us and we could still save it. I just wanted to save it. I had let go of everything before, let people hurt me, let everything just disappear like it didn’t matter. But I didn’t want to now, I wanted to fix it. I wanted to work on us to be better people. I’m so stupid. This turned into more rage obviously and I ended up threatening him again and saying if he didn’t answer I’d text his mother. I feel bad. I wouldn’t actually do these things, but the problem is that he wouldn’t answer if I was nice so at this point I was so desperate. And he called, instantly. We had a long talk, he was upset but calmed down and so did I. Eventually he agreed to try to take a week to fix our relationship and try and see if any feelings can come back to life. God I was so excited. I knew it could work and he’d promised he’d try.. right? He promised. Well. Three weeks went by and we called 4 times for twenty minutes each. Had meaningless conversation because he was so “busy”. I’d reply instantly to him, to which he’d reply after every hour to three hours. I tried everything to be cool about things. I respected when he said he didn’t want to call, i didn’t spam him. I sent him pictures of things i did that day, sent him new music I’d found. Waited patiently to talk about our relationship and not stupid things. Waited for him to not be so busy. Eventually though, I just got mad. On the last day, I asked him to call after he’d been out at a party the night before. He didn’t answer. I asked again. No answer. So I spammed. And I called. And all he said was “busy”. I didn’t care. I told him to call me now. He did after about thirty minutes. And we sat on the phone for an hour. Him saying how much he hated me, hated who I was, wanted me out his life, didn’t care about us and he stopped trying after the first week because he realized he didn’t like me at all. Everything I said gave him the ick. To which I combated with how much I tried and how he promised he’d tried and we would’ve had better conversations if he just actually talked to me. But he didn’t care. I tried to talk about our relationship, how much I loved him. How much I knew about him and how I was just wanting to see him again. But again, he didn’t care. It was then that he stopped me in my words about an hour and twenty minutes into this call and said “if you contact me again I’m getting a restraining order on you.” I was silent. I knew I overstepped, but was it really this bad? He then talked about how he was tired of dealing with this and just wanted to live his life without me. He didn’t need me threatening him, he wasn’t going to have his mom figuring out about all this. He wasn’t going to talk to me ever again, there was never going to be an us ever again and he’d known that since we got together that he never really wanted us. He apparently still didn’t know why, but he just knew the entire relationship that he didn’t want me. I didn’t fight this. I simply told him I was sorry and that if he ever wanted back into my life, I’d always love him. And we said good bye. I am still processing this, it’s only been a few days. But I feel so empty. I know I need help, I’m trying to get an therapist and get a true diagnosis. I feel immense pain. Cheating is bad, it’s terrible. But I didn’t mean to scar him for life. I just wanted things to go back to normal. I suppose I don’t know what else to say. I will think about this for the rest of my life and I feel extremely bad for hurting the only person I really ever loved.
I’m sorry.

(I already postet this on exmuslim, this is a repost)
I'm really bored so I'm gonna debunk these "scientifical miracles" in the Quran :3
Table of contents:

1. Big Bang
2. Life from water
3. Moon refllecting light
4. Iron from heaven
5. Embryology
6. Meeting of seas
7. Sun moving in an orbit
8. Pain receptors
9. Ants
10. Spiders house
11. Heaven smoke
12. Everything in pairs
13. Seven atmospheres
14. Chest-tightening in hypoxic environments
15. Mountains have roots
16. Pure rain
17. All animals live in communities
18. Expansion of the universe
    
19. BIG BANG
    

"Do the disbelievers not realize that the heavens and earth were ˹once˺ one mass then We split them apart?" (Quran 21:30)
According to Muslims, this verse tells us about the Big Bang and because of that, is an evidence for Islam being the true religion.
But the problem is: It is stolen. This saying that "the earth and the sky were once together and than seperated" are found in many religions. As an example, the egyptian mythologie. The egyptian mythologie tells us about the sky and earth being together a block and than being seperated. Another example is the summerian mythologie, which says basically the exact same thing the Quran says. Earth and sky were together, than seperated.
And if you paid attention, you will notice that both of these mythologies (egyptian and summerian) were also located in the middle east. And both of these mythologies were older than Islam. Who can add up 1+1 should now see that Momo just stole from other mythologies around him and put them in Islam.

1. LIFE FROM WATER In the same verse as above, it goes on and says: "And We created from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?" (Quran 21:30)

This Verse, according to muslims, says that life oroginated from water. Now, this verse doesn't really say that life originated from water but rather says that we are created from water... Whatever I guess
Thales, an ancient greek scientist, already knew that. No big suprise. Momo just did his thing, he stole it and put it in his own religion.

1. MOON REFLECTING LIGHT

"...placing the moon within them as a ˹reflected˺ light, and the sun as a ˹radiant˺ lamp?" (Quran 71:16)
Now, I take these verses from quran.com and whenever something is in these ˹˺ things, I'm suspicious because the words under them isn't really in the arabic original text, so I'm not sure if these verse really says "reflected" in the original text. But I'm just gonna pretend like it says that but I also heard some people saying that ot doesn't say that so... Idk ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Now, even if the text does say that the moon just reflects light and not produces its own light, this still wouldn't be a big thing. Because again, ancient greek men got our back. Like Anaxagoras, he speculated that the moon reflects light.

1. IRON FROM HEAVEN

"And We sent down iron..." (Quran 57:25)
Now, if you don't know, iron wasn't on earth always but rather came trough Supernovas (explosion of stars). Now, 'hOw cOuLd a dEseRt mAN 1400 yEarS aGo kNoW tHaT??'. Like the other "miracles", people already knew that. But not in the way we do now. Basically, civilisations like the ancient egyptians, already knew that iron came from heaven through metorites. Like I'm not joking, the literal name for iron in ancient egypt was "metal of heaven".... Great miracle Momo, really, I'm impressed

1. EMBRYOLOGY

"...then We developed the drop into a clinging clot, then developed the clot into a lump ˹of flesh˺, then developed the lump into bones, then clothed the bones with flesh, then We brought it into being as a new creation." (Quran 23:14)
Now, this verse is allegedly a miracle because it is a good description of how babays are formed. Only problem, again, it is stolen. The original description comes from Gallen, again an ancient greek scientist. It's nearly the exact same thing as he said. And it also includes the mistakes Gallen make: 'clothed the bones with flesh' means that there are bones and the flesh comes afterwards, which is false.

1. MEETING OF SEAS

"And He it is Who has joined the two seas: one sweet and palatable and the other saltish and bitter; and He has set a barrier and an insurmountable obstruction between the two that keeps them apart." (Quran 25:53)
This verse shows that salt and fresh water in don't mix. Well, I've got some problems with that:
How you probably already expect, it was already known. As an example, Aistotle knew that fresh and salt water don't mix. Momo just took it. But the other problem is, that it's false. Well, if you look at salt and fresh water, they may seem like they don't mix. But they do mix. But Aristotle didn't know that and I guess Allah just knows as much as Aristotle knew.

1. SUN MOVING IN AN ORBIT

"And He is the One Who created the day and the night, the sun and the moon—each travelling in an orbit." (Quran 21:33)
This verse allegedly shows that the sun is in a orbit and moves, which is actually true. For those who didn't know, the sun doesn't stay in one place but moves trough space.
Now, if you read the verse and think rationally, you'll see what is really meant. From the perspectiv of Momo, it seemed like the sun orbits around earth. And that's what he wrote. You can see that because of the referemce with night and day.

1. PAIN RECEPTORS

"Whenever their skin is burnt completely, We will replace it so they will ˹constantly˺ taste the punishment." (Quran 4:56)
According to muslims, this verse shows that the quran knew pain receptors existed and that they are in our skin... I don't think I have to debunk this? I mean, you could have asked a caveman "because of which body part we feel pain" and he would have showed the skin. Not because he knew about pain receptors. It was just what people thought

1. ANTS

"And when they came across a valley of ants, an ant warned, “O ants! Go quickly into your homes so Solomon and his armies do not crush you, unknowingly.” (Quran 27:18)
"This verse is a miracle because it shows us that Momo knew that ants could communicate."
I'm really starting to think that Momo was a big fan of ancient greek men, esspecially Aristotle. Because, again, Aristotle already said before Momo even existed, that ants could communicate.
But besides that, this verse doesn't even make sense, it has some errors:

1. Ants can't speak, they can communicate trough chemical smells
2. Ants can communicate with eachother, but not like this. Never. Trough these chemical smells, they might give a warning signal, to indicate that everyone should go back to the nest, but they could never say something like it is shown in the verse.
   
3. SPIDERS HOUSE
   

"The parable of those who take protectors other than Allah is that of a spider spinning a shelter. And the flimsiest of all shelters is certainly that of a spider, if only they knew." (Quran 29:41)
Yeah, muslims say that this verse knew that the spiders house is the weakest house of all. Sometimes I really think if muslims are serious when they say something like this. Ask a 5 year old child "what animal has the weakest home" and he would guess the spiders home.
Also, just a side fact, spidersilk is stronger than steel. If you would take 1 pound of steel and 1 pount of spidersilk, the silk would be stronger.

1. HEAVEN SMOKE

"Then He turned towards the heaven when it was ˹still like˺ smoke..." (Quran 41:11)
At the begining of the universe, there was a "gas state". The universe had a lot of gas in it, which formed than stars and other things.
But first of all, the verse doesn't say gas, it says smoke. And now, some of you may think that this is just a small thing, but gas and smoke actually can be very different. Also, why didn't god just say gas? It would be than correct and us kafirs would have nothing to yap about.
Actually, there is a bigger problem with this verse, and this is the previous verse, i.e. the 10th. Because there, Momo- I mean Allah talks about the creation of mountains on earth. But this 'gas-state' of the universe I just mentioned already had finished long before earth even formed, let alone the mountains.

1. EVERYTHING IN PAIRS

"Glory be to the One Who created all ˹things in˺ pairs—˹be it˺ what the earth produces, their genders, or what they do not know!" (Quran 36:36)
So, idk why this is a miracle. In some websites I take these miracles from, I see this a lot. So, everything is in pairs? I mean, I'm pretty sure the Mexican Whiptail Lizard doesn't have a male pair. These Lizards are just females and their reproduction also happens without the need of sperm. There are actually more animals which have no sexual conterpart. And also, if everything has a pair, what would be the pair of a phone be? A tablet? A television?

1. SEVEN ATMOSPHERE

"It is Allâh Who has created seven heavens..." (Quran 65:12)
The Quran says that there are 7 heavens and some muslims like to claim that this 7 heavens concept actually represents the 7 atmospheres.
I said "some" muslims because this is a really dumb "miracle" and you wont hear it from someone who has a decent knowledge of Islam, but because I still hear it a lot from muslims, I wanted to include it in here.
You can debunk this verse with another Quran verse, which says that the stars are in the lowest heaven:
"And We adorned the lowest heaven with lamps ˹for beauty˺ and for protection." (Quran 41:12)
("lamps" means stars)
Planes fly at the lowest atnosphere so according to this verse, than planes actially fly next to the stars?
Bonus fact: the concept of 7 heavens is stolen from the summerian mythologie :3

1. CHEST-TIGHTENING IN HYPOXIC ENVIRONMENTS

"But whoever He wills to leave astray, He makes their chest tight and constricted as if they were climbing up into the sky."
Ypu probably know that if you climb a mountain or are generally in higher places, the oxygen gets less because the gravitational pull isn't as stong.
Basically, you breathe harder on higher places. And this verse "shows that 1400 years before, when no one knew it!!"
That's a lie, people knew that. Also, Momo and his people would also have experienced it themselves, because of the environment there.
Not to forget, it is also wrong. If you were climbing 'up into the sky' your chest doesn't gets tight. It just feels like that.

1. MOUNTAINS HAVE ROOTS

"...and made the mountains as pegs..." (Quran 78:7)
Mountains have "roots" which are under the earth. And according to muslims, the refference with 'pegs' seems to show that.
And tbh, I don't find a logical way to explain this. I- I think I'm gonna convert back to Islam! Now I understand that not my eyes, but that my heart was blind all along! ALLAH FORGIVE ME! "Aschhadu an la ilaha illa-lah wa-"
Aristotle enters chat
"I knew that" he said with his magnificent eyes and with his 6.5 feet tall body when he enetered the room. His smell immediately filled my head. His body, so attractiv like the sun for Icarus...
(I'm sorry, I only slept like 4 hours, my brain is playing dumb)
Jokes aside, Aristotle already proposed the idea of mountains having roots under the earth. So it was nothing new.
~Aristotle seemed satisfied with the truth out and he left the room. As he closed the door, he looked at me and gave me a little smirk... and he was gone... But I knew that he would come back... Eventually... In another time, another place, another "miracle", I would see him again...~

1. PURE RAIN

"And He is the One Who sends the winds ushering in His mercy, and We send down pure rain from the sky." (Quran 25:48)
When water steams from the ocean to the sky and joins into clouds, the bacteria, dust or any other thing gets left behind and it's only water. And the Quran says that the rain is pure. Boom, miracle.
Not really, ancient people already believed that the rain was clean. And I know that the verse means 'pure' and not 'clean'. But the word used for pure actually also translates to clean and by translating to 'clean', I'm actually doing Muslims something good:
Because rain isn't pure. "But you just said and even explained why rain is pure" Yeah, I did, but this was just about the becterias which were already in the water. Because while the clouds are on the sky and driven by the wind, they collect new things. Like bacteria, dust or any other impurity.

