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@Yorika @chaosheart13

I'm a little confused here. Did Sera and Avarice exit the dorms or join Neptune and Luna?

Also, looks good Yor, race accepted. I'll edit the list in an hour or two.
 
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@Luma

I thought they were leaving the halls and didn't join Neptune and Luna. o-o
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Sera's post mentioned her wanting to meet Neptune and seemed to imply heading in that direction, but never mentions a meetup so I dunno. @Yorika ?
 
Yorika said:
Yeah, I kinda based them off vampires but I didn't want to get into all that jazz of being their ambassador. As for how they feed, I didn't mean for it to be so similar.
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Yuki are pretty much Japanese vampires so i'm not surprised :)
 
@Luma @chaosheart13

I was planning on Sera and Avarice meeting up with Neptune and Luna, but I left it open ended so I wasn't just pulling Avarice along for the ride.
 
Yorika said:
I was planning on Sera and Avarice meeting up with Neptune and Luna, but I left it open ended so I wasn't just pulling Avarice along for the ride.
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Alright well Neptune and Luna are about to head to the same place anyways, so I should be able to clear this up with my own post.
 
Oh, just a quick note, since I have to get running for work: I have some ideas about the "Squirrels" running the Java Squirrel, how they talk, personalities. Based on that squirrel/coffee pic I posted earlier. And the fact I just so happen to like The Three Stooges.
 
@Eruantien @Yorika @chaosheart13 @gamer5 @AnimeLover_Princess

Sorry, forgot to ping you guys in the last IC post. I did edit them in, but pings don't work that way :P


@Sail
Deen and Vivi aren't in the hallway, they're in room 506. The door is open though, so you could still see them, but your post needs to be edited a bit.
 
Luma said:
@Sail
Deen and Vivi aren't in the hallway, they're in room 506. The door is open though, so you could still see them, but your post needs to be edited a bit.
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Actually sorry, I just re-read it and I guess it could be assumed that Nightshade walked far enough to peer in the room. My bad.

Also there was almost an inconsistency with Ishika and Avarice, but Ava's bad eyesight is a convenient explanation xD
 
@Raven Haruka ...

Hopefully your previous "IDK" hasn't struck again... if you're having any issues with my post, let me know. Thanks... :bsmile:
 
@Roose Hurro

Ah, it's not that (or, at least it shouldn't be, I think?)
School's been a drag (COUGHCOUGH10HOURSADAYCOUGHCOUGH), so really I just haven't had the time to come up with an IC post yet. But hopefully it will happen soon Thursday?
 
Raven Haruka said:
@Roose Hurro

Ah, it's not that (or, at least it shouldn't be, I think?)
School's been a drag (COUGHCOUGH10HOURSADAYCOUGHCOUGH), so really I just haven't had the time to come up with an IC post yet. But hopefully it will happen soon Thursday?
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High school comes with a fair amount of downtime, even during classes. It's amazing how much you can get done if you work on something just a little bit more in the spare time you have while your teacher's still getting things organized or during breaks in the lecture. owo Just some advice from one overworked person to another.
 
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@Kagayours

Ah, school itself is about 7 hours (6.5 on early release days, which are Fridays).

The additional 10 hours comes from history, math, chemistry, honors english, and French (which I finally managed to pull up to a B- FINALLY YAY :D) -> All of those courses have homework, projects/poems/essays/lab reports, which can take from 2-4 hours each depending on the subject. Add the additional hour it usually takes me to study one class, and then multiply that by the amount of classes I have the next day (my school does an A/B Day schedule -> Four 80-minute periods a day with an hour-long lunch and half-an-hour-long advisory period that happens every day except early release. Of course, there's also the 5 minute passing period between all periods, so it's alright.). Then the hour I spend eating/taking a quick shower/socializing for probably 5 minutes with my family happens, and then I get back to studying. (Of course, I suck at certain things coughfrenchcough , so it takes me a bit longer to try and actually learn it my own way as well.) Since I start at basically 4:00 PM (I'm rounding here with my time, it's more like 3:45 PM when I get home), I usually don't even get to do this schedule because oh look woruldn't you know my parents think I should go to sleep at nine? Which is half the time I need in order to prepare for the next day?

...needless to say, having to deal with high-standard parents who think that the weekend is the time to cram all your studies together instead of socializing and relaxing is...it's....well....stressful, to say the least x.x


...but thank you for that advice!

It's great to know, but really the only time there's a pause between the lectures is to do worksheets/finish the notes from that class (for example, Chemistry doesn't usually assign homework until after-school, where the teacher posts the assignments online. So for 80 minutes he's teaching and having us take notes, basically.)

...well, I also partially screwed myself over by not taking a study hall, but I'm majoring in Instrumental Music as well- so I need that potentially-study-hall period for actual courses that give me credits towards the major.
 
