u/someweirdgamerYT

hey all,

i'm a rising sophomore currently attending virginia tech for electrical engineering. though i do engineering, my personality tends to be more artsy and i'm quite left-leaning, as well as being black and queer. i'm big into music too, and i make beats and play jazz. though i'd prefer to do music, i feel that electrical engineering is just bearable and interesting enough where i don't think i'd absolutely abhor doing it for a career

all this is to say that after my first year at tech, i'm just not sure if it's the right fit. virginia tech is getting progressively "un-woke" by cutting things like queer and black living learning community programs, cutting DEI protections, and a host of other dumb decisions. this is not to mention that the culture at tech is overwhelmingly frat-centric and very white, with not a lot of diversity or a big alternative scene.

though i've found my way a little bit when it comes to community with things like marching band as well as getting involved with the limited alternative scene at school, i just feel like another would fit me more sometimes. i love how prestigious my school is, but that prestige is pretty much the only reason i had tech as my #1 school when i applied to college. the culture isn't for me despite how great our engineering program is, and our school is in the middle of nowhere where you just see the same people over and over w/ the country being the only thing surrounding us. when i went to VCU to see a friend recently i was reminded of just how much i love the city life and how lacking VT is in diversity and just people who look like me. despite the circle i'd built for myself which i'd hate to life behind, the culture is just overwhelmingly BORING! i find myself thinking about what life would be like at a more woke school all the time even though it's a little bit dumb.

despite everything i've said though, i'm really just quite bad with change. i'm already a whole year into school and entering fall semester at tech soon, so it just feels like it's all too late to up and switch schools. as well as this, it just kinda feels like the "selfish" move to make for myself. sticking it out at VT for engineering would definitely put me on the path to success when it comes to putting food on the table and getting opportunities and all that. it just feels like a huge move to make and it's not like i'm even guaranteed to make friends or build up my community again, especially after already spending my so-called freshman experience at a different school.

any advice?

hey all,

i'm a rising sophomore currently attending virginia tech for electrical engineering. though i do engineering, my personality tends to be more artsy and i'm quite left-leaning, as well as being black and queer. i'm big into music too, and i make beats and play jazz. though i'd prefer to do music, i feel that electrical engineering is just bearable and interesting enough where i don't think i'd absolutely abhor doing it for a career

all this is to say that after my first year at tech, i'm just not sure if it's the right fit. virginia tech is getting progressively "un-woke" by cutting things like queer and black living learning community programs, cutting DEI protections, and a host of other dumb decisions. this is not to mention that the culture at tech is overwhelmingly frat-centric and very white, with not a lot of diversity or a big alternative scene.

though i've found my way a little bit when it comes to community with things like marching band as well as getting involved with the limited alternative scene at school, i just feel like another would fit me more sometimes. i love how prestigious my school is, but that prestige is pretty much the only reason i had tech as my #1 school when i applied to college. the culture isn't for me despite how great our engineering program is, and our school is in the middle of nowhere where you just see the same people over and over w/ the country being the only thing surrounding us. when i went to VCU to see a friend recently i was reminded of just how much i love the city life and how lacking VT is in diversity and just people who look like me. despite the circle i'd built for myself which i'd hate to life behind, the culture is just overwhelmingly BORING! i find myself thinking about what life would be like at a more woke school all the time even though it's a little bit dumb.

despite everything i've said though, i'm really just quite bad with change. i'm already a whole year into school and entering fall semester at tech soon, so it just feels like it's all too late to up and switch schools. as well as this, it just kinda feels like the "selfish" move to make for myself. sticking it out at VT for engineering would definitely put me on the path to success when it comes to putting food on the table and getting opportunities and all that. it just feels like a huge move to make and it's not like i'm even guaranteed to make friends or build up my community again, especially after already spending my so-called freshman experience at a different school.

any advice?

