GobGals Loving GobGals

school stuff- i’ve been just cruising on doing really really good on standardized tests and then getting in advanced classes but never actually doing work, i’ve been floating around with a 3.2 ish gpa for years

this year i really got my shit together! 4.0+ gang this year. i’m really focusing on bio & science classes this year (which, i will argue, is very goblimb)

school tips- i’m adhd/autism, and i never actually turned stuff in. i joined a bunch of study discords (study together & study buddies), which helps So Much yall. also i’m actually using a planner so that’s helping. 

also in case yall were interested, i’m in 10th grade rn. rn i think i want to go to CSU (which is near me and i’m just about guaranteed to get into), or something more prestigious on the east coast- Cornell, Tufts, Weslyan, Carnigie-Mellon, and Dartmouth are looking pretty saucy rn. 

a harsh reality of hatching snails is that you will need to cull runts if you plan on keeping them as pets. in the wild runts won’t last long, but if you keep them in captivity they will grow up and reproduce with no issues (or they might die young bc runts have issues), weakening the gene pool. it keeps everything more humane for sneepers (snail keepers) for breeders to cull the runts. 

it’s super super super sad and it’s probably the worst part about owning snails!!! unless you’re super super ready to have babies, don’t keep snails without doing regular egg checks! if you see a clutch of eggs and you aren’t ready for 100+ babies, some of which you will need to kill, just scoop the eggs out of the tank and freeze them. my clutch was planned months in advance- i have a lot of friends that want babies for pets, any extras i’m either keeping or giving to a reptile store to feed to their cuban false chameleons. please please please please do not breed your pet snails unless you have homes lined up for them, parents with ideal genetics, and the guts to cull the runts. 

also this is my snail’s first (and hopefully only) clutch so the number of babies fell on the lower end of the spectrum- 81 before culling, i haven’t counted since bc school. garden snails can have 100-200 on average!!!!!