Currently on my 3rd month of WGU for BAELED and so far I've completed my basic skills test and 33 credit units. I feel like I've done so much but there's still so much to do and my next FIVE courses all have OAs, I still have 87 CUs to do, do everything I need for my clinicals, and than my clinicals. I feel WAYYY behind. Does anyone else feel this way?
Tomorrow will be three weeks of me not biting my nails and literally all I can think about it is "what's wrong with biting my nails in the first place?" it's not like it's costing me money, or causing serious bodily harm. Anytime I'm bored for even a little or have anxiety i have to physically make myself not bite my nails.. i feel like an anxiety ridden chihuahua. literally why am i torturing myself? lmao
I have a crazy lack of discipline when it comes to eating healthy and exercising. When it comes to college work or cleaning I'm there, I'll finish before I'm supposed to. But for some reason when it comes to being healthy I cannot break the cycle. I want to start slow by just jogging a mile a day (because I don't have a gym within walking distance to me), where do I start? How do I build the habit? How do I not give up?
This is my third time watching TWD and it just hit me. Maybe I'm just arrogant but why would Rick just let the saviors control Alexandria? They probably couldnt fight back because the Saviors had more man power and guns, but they couldnt run? They survived outside the gates for a year, so they couldve probably run and survive out on the road while also protecting and teaching the weak ones on how to survive.
It just doesn't make much sense.
I just registered for this course, have any of y'all taken it? How did you like it? What does it entail?
Im 19 so very soon I'll have to start scheduling an appointment for a pap smear. I am terrified. Disgustingly terrified. I've heard it doesn't hurt for some women but I've heard it might hurt for others. I am VERY sensitive down there. Even having sex hurts if it goes too deep. I am lucky enough that I was given the HPV vaccine at 12. Do I absolutely HAVE to get a pap smear? Cervical cancer doesn't run in my family, I've never had anyone in my family have any kind of cervical cancer. But I do have the breast cancer gene.
I don't have a gyno rn so idk who else to ask these questions to
I had a proctored exam scheduled in 2 hours. But where I live just had a big tropical storm come through and my power and internet is out. I don't have a hotspot on my phone. Is there any way I can cancel or reschedule the test on my phone without being penalized??
Before I start off this post, nope not an edgy 13 year old mad at their mom. I'm 20. Technically I'm a young adult. Not a teenager, but not a full grown up adult. I've been paying bills, buying groceries, paying taxes, all that super fun for 3 years now. I'm not some privileged little kid living at home with mommy and daddy, no shame to the people my age who do live at home tho. The economy is ROUGH.
I will admit, Im chronically online. So I see this happening a LOT. A teenager, or a mom of a teenager, will make a TikTok complaining "My teenager can't find a job!" "I can't find an after school job!" things of that nature. I open the comments and all I see is people saying "Teens don't need jobs anyways, leave the jobs for adults!" First of all, so many things wrong with this comment. There are millions of children living in extreme poverty in America, and millions of families are living paycheck to paycheck. But mostly, it's always the same people who say "Teens don't need jobs!" who turn around and scream "GET A JOB YOU LAZY PEICE OF SHIT" to teens who are struggling to get school supplies, pay tuition, have food, etc.
Like I remember being a teenager in a financially struggling home and it was rough and confusing. Instead of sports and summer camp I had to clock in. And all the adults in my life would call me entitled. Listen I get it. I'm exhausted from life too. I'm tired of it. But I'm not gonna go yell at scream at teenagers because my life sucks.
Also just a little tangent, if you're older and reading this (like you were in high school when MySpace was a thing) stop telling your teenage children you "know what school is like" and you "know what being a teenager is like". Things are drastically different from the 90's, early 2000's, things are different from the 2010's. Suicide is the leading cause of death in young adults, and it's not just the phone. Stop being so hard on your kids, that's what leads them to going no-contact. You don't know what school in 2026 is like, you don't know what being a teenager is like in 2026 and that's okay. It's okay that things are changing, but listen to your kids. Kids aren't taking lunch money anymore. They're whispering behind backs, isolating, spreading extreme rumors, threatening, fighting, murdering. Listen to your kids when they say it's hard. Because it's hard.
