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So I’m a highschool senior and right now my top choices that I’ve been accepted into are between University of Maryland or Boston University.
I’m so stuck on how to decide between the two. In terms of more shallow factors, on one hand I like the Maryland campus but on the other hand BU has a more notable name. I’ve heard both that UMD is on par with BU and I’ve also heard that UMD is no where near as good as BU. I heard that both have a fairly good programs and a strong alumni network. But also I’ve heard that it’s a bad idea to go to a state school like UMD when I can go to a more notable one like BU. I that BU ranks higher than UMD on US News but is that really a significant factor? UMD has also offered me a merit scholarship but BU hasn’t given me much financial aid.
Does anyone have any advice or opinions on which one you would choose?
Like which one would be best if I was considering pre med and which one would be best if I wanted to explore more options? What’s the campus culture like in either and how are the programs and opportunities? I’ve done some research but I also would like to get some advice from people before I make a concrete decision. Anything would be appreciated!

I used to really badly want to be on PrEP. Before the NHS (Im british) adopted it/made it free for all here, back when I was an impoverished 18 year old I used to feel this spiteful envy towards PrEP gays as they were the wealthy yuppies who could afford to buy it online without prescription. And not worry about getting pozzed.
However after an incident a year ago when a consultant at a GUM/sexual health clinic lied to me that I was ineligible for it (he just didnt like me) I lost trust in that field of medicine. It also meant PrEP wasnt an option as his clinic was the only sexual health service in the area I was living in.
I've subsequently moved back to an area with far better clinics, and could now get on it if I wanted to. But I have no interest in it anymore. Partly because I work long unsociable hours and just would struggle to find the time/cant be bothered to go through the long process of regular blood tests and dealing with arrogant/judgmental doctors and nurses. I also dont want the stress on my liver and kidneys. I also cant guarantee Id remember to take iteverday either.
It just seems like a lot of trouble when I could just carry on using a condom without fail every time.
Thoughts? Im open to criticism and some home truths being served.

I've had so many of the symptoms for 6.5 years September 2016 but not believed. I wasn't scanned at the time. Hadn't heard of it at the time so didn't know to ask and hoped things would improve in time but not the case Mris haven't shown but wasn't done at the time, nearly 3 years later in July 2019, then in April 2021 and may 2022.
Contacted a cauda equina charity and support group. They told me the discs can shrink back and appear normal over a period of twelve months.
I have low back pain hips pelvic perineum buttocks pain radiates down legs, stiff legs and feet, bilateral foot drop. Numbness and tightness in saddle area. Constant urge to urinate but takes a while to start and difficultly emptying bladder fully. Feeling like bowel doesn't fully empty, sometimes wet farts or soil without realising. Can't stand long, unsteady on feet. Legs are tight. Increaed back and legs pain waking. Can't bend legs and feet properly and lift feet.
Has really affected my quality of life. Worse when not believed and taken seriously and nothing else has really shown.

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I will start this off with that I have always been very skeptical about supernatural things interacting with us but I have for my entire life encounters with something unexplainable. Growing up I lived in a very old house that had been passed down generations that people claimed to have seen things in but I never paid it much attention. Little things would happen that I didn't give much thought to like toys in my room randomly starting (my parents used to love telling people about the time they woke up to me destroying an animatronic Barney toy because it wouldn't stop going off). Also was very lucky to sleep in the room with the only attic access and a few times it appeared a light was shining up there when it was not wired for lighting or I would wake up to it just so slightly open in the morning. Another odd thing I remember from my childhood was waking up to feeling like I had just been punched in the nose yet nobody was in my room.
As I got older I continued being pretty indifferent to these weird things but they were just so strange. Like sitting in the living room with my mom when a locked cabinet of old family memorabilia swung open in front of us. Nobody ever wanted to house sit because they claimed they heard footsteps at night that scared them. The funniest memory I have is when I was a rebellious teen sneaking just outside a basement door to smoke late at night after my parents fell asleep and hearing what sounded like people from all parts of the house running towards me. When that happened I put it out and hurried back in to find my parents still asleep.
My parents passed away in my late teens so I sold my childhood home and moved somewhere I could afford on the paycheck of my first job but the strange things followed me. The most common things are still the sounds of walking in the attic to banging noises on the other side of the house. Once again I didn't pay this odd things too much attention until I got a girlfriend and she moved in. Almost as soon as she moved in whatever it was turned it's activity up to 11. We heard walking noises in the attic more frequently. Loud bangs that were unexplainable. Had strange smells like cologne and cigarette smoke. And on a few occasions a single loud bark from the other side of the house that was far too loud and aggressive to have come out of our dog. Over time the activity has once again gone down to almost nothing again because we never really paid these odd things much attention but I am just glad someone outside my family experienced it because I was starting to think maybe we were just collectively crazy. Would be interesting to have a professional sometime try and diagnose what is going on but whatever it is that has followed me to my new home doesn't really seem to have any devious plans.
Sorry for the long entry but I thought maybe someone would be interested in hearing about what has been tagging along with me all my life :)

