u/KitchenHumble8076

For context, I already have an AA. I’m just confused on how everything works.

1. I have a specific school that I want to do my PCE and student teaching in, the principal and staff want me to do it there as well. Am I able to choose that school (I looked it up and WGU does have an agreement with that school district), can I choose to go to the school or will they choose for me? This is a dealbreaker for me.

2. Do I get my teaching credentials as soon as I finish everything at WGU (I’m in California)?

3. How hard are the courses?

4. How does everything work linearly? Like do I have to finish all courses before I can begin student teaching/PCE? Is it only one course at a time? Because at my community college I can do PCE at anytime, but I was reading that I might have to pass the CSET before I can even do my PCE? Is that true?

5. Do I take all of my CSET, CBEST, and RICA testing to get credentials through WGU?

I would appreciate ANY and all advice please, thank you!

Got my Associate’s in Liberal Arts, I was going to apply to Chico. GPA is 2.7 but I am in the process of academic renewal which should bring it up to a 3.0+. Applying for Liberal Studies - Elementary Education Teacher. What is the acceptance rate for a transfer going fully online?

Ever since I got POTS, I can’t smoke weed anymore even though I was a stoner for almost 5 years. Makes my heart rate sky rocket and I always have a panic attack. Same with drinking alcohol even though I was a pretty heavy drinker before I got POTS. I just turned 21 and I didn’t even drink on my birthday because it makes me feel so terrible.

Is there anyone that CAN drink with POTS? Because if so I need tips, it sucks being the only one not able to have a drink on a night out.

AITAH for ending a friendship after my friend accused me of attacking him?

I (20F) had a friend (20M) that I was close with years ago. We fell out around 2023 and he spent the next couple years sending me rude messages, calling me names, etc. A few months ago we reconnected and cleared things up.

After we reconnected, he started texting me constantly and wanting to hang out. I honestly wasn't that interested in rebuilding the friendship, but I tried to be polite.

Recently, our group chat was discussing a guy we knew from high school who posted pictures cuddling/hugging other men. My friend immediately started saying the guy was definitely gay, definitely a bottom, making sexual jokes, etc. I said I didn't think that necessarily meant he was gay and that assuming men are gay just because they're affectionate with male friends reinforces stereotypes that make some men afraid to show affection.

The conversation turned into an argument. He brought up his experiences as a gay man and said I didn't understand because I'm a straight white woman. I told him I wasn't trying to invalidate his experiences, I just didn't agree with assuming someone's sexuality based on a photo.

A few days later he privately messaged me apologizing and saying he thought I had a strong point, wasn't trying to attack me, and thought we were mostly saying the same thing. I accepted the apology and thought everything was resolved.

During that conversation, I also told him that I often feel singled out in our group chat because he regularly makes comments toward me that come across as rude, dismissive, or condescending. I sent screenshots of a few examples and explained that even if he meant them as jokes, they genuinely bothered me.

He responded that he never intended them as attacks and was just teasing me because he liked me as a friend. Again, I thought we had resolved everything.

Then over a week later he sent me a huge message saying he was deeply hurt, that I was trying to make him look like a bad person, that I was psychoanalyzing him, that he had shown multiple people our messages and they all thought I just hated him, and that he no longer felt comfortable being friends with me.

I responded by saying I didn't hate him, I didn't think he was a bad person, but that we clearly view our interactions differently and it was probably best if we went our separate ways as friends. He then blocked me on everything after I sent the message, and a few friends are coming forward saying that he is telling them I started this argument and am attacking him because he’s a POC (he is 1/4 Indian), and just talking a lot of shit on me.

AITAH for ending the friendship?

I got POTS in August 2024, I believe what caused me to get it was a heat stroke I had during a hike but it’s unknown. My life has drastically changed for the worse since then. I had to quit my job, switch to doing college fully online, and now I am an unemployed student that stays home 90% of my life.

I miss running, hiking, working/interacting with customers, and doing my favorite things that I can no longer do. I can barely do the dishes or clean my room without needing to take a break to lay down.

I am no longer the person my boyfriend fell in love with. He still shows immense care for me, but I feel horrible after he had a 12 hour shift and I have been home all day, and I couldn’t even do the laundry or make him dinner.

I want to have children, it is my life goal. But I no longer think I can if my life continues like this. I can’t even take care of myself, it would be irresponsible to have children when my health is like this.

I just need some words of affirmation. How do you guys get through day-to-day life, and how have you maintained happiness with this illness? Have you achieved your goals while having POTS? I feel so stuck, I have only gotten worse the past 2 years and I’m so scared for the future.

I would appreciate any advice or just words of encouragement. I feel so alone. My parents and everyone around me thinks this is all in my head and I can cure myself completely like this if I fix my mental. I feel SO alone.

My boyfriend immigrated to the United States from Moscow, Russia when he was 11-12 years old with his family, so everyone in his family speaks pretty much only Russian.

I would LOVE to learn Russian. It is such a beautiful language. I tried to learn it through Duolingo but it didn’t go very well. How are you guys learning it?