u/myciee

i found this textbook from the fifties someone scanned online, and i'm using it to learn simplified. if there are any greggites out there that know simplified, can they verify to me that what i'm using is a good resource to be using to learn? i don't want to develop any bad habits from the beginning of my gregg shorthand experience that are hard to reverse later.

also, i just wanted to note that i'm not planning to invest any money into this, until i'm sure that it's something i'm going to follow through with. i hope i don't sound like a fool, but i only learned about gregg shorthand today. if there are other online free options, i'd also be happy to use those. thank you in advance!

this semester is gonna just be a shit show for me, and i don’t feel like i’ve had time to like prepare myself for the horrors to come and am seeking any advice at all.

i’m going into my junior year of college as a pre-med chemistry major. at the end of last semester, i found out that i wouldn’t be able to study abroad because there were classes that i needed to take to graduate this year (if you’re also an intp and have the urge to solve this problem, dw this one is complicated and i’ve considered every option regarding this). i also found out my best friend since high school that also goes to college with me is studying abroad this fall semester. last week i not only found out that my best friend is actually studying abroad the whole year, but also that my roommate is taking a gap year, so i’m gonna be all alone in my dorm.

my first year in college, my best friend and i decided that we were going to branch out and make other friends, and we were both miserable and decided to drop that our sophomore year and it was just
worlds better. for the record, i joined like five different clubs, regularly attended meetings, organized events, and i was always asking people i got along with to hang out one on one, but for some reason it just was never working out. the people that did genuinely want to hang out with me always turned out to be evil in some way (one of them was telling the people he was sleeping with that he was std-free even though he had never been checked and refused to wear protection). other people would agree to hang out with me and then consistently cancel last minute or, if they weren’t doing that, i would realize that i was doing all the planning and when i stopped asking them to hang out, they stopped talking to me altogether. for the record, it wasn’t like i was being a clingy crazy person like i wasn’t asking for much it was like dinner or studying near each other like once a week. also, i continued to do my clubs and extracurricular activities as well as having a job in my sophomore year as well and wasn’t having any luck there again.

i had a rough time my freshman year, but i was lowkey saved by the fact that i had a roommate that would speak to me everyday, even on the days where i really didn’t want them too. i’m afraid i’m going to go days on end without ever speaking to anyone and i’ll fall into a crazy pitt of depression and perish. does anyone have any advice on how to be alone without being so lonely besides pouring yourself into your hobbies? alternatively, does anyone know how to make friends beyond what i’ve already done?

before i got hired, i had to take a physical, and i thought that because i could lift the amount that they needed me to that i wouldn’t have any issues with strength in the field but boy was i wrong.

a few weeks ago my preceptor asked me to be on the pulling side of the patient to see if i could pull them from the stretched onto the hospital bed, and the patient, who wasn’t even particularly large, did not budge even a little bit. we had to switch sides and it was super embarrassing. i feel like a lot of the strength that they emphasized i would need is in lifting, and i can lift pretty well, but i’m 5’1, so it’s very rare that i only need to lift anything just to the level of my waist. i’m not a very athletic person, and i’ve never actually had a workout routine, but i was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on how to strengthen my upper body before i go back to working in the fall (i’m home for the summer because i’m in college).