I lost my job 18mo ago. I've been so depressed that I've only left my apartment a few times in over a year, I've barely showered and totally isolated myself. I've gained 20lbs. I have no family or friends. I have a therapist but im so ashamed I haven't even told him how bad things are. Now I've lost my insurance & i cant afford my medications. I'm really starting to spiral.
I feel like no one would miss me except my cat. Can someone give me some advice?

So I have been lurking and reading for awhile now and I honestly feel like maybe I should just call myself poly even if I only have one partner. Let me explain...
20 years ago, I met my now hubby on a bdsm site. At the time I had a bf/Master and now hubby didn't realize I would be open to a poly relationship. To be fair, neither did I. Then bf and I had a don't ask, don't tell policy which I abhor now. Not for any reason other than I learned communication is super important in a poly or even mono relationship and I don't believe in hiding what I am doing. Fast forward to 2007 when my girl passed away from brain cancer and her death was the catalyst for me to realize I was not happy and could not see myself long term with my bf. We broke up and I moved from Massachusetts to Texas. While there, I started talking to another guy whom was killed by a drunk driver in October. I spent several inconsolable weeks crying myself to sleep before I decided to reach out to hubby. He had been a good friend before and I needed one now.
We started talking every night on the phone when I confirmed I was single and his ex wife pushed him to ask me out. With the deaths of two friends so close together, it really pushed me out of my comfort zone and I agreed to meeting hubby in Jan/Feb of 2008. We spent two weeks together, fell in love and me going back to Texas was the hardest, most gut wrenching thing to happen to me in awhile. I cried on the bus heading back to Toronto Airport (he lived in Hamilton) and on the plane ride back to Texas. We managed 5 months apart before we both agreed it was not working for us. I moved in with him for 3 months (the most time allowed without a visa) while looking for a place in Buffalo. For the next 6 years, I traveled back and forth between Buffalo and Canada until I got my permanent residency card in 2018. During that time, I went to school and graduated twice, he got divorced, he had a psychotic ex gf who very nearly broke us apart after being together for 8 years, they broke up and he found my meta whom we now live with. And we got married in 2019, they got engaged in 2022 (I am so excited to help her plan their wedding!!) And honestly I could not be happier.
So here are the partnerships so you can see where I am mono dating poly and I'll explain why I am no longer sure that fits me as it seems most mono dating poly are unhappy and I really don't read many stories that are like mine.
Hubby and me
Hubby and play partner
Hubby and fiance/meta
Meta and bf (the four of us + metas special needs brother live together)
Meta and fwbs
I am very much an introvert and loner. Also the crazy cat lady (I have 3 kittens under 2). I love, want and need time to myself. During the week, hubby sleeps upstairs with fiance and with me on the weekends and odd days during the week when long haul truck driver bf comes home. This works for us and we are all happy with how things are.
We have family nights where we play Euchre, Squence, Risk or dominoes. We watch movies together. We have family dinners where hubby's parents and metas dad come over. On the days when I am feeling extra ant-social, they have movies they watch together and I watch my football or hockey. Or read. Or play games on my phone. I am happy to be by myself and this works in that I see hubby every day and kiss him goodnight even if he doesn't sleep with me. It's fantastic.
Meta and I also get along really really well (shocker!) And we have our own shows we watch together like Love is Blind (no spoilers for season 4 pls!) Or Perfect Match. And we also watch Last of Us or Witcher or Mandolorian. Point is, even when we are alone, we still have company if we want.
Things have not always been perfect. Hubby and I nit pick at each other to stop the big explosions and usually its financial stress. But we see a forever home together with his fiance and her bf and brother and the girl who swore she would never live with another female after the fiasco of his ex wife and psychotic ex gf can see that too.
All in all, I am happy to be mono dating poly. I just wish others were happy too.

