May 31st, 2021
Oh wow so, a lot of things happened. Lets start with my php project. A
girl in my team shared all of the code I wrote (and I wrote
everything because the two girls with me didn't really know
php) with another group, without my permission. And me being the
doormat I am, I even helped adapt my code to that other group because
they were begging relentlessly. I really hate people that beg so much,
because it's hard for me to say no. I thought I matured away from
being weak like that but I guess not! The next thing that happened is
that, for the first time I decided I don't want to do everything alone
in a project. So I asked the second girl if she could be in charge of
the css/html part and making everything look pretty. She said yes. I
finished my part 4 days before the deadline, and on the last day she
said she was going to start working. I already knew things wouldn't
turn out well at this point obviously but I was dead-set on not doing
it myself. I sent her detailed instructions on how to get the website
to work, on how to import the database, everything. I went to sleep
and when I woke up I was greeted by a message from her that said
"sorry, I couldn't get the website to work so I only added a
background color!". So when we showed our project to the teacher, we
were the only ones that didn't have any sort of UI at all, just a
basic page in html, so sad. The icing on the cake is that the girls
that stole our code actually had a nice UI! So they had our project
but better. Thankfully the teacher noticed they had our code, and they
credited me with helping them so that's something. We didn't lose out
on our grade because the teacher knew I was dealing with people that
didn't know anything but man. If anyones reading it, this is a lesson
for you - don't rely on others in university team projects especially
if you don't know them well.
Day before that was fun too, I had to hold a presentation for english
class and I thought it was online. Thank god I checked the email one
last time and noticed that it was live after all, because it takes me
2 and a half hours to get to my uni. I learned the whole presentation
by heart while getting there, I was reciting it outloud in public.
People probably thought I was insane but it had to be done haha.
Other than that I spent a lot of money on clothes... Do I regret it?
Not really, I just didn't spend money on clothes in a while so this
felt expensive. I need to start working on my undergrad thesis this
month, I don't know if or how I'll finish it. Not really excited for
that. I most likely won't be updating my website or the blog at all. I
hate being busy!!!
May 14th, 2021
Yesterday I went on a little interview regarding the internship! The
company seems pretty cool and the guy that's going to be my mentor so
to speak seems friendly. He's my age even, so I don't feel scared by a
presence of seniority. I'm going to be learning a lot of things, and I
hope I'll be able to learn it. I don't think I'm that capable yet but
I hope they'll be patient with me and start from scratch. This guy
comes from my uni so he knows how lacking the coding department is. We
actually had a lot of fun conversations regarding the teachers,
subjects and so on. I had a nice time there and it wasn't too
stressful. Ironically, after my rant in the last entry, as if some
divine power listened to me whine, my coworkers started teaching me
how to work on the cash register. I was so nervous at first but it's
super simple. We don't even have multiple pos machines nor do we have
to choose which card people are paying with it's so simple. The most
stressful part is returning money if people paid with cash. Honestly I
really wanted them to teach me this because I feel the reason why they
didn't so far (it's been over 2 years of me working there) is because
they thought I was so clumsy and incompetent. I mean, at least one of
the coworkers treated me that way so that gave me the impression.
Aside from my real life, I wanted to talk about two things. First is,
what makes a good online community to me? After spending a decent
amount of time on a forum that's growing in popularity I realized I
hate most of the people there, or rather I'm hating this circlejerk
that's forming right in front of my eyes. I never liked forum sites
much because of that reason. I can see people licking each others
asses and I can see them storming threads whenever someone commits the
sin of having a wrong or god forbid, problematic opinion. They're
starting to befriend mods and when they mass report somebody they can
get them perma-banned for "micro-agressions". Really interesting to
see it develop. I realized I prefer communities where people are
allowed to be downright offensive, otherwise it's really no fun to
discuss anything. I have wrapped myself in bubblewrap to seem as non
threatening as possible but they can see through my bullshit, I don't
think they're dumb after all. I'm constantly walking on eggshells and
censoring myself and I feel like I'm going insane because usually I'm
a really good person, I'd say I have decent morals and I'm generally
well versed in current political and social issues yet... I still feel
like I have to censor myself so much compared to other websites I used
to frequent. God bless sites where you're anonymous honestly.
And the second thing I wanted to talk about is manifestation. I feel
like online, it's becoming more and more common for people to be
really religious, spiritual, believe in all kind of pseudoscience-y
stuff and the like. I'm not sure if it's because I was raised
atheist/agnostic and if the internet that I grew up on was massively
into debunking ignorant religious beliefs and overall people used to
be more skeptic online but I'm really kind of baffled and taken aback
by some of the things I've been reading. Yes, ever since the early
2010's I've come into indirect contact with pagan witches on tumblr
but they weren't this big. So this is where manifesting and
those subliminal sound videos come into play. More and more people are
unironically into that and believe in it and I'm like where the hell
did this come from? I remember subliminal "listen to this and your
eyelashes will grow" videos being a thing among kids on youtube in
like 2008 but people didn't take it that seriously... and those that
did were widely regarded as just desparate and kind of gullible.
There's a lot of rules around it like "you can't wish for anything too
crazy" or "you can't just will atoms out of existance" and other rules
seem to be there to make sure your wishes are small and insignificant
enough so that nothing can be proven. And even that second rule I
mentioned is a bit sus considering a lot of people listen to those
vids that make your jaw slimmer and then report it working. Like okay,
apparently changing your bone structure is possible if you listen to
some yoga relaxing sound? If these things were real there'd be no pain
and suffering in the world, seriously. Well if they were
really real I believe some kind of equal exchange would have to
happen, as that's usually the common logic in even withcraft, alchemy
and in the end, physics, but manifesting just blows it out of the
water I guess.