1. ALL ANIMALS LIVE IN COMMUNITIES

"All living beings roaming the earth and winged birds soaring in the sky are communities like yourselves."
The sources, where I find my scientific miracles, says: "Animals live in communities and have their own languages. This was known recently, however this was portrayed in the Quran 1400 years before it was discovered."
And if this islamic website says it, it gotta be true... I think I have to give up, Muslims won, bye atheism, hello Isla-
~With a sudden burst the door was open and he walked in... The one for whom I'd give my life, the one for whom I'd really sacrifice my son Isaak... "Hello again", his voice full of wisdom to advanced for his time... He said nothing, he just had a little smile on his face, that reminded the smile of an alone mother, getting to see her beloved child again after a hard day... He sat besides me, took a deep breath and started "The thought that animals live in communities comes from me. Of course not just from me. I'm sure many civilisations, many great people had that tought."
"Aris? Whither hast thou wandered? By the gods, reveal thyself! Ah, there thou art! What shadows have thou been chasing?" It was Plato, who was searching for his his student, but also his friend. Aristotle seemed rather angry about his appereance and I could see his expressions, telling him to go away. But Plato didn't seem to get it, he was more interested in the vynil.
"Lo, it hath been many moons since mine eyes have beheld such a sight. Behold, within its confines, a disc doth lie, a testament to times long past." He saw the disc in the vinyl, which skipped when I was listening. But I was too tired to care.
"Okay, Plato, I'm coming, could you just give us one more minute?" His eyes shined more anger than the sun light and warmth, so that even Plato understood he wasn't welcomed.
"Very well, very well! I'm going on my path!"
And with Aristotles pulling, he was let out the door. While Aristotle was again on hsi way to me, he also noticed the vinyl and the disc which skipped. He flipped it over... And sat a little closer... (Lovers Rock referece)
We talked some more, but because of Plato, he couldn't stay long, so he made his way. But before that... He pressed his lips to my cheek, and gave me a little kiss. From the point of his kiss, a warmth filled my body... And he was gone...
(If you really read all of that shit, I'm sorry. I'm currently writing this in school... With again, 3 hours of sleep👍, but this is the end of this... Weird shit) (I'm btw also a boy, so you just read a love story of gay Aristotle, yippie)

1. Expansion of he universe

"We built the universe with ˹great˺ might, and We are certainly expanding ˹it˺." (Quran 51:47)
This is maybe the miracle you will hear the most. And to debunk it, simply use one of their own arguemnts: wrong translation/meaning
Because the meaning of this verse changed, this verse can mean 2 things:

1. "We are certainly expanding it"

But also...

1. "We are able to extend/expand it"

And if you look at the most reliable tasfirs, they talk about it as the 2. one. Old tasfirs always understood this verse as "we are able to expand" and not "we are expanding". Tasfirs like Ibn Kathir or Jalal (the 2 most reliable tasfirs I think) and many more tasfirs talk about it in this way. But newer tasfirs, which came out AFTER the discovery of the expansion of the universe suddenly understood it differently. I wonder why...
I'm done, this took me days to write, not because it was hard but because I wrote it in school during recess. And I actually enjoyed writing this very much, I also wanna start another project, where I either debunk "prophecies" in Islam OR show things that are just wrong (like scientifically, historically etc). Again, I'm sorry because of this Aristotle love story thing :3
Btw. If there are still some "scientific miracles" which you couldn't find here, you could write them as a comment, so that I or maybe someone else could debunk it ;)

Are you trying to follow for the imminent CAT examination but stressed approximately the steps? Worry no longer; by the stop of this blog, you'll thoroughly recognize the step-with the aid of-step guide on applying for CAT.
But first, let me tell you a tale. There’s a female named Nisha. Nisha has were given a sharp commercial enterprise mind and is seeking to practice for the CAT exam. However, she is barely confused about the way to move about the process. But worry not, this tale additionally has Archana who studies in an esteemed institute of control and can be assisting Nisha recognize every step.
Archana starts by way of stating that many but no longer all educational departments have a commonplace front exam, and that CAT is one of these. “The abbreviation stands for Common Admission Test and is performed by means of the Indian Institutes of Management”. Want to also prepare for CAT Exam, join the Best Online CAT Coaching.

Purpose and Particulars of the CAT Exam

As Nisha sits attentively, Archana begins explaining that the CAT exam is an entrance exam for purchasing admission to MBA schools or IIM institutes all over India.
Take observe Nisha, the examination for MBA entrance is carried out annually for college kids in India even as IIM is the only body that takes care of all reliable notifications, utility forms, undertaking and declaring the outcomes, talked about Archana. You ought to know who and why you’re writing the exam Archana says at the same time as she sips her coffee.
The senior student scrolls on line for the dates of the exam and asks Nisha to take down all of the particulars like -
MBA 2022 exam date is tentatively scheduled for November 27
The registration system will begin by way of the primary week of August.
And Archana exclaims, “consider Nisha utility mode is on-line”. Therefore, I anticipate you to sign up for reliable notifications to maintain music of the dates and essential bulletins.
In a feeble voice, Nisha asks, who can observe for the examination? While Archana smiles at her junior, she points out that a graduate from any circulate can observe for the CAT exam.
Any more doubts? Ask Archana. Umm, yes absolutely utters Nisha where will the exam be held? The MBA entrance is carried out in a hundred and fifty towns throughout India. And you could choose any 6 convenient ones as a result.

Detail Guide For Students Applying for CAT Exam

Now that we each recognize what the exam is, I’ll supply a simple student guide for MBA aspirants such as you looking to get into the pinnacle institutes in India.
Try to seize up with Nisha, Archana smiles playfully as she delves into the steps

Step 1: Online Application

Take notice, Nisha, step one is all approximately the web registration for the MBA entrance examination. Highlight this website iimcat.Ac.In to live-updated.

Step 2: Eligibility Criteria

That wasn’t so hard, was it? Let’s move directly to Step 2. With an assertive voice, Archana pats Nisha on the back and asks, “do you've got a bachelor’s diploma with an mixture percent of fifty percentage?” Yes, Nisha solutions to which Archana says, “then you definitely’re eligible to apply for the CAT exam.

Step 3: Keep Your Documents Ready

Well, now this step calls for your undivided attention, Nisha. It’s easy however tricky as properly, says Archana.
Here is a list of what you’ll want -

• Recent Passport Size Photographs
• Scanned reproduction of Signature (Black or blue)
• College Certificates (Marks Card)
• SC / ST / NC -OBC Certificate
• Contact Details
• Work Experience (in any)

Archana explains how she made the error of now not maintaining tender copies equipped and requests Nisha to maintain both tough and smooth copies ready.
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Few Tips For a Mistake-Free Application Process

Did you're making any errors whilst applying? Nisha asks Archana. Definitely yes, Archana sits again contemplating the careless mistakes. But don’t fear, all you want to do is keep an open thoughts and fill out the utility form readily.
In addition, I’ll even throw in a few hints to keep away from making any mistakes for the duration of the application system -
Since the process is performed on-line, make certain your browser is updated for immediate and clean outcomes. Google Chrome or Firefox are advocated to finish the registration.
Keep your scanned files geared up to be uploaded. Remember this Nisha! Archana exclaims to Nisha while she recalls her beyond mistake. Also, keep the documents in a separate folder with an appropriate label to avoid confusion. Yes, you want to do this Nisha, says Archana.
One detail applicants regularly omit is the dimensions and format of the pix. Therefore, take a look at for the size, print, and scan as in step with the necessities.
Since the examination happens throughout India, there are numerous centers to pick from. Ensure the cities you select are easily handy to you at the time of the MBA front exam.
Don’t leave out out on vital updates with the aid of counting on tentative dates. Keep a day by day check on any latest event at the reliable internet site of the CAT exam.
Last however now not least, continually double-check your utility form. Consider it a non-refundable flight price tag Nisha. You wouldn’t need to overlook your flight, Archana connotes the significance of the examination.

To Conclude -

Finally concluding this session with you Nisha, I would most effective suggest you maintain the stairs in thoughts. Right after the utility process, have a few a laugh with making ready for the examination, however of path, stay heading in the right direction constantly. Check the sample, notice the syllabus and resolve preceding years' query papers whenever you have loose time, Archana factors out whilst she seems at Nisha with desire.

As the title suggests, I’m looking for Ashwood Hollow, Iowa. I grew up there. It’s a small unincorporated town a good hour and a half from the nearest bigger city. By ‘bigger city’ I mean one with a Walmart.
Ashwood Hollow didn’t have much going for it when I was growing up. Mostly farmers who congregated together during the Great Depression to try to commune life their way out of poverty. Didn’t really work. Kept kicking though. Until recently, it seems.
Summer break was coming up soon, and I decided to go visit my family. It’s a long drive from Columbia to Ashwood Hollow so I planned on leaving first thing after my finals. But when I had my Tacoma packed and filled up with gas, something strange happened.
My phone’s GPS wouldn’t navigate to Ashwood Hollow. At first, I just assumed it was my reception, so I got out of my truck and walked back into my dorm to use the WiFi. My roommate, Mike, sat at his desk playing some shooter game I didn’t care to pay attention to.
“You’re back early,” He mutters, flicking his mouse across his mousepad.
“Haven’t left yet.” I reply my eyes fixed on my phone screen that still reads ‘unable to locate’, “Mind if I look something up on your computer for a sec? My phone is acting up.”
“Sure,” Mike says unenthusiastically.
He alt-tabs out of his game and gets out of his chair. I type ‘Ashwood Hollow, Iowa’ into the search bar, hoping to just click on directions and print it out. But when the screen loads on the slow school internet, Ashwood Hollow is nowhere to be found. Instead, there’s just some Iowa Department of Natural Resources website talking about some park.
“What the heck...” I mutter under my breath.
I glance back at Mike, who looks puzzled. He leans closer to the monitor and lets out a soundless chuckle, “Bro, why are you going to Iowa? I thought you were going home.”
“I am going home. I’m from Iowa. Do you not remember?” I rise out of his chair, giving the computer back to Mike.
“You said you were from California, dude,” Mike argues, taking a seat back in his chair.
“No, no. I’m pretty sure I told you I’m from Iowa.” I mutter, glancing back at my phone with the ‘unable to locate’ still displayed, almost taunting me.
“Whatever. It’s not that deep.” Mike tabs back into his game, leaving myself and Ashwood Hollow behind.
I stare at Mike for just a moment. I could have sworn I put down my hometown in that stupid ‘ice breaker’ that the RA made my entire hall do. That’s how I found out that the guy who lives in 1304 is from Iowa, too. I guess it wouldn’t hurt to ask him if he happens to know which exit I need to take to get to Ashwood Hollow. I know the rest of the way there if I can just get to that dang exit.
I push out into the hall, nearly bumping into Sarah, the librarian’s assistant, as she was heading towards the exit. I quickly apologize and slip past her towards 1304. I bang on the door pretty loudly because if I remember correctly, the guy usually listens to loud music.
After a few moments, the door creaks open revealing Ryan’s pale face. He doesn’t seem too thrilled to see me.
“What do you need, Parker?” he grumbles.
“Hey, sorry to bother you… Wait did I wake you up?”
“Yes,” He groans.
“Oh. Sorry. Anyway, You’re from Iowa, right?”
“Yeah, why?”
“You know where Ashwood Hollow is?”
Ryan looks confused, almost annoyed, “No? Are you talking about that reserve or whatever? I think it’s called Green Hollow. Why do you want to know anyway? I thought you were going back to California for summer break.”
“What? I was going back to Iowa to see my family.”
“Whatever. No, I don’t know where that stupid town is. Now can you let me go back to sleep?”
“Sure,” I grumble, glancing down the hall at the door leading out to campus.
I step out of the dorms and into the sunlight. Maybe the library has some of those old paper maps I can read. At this point, I’m just desperate to prove I’m not insane. I know Ashwood Hollow is real. I grew up there! Every summer day spent at the creek, every winter bundled up in our little house – twenty years of my life were in that town. My parents were born and raised there, and our hotel, the centerpiece of my entire childhood… How could it disappear like this? I get it’s a small town and we don’t get much tourism, but to remove it off the internet is a bit of a stretch.
I dial my mom’s phone to tell her I’m going to be late coming home, but I got the ‘call could not be completed’ message. Confused, I try calling my dad. Same thing. My sister. Same thing. I even try calling my family’s hotel. Call could not be completed.
A knot begins to form in my stomach, tightening with each failed call. Someone is always able to pick up. If not Mom, then Dad. If not Dad, then Rachel. There is always somebody. I can’t help but get the feeling something is wrong. I pick up my pace towards the library hoping to get answers soon so I can get home.
Sarah waves at me, her nose not leaving the book she has stuck in front of her face. I wave back frantically walking towards the Atlas section. Most of the atlases the college has in their collection are local maps of Missouri - old explorer’s maps or whatever. But I eventually find an atlas that includes a map of Iowa, nestled between two other unrelated books. I quickly flip through the pages to find South Iowa. My eyes drift right to where Ashwood Hollow should be and… It’s blank. Just a field.
The entire world comes to a standstill. My breath catches in my throat as I see the year of the map in the far corner: ‘2021’. This isn’t an old map. I flip to another page to try to cross-reference it. Maybe it’s just a mess up. I follow the river that runs through town and… It’s not there. It’s not in any of the maps.
I don’t even bother putting the Atlas back where it is supposed to go. I just put it down and rush back out towards my dorm. Sarah gives me a wave as I leave but I don’t pay her any mind. I quickly dial Mike’s number as I speed-walk towards my dorm.
“What’s up?” Mike says, occasional simulated gunshots from his game coming through
“Hey so I don’t know what’s going on but I’m freaking out here. I think something bad happened to my home and I know you said I said I’m from California but-“
“Hey man, can you slow down. I can’t keep up with all that yapping.” Mike interrupts.
I take a deep breath and ask him the simple question I called him for, “Can you come with me to Ashwood Hollow?”
“How far is it?” he asks.
“Five hours. I think. Hard to tell, GPS isn’t pulling it up.” There is a short pause as Mike contemplates, “I’ll get you lunch and dinner or whatever. I just can’t go alone.” I add.
“Fine. I’ll have my crap packed in a few.”
The drive is uneventful. We just follow the GPS leading to the closest location the GPS would pull up, an old camping ground. I used to go there as a kid for summer camp. Mike doses in and out of sleep, not being a good navigator. But I didn’t expect him to be of much help. I just needed somebody, anybody, to see Ashwood Hollow. I’m not crazy. It is real.
The GPS has me exit the highway and go onto a series of backroads that begin to look familiar. An old windmill off on the east side of the road that has been falling apart for years. An old billboard whose advertisement fell off during a tornado a few years back. I know I’m getting close to home.
But when I make the last turn that should have led me to Main Street, the road ends. It just… ends. No barricades, no signs, nothing but an empty field of grass and trees. My heart pounds in my chest, my anxiety rising by the second. This is wrong. This is all wrong. How can an entire town just vanish without a trace?!
I put my truck in park and sit dumbfounded. Mike perks his head up, barely waking up. He glances between me and the empty field ahead.
“Some place you got here,” He mutters.
“You aren’t helping!” I snap.
I cut the engine and get out of my truck, looking at what appears to be an endless field of grass. Maybe I just got the directions wrong. Maybe I just simply am wrong about where I thought I was. I’m so lost in my thoughts trying to prove myself right that I don’t even hear Mike get out of the truck.
He pats me on the shoulder and smiles at me, “Look man, if we are going to stop here may as well hike around.”
We walk around this field for what seems like hours. I know my home once stood here. I can trace the steps I used to take to school every day. I can even count my steps to where my family’s hotel should be. But… it’s not here. The only landmark of note is the river that ran through what used to be the center of town. Not even indents where the roads once were remain.
As the sun began to set, Mike and I started heading back to my truck, which still sits on the edge of the pavement. But as we do, Mike says he sees something. I follow him to a small grove of trees. And then my heart stops. Mike’s face pales as he reads the old, weathered sign: ‘Welcome to Ashwood Hollow’
Mike and I began back down the road towards our school. I take the same familiar roads I once took away from my home, not realizing it would be my last time. We pass by a few landmarks I remember. But when we pass by the billboard, half of an advertisement remains. We didn’t see it on the way in because it was facing away from us. But my stomach turns to ice when I read it.
‘Come visit the historic Hillwood Hollow Hotel! U-Turn at the next exit!'
The drive back to campus was done in nearly perfect silence. Neither of us knew what to say to one another. I wasn’t crazy. Ashwood Hollow is real. But it seems as if the world forgot about it. As if it was erased from this planet entirely other than two signs. I don’t know what happened to my family. I don’t know what happened to anyone from Ashwood Hollow. But as I sit in my dorm room, writing this all out, I know they are out there somewhere.
So I’m asking you all: Have you heard of Ashwood Hollow?