Going off the title. My partner recently lost his only older brother which has been extremely tragic and shocking. A month after this loss, his father was sent to the hospital bc of gastrointestinal issues.
For context, my partner and I have been having communication issues predating his brothers passing. While I’ve been doing what I can to put everything aside and be his rock, he has continuously pushed me away and is building a huge wall of resentment. Everything I do isn’t “enough” but yet he expects me to read his mind to figure out what his needs are and its setting me up to fail. I know grief has it’s phases but he is piggy backing our predated problems into the stress and loss of his brother and now issues with his dad and it’s overwhelming.
His father is a long-time hoarder. This got increasingly worse since his wife left him over a decade ago bc of his hoarding and supposed lack of affection (her words).
He has accumulated an acre full of garbage (with the exception of some collectibles) as well as his home and it has become extremely unsanitary. This has likely contributed to his health issues and we are worried this could progressively get worse.
With that in mind, my partner (with hired help) has taken the role of completely restoring and cleaning the mass of trash and accumulated filth from his fathers two-story home. This is an admirable thing but I worry he’s taken on too much with the added stress of filling in his brothers shoes and not processing his death. Also his father has not once acknowledged my partners efforts in cleaning his huge mess.
Meanwhile, my partners been staying at a place near his dads (for approx 1 month now) and I’m at home holding down the fort (there’s a lot of responsibilities at home) . I keep offering my help with the house but he won’t take it. Our communication has only gotten worse and he keeps picking mundane fights with me. I feel like I’m apologizing for things that I’m not at fault for. Just his emotional punching bag and I’ve been trying to not take it person but it’s starting to srsly hurt me.
I’m at a total loss of what to do now. Please understand that even though my partners brother loss is bigger and justifiably more important than my own feelings with it; I, too, am grieving the loss of such a wonderful person.
Please excuse any aggression in my post. I’m in the “anger” phase of grief and becoming resentful of his father for letting his hoarding get so bad that his son has to clean it all up during a time of mourning.
I understand hoarding is a form of mental illness and I’ve tried to be sensitive to that but right now my thinking is very distorted.
Any advice on how to go about this? My partner feels very entitled in his feelings toward me. I don’t want to give up but it’s becoming increasingly difficult.

OK so, once more, I'm going to be asking about what endings I got, and what actions I can take to get other ones, and late game areas/activities I know exist, but haven't gotten to, so don't read this if you don't want to know about that information.
>!Alright, so, first I was going to list the endings I know of that I have gotten.
I've gotten the jump off the hospital balcony.
And The just leave your house with Something behind you and get in the car and leave, and this one I scum saved a little to use different I guess methods near the end of the game, to get the same outcome. While in Basil's house , you can either leave, or go to his room and I did every option I could to get the same ending, just leaving in the car with Something following you.
So my main question here is, what other options are there as far as endings go, like how many other major endings are there? And subsequently I'll ask, at what points in the game are their decisions that will affect what ending I get? I guess to drop a save just incase. I'm asking for like specific points in the game where I would precisely know what is going to happen should I choose one option or another. Just for some context I can remember two of my three playthroughs, my second one, I didn't open the door for Kel at all, and my most recent one I opened it for him every time and did as much as I could in Faraway Town.
My next major question, I know I'm missing a ton of content in the Headspace, but I've gone through three playthroughs now and I've missed this content every single time, I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I'm assuming there is a decision I'm making somewhere along the game that is causing me to miss it. In particular I mean, I have no idea what Boss Rush is, no idea what or where Snowglobe Mountain is, I know there is an entity called Abbi, but no idea what it is or where or when. I guess I'm asking what decisions do I need to make in the game, and when, to get the absolute most out of the Headspace portions.!<
I guess that's about it, I guess I'm really just asking for any endgame assistance, so thanks for reading my rambling, and please let me know

