/fa/ - Fashion

Mods delete this /soc/ bullshit

I barely graduated HS. Failed Alg I and Pre-Calc, along with Anatomy. Surprisingly, I got above 1600 on the SAT.

Gradutated with a 2.2 gpa tho, feelsbadman.

>>10116917
Straight A's, loads of AP classes, I'm fucking smart not even gonna be modest.

yeah and I'm currently working in seoul in a fully korean company (taught myself the language in two years)
straight a's student, handsome, studying at top uni in UK (but i'm from northern europe), dress well etc etc

>>10116939
post fit buddy boi

>>10116917
I'm kinda smart. Graduated Cum Laude in music and media production and did decently in AP classes in high school.

I have shit discipline, though. Got some mediocre grades because of how little homework I did and how awful my essays were.

I'm so fucking lazy, despite the amount of time I spend caring for my wardrobe.

I don't know how to explain it -- I will literally sit on my ass knowing I have something due.

I know I can do a lot better. I'm also very interested in a lot of my classes. I'm a computer science major.
How do I stop myself from doing this? I want to do better in school. I have no motivation, but at the same time, I actually want to do good and make some solid progress. I hate procrastinating, but it's so infectious. I feel like I'm trapped in a hole that I can't get out of.

How do I stop myself? Any suggestions?

>>10116917
>What is your performance in school like, /fa/?

It's good, would be better if I wasn't so depressed all the time

Do you get good grades?

yes, I guess it would be pretty close to a 4.0 in the US, generally an A1 / A+ student

>Are you actually engaged in school or are interested/smart or are you just finishing assignments to get decent grades?

No I'm not that engaged from day to day, I find most of my teachers are just in it for the paycheck. Particularly the women with young kids, they obviously have other priorities and they don't give a shit about their students. (in my experience) They make their subjects a struggle when they don't have to be. Thankfully my teachers in maths, physics and chemistry are all passionate about their subjects. I find a good teacher isn't as necessary in more artsy subjects like English, French or even Economics.

Oh and I don't dress well, I dress like an average joe because I have low self esteem and I don't like sticking out from the crowd

>>10116934
I like that. Good for you, my man.
Also, I like your fit.

>>10116954
Get your ass kicked by a professor who knows how to get shit done

>>10116954

adderall yo

>>10116954
This is me as well, except I love procrastinating and being lazy.

I long for it, it's something I do with great pleasure.

I will work hard as fuck to be lazy as hell later.

If only life was siting in the shade and listening to good fucking music, I would be set, I wouldn't need anything else.

>>10116959

>having a woman teacher

lol what is elementary school like?

>>10116970
People are always suggesting that shit to me.
I don't want to turn to drugs. I don't care if it's /fa/.

>>10116969
I know. I really need an ass kicking. I am tired of slacking off, but I don't know how to stop.

I go to Oxford

Its really /fa/ here tbh

Also one of the snapfam is there at the moment and I think theyre American

I want to give them some advice but ..

>>10116954
i do the same thing dude

>>10116975
Rigidity. Wake up at the same time every morning and force yourself to get onto a machine to code something. Even if you end up staring for an hour and write only one line, just keep setting that routine.

I was musicnon up there, and my senior recital was the craziest shit I ever played. I just woke up at 7 every morning because I designed an alarm to scare the shit out of me, got to the practice room, and just kept playing until I couldn't keep my head clear.

Remember to take breaks if you're overworking your focus.

>>10116974
was it not obvious that I'm not from the US? I'm Irish and I've just finished my final year of secondary school.

maybe you are only pretending to be retarded

Messed about most of my school life but I got decent grades. I did do great in Art, English, Drama and Modern Studies, but done terrible at Science and Math tho. I'm about to start a yearlong 3D Computer Animation course at a local college in the hopes of progressing into Art School to do a BDes in Animation.

Most of my intelligence comes across when I'm actually being interviewed or questioned for colleges - even though I don't have amazing grades.

>>10116954
Are you me? I'm smarter than almost everyone at school but I let a low iq girl get a 3.8 in class..