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just curious to see if there are any special changes and dialogue (or lack thereof) for not ranking up either of these confidants before the 3rd semester. if there are any youtube videos detailing the differences pls send them my way!

hey all,

i have an iphone 15. yesterday i was in a chlorinated pool and used my phone for a little (yes stupid i know) and it got a bit splashed + i was handling it with wet hands. as soon as it got splashed i took it out of the pool to dry it, i didn't fully power it down though. the phone was working as normal all night after that, and i plugged it in for the night as normal, no liquid detection warning or anything. my phone was operating completely as normal all night while plugged in (it's a USB C laptop charger if that helps at all, have used it many many times before to charge this phone). this morning i opened my phone up as normal and got to the lock screen, it was working fine for about a minute or two and then it suddenly went completely black. no sounds, vibrations, charging indicator or anything; i've tried using the volume up volume down reset sequence and normally powering it on multiple times over the last 12 hours and i get nothing. what could've possibly happened? i'm planning on getting a new phone from t-mobile and keeping the old phone to see if maybe it's recoverable, i haven't backed up icloud photos in 6 months because my icloud is full and if there's any way to get those photos off the storage i'd really like to.

hey all,

i have an iphone 15. yesterday i was in a chlorinated pool and used my phone for a little (yes stupid i know) and it got a bit splashed + i was handling it with wet hands. as soon as it got splashed i took it out of the pool to dry it, i didn't fully power it down though. the phone was working as normal all night after that, and i plugged it in for the night as normal, no liquid detection warning or anything. my phone was operating completely as normal all night while plugged in (it's a USB C laptop charger if that helps at all, have used it many many times before to charge this phone). this morning i opened my phone up as normal and got to the lock screen, it was working fine for about a minute or two and then it suddenly went completely black. no sounds, vibrations, charging indicator or anything; i've tried using the volume up volume down reset sequence and normally powering it on multiple times over the last 12 hours and i get nothing. what could've possibly happened? i'm planning on getting a new phone from t-mobile and keeping the old phone to see if maybe it's recoverable, i haven't backed up icloud photos in 6 months because my icloud is full and if there's any way to get those photos off the storage i'd really like to.

hey guys, i currently have a 100 ohm potentiometer wired in series with the positive wire of a keyboard toy, at the first and middle pins. i get some cool voltage starve effects when i turn the potentiometer up but when i turn the potentiometer back down the keyboard restarts at around 10-20 ohms. is there any way to prevent the piano from resetting when i turn the resistance back down? i have resistors ranging from 100 ohms to 1m ohms and some 0.1 uF capacitors and that's about it.

hey all! i'd like to be directed towards some resources for a beginner bass player already familiar with jazz. my goals are to just learn how to walk bass and play jazz charts this summer, my ultimate goal this summer would be learning how to walk a jazz 12 bar blues in every key at a reasonable tempo. i've been playing sax for almost 8 years now, been playing jazz for 3 of those years and i'm pretty dang alright at it, i also have a very solid music theory foundation. ive had a bass for 3 years now but have never learned it, tonight i had some fun fiddling around and just playing the root notes on a simple C blues and some basic soloing, so i already have a good musical intuition if that helps at all with finding resources or whatnot (my technique is pretty bad though). i'd like to avoid lessons if possible, this is really just a side thing for the summer so i can say that i'm able to play jazz bass lol. thanks for any help!

hey everyone! i've been tripping since early 2023 and used to trip upwards of 3 times a month with little issue (im very familiar with shrooms, acid, and DXM).

after a few really bad trips over last summer though (had to take trip killers and another one involved 911), i became really apprehensive when it came to tripping. i've always had pre-trip anxiety that could get pretty bad sometimes but i usually would be able to thug it out for the trip, this would involve things like tremors and thought loops.

