Hello? Are you going to ghost me?
Why do you assume that I will do that?
Whoops. Sorry, didn't mean for that to sound mean or anything. There's someone here. I keep trying to talk to him, but I don't think he likes me.
ooooh interesting
It might be because we may be competitors, but I don't know. I know, right? I've never seen his name.
how do you know he's there?
But all I know is, every time I speak, I get it immediately closed. I don't really. All I see is that my chat is closed.
oh interesting
Any ideas?
i don't get on here too much
Ah, I see. That's all right. It may remain a mystery forever.
I'm just taking a break from homework right now
And I just wanted to shoot the breeze for a little bit. I'm working on a personal project, and it's, um, really time consuming. I love it, but, wow, it takes a while.
what is the personal project if you don't mind me asking?
Oh! Have you heard of Zork, that old video game that came out somewhere in the eighties? Well, I wanted to see if I could recreate my own version of it. It's nothing fancy at the moment, just a text parser and executer. *executer. I, uh, don't know how to spell that. Or I thought it would be simple. It's just text, right? How hard could it be? Well, turns out, I'm at line 1500 something or other in code alone, and it can't do anything beyond the simplest of functions. I'm trying to get one command working, "unlock," but that alone has taken me all day. I kid you not, I've spent maybe eight or nine hours on this today alone, and it's nasty.
i have never heard of zork and are you just doing it for fun? sounds like you don't seem to be enjoying it that much, but then again i don't really know i watched the movie venom today hahah. have you seen it or are you planning on it? wow you seem to be ghosting me! just kidding ha
Oh, sorry! I got distracted. Promise, I wasn't ghosting you. I'm actually really enjoying it; I'm just running into a couple of snags and stuff. It's nothing too crazy. They're bugs I was expecting just not really wanting to deal with. I'm hoping that I'll get better at design as things go on. But you said you watched Venom! The only thing I've heard about the movie is the famous "Like a turd in the wind" line, and I don't know if it's in the actual movie. Is it worth going to go watch, do you think? It's Marvel, so it can't be complete trash, but I'm a little skeptical.
lolol no worries i got distracted too been chatting with my roommates for a bit ahahah i hadn't heard that line before i went and saw it actually but yes it is in the movie i actually really enjoyed it the relationship between venom the symbiote and the host eddie brock is at the heart of the movie and its really well handled tom hardy was great too
So you recommend the movie, then? I have a five dollar Tuesday thing at my local theatres. It's worth it? Also, sorry if this is a dumb question, but what's a symbiote?
yeah i would recommend it
That sounds like it's unique to the Marvel universe because of the red squigglies I'm seeing.
i actually didn't have to pay for it though movie pass perks hahaha and nah it's not a dumb question, but it's not a marvel specific thing either a symbiotic relationship is one between two organisms that like help each other so a super simple example would be like a buffalo that has bugs get in its fur and there are birds that land on the buffalo and they eat the bugs from their fur. so both parties benefit
Oh, wait wait, that's what a symbiote means? It's the name for the thing that has a symbiotic relationship?
yeah
Why does Google tell me it's not a real word, then? Or rather, whatever spellcheck this chitchat is using?
ok wow i am actually stunned i googled it and all the results are pulling up stuff about venom and carnage
Is it not a well-known thing, then? Are you just smart with words?
wow
I know I'd never heard of it before, but it makes sense the way you explained it. I just didn't know the noun was a thing.
symbiont that's the real word this is actually fascinating so I've known about symbiotic relationships for a long time and in star wars episode 1, they use the term symbiont at one point and i really like star wars and so i've heard it many times and i just sort of processed it as symbiote and that's what the word was in my brain and then they used it in the movie and i just saw it as normal but now that i am actually looking into it, symbiont is the real word and symbiote is the marvel term for venom's symbiont race, the symbiotes
Ah, I see, I see. This makes a lot more sense. I was suddenly wondering if I'd somehow never heard the word before. And I was like, "How is that possible? I could've sworn I would've heard it at least once in Biology or something." But it's still so fun! I wonder if it'll get into popular usage. You know, probably not. There's already a really similar word for the same sort of thing.