We all know that you can easily download an AO3 work through the website in a variety of different file formats. But what if that isn’t working?
Having issues downloading a work through the browser? Is it attempting to download the fic indefinitely? This is the guide for you.
All you need is a browser and a terminal! (Most computers have these by default, and if yours doesn’t then I assume you know what you are doing.)

This guide will tell you how to:

1. Find the download link of a work
2. Open and use the terminal of your choice
3. Use cURL to download the work

NOTE: cURL is available by default on MacOS, Linux, and Windows 10 version 1803 or later. If you use an operating system which does not have cURL, you will have to download it separately.
If you use an earlier version of Windows without cURL, you must use Powershell as the terminal of your choice. A separate step will be added at the bottom for how to download using Powershell without cURL.

Find the download link

1. Go to the work using your browser of choice.
2. Look at the link address (URL). It should be in the form https://archiveofourown.org/works/00000000. It might also have /chapters after, but ignore that section.
3. Get the ID of the work, which is the text directly after works/, in the above example it would be 00000000.
4. Insert the ID into this example URL, replacing 00000000 with the actual ID: https://download.archiveofourown.org/downloads/00000000/work.epub. This is an example URL using the EPUB file type. Replace this with the file type of your choice. For example, replace .epub with .pdf to get a PDF instead.

Open and use the terminal

1. Choose a terminal to use. Different operating systems have different terminals, but the most popular ones are Command Prompt and PowerShell for Windows, Terminal and iTerm2 for MacOS, and GNOME Terminal and Konsole for Linux.
2. Open the terminal. This should be possible to do the same way you open any program on your computer.
3. Navigate to the directory (folder) that you want to download the file in. The commands needed to do this will vary depending on which operating system you use. On Windows, you can use dir to list (see) the directories. On MacOS and Linux it is ls to list the directories. On all three operating systems you can use cd directory_name to change directory. For example, when I open cmd.exe on my Windows computer, I am put into the directory of my user, which I can see because it says C:\Users\my_name>. From there, I use dir to see which directories I have. I see my Downloads folder and decide that is where I want to download the file. Then I write cd Downloads and have navigated to that directory. The terminal now says C:\Users\my_name\Downloads>.

Use cURL to download the work

1. Write the example command in the terminal: curl -o title.epub https://download.archiveofourown.org/downloads/00000000/work.epub. This is using the work with the ID 00000000 and file type .epub. Remember to replace these with the ones of your choice. I have given the file the name “title”, but you could also replace this if you want to, or rename the file later.
2. The work should now be downloaded into the directory (folder) that you previously selected. Enjoy!

Use Powershell to download the work

For Windows users without cURL.

1. Do the previous steps, but instead of a terminal of your choice, you must use Windows Powershell.
2. Instead of the cURL command, use: Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://download.archiveofourown.org/downloads/00000000/work.epub" -OutFile "title.epub". This is using the work with the ID 00000000 and file type .epub. Remember to replace these with the ones of your choice.

If you try this guide, please let me know if there is anything that should be changed or if it worked like a charm.

Heyo👋 sharing my story . I’m not the best with my words so bear with me . ( I will be referring to the account holder as She because I still do not know who was using this girls photos to speak to children.) Starting around in fourth grade a close friend of mine (she lived close and we went to school together) introduced me to another young lady though twitter at a sleepover . She seemed sweet, she was pretty and kind . Older but it was nice to me that an older girl wanted to be friends with us at that age . It was fine on my part for a few weeks , she was “dating” my friend by this time (This girl also was “ recovering” from cancer). She was controlling af and would be upset if she didn’t know everything about my friend, her every move , all her friends , where she lived even . It was seriously weird but I didn’t think anything of it at that age . They kept breaking up but would be friends, eventually we started chatting . Overtime these chats turned into sexual things . “ what color parties are you wearing ? lol” “ would you let random person touch you?” “ if an old man touched you, would you like it ?” I did not understand, I don’t believe my friend did either . Overtime me and two other friends of my only at 11 were all groomed into sending explicit photos to this girl. About a year before I blocked her account , she introduced me to another “ friend “ of hers and she was nice as first as well but the chats ended up very inappropriate just like hers. Whenever girl 1 would end up upset with me girl 2 would message me saying mean things like “ how could you say that to her ?” “ she only cares about you , your her best friend “ . Eventually that turned into “ message her back or im sending all your pictures to your friends “ . At 12 this scared the living SHIT out of me and quite frankly put me in a seriously bad mind space because I had no one to confide in. Eventually I blocked both of them because I felt like it was the only way to get it to stop. After getting added by 5-6 more accounts by the same person and blocking them all it finally stopped . Well I’m 16 now and I took the time to use both of there photos on facial recognition websites and found out it’s actually a now 20 year old girl who is a complete different person BUT they knew her whole life , had all of her pictures , fabricated how her life was going claiming her dad had died and she had cancer. This girl wasn’t even the one running the account . I found her name and messaged her turns out this has been going on since she was a freshman is high school. Her dad had to deal with it last time she told me . I just found all of this bizarre since as a child this was a very traumatizing experience for me and my friends aswell.( I would like to add I have no idea how many other children this account has groomed and that’s not a thought I like having. My friends are traumatized from these accounts aswell as they did everything if not more to them too)

URL: https://www.aura.com/learn/is-roblox-safe-for-kids#:~:text=But%20is%20Roblox%20safe%20for,%2C%20hackers%2C%20and%20online%20predators.
Title: Is Roblox Safe for Kids?
Author: Sofia Kaufman

Roblox is a massively multiplayer online game that is played by millions of people daily, and a large demographic of these players are children. Of course, if a parent is going to let their child do anything on the game, it would be good for them to look into roblox to make sure it is safe and this article assist parents to taking the proper steps to making sure that their child is safe while playing. In the book, 'Infinite Bandwidth', the author refers to seven keys of media that act as a guidebook for Catholics and non-Catholics alike to stay safe, healthy, and good. This article is very good as it outlines all of the keys in order for their kids to be able to play the game in a healthy manner.
Not only is this an article about how to keep your kids safe, Aura is an application that restricts sensitive content and creates a safe gaming experience.
First Media Key: Balance
The first media key that is needed is balance. Balance must first be exercised in the parents to be an example to their kids as the parents are the role models for everything that the kids do. "With their parents so easily distracted by technology, is it any wonder that children and teenagers are as well?" (Gan, pg. 27). The author explains this exact thing, if the parents are glued to media all the time, they set the example, so of course the kids will do the same thing. Thus, the parent must teach the child to balance playing games, consuming other media, homework, physical activity, etc.
The article does well to emphasis this as it contains a whole section about the balancing of playing the game and monitoring how much time they spend playing roblox as it states, "But it’s essential to make sure your child has a balanced lifestyle that includes off-screen activities, as well." (Kaufman, Section 9). This section talks about the balancing the child using methods such as time limits set on how long they can play, encouraging good behavior by giving them additional time to play if they spend their time off of the game to do meaningful activities, and discouraging bad behavior as if they seem to misbehave or play the game in a way that the parent doesn't like, they can limit their time on the game or possible restrict it entirely for a small period of time.
Second Media Key: Attitude Awareness
The second media key that the author mentions is attitude awareness. We must be especially careful of anything that may affect our mood or tendencies. Media is meant to influence you in some kind of way and we must be aware of what we are consuming as there are a great deal of media that can be harmful to us in many ways including its message, addictiveness, and content. "The second media key is really about as much about recognizing the positive attitudes underlying media as much as it is about recognizing the negative attitudes." (Gan, pg. 45). Having attitude awareness is especially important when your kids are browsing the internet or playing games as it is very easy for them to come across media that is not suitable for kids and it is important for the parent to teach their kids to be safe, consume media that is good for them, and put in place measures that can prevent the misuse of media in anyway they can.
The article goes over this and does well to reflect this key, as it goes over the many ways that you can prevent your child from misusing the site, such as increasing the chat filter, having the child play in a space that is visible to the parent, and letting the site know their age so that it can restrict certain games that may not be suited for their age.
Third Media Key: Dignity of the Human Person
The third media key is the understanding the dignity of the human person as the author of 'Infinite Bandwidth' states that “All media should reflect, uphold, and enhance human dignity” (Gan, pg. 52). It is very important to know the dignity of the human person when using media as when someone browses the internet or consumes media that defiles the dignity of the human person then not only can it influence their view of other people, but it can also make someone look down on themselves. Because of this, it is critical that kids are taught about human dignity as well as shielded from any media that can harm this view.
This article does well to talk about this topic as it warns that if the parents are not careful about not monitoring their child's behavior, they could be subject to things on roblox which are not good to this dignity. However I think the article could be improved as it can talk more about how this may affect your kid in the future.
Fourth Media Key: Truth
Truth is something we all as human strive to find and move towards as we cannot live something that is not true. An example of this would be believing that you are rich and being homeless, you cannot live something that is not true. “In word and action, our use of media should be filled with truth. it should conform to reality and help lead others to a deeper understanding of reality” (Gan, pg. 68). Children are at a higher risk than adults, especially on the internet as they are exposed to many things that are full of untruths and adults are more likely to question the validity of that which is said on the internet. Thus it is the duty of the parent to make sure that their kids are safe and secure on the internet
The article talks about being careful of scams that are happen fairly frequently on the site and it instructs the parent who is most likely not familiar with the site, how to avoid these and make sure that their children do too. In addition to this, the article brings to light the report abuse feature and instructs that both the parent and the child use this feature whenever they experience something that is clearly malicious on the site.
Fifth Media Key: Inspiring
Media at its core, revolves greatly around this key as media is meant to inspire those as well as do good for the people that engage in it. "Like other forms of media, video games should be able to inspire men and woman, boys and girls to the good." (Gan, pg. 93). Video games are no exception as video games have many positive benefits including inspiring creativity, being an outlet to just wind down, and connecting with other people and having fun with them. However, one must be careful as video games are one of the most common forms of media to be inadequate when it comes to inspiring others to the good, as it can show all sorts of themes that can hinder someone's mental health or stability.
This article talks almost exclusively about the negative side of roblox, warning against the harms that it can do, with the biggest one being addiction as it states, "Due to the impressionable ages of young children and teens, addiction is one of the most significant risks of online gaming. This fixation can result in children neglecting their hobbies, friendships, school, and even their overall well-being." This is a valid take as one should be aware of the problems that it may cause, however it should also take into consideration the upsides that the game can have. This article dis miss out on the fact that Roblox can actually do wonders as kids can learn to be creative with the games they play and in order to make your own experience in Roblox, you will need to know how to code. Roblox has many videos on its website on teaching coding and children can learn a very important skill which can greatly increase their knowledge of the computer. In addition, knowing how to code could look promising on a job application in the future!
Sixth Media Key: Skillfully Developed
Media being skillfully developed is crucial in the world on media and especially in video games as the most popular mainstream video games are ones that were given a lot of time, care and money into making sure the game was made well. A well made video games is extremely important as if a game is not well made, it does not communicate clearly the message it is trying to convey, in addition, it discourages people from playing the game entirely, which further separates them from its message.
This article doesn't do well with talking about the many ways in which Roblox as many unique experiences, many of which have made from a lot of effort and hard work by independent creators.
Seventh Media Key: Motivated by and relevant to experience
The seventh media key talks about the audience to whom the media is aimed at. The audience in which the media is directed is important because depending on the person who consumes the media, some may understand it more than others. For example, if you give a calculus problem to a fifth grader, they would have no idea what it means.
The website does well to appeal to concerned parents as it seems to address most of the parents concerns. The article is easy to understand and to the parents who may not be tech savvy, it assists them in gives them the references and step by step processes to help them with their goal.