Raven Haruka said:
It's great to know, but really the only time there's a pause between the lectures is to do worksheets/finish the notes from that class (for example, Chemistry doesn't usually assign homework until after-school, where the teacher posts the assignments online. So for 80 minutes he's teaching and having us take notes, basically.)
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I mean, that's pretty much exactly how college is going to be, so... o_o

Anyway, I didn't mean actual pauses between lectures, I just meant any break in the action when you aren't scrambling to get notes down. Any time when the teacher's just repeating what you already copied down or taking a second to pull up a Youtube video or really any spare bit of time during the lecture. It's multitasking, basically. Whenever you don't need to be taking notes -- even if it's only for two seconds -- you can be doing something else. That's my survival strategy, anyway. o_o"
 
@Kagayours

Oh...that makes a bit more sense than the original thought I had xD

EDIT: And college sounds scary! It's the only reason I haven't dropped my French class already, and even if I'm majoring in music, I'd still have to deal with all of that?!?

....eeeeeek, scary.
 
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*ahem* Aaaanyway.

As for the whole college / high school thingy... I feel like high school is ridiculous in the amount of homework that's given. It's like they try to make kids be occupied, working, as much as possible. And, each teacher (even in college) treats you like you're only taking their course. I don't know where you've got nice casual classes, @Kagayours but I'd love to sign myself up for similar ones. ;-;
Also I would recommend not diverting your attention during class if at all possible... ya never know what might be important all of a sudden.

And I'm in the process of writing up a post for the IC, but it'll take a bit. Got quite a few posts to respond to... O_o
 
Eruantien said:
I don't know where you've got nice casual classes, @Kagayours but I'd love to sign myself up for similar ones. ;-;
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Well for starters, I'm not in high school anymore. I'm in college now. And I found the whole "take notes during breaks in the action" approach to be a lot more effective in high school because high school is just filled with so much filler.

And, yeah, I agree that the busy work is also ridiculous. College admittedly comes with a bigger workload overall than in high school (at least in my experience), but at least most of the work in college actually feels like it has a purpose. You have a set of things that you have to learn for each class. You also have assignments that you'll have to do. You are made aware of this up-front. Class-time is usually either lecture time or a time to work on an important assignment (depending on the structure of the class in particular), but it's never busy-work like so much of high school felt like.

So overall I'd agree that high school is a big steaming pile of bullshit for a whole bunch of different reasons. College may be running me ragged right now, but at least I don't have nearly as many complaints about the system as a whole. Getting out of high school and into college just felt so refreshing in regards to how the professors treat you and how straight-forward most of the workload is. It's heavy, and a lot is expected of you, but at least the classes don't feel like some sort of teenage day-care filled with pointless busy-work in order to create the illusion of an actual educational institution.

I will admit that a lot of college professors also have the whole "acting like their class is your only class" issue, but it varies quite a bit between professors and overall I think most of them are a bit more chill about it. Overall at least the professors never sound like they're being condescending about it and the whole environment doesn't make you feel like you're a five-year-old and that all faculty are 100% unquestionably undeniably correct in every possible circumstance no matter how much of a well-worded argument you can present against them, because you are only 17 and that makes you a child and therefore you have no idea what's right and any attempt to politely explain to a teacher why you think their assignment is unfair or has too harsh of a deadline is insubordination which means you are a bad child for speaking out against an adult and even if you're technically 18 you're still in high school which means you're just as much of a child as all your peers, disregarding the fact that you can legally vote and serve in the military and buy porn at that age. You're still a child if you're in high school, which means you still have to Respect Your EldersTM​ and raise your hand and ask to go to the bathroom even though the teacher is going to call on 5 other students who raised their hands after you did, and then is going to tell you that you should've gone before class started anyway, even though they really don't give you enough time to get to the bathroom between classes anyway, especially since teachers will paradoxically say that they have the authority to keep you after the bell, but then also say, on a day when there's nothing left to do and the lesson is over, that no one is dismissed until the bell rings, even though the teacher has nothing else they want to get done and is literally just making everyone wait in the classroom for no good reason instead of allowing students to make good use of their time.

At least in college I can politely talk to a professor about my issues with a certain deadline or whatever and at least expect to be treated with some level of dignity, even if I can't change their minds. And the best part is that sometimes I actually can convince them to extend a deadline for the whole class because sometimes students are capable of expressing valid arguments and professors are only human which means they can sometimes make mistakes, too. And, in college, this is something that is actually understood. And it shouldn't amaze me so much, but it does, because that's what high school did to me.
 
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Eruantien said:
Also I would recommend not diverting your attention during class if at all possible... ya never know what might be important all of a sudden.
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And that's why you multitask and work during tiny breaks in the action, rather than completely tuning the teacher/professor out. :P
 
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