nowadays my pre-trip anxiety has worsened to the point where it's basically impossible for me to trip. even when taking doses that used to be pretty light to me in the past, nowadays my whole day before a trip pretty much centers around pre-trip anxiety. i find it extremely hard to "let go" and just succumb to the trip, i either forgo tripping entirely or i take a super low amount. when i do actually decided to trip at a normal dose i find myself spending so much time just trying not to psych myself out, it's like the fear of being anxious ends up making me have a bad trip. i did also develop some mild anxiety around december-january which definitely doesn't help. it'll be so bad that even hearing anyone say anything negative at all be it online or otherwise will make me panic, just the words "bad trip" will send me tweaking.

i wanna take shrooms tomorrow, just 1 gram and go to this burning man-type event. i'll be with people, which might make it easier since most of my bad trips have been solo. i know deep down that if i took that much i'd be fine but i can already feel the anticipation tripping in and i'm worried ill back out of it at the last minute or have a bad trip somehow. any advice? i just wanna enjoy tripping again man!

hey everyone! i've been tripping since early 2023 and used to trip upwards of 3 times a month with little issue (im very familiar with shrooms, acid, and DXM).

after a few really bad trips over last summer though (had to take trip killers and another one involved 911), i became really apprehensive when it came to tripping. i've always had pre-trip anxiety that could get pretty bad sometimes but i usually would be able to thug it out for the trip, this would involve things like tremors and thought loops.

nowadays my pre-trip anxiety has worsened to the point where it's basically impossible for me to trip. even when taking doses that used to be pretty light to me in the past, nowadays my whole day before a trip pretty much centers around pre-trip anxiety. i find it extremely hard to "let go" and just succumb to the trip, i either forgo tripping entirely or i take a super low amount. when i do actually decided to trip at a normal dose i find myself spending so much time just trying not to psych myself out, it's like the fear of being anxious ends up making me have a bad trip. i did also develop some mild anxiety around december-january which definitely doesn't help. it'll be so bad that even hearing anyone say anything negative at all be it online or otherwise will make me panic, just the words "bad trip" will send me tweaking.

i wanna take shrooms tomorrow, just 1 gram and go to this burning man-type event. i know deep down that if i took that much i'd be fine but i can already feel the anticipation tripping in and i'm worried ill back out of it at the last minute or have a bad trip somehow. any advice? i just wanna enjoy tripping again man!

hey everyone! been having this internal debate with myself for a while. i know what makes a bass solo good and i listen to/have heard records featuring a lot of the greats; mingus, ron carter, paul chambers, jaco, and jimmy garrison just to name a few. one thing i have a hard time with however is identifying what makes a bass player good when they're just laying it down with the rhythm section. as i've been reading miles' autobiography, he often talks about the great rhythm section players he plays with, and though i can easily tell when a pianist or drummer is a great rhythm section i just don't get what makes a bassist so good when it comes to more straight-ahead stuff like walking bass. i love people like mingus' and eddie gomez's work when it comes to comping in the rhythm section on more emotional and slow tunes where the bass stands out a lot more, but on something like a love supreme, for instance, the bass playing just fades into the background and i only hear the soloist and drums; the bass has a lot more of an "invisible" role i don't really notice consciously. would love to get some perspective on this especially from some bass players!

hey all! i'm coming back home from college from may 13 - august 17 and i want to work part-time as a lifeguard in the hampton roads area of virginia. the big problem for me is the investment... most courses in my area are $250-$300! i'd really like to have my training out the way before june for obvious reasons. the only free option i could find runs from june 15th to the 20th, and that's assuming i'd be able to find a job as a lifeguard after that, which is a significant time crunch, especially since i usually travel out-of-state for a good 3 weeks every summer. the expensive options are better time-wise (may 15-17), but i'm really not sure if the return on investment would be worth it. i'd assume $300 would be a huge chunk out of what i'd make in the ~2-3ish months of work i'd be doing. these were the only two Red Cross options i could find in my area that made sense, however.

i'd really appreciate some advice for my situation because i know i'd really enjoy being a lifeguard and i need a job over the summer that isn't gonna make me 100% miserable. if someone could find options near me that'd be great too, i know that's asking a lot though.