Discover the wonders of marine life at Marine World Public Aquarium, nestled in Chavakkad, Kerala, India. Here's all you need to know about planning your visit:
Location: Marine World Public Aquarium, No:1, Lakhshmi Avenue, School Rd, Kolathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600099
Hours of Operation:

• Monday to Thursday: 11:30 am to 6:30 pm
• Friday: 11:30 am to 6:30 pm (evening)
• Saturday and Sunday: 11 am to 7 pm (morning)
• Weekdays: 09:30 AM To 07:30 PM
• Weekends: 09:00 AM To 08:00 PM

Ticket Prices:

• General Admission (Above 125 cms): ₹695.00
• Junior Admission (90 - 125 cms height): ₹595.00

How to Purchase Tickets:

1. Visit the official website.
2. Select your desired date and time.
3. Choose the number of tickets.
4. Make the payment.
5. Receive your e-tickets via email.

Attractions:

• Suba Diving: Experience underwater diving in a controlled environment.
• Shark Tunnel: Walk through a tunnel surrounded by marine life.
• Fish Spa: Enjoy a unique spa experience with fish nibbling at your feet.
• Rain Forest: Explore a simulated rainforest ecosystem within the aquarium.
• Kids Park: Engage in interactive activities and play areas designed for children.

FAQ:

• Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday: 11:30 AM to 6:30 PM, Friday: 11:30 AM to 6:30 PM, Saturday and Sunday: 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
• Peak Hours: Weekdays 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Weekends 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
• Location: Marine World Public Aquarium, No:1, Lakhshmi Avenue, School Rd, Kolathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600099.
• Feeding Shows: Yes, feeding shows are available at various times for different marine creatures.

Embark on a journey to explore the mesmerizing world of marine creatures at Marine World Public Aquarium!

Discover the wonders of marine life at Marine World Public Aquarium, nestled in Chavakkad, Kerala, India. Here's all you need to know about planning your visit:
Location: Marine World Public Aquarium, No:1, Lakhshmi Avenue, School Rd, Kolathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600099
Hours of Operation:

• Monday to Thursday: 11:30 am to 6:30 pm
• Friday: 11:30 am to 6:30 pm (evening)
• Saturday and Sunday: 11 am to 7 pm (morning)
• Weekdays: 09:30 AM To 07:30 PM
• Weekends: 09:00 AM To 08:00 PM

Ticket Prices:

• General Admission (Above 125 cms): ₹695.00
• Junior Admission (90 - 125 cms height): ₹595.00

How to Purchase Tickets:

1. Visit the official website.
2. Select your desired date and time.
3. Choose the number of tickets.
4. Make the payment.
5. Receive your e-tickets via email.

Attractions:

• Suba Diving: Experience underwater diving in a controlled environment.
• Shark Tunnel: Walk through a tunnel surrounded by marine life.
• Fish Spa: Enjoy a unique spa experience with fish nibbling at your feet.
• Rain Forest: Explore a simulated rainforest ecosystem within the aquarium.
• Kids Park: Engage in interactive activities and play areas designed for children.

FAQ:

• Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday: 11:30 AM to 6:30 PM, Friday: 11:30 AM to 6:30 PM, Saturday and Sunday: 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
• Peak Hours: Weekdays 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Weekends 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
• Location: Marine World Public Aquarium, No:1, Lakhshmi Avenue, School Rd, Kolathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600099.
• Feeding Shows: Yes, feeding shows are available at various times for different marine creatures.

Embark on a journey to explore the mesmerizing world of marine creatures at Marine World Public Aquarium!

Hi, this is my first time posting on this app, so bear with me. This post will be going over the first (and last) time I worked in a dental office to receive shadowing experience.
From the beginning, I (20y/o) have known pretty much all my life that I wanted to be a doctor. It wasn’t until about my sophomore year in high school (the start of the pandemic) that I knew for sure I wanted to be a dentist. I just really liked the more hands-on approach to medicine, IDK. Anyway, I decided that was what I wanted to do, and was going to meet all the prerequisites necessary to apply for dental school. Currently, I attend Arizona State University, (it was all I could afford) and am studying for a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry. I intend on graduating from here in the spring of '26, and, hopefully, I get accepted to one of the two in-state schools before then. I really don’t want to take a gap year and want to start practicing dentistry ASAP. So, I decided working in a dental office would be a great experience for me as meeting a certain amount of shadowing criteria is required.
Back in the second semester of my freshman year in college, I emailed about 10 dental offices in the Tempe area. I messaged the email attached to their website(s), explaining who I was, what I was studying, and that I wanted to be a dentist. None of them responded, and I was starting to lose hope. Except for one. The office manager who was in charge of emails responded to me about forwarding her my availability with school, and when was the best time to come in for an interview. I was super stoked about the opportunity and jumped on it as fast as I could.
About a couple of days later, we did an over-the-phone interview, which was just getting to know me and my situation a little bit more. And, if she liked me, we would move forward with the employment process. We ended up scheduling an in-person interview a couple of days later, where I met the dentist(s) (one was the head dentist, and the other was an associate, I believe. This was a corporate office, so they both very well could have been associate dentists, IDK). I’ve worked several jobs in the past, so I was always pretty strong when it came to interviews. Long story short, the dentist(s), hygienists, and dental assistants all liked me, so we moved forward with the employment process. Everything was smooth sailing until it wasn’t.
I didn’t start working until about a month later, as the office manager I had spoken with beforehand said that one of the HR employees responsible for my employment was “on vacation” (this could have been true, but I guess we’ll never know). Then, she (the office manager) ended up getting sick, so my employment was delayed for some time. Anyway, I started working and loved every bit of it. The role I was granted was a sterilization technician, which was fine by me, considering I had absolutely no certification to do x-rays, dental assisting, or anything else dental-related. My job was literally just to set up and break down the rooms, and clean the instruments required for the dental procedures. The job was really easy, and there were many instances where I even finished my work early. When I wasn’t working, I was allowed to shadow 1 of the 2 dentists working in the office, and I even got some chair-side experience alongside them. However, things took a turn for the worse.
Basically, the person training me was the office manager. She seemed really sweet and cool at first, but she became extremely toxic to work with very quickly. I don’t know what could have set her off, but I am extremely nice and respectful to literally everyone I meet. She was responsible for training me and would set unrealistic expectations for me to meet in an unreasonable amount of time. She was also very passive-aggressive to me for little to no reason at all, and would call me names, and would even treat me as if she was on a pedestal, and she was better than me in every way shape, and form.
With that being said, one of the first goals she set for me (keep in mind, this was literally my 4th shift working there) was to break down the rooms (and sanitize them) after the procedures in 2 minutes or less. The next goal she set for me was to set up the rooms for procedures in 5 minutes or less. I didn’t know if I could accomplish these goals yet, and if they were even reasonably achievable for someone like me or not, (considering I had 0 years of experience and she had 4) as I didn’t know how long it would even take me to break down or set up a room yet (at this point I wasn’t trained on any of this, lol). One red flag that she said that I didn’t think anything of at the time was (and I quote), "If you don't meet these goals in the next two weeks or less, we're going to have to evaluate if this is going to work out". I don't know how this flew straight over my head, and why the hell I didn't start looking for a new job ASAP, but then again, I had worked several jobs in the past, and ALL of my bosses and co-workers loved me. I am still friends with some of them to this day. I have had to quit jobs in the past but was never fired. All the jobs I had ever worked ended on good terms.
As the weeks went on, I was improving. I was getting quicker with setting up and breaking down the rooms, and sanitizing them to their entirety. I was more focused on making sure everything was thoroughly sanitized (I mean, this is a doctor's office, right?). Long story short, I did not meet her expectations and time goal. As time went on, they didn't fire me, so I thought I was in the clear. Mind you, I was dorming for my freshman year and did not have a car. Despite this, I made sure to always show up to work 15 minutes early (at the minimum). I would walk 2.5 miles to work the mornings I was scheduled and really did not want to mess up the opportunity they had given me.
Later on that month (I worked this job for exactly 1 month and 7 days), I kept getting messages from the office manager. She was cutting my hours, telling me that they weren't as busy on certain days I was scheduled and therefore did not need to come in. I thought she was being nice and giving me the day off, but yet again, this was another red flag that I was completely oblivious to. She was cutting my hours very low. To sum it up, I was working on Friday, closing up the office. The lead dentist came up to me before he left, and he told me how much of a good job I was doing, and how proud he was of me for my improvements. This made me feel really good, as the office manager I was working with this entire time never said anything nice about me, nor did she send any positive affirmations my way.
Over the weekend, I thought nothing of it. I believed I was going to be working in this office for some time based on the lead dentist's expression that Friday close. I came in for my morning shift on Monday, and everything changed. As I came into work, I just had this gut feeling that something was off. I made my way to the office to greet everyone that morning. I said, "Good morning", and they (both dentists, the office manager, hygienists, and assistants) didn't say a word back to me. They didn't even acknowledge my presence. As I was working my shift, towards the end, the office manager came up to me as I was in the middle of cleaning up a room post-op for an implant procedure. She said that she needed to talk to me in the office with the lead dentist. I was respectful, and followed after her, closing the door and taking a seat on my way in.
They both seemed pretty serious, and I thought to myself, "Am I about to get fired"? Basically, the office manager had the lead dentist (the same dentist who complimented my work ethic the Friday before) fire me. They reasoned that I, "did not improve in ample time to meet the office's expectations". I was honestly starstruck and didn't know what to say. The whole ordeal lasted maybe 5 minutes at the most, and the office manager sat there quietly the entire time. Then, she had the audacity to say, "Okay, do you have any more questions for me and Dr. _____?". Like bruh. I thought I was doing good, lol, then they just fired me? OK. I didn't say anything, other than, "I'm sorry that I let you guys down", and "Thank you for the opportunity at hand, I know you guys truly believed in me". Then, they were super rude to me, and were like, "Yeah, (after I had said thank you and everything) you can grab your things and leave now". I usually listened to music on my 2.5 mi commute back to my dorm, but this time, I walked back in silence, in the Arizona heat, in my all-black scrubs.
I still want to be a dentist. Although I felt like a total failure being fired from something I loved doing, I wasn't going to let that stop me. Today, I continue to shadow several dentists in my area, building strong relations with them as time goes on. I currently work as a certified personal trainer for a private gym, as I am very passionate about diet and exercise, and it has also exponentially increased my communication skills from before I started training gym clients. I plan to take the DAT this spring, and although my GPA is kind of low, (between a 3.0 and a 3.5 but definitely on the lower end of the spectrum) I know that I still have another year before I start applying to schools in the summer of '25, which'll give me enough time to bring that number up a bit. I firmly believe that my DAT score, personal statement, and ECs/LORs will be a great equalizer for me considering my admission process.
Let me know what you guys think of this story, lol. This is my first post on Redditt ever, so I apologize if it was too long.

How to Balance Your Medical School Application with Studying for the MCAT

Written and edited by the MCAT Self Prep Tutoring Team
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I often joke that medical schools are only looking for the skill that matters most for future doctors: the ability to jump through arbitrary hoops. Like it or not, medicine has a lot of hoops. For those of us who want to be a doctor, the MCAT will not be the last standardized exam that we take (the STEP exams are even longer). Nor will our application to medical school be the last time you will put your heart and soul on a page to be evaluated by strangers.
Yet despite the hurdles down the road, this is not to downplay the difficulty of getting into medical school. It’s emotionally exhausting. And requires lots of work! But I hope I can also highlight the importance of multitasking when it comes to doing difficult things. For those taking the MCAT the same year that they apply to medical school, you will need to balance studying, writing your application, and getting letters of recommendation. In this article, I’ll explain the best way to balance all of this – and if you’re interested in one-on-one application support, our admissions consultants would be glad to help!

1. Understanding the application timeline

One common mistake that I see in students is not understanding how the application process works and how to take advantage of the opportunities that it allows. The AMCAS application for MD schools typically opens in the beginning of May (the AACOMAS application for DO schools has a slightly different timeline but the principles still hold true). This means you can start inputting grades, scores, and essays if you wish. However, you cannot submit your application for processing until around June 1st (dates vary year to year). You will want to submit your application as soon as possible, as the medical school application process is rolling. Rolling admissions means that spots for interviews and acceptances are limited and you will be competing against more applicants for fewer spots later in the cycle.

2. Signing up for the right exam date

For most students, I recommend taking the MCAT between April and the end of May (last time to still be in the first wave of applications) for the cycle that apply for medical school OR between July and August the year before you apply. Taking the test over the summer with minimal or no classes allows you to compress your study timeline, however you may be taking the test without some prerequisites for the MCAT. I personally would recommend taking the MCAT after you have completed the core classes necessary for the MCAT (biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, physics etc). Make sure you will also have enough time to complete our FREE MCAT prep course. Once you’ve picked a date, understand that it will take about a month for you to get your score back. So why could you take the MCAT at the end of May and still be in the first wave of applications? The rule is simple: you do not need to have your MCAT score before you submit your application. You only need to have your score before your exam is sent to medical school admissions committees.
Here’s where it can get a little complicated. If you take the MCAT May 25th for example, you will get your score back around June 25th. So you could take the MCAT on May 25th and then apply without knowing your score on June 1st. Well that seems silly, how will I know which schools I am competitive for when I don’t know my score? To get around this dilemma, you can only apply to 1 school that you know you will apply to no matter what your score is (your respective state school). Then the AMCAS system will take about 2 weeks to process your application (this processing time gets longer the later you submit your application). So your application gets hypothetically processed on June 15th. But here’s the rub: AMCAS will hold your application until approximately July 1st (depending on the year) before sending your application to medical schools. So I could take the MCAT May 25th, apply June 1st, get my score back June 25th and then have 5 days to decide which additional schools I want to add. The important thing is that there will be no way of schools knowing whether you added them on June 1st or June 26th. All they will see if that your application was sent to them in the first batch of processed applications.
Ok so now that you’ve decided on an ideal date, you still need to sign up. Due to COVID, most people signing up for spots in 2021 will do so on February 15th. Spots tend to fill up quickly once they are released, so we recommend following the AAMC MCAT twitter to ensure you sign up as soon as they are released. The calendar for all possible exam dates and their score release dates can be found on the AAMC’s website. Seats fill up early, and some students end up traveling hundreds of miles because they registered a little too late. However, it’s better to take the exam on the day that works best for you rather than take the exam on a wrong day in your ideal location.