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I just bought one for a beater, and man.
I know it's seen as a beginner guitar. But I think it's more of a low-end guitar you can seriously use. I'm a bit confused because I've been playing guitars for years and years now. And I remember cheap acoustics sounding like damn near torture back in the day. Anything under 300 back in the day (even the mid 2000s) was a nightmare!
I'd happily record with this thing and be completely content with it. Not in a professional studio, but absolutely for a home studio or a gig. Just surprised you can get something like this for 280 or whatever.
I was looking at the Epiphone Dove Pro and I have to be honest.... The Yamaha sounded better. Which is bizarre because I love Epiphone and really don't like many Yamaha things. I would have happily paid the 500 for the Dove, but I notice that the Epiphones in that tier have a very thin sound. I owned the EJ-200CE and it was the biggest let-down of my life. Jumbo should mean a big sound right? Doesn't seem that much to ask for. And as it turns out, the Dove is the same. Exact same issue too.
I showed a non-musician and asked for their opinion without them seeing the price tags. They said they really wanted me to get the Dove for looks, but they could tell that the Yamaha was a lot nicer sounding and professional.
And yet these Yamaha's are just absurd for the price. They look pretty boring, but they are pretty amazing
I don't know what they've done but they basically nailed the entry-level guitar market. Sort of reminds me of what Squier has done now, vs their reputation 20 years ago. Pretty crazy!
I don't know if it's just the recent run of Yamaha's or they've just been this level for awhile. I have no clue, but I'm pretty much in awe
Just a little rant! I'm gonna get to recording with this boring looking guitar real soon

I don't mean this post to come across as self-pity. I'm past that phase. However, I do want to share my experiences and maybe someone else could empaphise or even gain insgiht.
I've come a long way since starting therapy.
I decided to write this post because today my friend told me that "I had so much going for me. Yet I lack the confidence in my life that I so much deserve" - His intentions were pure and I took his statement with open arms, with the self-compassion and understanding required to make things change.
I was abused physically since an early age. I still recall being locked in a dark room crying hysterically while begging to be let out. People temporarily took me away after my school found scars on my body. I didn't know how to clean myself because my parents never looked after me, so at school I stunk, I wore dirty clothes...I had greasy hair. Noone wanted to be near me.
As a teen, I started developing attraction to girls, but I would often overhear women that I was 'almost' the ugliest person in school. I now know due to personal hygeine and lack of care largely contributed to this, but I knew no better. Throughout my life, I thus carried deep shame when I started getting attracted to women.
I lacked attachment figures and I didn't have many friends or people I could confide in. I internalised all of this as proof of myself being flawed and unlovable to this very day and it seeps into my romantic life.
Maybe...just maybe if I worked really hard on myself...then I would receive the love and acceptance I so often craved. I focused on being 'successful'. My therapist told me that I'm extremely hardworking in everything and strived for perfection as a defence mechanism for feeling worthless.
Long story short some of my traits include:
- I now play guitar very well and as an empath/emotional person it's very carthartic (emotional hypervigilence - a defence mechanism due to abuse and fear of abandonment).
- I've been lifting for 8 years and the results show.
- I received two PhD offers to study at Oxford.
My abuse, lack of social life and strong work ethic has emoitionally stunted me. I have poor self-esteem despite what I have. I crave love and validation from women, yet feel worthless and unlovable. I'm extremely anxious and needy.
I need constant validation in my physical appearance that I'm not an ugly, repulsive human being. I'm hypervigilant to any belief that I'm ugly and no women want me. If you looked at me, you wouldn't expect the beliefs and mindset that I have. But here I am. I lie about my relationship experiences with everyone out of shame. I hold similar behaviours/thoughts and feelings some of the people on this sub have - That seeing couples in public make me feel terrible. That lack of attention from women out even just in public means that I hideous.
Only recently I've developed some self-compassion and practised mindfulness. I'm starting to believe I'm deserving of love with open arms, surrounding myself with friends, my therapist and even this community.
I'm aware that I will be needy and my state of mind isn't particularly healthy, so I'm not particularly ready for a relationship despite craving it so badly. I'm learning accept these feelings
Lurking this thread has given me insight from all the comments from peers providing support and to give me a better outlook on life. I realise that my outlook on life is hasn't matured despite being 26...but that's okay. I'm learning.
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Most adults mature into an understanding that attraction is actually a lot more complex than just a rubric of external physical features.