At least one kid who got into ap classes saw my potential and thought of me as a genius.. B-but if only i can...just do it ;-;

>inb4 shia lebeouf or nike meme

>>10116986
Yeah, I'm going to start adhering to a routine.
I just hope I consistently obey it.

Awesome job, by the way.

If I could get the effort I put into my school at the same level I do for my wardrobe, things would be so great.

mfw /fa/ comp sci kek

>>10116934
>>10116962
yung lean inspo tbh

>>10116996
<3 qt

>>10116993
Yeah, like, I know I have the potential and the mindset. I always think about topics that are discussed in my classes, ramble on for hours about something I'm passionate in, but when it comes to the actual work, I completely dismiss it.

Fuck, man. I am so tired of bullshitting.
Fall semester starts towards the end of August, and I have to retake a math class, and programming class because I was too busy loafing around last Spring.

>>10116927
>not being educated

I got good grades up to a certain point in my life. Got fucked up sometime in high school with some psychological bullshit that has been plaguing me ever since, so I've been scraping through in terms of grades. Somehow seems to have worked out with me getting into best uni for my course in the country.

I do good work and I'd like to think I am better than most on my course but I fail at following briefs so I get very mediocre grades. I also misjudge how long shit takes me, so I keep falling into the trap of yeh that'll take me 1 day...5 days later...

I'd say I dress better than 90% of my degree. To be fair it's not difficult to dress better than a room full of sweaty nerds talking about cats and nintendo.

>>10117019

Find something you actually like doing. Can you imagine doing it for most of your life?

For a long time I thought I enjoyed programming, maths and sciences. While I do enjoy them in a casual scenario, I failed miserably at actually studying that shit full time. It just didn't interest me at all, I couldn't stand theory based subjects.

>>10117113
I can't say if I would (or not) imagine doing it for most of my life, because whatever judgement I make at this point would obviously be a bit far-fetched due to the limited knowledge and first-hand experience I have in programming. It wouldn't be logical for me to assume as of now.

I personally suck at math, and hate it, but I don't want to mistranslate that as me not enjoying programming. Besides, I have never actually put my full effort into any of my math classes, ever. When I actually sit at the computer and write code, I feel at the top of my game and feel like I want to aspire to create/do more.

I need a bit of a push to get myself going.

I did my homework for the next class in the class before that one everu day of hs and slept through spanish. I got bs and cs. And one d semester in spanish. I still had a 3.2 or something despite doing the absolute minimum. I think I have adhd so school isn't really for me. I usually read books through my classes if I had no homework due the next hour. Some of my teachers used to take my books away so that I wouldn't read during lecture.

I also taught myself guitar and how to sing and watched movies for hours every day in hs. I was pushed into engineering by my parents and didn't like it except for my programming classes. So now I'm kind of over going to college. I'm going to go into the arts instead. I have access to a bunch of video equiptment and have a daw and decent recording gear. I'm writing some low budget scripts. I kind of just get movies and music from analyzing them autistically throughout my youth. If Mike Jones and Dane Cook can make it, anyone can.

>>10117131

STOP LETTING YOUR DREAMS BE DREAMS!

>>10117203
I respect this. Do you, man.

>>10117212
You know that Clerks was made completely on credit cards? And that is one of the only movies with believable dialogue about young people.

shit grades when i was in high school, i used to ditch almost every day to hang out/smoke with friends and chase college qts. had lots of fun but did stupid shit. hardly graduated and went to community college. Slacked first semester and my parents threatened to kick me out so I got my head on straight and worked hard. got a job and moved out while continuing my studies, transferred to uni last fall. moved back in with parents becaue I can't afford everything, things are looking good but I don't know why I'm doing this, I don't even know what I want to study.

i dress like peter sagar aka homeshake

>>10117241
Good for you, anon. What are you majoring in?

Also, I really like how this works: a fit pic + mini story. Gives you a nice little outlook of different situations - cool.

It's like Humans of New York, but /fa/ edition.
>Humans of /fa/

Someone make this a thing.