3. Writing your application while studying for the MCAT

For your primary application, you will need to write a 5400 character essay about why you want to go to medical school as well as 10-15 shorter essays on the various activities that you’ve participated in. For most students, I recommend starting your application near the beginning of the year that you apply. So why start early? While this may seem like overkill, this strategy is best suited for writing about the deeply personal passions and experiences that have motivated you to pursue medicine. I recommend starting your personal statement early so that you can come back to this essay with fresh eyes again and again.
Start by writing a few paragraphs about 3-5 experiences that made you want to pursue medicine. Then put it away for two weeks. When you look at your essay again after those weeks, it may occur that some of the experiences were more important than others. Maybe the flow of the story isn’t quite right. Make major or minor changes and let it sit again for two more weeks. By repeating this process, you will be able to focus on the forrest and not the trees. You can always worry about grammar and your writing style as you get closer to your deadline. For now, just focus on the bigger picture narrative that you hope to convey. All in all this process should only take two to three hours every other week. Start to devote 2-5 hours a week in your last month to write your activity essays and polish your personal statement (additionally, this process could be spread out over a longer period of time as well). Remember that most admissions committees view your grades and score as a benchmark to see if you would succeed academically at their school. Beyond that point they care more about who you are as a person and how you will improve their student body.

4. Organizing the rest of your application

Between asking for and following up with letters of recommendation, writing essays, finding medical schools, and managing secondaries and interviews, the year that you apply for medical school requires intense organization. I would recommend either creating your own spreadsheets or using the MCAT Self Prep medical school application course. Either way you need some form of organization or else it will be easy for important pieces of your application to fall through the cracks. If this feels overwhelming, you can always ask for help from an admissions consultant. However, we are also here to help you succeed purely through self prep. This early in the year, you should mainly focus on building relationships with 4-8 individuals who you could potentially ask for a recommendation. You want these people to get to know you on both a professional and personal level. They should be able to vouch for your work ethic, character, and ability to succeed in medical school. They should also be able to write about how they know you on more than just a superficial level.
As the year progresses, I will keep you updated through blogposts about the steps you need to take to maximize your chances of acceptance. But for now, stay organized, keep studying, and start thinking about the 3-5 most meaningful experiences that made you want to be a doctor. If you are feeling overwhelmed, please reach out for a FREE consultation with me or another tutor. We can help with the MCAT or admissions consulting. Due to the help of MCAT Self Prep and my ability to craft a compelling narrative for my application, I ultimately was accepted into 6 of the top 10 medical schools—including Harvard! Let us know if there is anything we can do to help you!
Warm regards,
Theo
Theo scored a perfect score (528) on the MCAT and has been accepted at Harvard, UPenn, Columbia, UCLA, and other top 10 medical schools across the country.

I, 21M, met a guy in late 2021 through Tinder. We hit it off okay, went on a "date" (that didn't read to me as a date at the time - I was closeted and oblivious) where our senses of humor clashed and I felt profoundly not gotten, though we ended up holding hands, kissing, and staying in his car overnight in a parking lot all the same.
I was so wound up and volatile at the time that, on the way back the next morning, while it was raining, I just started crying without knowing why, and he had no idea what to do except drive in silence. That was a theme with us - things happening and neither of us being able to say why.
We talked for about a month that December and things quickly deteriorated towards January of 2022, until by February we were a mess. I felt like I was squeezing out feelings I didn't have while he was madly in love with me. At one point I tried to meet up to break things off, but we beat around the bush so much that we ended up driving out to a nature preserve when I again broke down on the drive because I "couldn't do it anymore." Somehow, we left having kissed again and holding hands. What really ended things was after a second trip to that preserve, when he'd taken some film photos he planned to put into a keychain as a gift for me. That night he told me about it, I broke down into sobs because I felt like I couldn't carry the burden anymore. We met up to finally say goodbye and exchange some shirts we'd let each other borrow the next day.
Once things finally ended for good, they were still nebulous between us: letters, going back and forth blocking and unblocking on socials, etc. When I had a syphilis scare from some irresponsible hookups I was having around the time I was seeing him, I wrote a very apologetic letter that, to my shock, he responded to and we saw each other again. And very quickly, that too deteriorated into my doubts about us being "too different" to get along.
He told me in no uncertain terms to get out of his life, so I did. Not without some heavy longing, but I did. That is, until one night when, at the bottom of a pit of despair about the embers of our relationship, I drove to his house from the address on his letters and asked his mom (who he's not out to) to see him. He wasn't home. I felt like a criminal and I still do. His sister got there when I was in their living room and, when I got home after the drive of shame when it was obvious he wasn't coming home to talk to me, yelled at me like I've never been yelled at before. She again told me in no uncertain terms to fuck off and stay away if I really care.
And I do care. At least about him as a person. I can say that confidently, that I care if he's okay and well in life. But I feel like a fucking selfish asshole because for 2 years, I've daydreamed about a reunion, or at least seeing each other again, to prove whether we've both changed enough to make a difference.
What complicates things is we both come from a complex history of trauma, and when we met we were both acting out that trauma in maladaptive ways. I want to believe that the inner work I've done since meeting my current therapist (which has been a lot - I weaned off 200mg of Zoloft recently and I'm feeling stable like never before) will somehow create a more level playing field for us, and allow me to actually appreciate him for who he is rather than who I wish he was...
But that's just not how it works, is it? Today I put out a Craigslist ad in missed connections, just to indulge myself, I guess, and to my surprise someone responded with personal conviction as if they were convinced I was addressing them. I was 99999% certain it wasn't him, of course - that'd be absurdly coincidental - but it was enough to throw me off and send me back into a spiral of dizzying love-or-not-love fantasies.
And what's even more stupid is that I just made a huge breakthrough within my therapy where I felt like I dismantled this stupid central myth that I could just love him hard enough to have the relationship I wanted, because the fact is that I was the one acting like everything was perfect until I broke down. I was the one who was brutally judgmental and wanted him to be what I expected him to be, not who he really was. So what do I expect to have changed now? How can I really believe that, if we met up for coffee now, everything will be water under the bridge?
Please, someone point me to reality here. I know it'd be ridiculous to say I "still love him" - that's a contentious thing to say to begin with. I'm currently going through a lot with parents, school, and work, so the resurgence of feelings is perhaps timely. I just need someone to tell me they get it.
Because otherwise, I think I'll go on believing, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary AND my close friends' repeated reminders that this is not the one that got away, that he's the one I'll end up with, somehow, someway.

Brothers chaotic marriage
TLDR my brother married a psychotic girl who abandoned her kids multiple times and had a sick dick and side chick
My brother married an actual psychopath. My brother (40) married the scummiest scum of the earth. Who can only be described as a whore, a psycho, sociopath and an all around terrible human being. It was against the wishes of EVERYONE.
For back story…She had a child by another man… and only had him to live off the government. My brother met the stray hoe took care of her and her unborn child. They started dating in september and by christmas she had drained his bank account. She had her son in November. He moved in with her days after christmas. Proposed. And got married sometime between march and june i honestly can not be bothered to know exactly when. The night before brother was admitted to the er for staph infection in his berries.
After the “wedding” that was in the back yard of some pastor . they had a “reception”. Where i photographed/observed the following. A used tampon on washing machine. Shit filled diapers littering the nursery. A surreal amount of clothing on the bed. I said nah im good. And went home. Eventually she got my brother to legally adopt her child. Im forever convinced if not for my brother she would casey anthony her child.
She Munchausened her kid and my brother. Self diagnosing the kid with autism. Pushed or made my brother fall and get multiple concussions. Drugged him with date rape drugs to keep control of him. She was a frequent flier to the ER going to the emergency room for unnecessary reasons.
She refused to parent her child insisting that its the worlds job to teach him the bare minimum. She refused to clean as well. Her cockroaches had cockroaches. Cleanliness was mental illness for her. She kicked my brother out asking for divorce. But realized she had to leave bc he paid the bills. She stayed with whoever the hell would take her. Was forced to walk wherever she needed to go. And uttered the words “well i had to walk in the rain so theres my bath for the week” after growing tired of not having his car and money she came crawling back.
She avoided parenting like the plague. Every excuse. Uti. Migraine. Yeast infection. Its a tuesday. When her son was 2 she left to go to another state and go to school for being a truck driver. Had no qualms of leaving her kid behind for weeks. Then she dropped out of 18 wheeler school. It seems the wheels on her bus fell off.
For someone who doesnt believe proper hygiene was important she didnt believe bathing him and basic care was important. Feet encrusted in dirt and dirt under overgrown nails. It was so noticeable that when i cut his nails his teacher made comment about it. Her family was just as absent as you would expect. Her mother only went to the first birthday party when the child was 6. And didnt even know her own grandchild. Asked another child at the party if he had the best birthday! My mom looked at her and said “yeaaa thats the wrong kid…”
When the first born was 7, she birthed her second. This had no change and her parenting never improved. Another child encrusted in dirt.
When the youngest was a year and a half my brother had knee surgery and stayed with us (me mom dad) to recover because she would have made him cook clean and parent. While he was healing for the week he was there she moved in her boyfriend AND girlfriend. By the way she not only a hoe she is a promiscuous hoe with no moral compass. I promised my mom id never call CPS however when the second was 2 i had a friend call cps. Like a special ops team, cops went in at 2 am and gathered the children and brought them to me and my parents.
We had the 2 year old and a friend of the hoe had the 8 year old. For 2 weeks my brother agonized over his kids being taken. And she had a vacation. She treated it as if having your kids repo’ed as a right of passage. Told the world. Told the teacher. And had the time of her stupid life. In the 2 weeks i had them i had minions collecting screenshots of statuses of her being a bad mother. Which was super easy bc every thought made it to facebook. Such as. “My dentist suggested i brush my teeth at least once a day” “i guess i was doing (brother) with the wrong meds and made him sick” “why dont grandparents raise our children” i gathered these gems and photographic evidence of the state of the house and cleanliness of children to cps, police and eventually divorce lawyer.
During their time together the hoe broke my brother mentally spiritually emotionally physically financially. The food stamps ran out in the first week of every month spent on junk soda and unnecessary nonsense. They had to ask my mother for money that accumulated to the tune of $10,000 over 10 years. She is also a gofundme whore. She would start a gofundme 10-12 times a year for any and everything. She decided at one point to go back to school and did an amazon wishlist for school supplies and a gofundme for “gas food and other expenses”.
Being the trash human she is she is friends with people of unsavory character. An actual crack head bought her entire amazon wishlist. Which she put on facebook. Yikes. At one point she found a dog and instead of finding the owner she finders keepers that poor pup. Making yet another gofundme for dog expenses. I told my friends i would paaaay them to claim the dog as theirs so my mother didnt pay for yet another mouth to feed. If youre curious about the gofundmes and if they were ever fruitful… when a bull milks a calf will her gofundme work.
The final year of their marriage was no less chaotic. The christmas of 2019 she posted on facebook that its so wonderful that her husband is out working and her boyfriend is sleeping next to her and her girlfriend is cooking. Tagging the aforementioned on facebook. My brother was humiliated because infront of church members family and friends his marriage and all the stupidity that came with it was out in the open for all to judge.
My brother was at the time a corrections officers and let his kind nature and naivety get him in trouble. A person asked him to take some taco bell to an inmate and in what could only be called a moment of stupidity (sorry mom) he did so. what he didnt know is they put drugs in it and when it was scanned he was arrested. My mom and dad had to bail him out took him home and around 3 am he called me “they voted me out” beyond confused i asked what the hell does that mean? As it turned out. Hoe boyfriend and girlfriend unanimously voted him out of the house. Mind you. Single wide trailer housing 4 adults 2 kids a dog and cats and a turtle. June of 2020 he moved back in a month later the children followed.
After the actual breadwinner left the house the unemployed baboons could not pay the rent and were kicked out. The three went down to two with the girlfriend being let go. Hoe and boyfriend moved in with her mother. And boyfriend wrecked the car in my brothers name. Dui and head on collision. Car gone!
The children stayed with us. The youngest was 2 at the time and began calling my mom “mommy” which pissed off the hoe. And she never contacted them.
At the hearing for the divorce she stated all she wanted out of the relationship was not money or visitation. But her maiden name back. TAKE IT. AND LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE. She also used a photo of her kids on a gofundme to get sympathy and posted that to a fetish website. Seeing as the photo was them shirtless i believe that was on purpose. She dumped boyfriend and found a new love in new hampshire. She was in NH for 8 months with her new boyfriend and he lost his job so they moved back down.
After a summer of no contact she called and told the children “when i get home we are going to….” And listed about 10 events places and activities to look forward to. None of which she delivered on. After not spending time with them again and choosing to give up her weekend with them to play video games for 30 HOURS STRAIGHT. She eventually in 2024 decided that her and her boyfriend were moving to Massachusetts. Seeing how she is a practicing witch my only hope is the salem witch trials reconvene. She married the dude she abandoned her kids for.
On mothers day the children who no longer give a damn she exists were forced to call and tell her happy mothers day. Where the 6 year old proceeded to tell her the older brother got a phone and didnt wanna give her his number. She assured him that as his mother its quite alright to give mommy dearest the number to which the youngest said yea no he doesnt want to. The mouths of babes. She cried and posted on facebook not only do her children hate her but she had to give up her cats too. And wished the “real mom’s of the world a happy mothers day” shes a shit cat mom too!
A week ago, we had spaghetti for dinner and the 6 year old said “i never used to like spaghetti. I only tried it at… whats her names house? Jordan? Yea her house”
With their father engaged to a good Godly woman with morals and standards the worst mother to ever mother has been replaced and so far we are all living happily ever after. The moral of the story is if you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas what if you lay down with whores end up with bedbugs and that was a very costly moral
Edit to add: they had come over one day and someone called asking for my mom. And they heard the hoe speak. Asked if mom couldnt come to the phone bc of company. I said nah thats just my brother and his first wife. This was 6 months into marriage 😂