When I first started WGU I only took at loans I thought I needed for the flat rate tuition. And as I'm starting to prepare for my clinicals I'm realizing how much the background checks, tests, and preparation costs and I genuinely cannot afford it.
Is there a way I can increase my student loans to pay for it? Who do I contact? What do I say?
I've been battling depression my entire life. I was diagnosed with depression at 11. Then with suicidal depression at 15. Then again at 18, but this time with trauma-related disorders. So yeah, it's been a long decade.
About six months ago my husband got a new job. He works nights, 4pm-12am. We only have one car and he's only off one day a week. This means we wake up, he goes to work, and then when he gets home everything is closed and all of our friends are asleep. We briefly tried sleeping in the mornings like normal people so we could get stuff done during the day but it didn't end well. This sent me into the worst depression I have ever had in my life. I felt so isolated. The only person I talked to in person 6 days a week was my husband. I let go and gave into my depression. I didn't try to commit, although I thought about it a couple times. It was often I would go two or three weeks without showering. My hair was matted. Our place was dirty. I didn't leave my bed other than to get food and use the bathroom. It was just bad.
I woke up today. I brushed my teeth. I brushed my hair. I washed my face. And as I was sweeping the kitchen it kind of just dawned on me. I've been doing this for a month. I've been brushing my teeth, brushing my hair, washing my face, and consistently cleaning for a month. A whole month. And it's not like I've just been cleaning but I've been kinda happy. Not like sunshine and rainbows happy, but I'm not not happy. Which is good, because usually i'm just not happy. I don't know why but I just woke up one day and something snapped.
I know this doesn't mean Ive cured my depression. And this is probably just part of the cycle because depression comes and goes but this is the longest it's been "gone". But it's a good step. And I just feel... free? Even if this is just temporary I feel good. I really hope this isn't temporary.
Idk if this was the best place to post this but yeah. Just wanted to feel proud of myself. If you're reading this and you're going through that really really bad depression it's okay to feel that way. It's okay to get help. And I know this may not help everyone but what really helped me was a daily schedule/chore chart that was super detailed and had time stamps so I didn't feel so overwhelmed and I could take everything one minute at a time (plus checking things off gave me a huge dopamine rush)
I'm in the BAELED licensure track and i'm starting to prepare for my clinicals. What do I bring or wear? Should I bring a binder with paper? A notepad? A backpack? Do I wear a cute dress? Business casual? Jeans and shirt?
Literally have no idea what I'm doing. 😭
My brother in law has autism. He spends most of his days playing games. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't have a car, he doesn't have a license. He is 25. They don't collect disability for him, even though he qualifies. My mother in law has a job but it's a really bad job and relies on my in laws for food and rent.
My grandmother in law got 100K from her sister dying. So far they have bought chickens, a new lot of land, THREE cars, bought a family friend an antique truck, over 20K in holistic medicine, 21K in silver, and she bought a Tesla for 27K (after crashing one of the aforementioned cars). They have literally no money left. Mind you, all of this and for my husband past birthday they said HE had to pay for his own birthday dinner, I ended up paying the almost $200 bill when me and my husband ordered BURGERS.
I asked my husband recently "If they can't even afford a dinner, whatre their plans for your brother and mom?". He said he doesn't know either, he doesn't even know how theyre affording properly taxes anymore because they are BROKE BROKE. My husband asked them and basically got told we are supposed to take care of my husband's brother and mom because "it's what family does" very vaguely. I am disgusted by this.
I don't want to leave my brother in law and mother in law out on their own when my grandmother in law passes. But me and my husband are still struggling, we're only 20. We're trying to figure our lives out. We are saving up for a house. And I'm so scared that my brother in law and mother in law will drag us down. And my grandmother in law is on the brink of death with NO PLAN FOR ANYONE ELSE IN HER LIFE.
I've only been at WGU for a little under two weeks and today is my first objective assessment. it was supposed to be at 6:10 so when I went to start to set up my computer at 5:50 it decided to shut down and restart. It's been updating for 22 minutes. Do I just reschedule the OA? Idk what to do. It's been on 5% for the entire time too
I get it's kinda corny but that episode makes me CRY. like ugly cry. I don't get why people hate it so much. I've heard people skipping the episode all together. I mean I don't love it, it's not my favorite episode but it's not horrible.