>>10117259
would be cool but thats what social networks are for
better off exchanging instagram or tumblr

>>10117259
business for now, figure it's the most applicable and convenient for wherever the wind blows me

idk im a stem ninja that likes art.

engineering(using math and science to solve......and sometimes create real world problems)

I actually enjoy school but I cant deal with anything that's not stem.I never took art classes in school and hated language arts and foreign language, mostly because I was bad and never really understood it.

>>10117259
what happened to this board....

Liked school, but did awfully. Being an aspie I never understood school, college or work.

I did really well in undergrad, got a bunch of department awards every year, very active in the university. Got into a PhD program right after undergrad in the same department same school. Quit after 3 years and slipped away with my MA because I just wanted to get a real job and stop being in school. 2 years later and a lot of friends still slaving away at their PhD's making shit money in stipends, i have zero regrets

>>10117357
invaded by reddit tbh

>>10116917
4.0 all throughout hs, going to an ivy next year

I got okay grades in school and I consider myself smart and self-aware but I see all you intellectual, depressed fucks and I realize that being hype and academically intelligent sucks if you feel alienated from almost everyone around you.

Like, I get that that's already a (read: the) joke here but really. Don't you sometimes wish you could be stupid so you could genuinely enjoy shit? A wife, a dog, two kids, aren't you glad you're smart enough that you don't have to be in the system?

I have such an objective viewpoint on literally everything that I have no actual opinion of my own. In some way, everyone is wrong. In some way, everyone is right. After years of playing devil's advocate purely out of boredom I came to realize that, as it turns out, self-discovery via true logical objectivity is not actually everyone's goal. So what is?

I don't know. A wife, a dog, two kids, probably. But for some reason I feel that both the world and I have enough worth to still be here. And honestly I feel smarter everyday because I keep finding different forms of beauty in a world that would exist with or without my ability to also recognize its inherent arbitrariness.

But being depressed and self-deprecative is hype af though, right?
Man I can't wait for this aesthetic to die down.

Pic unrelated.

>>10118679
Not everybody is depressed because it's 'cool'.
Fucking speak for yourself, you don't know everyone's life.

>>10116917
>What is your performance in school like, /fa/?
Do you get good grades?
Yeah
>Are you actually engaged in school or are interested/smart or are you just finishing assignments to get decent grades?
A little bit of both I suppose. I'm banking on this college and my success in life depends on my performance, but at the same time it's something I find very interesting and enjoy pursuing.
It also has a strong emphasis on international relations (it's a business/finance degree, though) which I absolutely adore, and the need to be on everyone's good side seems to be making the overall atmosphere very pleasant.

>There is always this stereotype that people who get good grades dress like shit, but I don't think this is true.
I dress very normie-fashionable, which is a step away from basic bitch but I wouldn't call myself a fashion connoisseur or anything. We're encouraged to look smart and polished but people won't mind if you skip one day and come in denims and a track jacket.

Most /fa/ education is community college art major.

>>10118698
thats really sad (the major part)
op here but i'm a comp sci major

>>10116954
>>10116975
>>10117019
>>10117131

I'm this guy. fuck it all

>>10118681
I'm honestly not trying to diminish anyone's depression, if anything I'm criticizing that its being diminished by its hip aesthetic.

But yeah just get angry because obviously my intention was to attack everyone with depression.

I didn't do well in school, I went to a russell group university, and I didn't like it so I left.

Boys like me aren't meant to succeed, and honestly, I don't really want to now. I don't really do well in those formats, I was kicked out of two schools.

But my mistakes are my own.

>>10118718
>I was kicked out of two schools.
What'd you do?

>>10116917
I am pretty try hard in school, straight 90+ averages and honors/AP classes. Although I really need to start obsessing over clothing.

>>10118728
*stop not start lol

>>10118719
The first one, started a little in a bin in a classroom. It was detention and I needed to see my gran in the hospital. I was left inside the room by myself while the teacher went for a fag or something, so I used my lighter hoping to trigger the fire alarm. It did, I went out of the room, and got caught. She died a week later.

The second one, well that was just a succession of things. Mainly just getting into fights.