No Labels. No Platforms.
There, I said it. We got the talking part out of the way.
Now what does this look like when applied?
Am I crazy? Is this a knee-jerk reaction from some guy that’s just had enough of trying to fit into whatever cookie-cutter bullshit is hot this week?
Possibly, but let me explain-
I was born in 1980. Let’s get that out of the way off top so you know what tone to read this diatribe in.
I was barely a walking, talking human by the time of Regan’s inauguration. This ushered in the era of preppy excess on one side of the spectrum and the crack epidemic on the other. Rarely did these worlds coincide but they definitely coexisted. Suburban kids were watching the ‘Corys’ (Haim & Feldman) hoping to be the coolest kid on their block with the freshest vehicle, courtesy of mom & dad, that would surely get them the girl. The rest of us were bringing paper food stamps to school to hit the corner store during class break. And the cats we looked up too weren’t named Cory and they definitely weren’t daytime TV or even USA Up All Night material.
And the music? I can’t explain how fresh it was. You had to be there. I’m not gonna gas you up like some of these cats and attempt to explain it well enough that you ‘get it’. You have to understand that back then, a million things that are now firmly planted and rooted in our culture hadn’t happened yet-
No Biggie. No Tupac.
Nothing even remotely resembling an Eminem.
No Rock Steady Crew. No Kid Capri. No Def Comedy Jam.
No Outkast. No DJ Screw. No Three Six Mafia.
No Dipset. No Rhymesayers. No WuTang. No NWA.
None of it.
Imagine for a second that all you want to do is be Bruce Lee. Or save up enough money for a skateboard or some other semblance of identity or individuality. Then you walk by the park and see some young cat, not too much older than you, moving like a fucking robot. Better than a robot. And these big ass house speakers were drug to the park in the back of someone’s Suzuki so that the dude in the neighborhood with the dopest record and break beat collection could come down and spin and receive accolades for doing so. Over time, those accolades started to reach way past the block in which they originated. Enter The DJ-
House party flyers were probably the first tangible collectable item that was Hip Hop related. After that it was the MixTape. In the beginning, no two MixTapes were the same. You may get a dubbed tape from your boy or snatch a copy from the bootleg tables on the corner if they had their business together like that. But, for the most part, these were put together by the end user of the product itself: The Consumer. Some business savvy DJs of that time realized quick that the biggest money having mufukas they knew in real life were the drug dealers in the neighborhood. They would pay certain DJs to customize a MixTape for them that featured the bangers of that week/month/year but also the DJ shouting out the dealer that paid for the tape. Fixated on notoriety, it wouldn’t take long for money motivated individuals to position themselves beside the artists, producers and DJs of the time and, in the absence of a label, become boutique indie labels in their own right. These illicit proceeds would do more to perpetuate Hip Hop in its infancy than any corporate dollar. But these influxes would call enough attention to the culture that before we knew it, everyone from McDonald’s to the Chicago Bears would look to this new phenomenon to stay relevant.
Fast forward to the 90’s and Hip Hop was fully infused and rejuvenated with the hustler spirit. Artists like Too Short and E-40 proved that real money could be made in Hip Hop with the farm-to-table approach. It made an artist say, ‘If I create a product that is custom-fitted to my consumer, who better than I to deliver that product?’. Cutting out the middle man, artists themselves paid for and oversaw the production process, organized album art and duplication and released the product directly the streets. Selling albums literally out of the trunks of their cars as well as fostering relationships with independent record store owners who also benefited from blocking the labels out. They themselves knowing full well what it means to be force-fed label-curated top tens and other pop bullshit.
Vinyl record collections, cassette tape collections, books full of Compact Disks and in some cases DVDs with music-related documentary content. These things slowly grew as we aged and found ourselves. Even to look around at all of the items we had procured gave us a sense of who we were. The room that housed our music was like a glimpse into our soul. A snapshot with a million words and stories and moments behind it.
Now we have our phone. That’s it.
See how the words just dropped all lonely out of the paragraph like that?
It’s a sad state of affairs.
But there is hope
Billboard (Really? After all that, his source is fucking Billboard?) has reported that the sales of vinyl records has increased for 17 straight years. 43.46 million vinyl albums were sold in 2022. That’s 43% of all album sales the year over. Social media and streaming services are slowly but surely losing their grip and once again being relegated to novelty convenience applications. The curtain has been pulled back to reveal that Jay-Z’s famous line ‘Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t’ has not aged well. Saweetie has been kind enough to serve as case-in-point. The ‘rapper’ who, at the time of this writing, has an Instagram following of 12.9 million was recently roasted in the press when she dropped an EP that only sold 2,000 copies.
What In The Actual F*ck?
It that doesn’t prove to you that it doesn’t matter, you’re a lost cause and my advice to you would be to never step foot in the entertainment industry. However, if you too are bothered by this correlation (or lack there of), please read on.
We have now come full circle. Movements that preach the need to cleanse the artistic mind of the preoccupation with social media are quickly gaining popularity. Reverting back to the era when guerrilla marketing was King. The concept of a street team blanketing a city with your stickers, posters and flyers and all of the supporters and connections made while doing so is making its way back into the fold. Word of mouth advertising will never be replaced, though social media has brought us close. That may be the why the current pendulum swing is so dramatic. People are simply sick and tired of scrolling to find the meaning of life. The fact that the term ’social media cleanse’ is a thing (and has been for some time) denotes that it is dangerously pervasive. With the recent popularity and ease-of-use offered by AI, one’s first instinct would be to say to themselves, ‘Wait, that means anyone can do it’. With the all-too obvious downside being: Anyone can do it. The day Canva dropped their Magic Write AI option for document edits, i ran across at least 30 videos in which the quintessential content creator was explaining to me how this would be a game-changer in a way we could never fathom and that now, more than ever, I need to start taking my content making seriously by letting computers do all the work for me. The same work they are doing for everyone else. Except, somehow it’s supposed to be different and unique. But that’s the part they leave out. How can I be unique and on some never-before-seen shit if I’m doing precisely what everyone else is doing? Another heartbreaker for the AI buffs? Google has already put in place AI detecting technology that will automatically initiate their own form of shadow-ban on all of your SEO if they find or suspect that AI has been used to create it. But don’t fret. When you wake up tomorrow, there will a million other content creators dropping videos instructing you on how to skirt AI detection software. Do you see where I’m going with this? Is your motivation to create a commodity that is appreciated by your core audience? Or have your career goals transitioned from that to a computer hacker that minors in internet marketing?
More than ever, people crave connection with an artist, regardless of the media. Audio, video or conceptual, they want YOU.
Many artists are adjusting their focus back to website presentation. With the ease in which an artist can create their own e-commerce website through companies like Squarespace, complete with comment sections, like counts and whatever bell or whistle is commonly used to satiate the viewer.
Point is, we can do it too. We can do it better.
An artist can release a project to their own site and utilize the ‘Proud To Pay’ option where the consumer can pay as much or as little as they’d like for the download. Merchandise or other gated content can be sold right along with it. You can literally build your support system 1 fan at a time. That connection will also endear much longer than the ones garnered my viral Tik Tok or Instagram Reels. That being said, we aren’t idiots. Social Media should still receive updates from those whose main focus is there website community. The website is headquarters. There should always be more content, options, action and opportunity on your website than what is offered on social. Social should be utilized for the sole purpose of drawing traffic to YOUR PLATFORM. Say it: I Am The Platform.
I’m not telling you to delete your Instagram, FaceBook or Tik Tok.
But you should delete them from your phone.
Tim Ferris wrote The 4-Hour Work Week in 2007. In it, he laid a strategy for being less busy and more productive. Interestingly enough, this book was written the year the first iPhone dropped. But already our society was looking for anything to get them away from the rat race. The desire to always be available. A slave to what was then your BlackBerry. The need to check and reply to emails within minutes of reception. MySpace was the only social media platform to speak of at the time and even then, folks took it too far. The book spoke about setting time aside weekly to check and reply to emails. Another to check and respond to social media. The bulk remaining for actual work and whatever interaction that work required. You can set aside as little as one day a week to share all the clips of your content, respond to comments and DM’s and interact with folks you regularly interact with. What you’ll find in doing so is that your hyper focus on social media was for naught. And no one missed you while you were gone. And all that time you used to spend scrolling can be spent creating content for your website and making your community as inviting and comfortable as possible. Through email and text lists, the integrations on your own website can forward content directly to everyone who gives a fuck immediately. Stop posting content to social media FIRST hoping that whatever platform you’re on is in a good enough mood to show it to 4% of the people who actually follow you in hopes of seeing it. Ask yourself what your goal is. Do you want 1 million supporters for a year? Or 10,000 for 20 years? If you can get those 10k to spend $10 a year, you’ll never work again. Are you listening?
This entire essay was designed using no AI. It was however concocted to persuade you. Just like everything else you’ll listen to or read today. The difference? I implore you to stop listening to the noise. Even if I myself become a distraction to you, It warms my heart to know you’ll never listen again. Go. Be the most amplified version of yourself and don’t stop until you’ve pissed a lot of people off. Only then will you have created anything worth fussing over in the first place. When that happens, the world outside of that computer in your pocket will open up in ways that will make you want to leave it there. Do not waste another second looking to the next man for direction or inspiration. Get YOU out first. Fortunately, I’m not going to push you towards any apps or sites that will simplify your process. That alone will simplify your process. You’re welcome.
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I think it is the right choice for me overall but emotionally I am finding it challenging to make it official that I am not going back to medical school after taking a leave of absence. I enjoy medicine and studying and did well mostly. There was too much going on in my personal life which affected me psychologically. There weren’t enough hours in the day to meet the rigid requirements of school and attend to the emergencies that were going on personally. I yearn for more confidence in my decision but right now I feel uneasy. The reasons for not going back are financial mostly. I did not complete my first year and would need to start over from the beginning. Also, I am more ambivalent about surviving residency. I found the toxic environment, double-speak, and gas lighting to be a problem. It seems to me this would continue and likely get worse and remain so until years from now when I am finished with training and well into my career. The idea of tolerating abusive professors, administrators, and clinical superiors is a turn off. However, I have always wanted to be a physician. Are other fields really going to protect me from abusive hierarchies or is this something I will need to face and learn to manage regardless of my field? I do not know what I will do instead.
I have been looking into going to PA school and am not sure how to go about trying other careers. For PA school, I would need to take even more undergraduate pre-reqs, at least a year’s worth, and somehow get at least a year of paid clinical hours under my belt to be a successful PA school candidate. According to the admissions websites, any clinical hours completed as part of schooling do not count towards the requirement. I could see myself enjoying being a PA. My favorite things about medicine are interacting with patients, diagnosis of illness, and coming up with treatment plans. I don’t feel attached to being the final clinical consult and imagined myself going into Family Medicine or Primary Care.
I am currently working as a receptionist and just took an advanced biology class at a local community college. I hope I am not rambling. From other posts I have read I have seen the members of this sub ask thoughtful and clarifying questions, share their experiences, and weigh the pros and cons in a very insightful and helpful way. I am hoping that writing about this here will help me come to terms with my decision. Sometimes it feels like I am throwing away a huge opportunity, but other times it is clear to me that I cannot afford this path and I am not willing to try to make it work on a tight budget with no support system. I am much less comfortable with going into debt now than I was when I started. I saw how much support my classmates had in their medical school success. I have never had a problem with being scrappy and resourceful but now that I have experienced medical school, I am not excited by the prospect of doing it without a financial cushion and without the help or support of family or friends. I saw how helpful that support is in tolerating the challenges of medical school. Thank you for reading.

38 years old and never outright thought or considered that I was transgender, but for the past two weeks it got in my head and I've been doing some reflection and now I find myself confused, unsure, and looking for outside input to put it into perspective. I've spent a significant amount of time over the past few days looking into transitions and voice therapies and HRT out of curiosity.
In reflection, I remember a dream vividly from my early teen years about a sexual encounter, but I was a female. I remember the dream to this day and I've repeatedly thought about if it meant anything and how sometimes I wish that could be true.
In high school I went out crossdressing more than once, but often "as a joke" and "for the attention" with friends, but I think I might have enjoyed it more than I admitted to myself.
More recently (last 10 years), while in grad school, I got a minor obsession with wanting boobs and lactating - for almost two full semesters, I spent my time between classes (twice a week) in my car with breast pumps to stimulate my nipples. I imagined myself being able to lactate and it always seemed like that would be nice.
I stopped due to work and life, but over the past couple of years I've accumulated multiple sets of heels and wear them around the house when I'm alone (never outside). More recently I've purchased dresses and some corsets, and I like how i look in the mirror with the whole get-up. I've stuffed the dress, but sometimes wonder how much better it would be if my boobs were real.
I've considered HRT, just to try it. I've looked at some of the websites recommended for 'no prescription' from overseas, but I have concerns. I don't want to go to an actual consultation because I'm 'clearly not trans' and afraid work or family might find out. I also don't want to do something irreversible - but surely a little trial run would be harmless? I'm on day 3 of a birth control, understanding it's not recommended and probably too low dosage to do any harm, but it brought me calm to try something.
All that to say that typing this out, in reflection, looks a certain way, but I'm also unsure if it's really telling of anything, or are they just blips of fantasy? I've been a cis guy this long, and happy enough - not sunshine and rainbows, but I don't think my problems stem from identity? I also don't know what I don't know.
Anyway, thanks for reading. TLDR: Reflecting on the past 30 years, there are signs that might indicate trans, but I also have no idea. I feel lost but searching.