Me and my husband were talking about a new video coming out relating to the game "God of War". It's a video game based on greek and norse mythology. We started talking about greek and norse mythology and he looked and me at said "I thought you were Christian. Why do you know so much about this?". I mentioned how as a Christian I think it's important we are understanding and have some knowledge on other religions because it contributes to a lot of Christian history, and also because of our jobs we have to be very culturally empathetic (I'm a teacher and he's training to be a cop). He said as Christians there's no reason to learn about other religions and that it's disrespectful to God. I don't think it is. Just because I know and have previously studied other religions doesn't mean I believe in these other religions, I care more about the history and how these other religions have contributed not only to Christianity but history as a whole (My focus in college was history, can you tell lol.) But I don't know. Am I wrong for learning about the cultural and historical context of other religions?
Id have to say my worst summer EVER was the summer I was 17. My high school iCivics club was going to DC to go watch Hamilton live in theater. One of my most favorite musicals ever. And instead I joined the army and went to basic training, however it didn't even matter because I broke my hip and got spinal fractures and had to be discharged and almost went to prison for "false" enlistment, even though MEPS had pushed me through for previous back and joint issues without a waiver. Now Im 20 and everytime I do my taxes or apply for a job I don't know what tf to answer when it asks if I've ever been in the military/am I veteran and I don't know if I've been committing fraud or not because my home unit said "act like it never happened". So. Yeah.
Top that one 😭
For D268 Intro to communications can we pick any topic for task 3 to make a presentation on? How did you figure out what you made your presentation on? Any suggestions?
I want to say, I have nothing against her for wanting nine kids. If you want nine kids have nine kids. If you want twenty kids have twenty kids, if all your children are happy and healthy who am I to judge. The issue is having nine c-sections. If you're a woman you understand why this is an issue, or you should know why this is an issue. My grandma had five c-sections, about a year after her fifth c-section she died from internal hemorrhaging from her uterus. She died infront on my aunt who was only 10 at the time and left her five kids alone in this world without a mom. THAT is why it is selfish.
And she's planning to have a TENTH child, which will probably be a c-section because a VBAC after 9 c-sections would most definitely be fatal for mom and baby. She is probably one sneeze or poop away from serious injury or death. And she doesn't even care about that. She is not just risking her life, she has 9 children that's she's willing to risk their mother for her weird breeding fetish.
I am a christian, so I completely understand wanting to have children and taking care of children. I want kids too, but if I knew that me having children could possibly risk my life, risk the love of my husbands life I would never have kids. It's almost like she doesn't care about her children enough to be safe for them. Disgustingly selfish behavior.
When I was younger and living up north I had pin straight hair. Super fine. Like I could go without brushing it for days and it wouldn't even tangle. I'm 20 and have now lived in the south for 6 years and my hair has drastically changed. The back of my hair is all super super curly(like 3A and 3B curly), the sides of it are wavy (2A-2B), and the front pieces are straight (1A). I feel like I have to brush it constantly to not get tangles but when I brush it the back gets super frizzy. I don't know if I should use curl products, or what curl products or even how to use them.
Recently I had pneumonia and for two weeks I was so sick and weak in the hospital I couldn't brush my hair. My husband tried brushing my hair and put my hair in two braids (Wendy's style) but it all got really matted. It's still pretty matted in the back and I've tried brushing it out but it just hurts SO BAD. I literally don't know what to do with my hair and have been thinking of just cutting it all off at this point.
I've tried using head scarfs but they always fall off at night and just get tangled in with my hair. I've been thinking of getting a bonnet but I just don't know if that's okay, considering I'm white as paper.
Please help.
EDIT: forgot to mention but I also used to bleach my hair a LOT. and I bleached it right before my wedding so on top of all the mixed curl patterns my hair is also super dry and damaged. 😭
Its really not that serious just wanna complain a lil. I'm like superrrr high and i started my period WHILE high. Literally all I want is a milkshake so I order from Wawa. Mind you it's 5am, because my husband just got home from work a couple hours ago. So I'm not expecting many ubers to be out but I tipped $16. SIXTEEN. Not saying i'm entitled for someone else to get my stupid late night craving but dudeeee. I just want my milkshake i'm now paying like $30 for😭😭