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As someone who was top of her high school graduating class and waitlisted from all her top schools, I want to provide some insight for anyone going through it now. I want to be as honest as possible and feel free to reach out for support! High school I had a 99 unweighted GPA, took 12AP/IBs, was President of multiple honor societies, a varsity athlete, and received numerous awards too. I applied pre-med (a more competitive major to begin with). I was class of 2024, a rough application cycle, and was waitlisted at most of my top schools. I want to tell you that it’s not the end of the world, but in some way it is. It is an end to that “life” you envisioned that you would have had if ...

Hi everyone. I manage a lot of WhatsApp groups daily for work. Team updates, client discussions, community chats — by morning there's already 300+ unread messages across 10 different groups. **Which problem did I face?** Every morning I was spending 20-30 minutes just catching up on what happened overnight across all my groups. I kept missing important things — deadlines, decisions, action items — buried inside hundreds of messages. It was exhausting and honestly unsustainable. I looked for a solution. Nothing existed that actually worked well. **So I built GistGem.** It sits on WhatsApp Web and uses AI to summarise your group chats instantly. Select multiple groups at once ...

I had a long and successful poker career, even living off it for a year. But over time, the rise of bots, demotivating losing streaks, and spending 10 hours a day in front of a screen made it feel like the wrong long-term path. Before poker, I was completely against gambling, but after stepping away from poker I developed a slight itch for it. At first it felt new, fun, and exciting. Over time, though, repeated losing streaks gave me something like the opposite of an addiction: gambling started to create negative feelings, and whenever I considered playing again, I often hesitated and decided not to deposit. Eventually, I decided to limit gambling to just a few special days each year. That...

I used to write diary as of 2 months ago to help me cope. I saved backup to my usb (small metal design looks like trash to be fair). I left it on my desk. My dad had another of his moments where he deemed my room is too cluttered (i literally was fixing electronics for US - the TV wasn't working properly and i fixed it 2 day ago i just didnt have time to clean up), so he decides to CLEAN MY ROOM without my help and takes it all outdoors and picks out some stuff to throw and apparently while walking to our neighbourhood trashcans (we live in soviet style bloc with one huge shared trash and big concrete buildings) he apparently dropped 2-3 things accidentally but didnt think they were imp...

I've been working on Drawn Before since 2024, but didn't work on it too much during 2025. At the beginning of this year, I decided to focus most of my attention on getting a polished demo up and running in order to get some feedback. It's been a lot of fun learning the engine and putting it together, and I'm now ready for people to give it a try. Link to STEAM demo: [https://store.steampowered.com/app/4569220/Drawn\_Before\_Demo/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/4569220/Drawn_Before_Demo/) In Drawn Before you play through the drawings, sketches and diary enteries of a man who grew up in the 80s and 90s. The story is told through snippets of old notes and doodles. An...

helloo! i guess i need advice for a big life decision. i'm currently finishing my master's and i want to do a PhD. being an academic is something i want, my life dream, the thing that feels right for me, nothing else makes sense next to it. i know i could do other things and jobs, but facts are, i can't pursue an academic career without a PhD, but i can go do other jobs with the PhD. but - the situation with PhD studies in my country is currently bad (there are very few spots that have funding available) and i spent too much time pitying myself that there's nowhere to go. i recently found out that there are possibilities, but it's late and if i want to start in sep...

I originally meant to stop on the 1st cause I thought it would be a funny thing saying "I stopped smoking on April fools" and even more so because the people that know me, wouldn't actually believe that I could pull through. And honestly, the day of 4/1 want kind of chaotic and I forgot! Lol but on 4/2 I finally did it. Long story short, I've been smoking for 23 years, I'm 33. Yes, you read that right. Was never a "big smoker" in a sense that I smoked about 15 cigarettes a day maybe, but still, there's a lot of damage to fix. Better late than never 💪🏻

Alright, I've existed on the periphery of this community for a while, and I thought I'd dip my toe in by coming up with a hypothetical piece of media and ask kindly for some of you to try scaling it. It could be amusing! The show is a cartoon about a duo of a boy, and his house who is also a robot, and beating up haunted houses.The robot is named Housey. It is a robot the size of a house, made from a house, who throws punches at other houses who are brought to life by evil spirits. His greatest opponent was a haunted twenty story building which he held up to prevent himself from being crushed after it jumped on top of him. This feat is only barely just managed, it's mentioned...

I'm a long time customer, I mostly used Logitech mice for like 10 years (yes on Linux) but I got a Superstrike x2 and there is an effort to reverse engineer the protocol but it is taking quite a while and that's fine since it is community driven but it would be better to have G-Hub and Options+ available on Linux. In terms of Logitech products I have spent maybe over 1k on hardware over the years, I have a Superstrike x2 as I mentioned, 502x plus and a headset just in the last few years but have had webcams and all before that, so many I kind of forget. Mostly these will work out of the box, like a mouse is a mouse as long as it implements the USB standard correctly, the thing I�...

I’m afraid, if I don’t write this I might just be condemning another to the same fate I found myself in. And, I don’t want that for anyone. It’s hard enough to lose someone once. How can anyone be strong enough to do it twice? A month or so ago, I became the last person ever to see my wife’s face. Her eyes were closed and her lips locked. She was pale, lying inside her coffin. Death had put her in this box. Taking the only thing in this wretched world I ever wanted. I let the funeral home people shut her casket close right in front of me, and I didn’t even try to stop them. I wished the weather had reflected how I felt that day. But no, instead it was blue skies and Florida ...