I am going to be a first year teacher. I graduated in December, but predictably there weren't many opportunities mid-year. I was subbing for a while, but took a role as a paraeducator because I was desperate for some consistency and regularity. A position opened up at the school I work at, and I have put my name in the hat. My evaluations are all great, I figured I was making great networking connections.
I have been applying frantically to 3 local districts, any primary grade position that comes up. I literally check each district website every day, so I have applied for about 9 as they come up.
So far, 4 of those have filled already. I am not even getting a CALL. I interview well, so I am confident if I can get that far, I have a decent shot even with my liscence being so fresh. I am trying not to get discouraged, and reminding myself it is still early before September, but like...I even took a day I had off and went around to several school sites I applied at to give them my updated physical resume just to get it in front of someone on their desk, and not a peep. It has been about a week since my resume drops, and as long as 30 days for some of these positions since I applied.
I guess I am hoping those other positions were filled by internal candidates and that they might still be calling for interviews soon. How long after a position closed/stopped taking applications did it take for you to get an interview or job offer? Was it before summer started, during summer, or later?
Also...any resume or cover letter tips? I have used all the advice I have been given but I am wondering if there is something "off" on mine that is making them toss it out, idk. Maybe it's just that I am new, but I thought for sure I would at least have lined up a few interviews by now! I thought it was a pretty spiffy resume, but the lack of ANY interest has me insecure. info on what the process was like for you would be a huge help, I am in western WA if it is relevant.

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This guide was created by two anonymous nursing students who attended Rutgers School of Nursing and want to review the curriculum and share our opinion of this program comprehensively.
We do not wish to bash or criticize this program, but rather to provide constructive feedback for the administration and highlight key points for students to watch out for. This is the best program in the state for Nursing, we want to help students navigate it successfully.
This guide mainly pertains to the Rutgers School of Nursing Traditional Program on the New Brunswick Campus, but most professors teach on the New Brunswick and Newark campuses. Second-degree students at the Newark campus can also reference this guide as many professors are shared with the Traditional program. This guide does not pertain to the Blackwood 2+2 Program or the Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden (Camden is a separate school from us).

Admissions

As students, we are not qualified to provide information on the Rutgers School of Nursing admissions. We hope our anecdotal observations can provide a helpful perspective for prospective students navigating this journey.
From what we've gathered, with the new option to submit applications to Rutgers through the Common App, it is increasingly difficult to be admitted directly into the school. We believe it is one of the hardest schools to be admitted to at Rutgers. The School of Nursing does not accept transfer students from external institutions, you must already be a Rutgers student (in another school, like SAS, SEBS) to apply for a school-to-school transfer. Even so, the School of Nursing accepts very few transfer students, so this is not a safe/viable option for those not accepted as freshmen. Additionally, if a transfer is successful, you may need to take certain prerequisite courses, extending your time in the program, which ends up similar to pursuing a second degree.
If your main goal is to graduate with a degree in Nursing, apply for both New Brunswick and Newark campuses, as they confer the same degree. Note that the Newark class is significantly smaller and offers less of the “traditional” college experience that many students desire. We recommend that, if you are not admitted directly into the traditional program at Rutgers, to attend another nursing school you were accepted to, or complete a degree as another life science major and apply to a Second-degree program, which is generally less competitive.
AP Credits will not apply to any Nursing Prerequisite courses with the exception of Statistics. Other AP credits may apply to elective courses or the general elective requirements. Nursing students are not required to complete the Rutgers SAS Core required in almost all other schools.
2023 Admissions Data, Source

Campus	Applicant Count	Incoming Class Size	Waitlist Admits
New Brunswick	4,080	155	55 of 872 (6.31%)
Newark	2,115	63	174 of 625 (27.84%)

Navigating the Nursing Curriculum

The program's structure is extremely backloaded, with the initial two years dedicated to liberal arts courses, general electives, and foundational nursing prerequisites. All clinical courses are placed in the program's second half, creating a tight squeeze to learn and absorb all the skills required as nurses. Once Junior year comes, you will be inundated with didactical nursing courses, labs, simulations, clinicals, and unreasonable amounts of homework assignments. As you navigate the program's first half, embrace the opportunity to live a college life—HAVE FUN, join clubs, go party, and make friends, but be ready to put it all away when Junior year comes. Your experiences in the first two years are crucial for building the support network you'll rely on as the program intensifies.
Starting in the Junior year, nursing courses consist of 3-hour lectures, all scheduled on a single or two days of the week. This scheduling is deliberate, allowing for clinicals to occupy the remaining weekdays and ensuring all students can attend lectures. However, this results in long, exhausting days filled with back-to-back classes that make it challenging to effectively absorb the material. The situation is exacerbated by the lack of teaching assistants and the inaccessibility of professors outside of class, as office hours are limited to "by appointment" sessions, which are hard to come by. The end of class is the only time for questions, but this is also not viable as professors usually have subsequent classes. The current setup severely restricts student ability to effectively understand course material.
We hope for a re-evaluation of this curriculum in the near future that would introduce nursing-specific courses as early as the Sophomore year. The current nursing prerequisites lack direct application to the variety of hands-on skills and knowledge for nursing practice. Introducing nursing courses earlier can bridge this gap and allow students more time to apply their knowledge.
Refer to the School of Nursing’s website for the most up-to-date curriculum. The Class of 2024 is the first cohort graduating with this new “updated curriculum,” so we believe it is relatively up-to-date and will be relevant for the near future.

Course Difficulty

Like many nursing programs across the country, Rutgers Nursing is a challenging program to complete. The school policy requires a minimum grade of C+ (74.5%) in any nursing-coded course (705) to be considered passing. C is required for all prerequisite courses (non-Nursing). Courses are often prerequisites for subsequent courses, particularly in the earlier semesters, and in the Junior year and beyond, they are corequisites, meaning that dropping a course requires withdrawing for the entire semester. This strict policy is daunting as nursing courses are only offered once a semester, so failing a course can mean being held back a full year.

• Trigger Warning: Not Passing a Course
  • In our experience, approximately 20-25% of students fail at least one course in this program. Many students who struggle before their sophomore year decide to change their major, while those in their Junior year or beyond often choose to retake the course.
  • Almost everyone in the program knows someone who has dropped Nursing within the four years. This can happen for many reasons, such as discovering a lack of passion for Nursing or experiencing significant challenges with exams. We empathize with everyone who has not passed a course. We know that the school does not provide support in these situations :(
• Note: The school administration has made some positive changes to address this issue. Depending on the course failed, students may be able to retake it with the Newark second-degree program, allowing them to stay on track for graduation or close to it.

The grade policy, while it seems reasonable, creates considerable stress for students aiming to do well. Achieving a 74.5% or higher means there is little room for error, as it's hard to recover from a poor exam grade. Most courses in the program are exam-heavy, with the HESI (NCLEX-style subject exam) accounting for 10% of the grade in many courses. (We find that there is no consistent way to study for the HESI without spending a lot of time reviewing the content). We suspect that this policy ensures only students with the highest likelihood of passing the NCLEX graduate from the program. The NCLEX pass rate is crucial for nursing schools, as it directly reflects the program's ability to produce competent nurses.
We do not intend to scare potential students but rather to highlight that any nursing program requires a significant amount of effort and should be approached with commitment and seriousness!

Rutgers Nursing Campus Dynamics

The experience of navigating Rutgers-New Brunswick campuses during the first two years of the nursing program differs from the second half, due to the back-loaded nature of the curriculum. Courses in the first two years of nursing school are mostly not nursing department courses and will be scattered on all four campuses. Make sure you choose your campus classes wisely, or you will have a miserable time on the buses during peak bus/traffic hours.
A significant shift occurs once you enter Junior year. The curriculum concentrates all nursing-specific courses into just two buildings in Downtown New Brunswick: 120 Albany Street and 110 Paterson Street. These buildings are incredibly small for their function, and the biggest lecture hall can hold around 120 students, which is often not enough to accommodate the whole cohort. This can lead to a sense of isolation as the nursing buildings are a 5-10 walk from livelier parts of campus. However, most students live on College Avenue to avoid the bus commute from other campuses, as the School of Nursing likes to schedule classes starting at 8:30AM :( Additionally, since nursing classes are typically three-hour lectures arranged on the same days to accommodate clinical schedules, the streets downtown can feel particularly dangerous to navigate in the winter months when it gets dark early.
*This is not an issue at the Newark campus, as most classes are in the same four buildings that are next to each other.

Nursing Prerequisites Courses (Freshman, Sophomore Year)

Before Junior year, students take a mix of prerequisite courses that pave the way for the nursing clinical courses starting in Junior year. Some of these courses are not specifically nursing major (705) courses and are controlled by other departments, resulting in different policies. Generally, a minimum grade of C is required for non-705 courses, while nursing courses require at least a C+. These prerequisite courses can be particularly challenging as students are still adjusting to college life. However, they also serve as an excellent gauge to determine if you can handle the rigor of the courses in Junior year and beyond. Additionally, many of these classes will not be held in the nursing building but will be spread across multiple campuses.
We will not comment on the elective courses (e.g., Humanities, Cultural Studies, History electives), as these are flexible and should be selected after discussion with an advisor.

119:127/128 Anatomy & Physiology I and II with Lab (Semester 1 and 2)
^ Difficulty: 4.5/5, RateMyProfessor, The professor for the New Brunswick course, Anthony Uzwiak, has not changed for the past few years. A&P series is a challenging course that is graded on a curve, which is uncommon for Nursing courses. Professor Uzwiak is very knowledgeable, but his exams are tough and will take significant time to prepare for. The difficulty of the course is further increased by the adjustment into college life and the sudden transition into taking an intensive course
119:131/132 Microbiology Hlth Sci with Lab (Semester 3 or 4)
^ Difficulty: 4/5, RateMyProfessor, The professor for the New Brunswick course, Susan Skelly, has not changed for the past few years. Microbiology is also a challenging course that requires significant reading and prep. Skelly's exams are tough and require a lot of memorization of textbook content, diagrams and pictures. Extra credit opportunities are available through pop quizzes, which can help boost exam grades.
160:128 Chemistry of Life (Semester 3 or 4)
^ Difficulty: 4/5, RateMyProfessor, The professor for the New Brunswick course, Robert Boikess, has not changed for the past few years. His class has mandatory attendance and heavily relies on pre-recorded lectures and use of the textbooks. Exams are difficult and often determine the final grade, so use available resources such as past exams and practice problems. The course is graded on a curve, showing improvement throughout the semester, especially on later exams, and active participation can help achieve a passing grade.
705:255 Nutrition (Semester 3)
^ Difficulty: 2.5/5, RateMyProfessor, The professor for the New Brunswick and Newark courses, Eileen Swingle, has not changed for the past few years. The course includes a few exams, easy weekly participation assignments, and a final project. She is caring and has a supportive teaching style and offers extra credit opportunities, which can significantly improve your grade. Overall, this is one of the easier courses in the program, made enjoyable by Professor Swingle's passion for nutrition.
705:229 Life Span: A Holistic Approach (Dev Psych, Semester 4)
^ Difficulty: 3/5, This course has professors that change frequently, no specific RateMyProfessor page is attached. It provides an overview of development and the complexity of human growth, including a review of both historical and modern-day developmental theories. The course is of medium difficulty and is the first where students encounter NCLEX-style questions on exams. These developmental theories will continue to appear in other courses throughout the program, so a solid understanding of them will be beneficial.
705:205 Sociocultural Dimensions of Health (Semester 4)
^ Difficulty: 2.5/5, This course has professors that change frequently, so no specific RateMyProfessor page is attached. It was added to the curriculum in 2022 and varies significantly depending on the professor. The course is highly theoretical with sociological components, but the concepts are generally straightforward and easy to grasp. It focuses on the effects of cultural and lifestyle differences on health from a human/society rather than biological viewpoint, through the perspective of a nurse.

Nursing Courses (Non-Clinical)

These are 705 Nursing JunioSenior level courses that do not have a clinical component. Note that Health Assessment includes a lab component.
705:306 Health Assessment Across the Life Span (Semester 5)

• Difficulty: 4.5/5
• Lecture: This course is the rigorous introduction to nursing assessment, focusing on the fundamentals of evaluating health. You learn to distinguish between normal and abnormal findings in physical and behavioral assessments, using techniques and equipment for systematic assessments and health history collection. This is a hard, hallmark nursing “weed out” course, as it requires a solid understanding of anatomy to apply to patient care. There are one or more body systems that are taught every week. The difficulty comes from the vast amount of information required and the detailed-oriented nature of the exams, which assess both knowledge and critical thinking abilities. It is important to keep up with the course content, the pace is fast and all content is revisited during the final exam.
• Lab: Accompanying the lecture component, there is a 2-hour clinical lab every week that focuses on a specific system (Ex. Cardiac, Musculoskeletal, Respiratory systems). You will learn how to conduct patient interviews, collect history, subjective and objective findings of each system. A significant component is the two skills exams (test-outs) in this lab, vital signs and comprehensive assessment test-out. These are pass/fail evaluations which do not affect your grade but you only have two attempts to pass each. The lab is generally pretty chill, the Center for Clinical Learning (CCL) staff hosts skills sessions where they will teach you and help you remediate if you fail a test-out. Students should be aware that it is possible to pass the lecture component but fail the course due to the lab test-outs.
• Our Review: Although this course is hard, it creates a fantastic foundation for future nursing courses. To be successful, set aside time weekly to study for this course, focus on reviewing the slides thoroughly and supplementing content with the Jarvis textbook. The EAQs are good study material for the exams.

705:350 Pathophysiology & Pharmacotherapeutics: An Integrated Approach I (Semester 5)

• Difficulty: 4/5
• Lecture: This is the first course of integrated Pathophysiology and Pharmacotherapeutics series (Patho/Pharm). The BSN program underwent a curriculum change in 2022, merging the previously separate Pathophysiology and Pharmacology courses. Despite the course title suggesting an equal focus on pharmacology, the primary emphasis is on pathophysiology. Each week covers 2-3 topics, focusing on the etiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment for pathologies related to major body systems. This course involves minimal pharmacology and relies heavily on memorization. The exams primarily test the ability to memorize and recall information rather than applying concepts.

