u/Old-Tomorrow-3052

Hello everyone! I’m in my first year and just had an assignment to submit 2 essays. I have always been a huge writer and the way I learnt essay writing was very formal and structured. It was all fine till Chat GPT came around.

I don’t use AI AT ALL. But in junior high I was flagged for AI plagiarism multiple times. Thankfully I fought my case out of it since I always planned on paper.

For both my essays I did around 7 pages of planning on paper and have my Google docs history. I’m so anxious because I am not playing about my grades 😭 how common is being accused of AI really?

Hello everyone, I don’t think the content warning does enough to explain the insanity of my thinking. This includes mentions of emotional/verbal abuse too and mentions of sibling death.

Everyone who is priveledged enough to claim dating doesn’t matter either has insane self confidence, or has greater aspirations in their life (from what I have seen).

I never had a great male role model. I ignore my dad mostly, he is very verbally and emotionally abusive, easily hyper, narcissistic and such. My younger brother passed from cancer early this year on January 20, 2026. Leaving me as the single child, he was the only great guy I ever knew. Maybe his death definitely fucked up my parents to an extent.

I never dated. But holy shit do I wish I had a boyfriend. Someone I could consider a best friend, someone who I can support and they can support me. It started with relatively loving thoughts, until I would start shaving my entire body incase I would get SA’d so I “would look good”. That’s how desperate I am.

I would fantasize about talking to boys, not even in romantic ways but just wishing they would look at me. But unfortunately for me, I never even had a male friend, men don’t even look at me lol. I’m so fucking desperate I wear revealing clothing for others.

When I was around 7-8 my older cousin SA’d me while on vacation back in my parents home country. Growing up I felt traumatized and still am, but then a part of me thinks I am the real disgusting one for never being touched except only by a horrible man.

I feel like such a fat fucking chud, someone who deserves this life. Away from friends and all romantic interests. People deserve someone better than me.

I just want to be loved. I never was. I grew up isolated from even making male friendships because of my father and now I want to be insanely “rebellious” for just wanting someone to love me.

Hello everyone, I’m a graduated grade 12 student who applied to UOFA exactly on October 1st, 2025. I have been waitlisted since for nursing. I struggled significantly from mental illness throughout the school year so only pushed my average to an 89% and Q4 on the Casper.

I have been waitlisted again as if July 21, 2026. I genuinely have no hope.

I am currently accepted into Bachelor of Education, everything else was too competitive. I’ll be rewriting my diplomas to get a 90%+ if I get rejected from nursing.

Did anyone else have a similar experience? I have been feeling incredibly sick just waiting for any update at this point, nursing has been a dream of mine.

I also applied to MacEwan on October 4, 2025 and have currently not received any new updates.

Hopefully I don’t get downvoted for this lol.

Any other tips will be appreciated!

I fucking hate UOFA so much, fuck you mean you’re accepting people with 90+ averages and failing the Casper while people like me with an 89+ and highest Casper score get waitlisted.

I desired nursing so so much, my younger brother died of cancer and all I wanted was to help other children. I pushed myself beyond anything to reach this average while depressed af. I’m almost sure it’s over. My mom said I may have a chance, I’m not sure.

Hello everyone! I have two budgies. Yesterday my female showed a unique behaviour by tapping her beak against the cage in the middle of the night to create an audible clink sound. She then went to sleep.

But for some reason even I don’t know she has been doing it continuously this night on and off. Stopping in between, she stopped when I spoke to her and turned on the light. I am so confused, I’ve had her for a year and a half and she slept for her continuous 12 hours no problem.

It’s currently 4:28 am and I turned the light on again.

For reference they have an excellent diet and fly outside their cage for the entire day, get enough sleep, no hormonal triggers or underlying problems. Etc.

I currently believe this is a strange response to fear, I sleep with my door open due, there are no cold drafts but she may have been spooked from a light outside despite not being bothered earlier? I shut my door around 1 am when she did it before and she stopped. I noticed she is clinging to the side of the perch closest to the cage.

Edit: I also fed her millet. She seemed fine and is now beak grinding. The other thing I believe is that she desperately needed something (?) like maybe food? And the third option is she just finds the sound fun (?)

Edit: as soon as I turned off the light she started again but now stopped when I turned my phone light on.

I just need a place to talk, what makes it worse is that I have no one to talk to.

I was 15 years old when my brother got diagnosed, he was only 13. He was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma and after numerous rounds of chemo, radiation, surgery and immunotherapy, the cancer returned on 3 separate occasions. Finally he passed away earlier this year on January 20th.

it was the worst moment in my life, sitting at the hospital and seeing him breathe so slowly and unable to communicate. Once he woke up opening his eyes and mouth as if he was in agony, I never wanted him to suffer, I can’t get it out of my mind.

I have no support, no one. I graduated Highschool and against all odds I somehow got into university with my raging depression and BPD. I’m only 18 and lost my only sibling and brother. My parents have all the support in the world, while I don’t have anyone.

No one cares about siblings, no one. Why do I have to exist? My parents prayed to some god figure hoping he would heal and he fucking died.

No amount of fancy ass temples and churches can bring back dead and dying kids, fuck everyone.

No one fucking DM me, last time I posted this I got some uncles in my DMs because I mentioned I was 18.

Edit: Thank you to everyone, I have read/am reading everything but it’s too hard for me to respond. But I appreciate it🩷

Hello everyone, I truly need help on this.

My nose is pierced on my left side, I went to an experienced piercer and they used a titanium flatback stud which was initially longer to accommodate swelling. For the first 2 weeks I had no issues at all until I woke up to blood and a tiny (only a few mm big) red irritation bump near the piercing hole on the backside.

I assumed it would be no problem, I clean it twice a day with a neilmed spray and did LITHA but the real problem was- I am a left side sleeper, I did EVERYTHING. Put a travel pillow, use a pile of blankets/pillows to prevent me rolling over and I always wake up with said items across the room on the floor and a piercing with dried blood around it.

I attempted to also use a bandaid but heard people claim it could delay healing due to preventing airflow.

Just yesterday it was finally looking great again until this mess again this morning, and no it doesn’t hurt, burn or feel warm.

What should I do?

Hi everyone, I’m F18, I usually prefer to remove body hair and for my arms, legs and face I can go a week between shaving, but it’s getting embarrassing for my pubic area and armpits. I shave one day and the next I have a stubble, I do all the aftercare and precare routine and nothing seems to work. It’s smooth until the hair grows in and then I end up with horrible horrible redness and itchiness.

I have attempted a Brazilian before but the pain scares me and the wax has so many issues lol. I don’t know how to deal with it, I have such thick coarse hair and it really bothers me. I’ve heard some people epilate their pubic hair but that’s also terrifying and I don’t know if it’s safe, cyperus oil has mixed results, waxing is a mess and laser is expensive.

I grew up waxing and epilating my arms and legs, no pain anymore at this point but I do have the option to get my armpits waxed soon but my pubic hair is mostly the issue.

What should I do?b

Edit: THANK YOU EVERYONE❤️ I can’t reply to everyone but I saw all of your suggestions.