After that, I didn't go to school for a few months, had to do my GCSE's in the college. Then I did my A-Levels in a sixth form, left for a while, did some cash in hand jobs, then went back.

>>10116917
Finishing high school at the moment, 9 weeks left, always had pretty solid grades ~90%

>>10118756
Forgot fit

>>10118760
>collar sticking out

>>10118760
lmfao dude, lace up those stans an extra eyelet, the tounge looks fucking retarded popping out like that

>>10118761
Dude its the fucking worst collar ever haha, been meaning to buy a new white shirt for ages

>>10118764
Been wearing them both ways seeing which I prefer, the tongue is retarded no matter how I wear them it's the stiffest leather and bending it hasn't seemed to soften it up yet

>>10118773
thats what you get for buying the european cucksquad "better quality" version

>>10118775
I'm Australian tho

>>10118760
>those concert tickets
kill urself

>>10116993
You are not smarter then. If you cant perform you are nothing. Stop thinking of yourself as smart. you are a worthless loser. With this new mindset you will be able to succeed

>>10117131
You need to be good at maths to do fun programming. You can still code websites/apps/ other bullshit no problem, but to do cool stuff there are lots of math! (Although its more proof based maths that are different from highschool maths, so you may be good at these)

>>10118705
yoooo other cs major here. You /specialize/ yet?

i was always best in class, now i work in finance, thats how i afford all my /fa/ shit

>>10118816
Yeah, I'm sure I need to spend some more time studying before I can give a stable opinion on math.

I'm currently retaking precalculus (yes...sorry I don't take Calculus 3 or Linear Algebra) this fall because I goofed last Spring semester.
I never, ever, spend time studying, so hopefully I will feel more confident about my ability with this coming semester.
As of now, everything feels kill and boring, but I think that's because I'm not putting any effort, so of course it's going to be agitating when I don't understand something.

How difficult of a level of math (realistically) do you need to know to actually do programming?

The hardest math I've personally seen in my C++ textbook is trigonometry based stuff, but then again, I'm sure there's more complex shit out there.

There are no math prerequisites to take my C++ programming course, so it doesn't initially seem like you need much math knowledge beyond Algebra II.

Even though this is /fa/, any advice is appreciated on study methods...a lot of you guys seem pretty smart. I am dying in my own hole of laziness.

>>10118820
>You /specialize/ yet
wat

>>10118825
it depends. So if you want to do Machine learning-- fuck tons of maths everywhere. You need to know stats and prob down pat. If you want to do graphics, lin alg everywhere. Theory has a lot of math. Everything else doesn't really need math, but it rears its head up everywhere. For example, I do alot of network programming, and there is alot of graph theory

>>10118832
like what is your field of interest? ML? Graphics? Theory? Robotics? I do alot of systems stuff myself

>>10116996
cringe

>>10119047
i want to make video games and go to japan

>>10118679
It's not that you are so objective that you have no opinion on your own, you are "objective" because you just have not chosen your own morals and goals. For example; set your prioritys on preserving the human race. Everyone who acts selfish and against the greater good becomes the one at false. You could also set your priorities on your own financial well being. Suddenly lumbering the rainforest for money isn't as bad anymore, Because maybe you are a poorfag improving your life that way. There is no standpoint which is correct or incorrect, just a general consensus, which most of the people share. No actions can be taken from a pure objective viewpoint, because a pure objective viewpoint is just a collection of the individual interests of all involved parties, and no decision can be made without setting a superordinate moral. So there is no true logical objectivity you can make yourself a goal, you can just choose from behaving according to a certain ideology. And if you fail finding yourself a purpose you may become a depression.

>>10119187
may get a depression.* fuck this

>>10119047
I'm interested in coding in C++/Java. (Mostly C++)

What would you suggest in that case?

>>10119052
Graphics is what I would like to get into. I've considered robotics as artificial intelligence greatly interests me, but I don't know where to approach this from a computer science perspective.

I'd love to get your input, if you want. Subjects to focus on, tips, etc.

