u/HelpfulPollution3422

▲ 7 r/Dhaka

Should there be an absent fee in colleges?

4000 taka. Extra. Every single month if you're absent for more than 2 days in a single month. Along with your actual tuition, around 4000 taka and a lot of hidden charges too.

Lab fees, for a lab where many computers do not work, and we don't even have that many lab classes. Taking fees while we're giving hsc exams and not even attending college. Taking fees after the test exam, when we're not even going to college. Taking money for "developmental purposes" but the only development they could come up with was a shishupark themed penguin dustbin and destroying our beloved canteen and building new shits there, taking up space from our basketball court as well. The kind of development no one ever asked for.

Many times there'll be issues with the payment system as well, with newer and newer "updates", making the process of giving those fees even more difficult with new portals which crash quite often.

I'm not gonna say the institution's name but it is very very well reputed. And I'm pretty sure there are many more colleges and schools in Bangladesh which are equally messed up.

I do not understand, we are already paying for the college. If I become absent, then why do I need to pay AGAIN? It's not like I'm damaging any property or I'm causing them any harm by not attending college. Besides, college does nothing but waste your time and energy. Everybody studies from tuitions, online classes or coachings anyways. I don't understand this "pay for your absence" scheme. I've always topped my class, and I'm quite happy with my results. But one time our class teacher humiliated me in front of everyone in our class because I was absent 5-6 times that month by shouting

" Bashay boshe boshe ki koro? Poro? Ki, first hoba? First toh hoba na. Tomar theke onek bhalo student ra ase Jara regular college e ashe, oder dike Takao ekbar."

That man left his job as a teacher for a government job lmao

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u/HelpfulPollution3422 — 11 days ago

Is this internalized misogyny?

I'm 19f, belonging from a very strict south asian conservative family. I've never had a sleepover before, not until now. So this was a very unplanned sudden situation. One of my Friends (my age) had a big problem in her building and since she lives alone, she asked me for help. So I said sure you can stay with us (my family) for a day since there's no security in your building and you live alone as a female (living alone as a female is totally abnormal in our culture). So my mother was hesitant at first but later agreed. She stayed in my room and we had a lot of fun. But before going to bed my mother called me to her room, and told me how she doesn't trust my friend and how she thinks girls shouldn't stay in other people's houses and what not. Basically she was sort of ranting about her character and her choice of living. I just said that well she was quite helpless and needed a place to stay for a while. But my mother still told me to be careful around girls like her who roam around freely as they could be a potential threat. Idk how to feel about that situation. My mother didn't like how my friend talked about how her parents had a love marriage and she was "too friendly and outspoken" with them. While my brother gets to have sleepovers, call his friends over, they stay all night together and my mother considers it totally fine, totally normal. She even asked me if my friend had a boyfriend or not, but not in a positive way but as an authoritative way to police her character whereas when she's questioning my brother about his friends, she's always friendly and playful. Is this how the older generation thinks? Is this a double standard or am I overthinking?

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u/HelpfulPollution3422 — 11 days ago
▲ 16 r/women

Are female sleepovers too stigmatized?

I'm 19f and I've never had a sleepover before, not until now. So this was a very unplanned sudden situation. One of my Friends (my age) had a big problem in her building and since she lives alone, she asked me for help. So I said sure you can't stay with us (my family) for a day since there's no security in your building and you live alone as a female. So my mother was hesitant at first but later agreed. She stayed in my room and we had a lot of fun. But before going to bed my mother called me to her room, and told me how she doesn't trust my friend and how she thinks girls shouldn't stay in other people's houses and what not. Basically she was sort of ranting about her character and her choice of living. I just said that well she was quite helpless and needed a place to stay for a while. But my mother still told me to be careful around girls like her who roam around freely as they could be a potential threat. Idk how to feel about that situation. My mother didn't like how my friend talked about how her parents had a love marriage and she was "too friendly and outspoken" with them. While my brother gets to have sleepovers, call his friends over, they stay all night together and my mother considers it totally fine, totally normal. She even asked me if my friend had a boyfriend or not, but not in a positive way but as an authoritative way to police her character whereas when she's questioning my brother about his friends, she's always friendly and playful. Is this how the older generation thinks? Is this a double standard or am I overthinking?

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u/HelpfulPollution3422 — 11 days ago
▲ 88 r/Dhaka

Are female sleepovers too stigmatized?

I'm 19f and I've never had a sleepover before, not until now. So this was a very unplanned sudden situation. One of my Friends (my age) had a big problem in her building and since she lives alone, she asked me for help. So I said sure you can stay with us (my family) for a day since there's no security in your building and you live alone as a female. So my mother was hesitant at first but later agreed. She stayed in my room and we had a lot of fun. But before going to bed my mother called me to her room, and told me how she doesn't trust my friend and how she thinks girls shouldn't stay in other people's houses and what not. Basically she was sort of ranting about her character and her choice of living. I just said that well she was quite helpless and needed a place to stay for a while. But my mother still told me to be careful around girls like her who roam around freely as they could be a potential threat. Idk how to feel about that situation. My mother didn't like how my friend talked about how her parents had a love marriage and she was "too friendly and outspoken" with them. While my brother gets to have sleepovers, call his friends over, they stay all night together and my mother considers it totally fine, totally normal. She even asked me if my friend had a boyfriend or not, but not in a positive way but as an authoritative way to police her character whereas when she's questioning my brother about his friends, she's always friendly and playful. Is this how the older generation thinks? Is this a double standard or am I overthinking?

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u/HelpfulPollution3422 — 11 days ago
▲ 145 r/Dhaka

I've been seeing this bird for a while in my balcony, creating its nest. Morning coffee feels better with this view.

u/HelpfulPollution3422 — 14 days ago
▲ 3 r/Dhaka

Hsc is a few months away but I just cannot seem to mentally gather the willpower to sit on the table and put myself to revise the topics. I completed the syllabus about a month before the test exam and after that I just don't find the energy to study and sit for long hours. I still try to revise the topics as much as I can but I just feel like I need a bit more pressure to revise it. Currently the udvash model test is going on but I haven't participated in many of them because of this awful mental incapability. I want to study, I was a very regular student, I did incredible in our test exam (December), but now my fuel has completely finished. The final udvash model test, which is gonna be full syllabus would start in a few days and I'm currently revising for them, but at an incredibly unsatisfactory speed, for which I'm constantly blaming myself. Is anyone else going through this and if yes then how did you overcome it? Seniors, please give us some advice on how you navigate such mental resistances, where you're constantly blaming yourself for not studying enough, and feeling like a complete idiot.

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u/HelpfulPollution3422 — 15 days ago

I'm 19f and someone has made a fake account of me, which has around 170 followers and 200+ following. The perpetrator is using my older photos which I had posted on my Instagram account 2-3 years ago. I was a minor back then. Idk what they're doing with that fake account. Even though I'm currently off of social media because of an important exam, but I had told all my friends to r*port the account and post the same on their stories which did reduce its follower count but didn't get it off of the internet. How to deal with this?

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u/HelpfulPollution3422 — 15 days ago