705:351 Pathophysiology & Pharmacotherapeutics: An Integrated Approach II (Semester 6)

• Difficulty: 4.25/5
• Lecture: This course, the second in the Pathophysiology and Pharmacotherapeutics series, builds on the foundational knowledge from the first course. It covers pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and managing diseases such as infections, pain, respiratory, cardiovascular, central nervous system, endocrine, and gastrointestinal disorders. It is more challenging due to its in-depth and complex pharmacological content, requiring a solid understanding of physiology and strong memorization skills. Keeping up with the material is crucial; you cannot afford to fall behind. The course includes a comprehensive HESI exam.

^ Our Review of the Pathopharm Series

• From our perspective, this series suffers from some disorganization, due to the integration of pathophysiology and pharmacotherapeutics into 2-course series. This means that you’re essentially learning the cause, effect, AND treatment of diseases concurrently, and a lot of content overlaps with what is covered in the Adult 1 and 2 courses.
• The professor for this series has not changed in the past few years: Rate my Professor

705:325 Professional Nursing I (Semester 5)

• Difficulty: 2/5
• Lecture: This is the first of three Professional Nursing courses. Each week, the course delves into different aspects of the nursing profession, such as the history of nursing, nursing theory, and more. Typically, the course includes three exams and three major assignments or projects. The course content and structure can vary significantly depending on the professor, but it is generally considered one of the easier courses in this semester.
• Main Topics: History of the Nursing Profession, Clinical Judgment, Nursing Theory, Legal Aspects of Nursing, The Role of the Professional Nurse.

705:326 Professional Nursing II (Semester 6)

• Difficulty: 1/5
• Lecture: This course emphasizes issues in healthcare, nursing informatics, health literacy, and guidelines for research. The coursework includes weekly activities that account for a significant portion of the grade, making participation important. The majority of the grade is participation, making it one of the easier courses in the nursing program.
• Main Topics: Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods, Nursing Informatics and Health Information Technology, Ethical Considerations in Nursing Research, Integrating Evidence into Clinical Practice.

705:427 Professional Nursing III (Semester 7)

• Difficulty: 1/5 (Special Circumstance)
• Lecture: We unfortunately cannot provide too much information on this course. In Spring 2024, the original professor could no longer teach, and another professor had to fill in. This course ended up being a series of guest speakers, focusing on topics such as nurse leadership, professional development, joining professional organizations, union leaders, and nursing legislators. These sessions were generally helpful and made the course relatively easy. There is some homework and a Leadership HESI exam as part of this course.
• Main Topics: Role of the Nurse Leader, Health Policy Development, Quality and Safety in Nursing, Professional Development, Nurse Leadership Across the Lifespan

^ Our Review of Professional Nursing Series

• In our experience, the Professional Nursing course series is disorganized. The content for these courses is vague and theoretical; even the professors have a hard time defining what the class is for. Topics such as Evidence-Based Nursing Practice, communication, collaboration, and teamwork are constantly brought up, but there is no connection to clinical activities. We find these classes to have little value and relevance to Nursing, and we had a hard time recalling what was taught. These courses are likely requirements for a BSN program that includes research, leadership, and evidence-based practice,

705:418 Population Health (Semester 8)

• Difficulty: 3/5
• Lecture: This course is a new addition to the curriculum and is a requirement for a BSN program. The content is extremely vague and theoretical, covering topics such as levels of prevention, the epidemiological triangle, public health wheel, and more. The exams are also vague, but practice using problems EAQs and Quizlet significantly helps. There is a HESI exam for this course.

705:460 Nursing Elective:Special Topics (Semester 8)

• Difficulty: Varies, but generally easy/5
• Lecture: These electives are a new addition to the curriculum and are mostly asynchronous courses focusing on specialty topics that students can select based on their interests. They typically include a mix of online lectures, homework, and projects. Overall, they are considered relatively easy compared to core nursing courses. Professors sometimes forget about these courses since they have other, more important courses to teach. Due to the variety of electives available, we have less specific information about each one.
• Offerings Spring 2024:
  • Introduction to Wound Care
  • Foundations of Health Education
  • Introduction to Periop Nursing (Requires Periop DEU)
  • Introduction to Quality and Safety
  • Complementary & Alternative Therapies
  • Victimology & Forensic Nursing
  • Determinants of Health (Graduate Course)
  • Information Technology for Evidence-Based Practice.

Rutgers Nursing Clinical Experience — A Program Highlight

As one of the largest and most well-known nursing programs in New Jersey, Rutgers has established connections with some of the best clinical sites in the state. Students will graduate with 588 clinical hours. New Brunswick students typically have clinicals in Central Jersey, and Newark students have clinicals in the North Jersey area, with some exceptions. Each clinical is 84 hours a semester, in either 6 hour or 12 hour shifts. 12 hour clinicals are 7AM-7PM every other week. 6 hour clinicals can be 7AM-1PM, 1PM-7PM, or 3PM-9PM.
Quality of Clinical Instructors One of the highlights of the Rutgers Nursing program is the exceptional quality of its clinical instructors. All instructors hold at least a Master’s degree, with many possessing Doctoral degrees in advanced practice. Most instructors work at the hospital where they also serve as clinical instructors. The dual role means they are familiar with the hospital, have resources, and are aware of policies, all of which are extremely beneficial. During clinicals, students are paired with a nurse preceptor for the day, and the experience can vary greatly depending on the preceptor. While some nurses allow students to perform full assessments and medication passes, others may prefer that students observe. Regardless, each experience offers learning opportunities. Clinical instructors will break down the learning after each clinical in "post-conference" and students will share their experiences with each other from the day.
Community Clinical Settings Recently, there has been a push to incorporate Out-of-Hospital/“Community” clinicals into the program. These include shadowing school nurses, prison nurses (Rutgers Health manages state correctional facilities), and nurse practitioners involved in community screening programs. These experiences are unique to Rutgers and align with the broader state effort to expose nursing studnets to opportunities outside the traditional hospital setting.
Clinical Simulations Rutgers Nursing is also making advancements in clinical simulation. Simulations typically occur 2-3 times per semester for each course and replace hospital clinicals for those days. The Center for Clinical Learning (CCL) runs these simulations, using mannequins and other hospital equipment to simulate emergency situations that students might not encounter during regular clinicals. The instructors are supportive and understanding, even when students make mistakes.
Transition to Professional Practice (TPP) In the final senior year clinical in the course Transition to Professional Practice (TPP), students are placed in a Dedicated Education Unit (DEU) within a hospital and are expected to perform nearly independently under the guidance of a preceptor. DEU Placements include ER, ICU, Peds, Oncology, Med/Surg, Women's Health, in hospitals across the state. The DEU experience builds competence and confidence in nursing skills and can significantly help with employment after graduating.
Site Selection Regarding clinical selection, the school currently assigns clinical sites randomly, with little regard for personal convenience. However, administration has hinted at changes in the near future.
Our Perspective Overall, the clinical experience at Rutgers Nursing is a solid foundation for developing proficiency. All the clinical instructors we’ve encountered are passionate about teaching skills and competent in their work. The varied experiences in hospital and community settings, along with simulation training, ensure that students are well-prepared for their nursing careers. While the randomness of clinical site assignments can be annoying, the quality of education and hands-on training makes it a worthwhile journey. The clinical experience is a highlight of the program and a key contributor to the success of graduates.

Nursing Courses (With Clinicals/Simulation Labs)

705:335 Nursing Care of Healthy Populations (Semester 5)

• Difficulty: 3/5
• AKA: NCHP
• This course is a new addition to the nursing curriculum introduced in 2020, replacing the older Nursing Care Provider 1 and 2 series. It has an 84-hour clinical component that is predominantly conducted in the skills lab at the 120 Albany building, supplemented by two days at a skilled nursing facility towards the course's conclusion. We believe this is the easiest clinical course
• Clinical/Lab: You’ll be practicing basic nursing skills on mannequins, including therapeutic communication, hygiene care, managing elimination needs with bedpans and urinals, and handling feedings. Included in this clinical are two critical "test-outs," focusing on the administering oral medications and the execution of IM and SC injections. These are pass/fail demonstrations, and you will have two opportunities to pass them.
• Lecture: The lecture component is somewhat detached from the clinical practice, with the course content and clinical applications often not synchronized week by week. Lectures encompass a range of topics from basic nursing concepts to more critical issues. Content areas such as personal hygiene, nutrition, sleep, and the ADPIE nursing process are covered alongside more important topics such as medication administration, infection control, and patient activity management. A common point of frustration is that the test material often does not directly relate to the content discussed in lectures. Much of the content in this course is self-explanatory, however this is many students’ first exposure to NCLEX clinical questions, and may pose as a notable learning curve regarding the testing style. While it's rare for anyone to fail this course, achieving high marks can be difficult due to these discrepancies between the lecture content and the test material.

705:340 Nursing Care of Childbearing Families (Semester 6)

• Difficulty: 3.75/5
• AKA: Maternity
• Clinical: Placements in various hospital units, including MotheBaby, LaboDelivery, Newborn Nursery, Operating Room (C-Section), and High-Risk Maternity units.
• Lecture: This course is the first "specialty" nursing course, focusing on women's health and childbearing. It is very content and knowledge-heavy, with wide range of topics from prenatal care to postpartum complications. The exams range from medium to hard difficulty and demand strong critical thinking skills. Course can feel hard due to the complex nature of maternal and fetal health, the need to quickly identify and respond to complications, and the emotional aspects of caring for childbearing families.

705:336 Nursing Care of Adults & Older Adults with Common Health Conditions: (Semester 6)

• Difficulty: 4/5
• AKA: Adult 1
• Clinical: Placements are in various Medical/Surgical units across New Jersey. Both Adult Health 1 (AH1) and Adult Health 2 (AH2) have the same clinical placements, essentially doubling the clinical experience. Clinical practice focuses on essential nursing skills such as IV fluids, injections, vital signs, assessments, elimination, nutrition, wound care, oxygen therapy, and managing chronic conditions.
• Lecture: This is the first of two “Medical/Surgical” series courses focusing on adult health. The lectures cover a wide range of topics but emphasize common health conditions in adults and older adults. Fluids and electrolytes, acid-base balance, and perioperative care are particularly challenging. The Spring 2024 course includes regular exams and pop quizzes, which can be different from the lecture content, requiring strong critical thinking skills.

705:428 Nursing of Adults & Older Adults with Complex Health Conditions (Semester 7)

• Difficulty: 4.25/5
• AKA: Adult 2
• Clinical: Placements are the same as Adult 1, in various Medical/Surgical units across New Jersey.
• Lecture: This is the second course in the series, focusing on complex health conditions. It is particularly challenging because it emphasizes care for critically ill patients who need immediate treatment. The exams often have triage questions, which require strong critical thinking skills. The course is both content and thinking-intensive, covering a wide range of complex topics. Active participation and consistent study are crucial for success.

705:412 Nursing Care of Infants, Children & Adolescents (Semester 7)

• Difficulty: 3.75/5
• AKA: Peds
• Clinical: Various pediatric hospitals in the state, rotating between adolescent and pediatric units.
• Lecture: Pediatrics specialty course that can be challenging due to the differences in diseases between children and adults. The nature of pediatric illnesses requires understanding of both developmental and medical aspects unique to pediatric populations. Additionally, the treatment approaches differ significantly from adult care. This course emphasizes family-centered care, developmentally appropriate communication, and evidence-based nursing interventions for pediatric patients.

705:414 Nursing Care of Individuals/ Populations with Acute & Chronic Mental Health Conditions (Semester 8)

• Difficulty: 3.5/5
• AKA: Psych
• Clinical: Mix of simulation lab and psychiatric mental health hospitals. Unique in the sense that you get to attend support groups and rotate through the units in a mental health hospital. The patient stories are especially interesting, and you spend time talking and getting to know patients.
• Lecture: As the last specialty course in the curriculum, the faculty aims to support student success while keeping up rigorous standards (they try to make it easier to pass). The main challenge is balancing pharmacological treatments with non-pharmacological and behavioral interventions, so you need a good understanding of both. There's a heavy focus on pharmacology. The course also emphasizes family-centered care, developmentally appropriate communication, and evidence-based nursing interventions for psychiatric patients.

705:455 Transition to Professional Practice (Semester 8)

• Difficulty: 0.5/5
• AKA: TPP
• Clinical: See TPP section in clinical review above^
• Lecture: This course is designed to smoothly transition students into the professional nursing role, with a strong emphasis on career readiness and NCLEX preparation. Lectures cover practical topics such as resume building, interview skills, and professional development. Main assignments include creating a polished resume, practicing interview techniques, and completing HESI comprehensive exams, which serve as a final predictor of NCLEX success. The majority of the coursework consists of pass/fail assignments and weekly discussions on various nursing-related topics, contributing to the course's overall low-stakes nature.

Tips and Takeaways

Rutgers Nursing is an excellent program that offers great value and effectively prepares students for the nursing profession. We sincerely hope the curriculum can be revamped soon to realize its full potential. There is a significant transition between the first two years and the last two years, and the school could improve in preparing students for this shift. The job placement rate for this program is outstanding. Most graduates secure positions that pay at or near six figures straight out of college, which is almost unmatched for a Bachelor's degree.
However, this program is extremely challenging and requires constant effort. Each semester includes at least one difficult course that demands continuous studying. Remember, it's not a sprint—it's a marathon. Many classmates burn out early, so it's crucial to pace yourself and develop effective study habits. Prospective students should be prepared for a rigorous academic program that demands dedication and strong study skills. For anyone considering this program or who has questions, feel free to reach out. We are happy to provide old course content or syllabi for reference. Current nursing students, please share your thoughts below to help us improve this guide for everyone. Thank you for reading!
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