We have a 1.5 year old who is very likely speech delayed, but has been picking up signs really quickly. We’re trying to use more signs in our day-to-day to give her more vocabulary to communicate with us, but are very very new to ASL. One of things we’ve thought about doing is using an ASL Name Sign so she can refer to herself with a single sign (as using their name is a common milestone, and she’s nowhere near stringing signs together, let alone the alphabet and spelling her name). But we didn’t want to do it if A) it would be inappropriate or insensitive to do so at this early stage, before we know whether ASL will continue to be a big part of her life going forwards and B) w...

I’m posting this because I just really need help, about who’s in the wrong, why she could’ve done this, or if we should be friends again. Especially because we always argue but get back in contact. But this time feels different. Recently, my friend who we’re going to call may (nowhere near her real name!) blocked me out of nowhere. It caused an argument yes. But I was super upset about it and I’ll start why. For the past 2 months or so, my other friend June (again, nowhere near her real name.) has been hanging out with my ex every day. we broke up 7 months ago, my ex did me so wrong that I ended up in mental hospitals we’re not going to get into that but that made me think “w...

Im sorry for any spelling errors or if something doesn’t make sense I have a reading comprehension issue.  So I 18f had 4 puppies my dog accidentally got pregnant and we can’t handle 4 puppies with our schedule. My mom decided since it’ll be a lot to handle we need to owners ASAP and I asked my sister if she would like to take one after 8 weeks of them staying with me for free and she said yes. My other sister friend we’ll call her Marisa for this story.  Marisa was buying a puppy for 400. So everything was going okay until March 31st one of the puppies was throwing and I was scared that there was something seriously wrong. Next morning April 1st she’s very limp and not walking...

One thing that stood out to me in Calgary’s March numbers is how much less useful the city-wide headline is becoming. At the overall level, sales were 1,881 (-12.8% YoY), inventory rose to 5,395 (+4.7%), months of supply increased to 2.87, and days on market moved up to 35 from 29 last year. The benchmark price came in at $565,600, down 4.2% YoY. On the surface, that points to a market that has softened and is giving buyers a bit more room.  But once you break it down by property type, it is not all one-way traffic. Detached benchmark pricing rose from $734,300 in February to $741,300 in March, and semi-detached moved from $682,200 to $686,100. Row homes were basically flat month to...

love it or **** it, YSL is becoming the biggest label in the ug, especially after signing the Øway collective. without a doubt, nine vicious is one of the hottest rappers in the ug, but thug never seems to push him, like never.. theyre so stranger to each other its crazy. meanwhile thug is often seen around øway boys a lot. i mean i know nine has his own FN ****, but 0 push by thug?? not even a post on his story, where he just promoted yung kayos new work?? seems like a big miss out from thugs end, even though i still believe ysl will be the most succesful because of artists like teezus, sk8, diamond\*, saint etc

Hey everyone. I have a bit of a special request today. Years ago, my wife gave up her passion for riding motorcycles to focus on her career and raise our family. She made a lot of sacrifices for us, but she never stopped looking at bikes. Well, she finally retired this March, and her birthday is also coming up later this month. To celebrate this new chapter, I surprised her with a brand new BMW R 1300 GS. I want to completely set the bike up for her before we take it out for her birthday ride. My main priority is her safety and comfort. I am looking to add two things: * A dedicated Apple CarPlay screen so she can easily see her navigation. Ideally, something that works seamlessly with the...

I’m 30M working as an account manager at a bank (about 2 years now). I like the job and it’s fully remote, which is a huge plus, but I feel stuck. I came into this role without prior experience, and training was pretty minimal (mostly shadowing meetings for a couple months). I’ve been rated “meets expectations” consistently, and I’ve never been told I’m doing a bad job—but I also don’t feel like I truly master the work. A big issue is that a lot of my peers have 10–20+ years of experience, and I feel like I can’t compete with their depth of knowledge. Even when I review procedures or guidelines, I don’t feel like I retain things as well as I should. I’ve told lea...

ok, just want to get this off my chest. off late I’ve been grinding a lot. chest feels heavy these days, not because of one big problem, but many small things adding up. there are days when I feel really lonely. even if I want to share it with my friends / peers, they are more or less in the same situation as me. I just want to sit in a corner and cry out loudly.

I’ve spent the last hour going through my App Store subscriptions and I’m actually losing my mind. Since when did a simple weather app or a basic habit tracker decide they’re worth a monthly fee for the rest of my life? It feels like we’ve reached a point where developers aren't even trying to sell us a product anymore—they’re just trying to "rent" us our own productivity. I finally decided to purge everything that isn't a one-time purchase or a truly essential service, and honestly, finding "clean" indie apps that don't have a predatory business model feels like finding a needle in a haystack. If you’re feeling the same "subscription fa...

Hey there I'm just looking for someone to talk/play games throughout the day as I pretty much don't go outside and have all the time in the world. Stuff about me Live in New York 5'11 160 pounds Wasian though been told I look like Markiplier from temu so don't expect some kpop **** kek. Have a bachelor's in accounting though I don't know anything about accounting(rip). I have a dark sense of humor and I'm very sarcastic so be prepared :p. Play the clarinet, saxophone and ewi medicorely. I don't work so have a lot of free time. Games: For games I tend to play league of legends/tft the most. I'm masters+ every set in tft so I could probab...