So many high school fags here. I feel so old

>3.9 undergrad gpa majoring in math from an excellent school
>currently in phd program with 4.0 gpa also at a gr8 school (but gpa doesn't really matter)
>am a grill

Will be poor forever ;_;

>>10116934
>bragging about your intelligence based off of your performance in high school
>literally still being in high school
BACK
TO
REDDIT

Is being a high school dropout /fa/?

>>10119320
See >>10117209

>>10118679
I can rl8 m8

>>10118825
Just. Fucking. Do. It.

There is no special trick to studying. You lock yourself in a room without a computer, do practice problems, write down formulas over and over again, and just keep slamming yourself up against the work until you come out the other end smarter.

There really are no secrets to it, other than to avoid the obvious traps: don't "study" while watching a movie or slacking, don't do a "group study" thing where you just slack off with friends, etc. You need to genuinely buckle down.

>>10119384
>So many high school fags here. I feel so old
Tell me about it, jesus. I've never seen so much USI based on goddamn high school grades in my life.

>>10116934
not smart enough to rotate an image before posting it lmao

>>10118760
why would you pay to see Lorde, Tyler the Creator, or the Arctic Monkeys rofl

>>10116934
Kek, thinking grades in highschool mean your smart. Straight @ college student here, grades really don't men dick. I know plenty "smart" retards, if you can't understand that you are probably one of them.

>>10120206
No. If you can't go to college or even stay at highschool, then who tf will mire your new clothes and cuts?

>>10120838
>Just. Fucking. Do. It.
>You need to genuinely buckle down.

Yeah, you're right. I guess I kind of already know this, but I just keep hiding behind the reality, I'm just trapped where I dug myself -- a big shithole of laziness. So ridiculous, tbh.

I need to keep reminding myself, I can't fuck up this fall semester. Cannot.

4.6 something cumulative

>>10116917
i have ocd so i perform like shit in school due to laziness and i dont feel like putting up with my compulsions. but.....these doc martens tho

>>10122366
this is me lmao, except the martens part, sorry anon

>What is your performance in school like, /fa/?
I finished school 7 years ago and finished uni a few years ago, I achieved Dux and had A's across the board for all of my subjects. I got A's and B's in uni so that's not all that impressive. I was a lazy uni student.
>Do you get good grades?
Generally, yes, if I try and don't leave things to the last minute.
>Are you actually engaged in school or are interested/smart or are you just finishing assignments to get decent grades?
Highschool was easy, though I feel I should have paid more attention at university and strived for more when I finished instead of doing "whatever I wanted' - I wish I were more practical about my skills and intelligence. It doesn't matter now that I'm in career mode. I like working more than academia.
>There is always this stereotype that people who get good grades dress like shit, but I don't think this is true.
People have always thought I dressed well, though given I finished HS in 2007, I dressed atrociously back then. I dress much better these days.

>>10122423
if you don't mind me asking, what did you major in/study?
good job btw

>>10122426
Thank you, but seriously, I think people just need to be practical. Grades don't mean a lot unless you're doing something like medicine or law, or live in a country with competitive entry. I know plenty of kids who got Cs in highschool, ended up doing medicine and are now doctors.

To expand on my annoyance with not applying myself properly, I actually switched my degree several times trying to figure out what to do with myself. I was an idiot when I started and had these vague notions of studying medicine - suffice to say that never happened due to personal reasons (might be something I'll end up regretting. I know I can always do it later if I feel like it's something I must do).

Regardless, I started out doing a business and science degree, changed to linguistics, changed to journalism. Writing was a passion and I also had dreams of becoming a foreign correspondent, but those dreams were dashed quickly once I realised the advent of journalism has basically been destroyed by the 24 hour news cycle (and I guess I doubted my abilities a lot).

I ended up doing media design. Luckily I was able to transfer credits and entered with a portfolio so I finished it in 2 years.

I've always been gifted artistically and was doing design freelance work since I was 15 here and there, so I was naturally very good at it. I earn pretty good money as an interaction designer, but I also foray into other design disciplines as well as animation, 3d modelling and video post production now and then. I never thought I would end up being a designer, but it has worked out well for me.

I'm now planning on brushing up on front end dev/javascript to expand my skill set.