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So this is for US colleges/unis , not sure if fully applicable with other countries

First, there won’t be any structure given by professors. You make your own structure and schedule and try to stick to it and fail. If you have good relationship with parents and they’re the type of people , you get a system where they check up on your progress based on some schedule.

Also, befriend roommates or neighbors (neurodivergents will find each other) and do study sessions together.

There’s often suggestions of going to office hours, and that may work but from personal experience, YouTube, self study sessions, any additional tutoring on campus that gets the ball rolling until you’re comfy enough with material to go to professor.

My uni had pilot programs - non TA led review classes with materials sourced from class , free no credits courses

Schedule your food intakes, eat well, don’t survive off instant spicy ramen for a month. Treat yourself when you get relatively good grades (or increase in grade)

Uhhh figure out what time of day you’re most productive

I spent several minutes just staring at them (and trying to convince them to bite my fingers.) When my sister’s violin lesson ended, her teacher came out to the yard and explained that these goldfish were the same small creatures that were often unfortunately sold in plastic bags at state fairs. They were only about two inches long apiece, when she bought them and put them in the new, empty pond. In essence, they were like every goldfish I had seen before, but they had been given a much larger, much richer environment in which to flourish. As a result, they had grown into some of the most remarkable, vibrant creatures my twelve-year-old self had ever met with. All because of a pond. 

Bakugou said something about hiring someone who wants to surpass him... and I want to headcanon that he replaces Deku soon enough

If you have already talked about this subject then my apologies, I am new here

No it does not bother me because Katsuki Bakugou had this thing called Character Development and learned what it means to be a hero. And caring about others and helping them be their best selves such as idk Izuku Midoriya is exactly what I would expect him to do now that he's embraced his true heroism. He may tell himself he does these things because he feels like he owes it to Izuku, but deep down I think we all know it's because Katsuki has always been a hero at heart, he just had to figure out how to let it out. So regardless of if you wanna take a gen or a shipping lens to that question, the Kacchan fan in me basks in the fact that Katsuki still maintains that ideal of a hero that most everyone else in the epilogue seems to have let die.

you're right: their rivalry as it was (predator/prey) is gone because they've come to terms with who they are. and that's a good thing. they see each other as respected equals, which is healthier in the long run. shouto isn't a rival to katsuki because he doesn't care about shouto that way. not lemillion, not mt. lady, not jeanist, nobody. the only person he wants to fight with is izuku, and until that happens, his joie de vivre is dampened.

actually, can we reexamine things? dynamight is NUMBER 5, despite working his tight little ass off NONSTOP SINCE GRADUATION to afford deku's suit. he did all that and still managed to be 5th. AND get a driver's license AND buy a car. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD THAT IS IN JAPAN????

so excuse the fuck outta you, anon, i think katsuki's doing just fucking fine.

"Since Deku doesn't seem to care anymore, the Bakugo fangirl in me wants Bakugo to not care about Deku in return as well." you clearly don't understand either of these characters. DEKU ALWAYS LIES AND SAYS HE'S FINE IT'S FINE EVERYTHING IS FINE WHEN HE'S HURTING THE MOST. imagine you're born without legs and bullied for it until one day you GET legs and it's everything you dreamed of and more. and then they're taken from you, not all at once, but in pieces, in brutal, agonizing portions, and nobody can help you, and one day, you realize they're completely gone and you'll never walk again. can you imagine that fucking pain? that agony? all your friends going off successful in life and you're left behind because you just aren't living the same life anymore? your best friend has every minute of his life booked up and you've lost him too. i'd rather go my whole life wishing and hoping, than to have it and ripped away from me. i can't imagine a worse fate.

so no, izuku is not fucking ok, and he absolutely definitely cares, but what do you want him to do? run a race with no legs?? he saw the writing on the wall and accepted reality for what it was and tried to move forward and make the best life he could given what he had. considering the amount of trauma the kid went though, i'm surprised he didn't commit suicide by the time the embers of ofa burned out, cause that woulda been the last fucking straw for me i think.

that last page of them flying side by side with smiles frankly tells you everything you need to know about their dynamic, their relationship, and where they're going. izuku always had the heart, and kats always had the power; but when izuku got his power, even briefly, katsuki was forced to confront himself and make his own heart vulnerable. and for that instant, they were equals, undefeatable.

until ofa died, and left the equation unbalanced.

if katsuki didn't care, why the fuck did he get the suit made? he knew damn well what he was doing and how much it would cost and that there was every chance izu might turn him down because he was too afraid to fly that close to the sun again... but he did it anyway, because he cared that much about izuku's dream being fulfilled.