yeah exactly i just got confused and I'm still laughing at it so weird
Ooof, I thought today was Friday for some reason. I'm going to have to survive another two days. Man, I was getting all excited for a second. I'm suddenly not looking forward to tomorrow like I just was.
hahaha yeah i still have a decent bit of homework to do tonight the weekend will be here eventually though
That's what they all say. And yet, today is Wednesday. I don't even have anything to complain about. I just wasn't looking forward to an early-morning tutoring session. I found a new tutee recently, and we're still - working out the kinks. I have to get him caught up to his regular grade level by winter, which I'm hoping isn't too difficult.
what do you tutor them in?
Oh, nothing too hard. Just high school math.
ooooh I'm assuming they aren't the most... motivated? i did some tutoring for elementary school kids a few years ago and they always had me work with the kids that didn't really want to do anything school related ha
One of them I think recently transferred to the school and has to completely relearn the curriculum, and he seems excited enough to catch up. The other I feel doesn't care about math very much. And that if she were to stop for the rest of her life, she'd say hallelujah and never look back. I think I'll be okay with the first one. Not sure what's going to happen with the second. I'm going to try, and I know she's going to try, too. We both know she isn't the fondest of math, so I'm trying to hit a nice medium of giving her little homework but also making sure she's prepared to go back into regular math. I'm not sure how it's going to work. I only meet with her twice a week, which means I assign two or three lessons per visit. It doesn't sound crazy, but, remember, we're in college and they're in high school. They're not really used to having big things assigned at once. Unless it's like essays? Anyway, I worry about her. I want her to catch up as quickly as possible so she isn't stressed, and I'm sure she wants that, too. And I'm not quite sure how to make it as easy on her as possible while still getting her comfortable enough with the material to pass her. She has some tests to retake, a huge amount of problem sets to catch up on, and not a whole lot of desire to do them. And the worst part is, we don't have enough time to cover concepts like we need to; and when I AM sitting with her, I feel like we don't really connect.
well that sounds like a mess I'm perfectly fine just handling my own life and school stuff hahah i personally don't like taking responsibility for other people's stuff and not that you are like taking responsibility away from her
No, I get it.
but just being involved in it to that extent can get me stressed
Yeah. It's certainly getting me stressed.
and its frustrating because it's out of your hands
I feel like if she doesn't pass then it's my fault, and it kinda is because that's what I'm being paid to do.
hahaha yeah exactly lots of the responsibility
But I feel like she doesn't really care about learning, just doing well enough to pass and then never see this stuff again.
but none of the actual power to change things
Yeah. Any advice?
take her tests for her! ha
Haha, I wish. I don't think she would mind all too much if she just grinded hard enough to pass through these classes. All she needs to do is pass, and then she'll be done. And I really want to teach her, I want to help her, I want to give her the best shot possible, but we might have conflicting goals. I'm not sure she cares all that much. And I don't know what to do about that. She's a really sweet girl. And I like meeting with her. I just, I don't know. I don't know how this is going to work out. She's not the first person I've tutored, but she IS one of the first where she wasn't really interested in learning the concepts. And the main difference is, the other people are willing to stay as long as they need until we've made sure that they're clear. She'll ditch as soon as class ends. It's okay. I don't blame her. I really don't think she enjoys it, so it's no surprise that she doesn't want to stay in a place where she dislikes everything. And if she never wants to touch math the rest of her life, that's fine. Not everyone needs to be a math major. But . . . we gotta survive high school. Dunno how that's going to happen.
i understand it's a tough situation conflicting goals is a huge part of life our aims don't always align with friends and family, much less random strangers anyways, i gotta concentrate on my accounting homework so byeeee