u/firfetir

I was told only UF students could take chemistry online with them and for some reason I'm required to take CHM2045 (or CHM2046 idr) before I can become a student. I'm a working adult in my 30s and a new mom and taking classes in person at all has been basically impossible. Night classes are only offered for people getting there masters and I'm trying to get my bachelors. If I could just take this class online I could finish the last handful of classes I need to get my degree. Is there any loophole or exception or anything at all that can help me do this?

The "big kahuna" of book sites is obviously Goodreads; so I poke around updating what I've read, what I want to read, hoping the suggestions it gives me will eventually get better and more accurate - but I'm unsure how much I should expect this result.

For better or worse I am extremely biased against anyone personally suggesting books to me because all throughout my life I've noticed 99% of people can't help but recommend a book because THEY liked it, not because they truly think YOU will like it. People's suggestions of movies/shows I should watch lends itself to this bias I have. Nine times out of ten when I read a book mentioned by someone else they weren't even recommending it to me they were just talking about it and didn't even clock that I would like it.

Just recently I was scrolling Insta and accidentally saw a post about Yesteryear and was instantly INTRIGUED by the synopsis. Found the book that same day and devoured it within a few days. It was maybe a 3 star for me in the end but I was still intrigued enough to blast through it. On the flip side I checked out ACOTAR when it blew up so huge and hated it so much lol.

I also end up feeling overwhelmed really fast with any type of media to consume. It's especially exhausting with media to be watched like movies/shows/etc because those are put in front of you a lot more in my experience. "<Everyone> HAS to watch this <new media> it's SO good!" and I feel instantly fatigued. There's so many new shows/movies that are SO good EVERY year. It all goes in one ear and out the other. I have a limited amount of time on this earth and I can't watch all the things.

I get a similar feeling with trying to go through my recommendations on Goodreads. I click through recommendations and after a while I start to get... idk nihilistic about it. So many people have been writing so many books for so many centuries it feels like a lost cause trying to sift through them even in a recommendations category.

And then I get decision fatigue. I add various things to my "want to read" list but then they kinda just sit there. Not the end of the world I guess, we all know about the plight of having a shelf of books we still haven't read and some mild guilt associated with them.

Not sure what I'm looking for from this post. I guess I'm feeling a little whiplash from it being so long since I had that instant excitement feeling of like "I HAVE to read that IMMEDIATELY" to going back to maybe another few years before I get that feeling again.

TL;DR: I'm struggling to walk a fine line between finding enough (any) books I'm EXCITED about and getting overwhelmed/paralyzed with centuries of possible book recommendations.

I haven't biked in idk how long but I recently got an ebike and felt like a kid, being giddy to commute to work on it. It's about a 45 min ride to the lab, and I noticed my fingers were getting VERY tingly and basically numb while riding. Does anyone have any experience with this? I don't really think I have any like... circulation problems? Not that I've noticed anyway?

It made me uncomfortable because I was riding in the tiny bike lane but taking my hand off the handlebar with cars whizzing past while I'm also going 20 mph, just to get some feeling back in my fingers. Just hoping it will go away and wanted to try asking for input.

Baby is five months. Husband and I have the week worked out so each gets a little free time and attempt at enough sleep most days. The majority of my big block of free time is six hours Sunday afternoon and eight hours during the Monday workday.

All week I dream of this time, and then when it gets here I have "decision paralysis" and don't know how to use it. I end up mindlessly scrolling or browsing things we need online. I try to not make myself feel bad about just doing whatever I want at that time, even if it is just turning my brain off and scrolling, but I often do end up feeling bad/frustrated. Yet at the same time I don't want to put more pressure on myself by thinking I need to use my free time the "right" way.

I've tried making lists of what I want to do and I just sort of stare at them when my free time finally gets here.

Has anyone found something that helped with this?