I am not trying to make anyone hate the ending and if you like it then good for you, but there is one big reason why I can't like it and it's not any of these things mentioned here.

Before I start I need to say that I'm not a bkdk shipper and I generally don't like Deku as a character so all of these fanfiction ideas about Deku's non existent trauma from Bakugou's bullying or whatever doesn't make me like or sympathize with Deku in the slightest.

I also don't care enough about Deku's opinion on Bakugo to be upset at the "rejection" or how Deku sees Bakugo at all

And although I am upset at the hero ranking and I consider it a total fanservice for Deku fans, I still don't find myself caring about the rankings too much either. I believe Deku shouldn't be anywhere near top 10 after years of absence and not solving any hero issue and if he is there just because he is "popular" amongst the people then the hero ranking is just a dumb in-universe popularity poll and it doesn't concern me (Also Deku did not save the world for him to somehow deserve to be number 4, all of the characters saved the world, and I'm not going to allow y'all to give all the credits to Deku. He gets credit only as much as everyone else gets credit and not more)

But the biggest problem I have with the ending is how the story made Bakugo lose his first and most important character strength which is Bakugo's ambition to be number 1 and better than anyone else

Think about it, Bakugo has always been praised for his determination and ambition even when he was being rude to others and being criticized for it. He always kept wanting to be number 1 and surpass All Might. He has always been a very hardworking and ambitious character who does not give up

In the ending, they made it seem like Bakugo's simply given up and ended up at rank 15 until Deku came in and he reached 5 and that's the worst writing they could've ever done

First of all, I can never accept taking away Bakugo's ambition as anything outside of terrible writing. Doing so for the sake of Deku makes me simply hate Deku even more

Second of all, Deku does not even deserve to be Bakugo's rival specially not after losing OFA and doing absolutely nothing to become a hero again. The fact that all the other characters had to work so that Deku get a hero suit makes me think that Deku doesn't deserve it at all. It reminds me of how Deku never worked for being a hero until the day he met All Might by sheer luck. It seems like Deku is the type of character who never tries to actually become a hero and needs all the other characters to gift him with some quirk or some hero suit and I find it annoying and pathetic.

Everyone tries harder to make Deku a hero than Deku does. and I take no excuses from Deku's fans. I don't care about your excuses.

Now this character is not someone who deserves to be Bakugo's rival. Hell he doesn't even deserve Bakugo to want him in his agency.

Bakugou could've and SHOULD HAVE started rivaling characters that actually matter like le million or Todoroki because the Bakugo I know and love is not going to suddenly lose interest in competing just because the undeserving main character is out of the mix. Taking away Bakugo's ambition is simply character massacre and the fact that they are always belittling Bakugo's character so that Deku can shine makes me forever despise Deku as a character and despise Deku's writing.

Look, I don't agree with the person who responded to me originally, I don't personally woobify Izuku in the ending, and I agree with you that I don't think Izuku is dealing with bullying trauma at all, but I've learned a long time ago I'm never gonna make people read Izuku the way I do because of how his tropes just utterly do not exist in the west. That's a whole conversation I don't have energy for.

But YOUR take, which I get a lot of asks espousing, drives me absolutely nuts. Y'all act like Katsuki should have been ranked number one the moment he exited high school. Ya'll never acknowledge this thing called the PASSAGE OF TIME. You act as if the fact Katsuki isn't number one yet or sometimes has other priorities means he isn't trying. You're basing this notion that he's given up on being the best on like...literally nothing. What we saw was his ranking drop as the result of one incident, and the meta we were later given that his ranking fluctuates a lot and often but he hasn't gotten back to rank 4 yet was all just an indicator that his number one priority was different for that time period, but that does not mean he gave up on it or that he didn't intend to focus on it once he finished some other things first. The thing Izuku taught Katsuki over the course of the story is that sometimes to save people you have to sacrifice your ego. And as a hero, saving people is the most important thing there is. And Katsuki does just this several times before the epilogue, so yes this is character development that stuck and you just didn't clock it at the time.