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If anything, you disprove the ideology, and prove that finding love is about a whole lot more than looks, height, social success, etc.
I think what a whole lot of people miss is that life isn't actually formulaic. Yes, you can increase your statistical chances of whatever by doing certain things, but there are no guarantees, particularly when it comes to relationships. And that is because it's not just your attraction, circumstances, needs, beliefs, availability, etc that matter, but those of women you want to date, as well. That's a whole lot of variables. This stuff is unpredictable.

I'm literally going insane guys please help me out. I have lost more than 50% density on the top of my scalp in the course of 8 months (had covid in may + crash dieted and lost 20 kg in 6 months, eating very little food, and by food i mean nutrient poor foods like protein bars, protein yogurts, whey protein.. amounting to roughly 1200 calories a day).
I had very dense curly hair not even 1 year ago and now my scalp has become see-through in the dimmest of lights..
Things that are giving me hope it's not AGA:
- That it happened so quickly, which is unusual for AGA induced hair loss
- That most if not all of the hairs I'm losing have normal diameter (thus not affected by miniaturization)
- That I'm "guilty" of two common triggers for TE which are crash dieting and covid
Do you think it's TE? Can TE affect the top of the scalp only? any insight would be greatly appreciated

To begin , It's my first time building a pc , I NEARLY got the config that I wanted :
GPU : RX 6800 XT
CPU : AMD RYZEN 5 5600 X
RAM : Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro (2x16GB) DDR4-3600
MBD : MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4
I currently live in France , and my budget is around 1300 € .
I wanted a CPU RYZEN 5 7600 X but it only support DDR5 the problem is that DDR5 is more expensive than DDR4 (obviously) and I'm seeking help if my config is good enough for triple As in 2K/4K
if the CPU is the problem , please tell me an alternative to 5 7600X cheaper and in ddr4 .
If I have a big bottleneck , please tell me too ! Thx

I got diagnosed with pcos in September and was put on birth control. I was put on Mya. Mya was amazing at first. It cleared up my acne, oily skin, brain fog and fatigue. I felt better than I have in a long time. But then I noticed as soon as I started it, my hair started to fall it. In huge chunks. Every time I shower I pull out balls of hair. Hair loss was never a pcos symptoms for me to begin with. If anything I had wayyyy too much head and body hair. I understood that it might just be the sudden hormonal changes but the hair loss hasn’t stopped, even 7-8 months later. My doctor said there’s nothing she can do for the hair loss and it shouldn’t be a side affects from my pcos or birth control.
Other than my dramatic hair loss, I noticed that I gained a lot of weight and I’m constantly hungry, even after going on a pcos friendly diet. Again, this was never an pcos issue for me before. If anything I was a little under weight and gaining weight for me before going on birth control was hard. I ate like garbage too. I was tested and I don’t have insulin resistance.
I don’t understand, is hair loss, weight gain and increased appetite from birth control? Should I get off of it? Is there anything I can do to help? I don’t want to have to deal with fatigue and ance again it was terrible.

