I finished all the work I need to do before finals, including making note pages / cheat-sheet notecards, and it is only Monday š.
Yes, this means my shitty group project members finally did their work (or enough of it for me to submit.)
My birthday was pretty chill. I had a fun D&D session where my character backstory finally got touched on a lot!!
D&D notes:
Cosmo starts the night by giving Steven an aqueous agitator, then heads to the spiritual shop to see Nick. He buys a rug, finds Nick, and ends up showing him the stars. They have this surprisingly deep conversation about abandoning old purposes when they hurt the people you care about, and Cosmo eventually falls asleep curled up on Nick like a little dog.
Meanwhile, Ignis and Bailey talk with Fleck about delivering the horn to āLittle William.ā They head to a massive warehouse where William (a red dragonborn) begins some kind of ritual. Twig shows up, immediately causes problems, and brings Bones gang members who attack. They get beaten, Twig runs away, and Fieck hits him on his way out.
Then the floor gives out, water rises and submerges Bailey while cultists chant. The water disappears, and suddenly Bailey becomes a giant monster-dino version of himself. A hole opens beneath him, dropping him into the 9th floor, where he returns to a more sea monster form and floats back down to Fieck now covered in spikes and surrounded by little lights.
William, the dragonborn, just goes, āPleasure doing business with you,ā which is ominous as hell. Cosmo ends the session telling Fieck he has to talk to his boss before making any decisions about the apprenticeship. (Cosmo was more convinced by Nicks speech about learning to be better than Fiecks act of hatred to Twig. Cosmo wants to ghost the mf now.)
and after that I saw Zootopia 2 with my partners, which was actually really good. Heartfelt film that digs deep into some hot topics. The monologues are sweet, sincere, and relevant to the new age of viewers. I loved the part when Nick opened up to Judy about coping with humor and bullying her because he loves her, not to be mean (because that is literally me.)
I already did 2 finals because the final is optional and just replaces your lowest exam score, and I have above or equal to a 90 in both of them, so Iām winning. That means 4 finals left, 2 of which are online, and 1 of which Iām worried about because the prof canāt teach and also he just said āstudy everything,ā (like that helps anyone????)
And in all of the classes left, I will pass them even if I get like a 20% on the final (which I probably wonāt.) My lowest test score this semester was a 65, and in one of the classes Iām already done with.
And then Iām left with 5 more classes to pass before I graduate.
I already have senioritis, except my own special version where my goal is to get an A with the lowest possible effort, but as long as I get a C as a final grade Iām happy.
My professors keep telling me that GPA doesnāt matter when getting a job out of college because colleges often have grade inflation, but my dad said the oppositeā¦ that itās super important when getting your first white-collar job out of school. So I donāt know who to believe, but Iād like to keep my 3.95 as high as it can be.
But alsoā¦ Iām so fucking done with school. I donāt even want to take another semester. I want to graduate now. College is such a freaking joke. Education post-COVID is a freaking joke. Education post-generative-AI-being-released-to-the-world-for-public-use is such a joke too.
I feel like our future is cooked because of gen AI. I will not be able to find a job. ""Experts"" predicted that monotonous jobs like data entry or minimum wage work would be replaced by AI first, but itās actually just entry-level positions in white-collar work that are going away. So my degree is fucking useless, because nobodyās hiring entry-level workers they can just be replaced by AI.
Maybe thatās why my burnout is so bad and I donāt want to do school anymore.
Because I know Iām cooked upon grad.