u/PrideDazzling4063

As many know, to become an astronaut requires a thousand hours of related work with your STEM degree, as a high schooler starting to look at colleges, where would the best place be to use my degree after graduating college?

I'm currently trying to map out my collage choices, and I got great options such as Purdue, but what other schools can I put on there? (I'd like some wide Varity. Obviously schools such as MIT are on my radar, but I would like some less popular answers.)

I'm trying to write a cult story, but i can't really get it to fit. I'm mostly stuck on the recruitment part. How would members of a small cult try to recruit members off the street. I know many cults use love bombing, but how can one write that into a character? Also, what does the inside of the cult look like? Other than trust in the leader, what about the architecture? What about other members? How should long time members react to new recruits, and how should new recruits react as they get deeper into the truth? The main character is a down on his luck man, who gets dumped by his girlfriend and just a bit after gets recruited for a "Spiritual Retreat". How slow should the cult ease into the truth? I have tried various starting points, but i can't really tell how to get the main character to fall into the scheme. How can i make him become a cog in the machine? If anyone else has any suggestions for future parts, that'd be awesome.

Over the past 3 or so years, I've come to terms with my homosexual identity. I may not be out to many people that i know, but why is it that even though I'm proud of who i am, i keep on thinking that being gay is bad? Maybe it's society, maybe It's trauma, but why do i seem to hate myself even when i love myself?

I've tried every method, but when its 11pm, with nothing to do, you get bored. AND DONT SAY SLEEP. I wanna fix the small issue before it gets worse.