I'm not sure how to approach the subject with him, I tried bringing it up before but he takes it really personally and I don't want to hurt his feelings or make him think I'm trying to say something negative about his body or weight.
Here are the details: my boyfriend and I live together, before we did his cupboards and fridge were always nearly completely empty. He would maybe buy a bag of tortellini and a jar of pasta sauce every week and pour one into the other directly and eat that whenever he remembered to (which wasn't even daily sometimes), he was quite skinny.
I have always tried to keep fruit, veggies, cheese, pitas and ect around to eat for meals and snacks and I cook a balanced dinner most nights. I would go to the grocery store and spend about $50 a week on food including meat, dairy, produce, and snacks. I am a healthy weight.
Since we've moved in together I've noticed that my boyfriend will eat and eat and eat until everything I've bought is gone, especially "snack foods". Previously I would buy a bag of chips and have some every second evening or so and it would take me 5-7 days to eat the bag, he ALWAYS eats the full bag of chips. I tried to ask him why he needs to eat a full family bag of chips every night, or a whole pint of ice cream, or the whole bag of chocolates or candies, and tried to ask him to break it up over a few nights and consider how I might want some too and I don't always want to run over and "complete" to get some of the snacks because I know if I don't act right now, there will be none left. This didn't go well at all, he seemed quite upset and asked if I thought he was eating too much.
Truthfully, I do think he is eating too much, but not in a "counting calories" way or a "I want him to look a certain way/be a certain size" way. I feel like this type of eating habit is immature and not normal, and will lead to unhealthiness and a bad relationship with food eventually. I want him to realize that we are 30, not 13, and eating a whole bag or Doritos every night isn't "cool"... that's not a great way of saying it but honestly I'm not sure HOW to say it. I just know that I want to be able to have the kitchen stocked with normal foods and snacks and not have to worry about my partner eating all of the "easy foods" I bought for the whole week in one day, which is what is happening now. (Example of an "easy" food would be chips or candy snacks, but also he will eat like a whole pack of lunchmeat in one sitting but wont go to the effort to make a sandwich, leaving no lunchmeat for the whole rest of the week for either of us.)
I've used the chips and the lunchmeat as examples but this applies to anything bought that doesn't have to be prepared to eat, except raw fruit and veg, and all snack foods. How would you talk to your partner about this? especially if they were sensitive? He is a really great partner so please don't just tell me to dump him (like tons of these threads lol) he just has a really immature relationship with food and I'm not sure how to help him come to a place thats more comfortable for both of us.

Maybe it's just me but have you realized how often authors use that image in their books? It catches my attention because I have had my fair share of dating and I can't remember a single guy taking a piece of my hair and tucking it behind my ear 🤣 neither is it something I tend to do as a tic.
Here's a first example from what I'm currently reading:
He smiles down at me as he tucks a piece of hair behind my ear. “And look how beautiful you are.” (The Stopover by TL Swan)
Here's another one:
“So I should find someone else to make my fantasies come true?” She tucks her hair behind her ear and tests me. (Glitch by Briana Michaels)
And another one:
I placed her leg down, put her skirt back in place, tucked a wayward strand of hair behind her adorable ears. (Bohemian by Kathryn Nolan)
I'm laughing at this point, I know I'll find many more examples if I keep searching in my library. Of course this is just a silly remark, no hate intended.

I’ve been waxing for 3 years and doing Brazilians for 2. What’s the best way to get the butt strip. I find myself picking and even tho the strip is even the curvature of the area makes the wax rip and break. Or another issue is that it’s not removing the hair at all especially if the hair is growing down towards the anus. Any tips or technique tricks would be super helpful. I’ve been training by 2 different corporate waxing chains and I find neither of their techniques work for me.

the doctors say that it was panic attack but it was a focal seizure (our hospital is inept). it was 3 am and she came in screaming uncontrollably but she didn’t know why and her body was contorting at well i was screaming too because it was terrifying but she stopped after a bit, she was fully conscious the entire time and was eventually able to talk and tell me that she couldn’t control it and didn’t know what it was happening. her body was very stiff as well and she having trouble speaking - i stayed up with her for a few hours and it happened again and came out of no where we were fine and she started making sounds and getting up and contorting and trying to yell help me anyway she went to the ER and they said it was a panic attack which is dumb (she has epilepsy and has had grand mals and focals before) i came here i guess to rant bc it brought back past traumas of when a similar thing happened and she nearly died