#ask ria

but Rabbot, oh Rabbot - they are the old married couple, the yearning oh the yearning and the history between them, and i love the bellies, the wrinkles, and the gray hair - the old man yaoi at it's finest. and the 'not to me, not if it's you' undercurrent of their relationship. it is the better ship

You said it all. I don't partake in Hucklerobby or Hucklerabbot, but I do think it's fine for others to do so. Ship and let ship.

But I will fight to the death that Rabbot is superior in every way.

There is something so delicate and fragile about them, something so deep and meaningful that goes beyond anything I've seen. It's the trauma and the years of friendship. The bond between them. It's how they are each other's ying and yang, just so beautifully interwoven like a wool blanket with colors opposite on the color wheel. Completely different but complimenting each other. They are orange and blue. Purple and yellow. Green and red.

Rabbot is delicious, yes, but it is also gorgeous. It isn't a sunrise in July, but rather the sky after the first true rainfall in Spring. Flowers will grow here.

No other ship in this show has that.

BECAUSE I MISS YOU AND UNREQUITED

also do you think it’s easier to get placement for engineering fields or for applied physics in india? and are physicists in demand? or will i have job problems because of not going for engineering?

also i’m an intp too and good luck with your studies!

Hi!

Those are very tough questions 😅. Okay first of all, I was a shitty student too, I got 75% in my boards, obv didn’t get DU (I didn’t give JEE because I knew I didn’t want to do engineering at all). I struggled in the first year of my college too but eventually I figured out how to study physics. But I chose to study because I loved it and I’d known for a while that’s what I wanna do so I just went for it, granted I’m not the most remarkable physicist I still struggle with a lot of concepts but I am working on them and I know I’m on my way to becoming better, jobs, idk what’s gonna happen and I’m choosing to focus on how good a physicsist I am at the moment instead of worrying about what I’ll do because if I can be better at my subject and improve constantly, that has to account for something on the job front.

There is a good chance that you’re struggling because you don’t know how to study this subject. I have mentioned time and again on these types of asks that knowing what your formula really means and how to apply it is the most important step of understanding physics.

You’re in 11th grade, you have time to really know your subject. Do your derivations, don’t mug them up, know why you used a particular formula to get to another step. Like when you need to take out the electric field on a point due to a ring, that forms you basics on how to solve for other types of shapes, you know what I mean? Basically every topic has a way to approach problems, you can’t just write down the formula and be like now what (which is what I used to do). You need to know HOW to approach the problems which mostly comes from derivations like electric field due to a ring or how to calculate the moment of interia. Once you know the concept of how to solve that, you can calculate for any object and then when you can do that, you can take out the angular momentum of any object from any arbitrary reference point. Notice how you went from MI of a sphere to how to calculate the angular momentum of a rolling sphere in reference to a point on the ground (let’s say). So those derivations that you do in class builds up basis for more complex problems.

Since you’re in 11th, solve HC Verma, it is the best best book at your level to really clear up your basics, those little gaps in your knowledge that you didn’t even know you had. Every question you’re not able to solve, see how it’s done and know WHY it’s done that way, like, to find out the potential energy of a body under free fall, we all know the formula, mgh but if the height from which a body is falling is comparable to the radius of the earth, you can’t use mgh. So, question why you got your approach wrong.

As far as taking engg or applied physics is concerned, I’ve seen a lot of btech kids who took btech because they didn’t know what else to do or their parents told them to, a lot of them aren’t really interested in their subjects and if you’re not into what you’re doing it’s incredibly hard to be good at it. Engg has a lot of jobs but it also has a lot of people, Physics unfortunately does not have a lot jobs and you have to be the best of the best in India to be working in the govt. sector. India hardly has any applied physics courses, DU has electronics which is the closest to applied here. The field that is in demand right now is nanotechnology, so you can go for that if you’re interested through either a btech or physics honours.

Although btech opens more options because sadly here it’s considered better than an honours. After your degree, almost everything in India is based on entrance exams so if you take up something that you don’t end up liking you can switch easily. Btech degree is eligible for basically every exam, like you can do a btech and go for MSc but I THINK you can’t do a bsc and then do MTech (check out the criteria for GATE).

I would say, go for something you like even if you think you’re bad at it BUT only if you’re willing to work hard. If you’re bad at something you like, you have to work harder than the rest of them to be good at it, btech and bsc are equally tough, btech is just more hands on.

And yes. The first year of college, they try to bridge the gap between school and college so they will teach similar stuff, physics is all the same right? It’s just gonna be a few steps higher from what you’re doing rn. Keep studying for JEE don’t beat yourself up because it IS very hard. After boards, you can decide what you want to do, if you’re staying in India, ofc for abroad you have to start thinking abhi. I can’t tell you what you should take, but whatever out of the two you take and don’t end up liking, you can change it, if not during during undergrad, for post grad you can (again pls look up GATE requirements first). Engg does have more placements, I only got three companies for placements while btech got lots, so if you wanna work straight after undergrad, btech is probably better.

Robby who has all his memories but he's back in his 23/24 year old body, which in addition to going back to being bambi on ice with his coordination, absolutely NO ONE is taking him seriously. He tries teaching (and hes completely correct) and everyone is looking at him with "aweee" eyes

I am so sorry this got buried in my notifications

But

HE WOULD BE BIG MAD

And it would just be THE CUTEST THING EVER

does he stomp his foot? Does this body have young muscle memory as opposed to mature Robby? I bet he stomps his foot

Also they know their Robby gets embarrassed so easily and blushes so fast but young body Robby is somehow even worse and everything EVERYTHING gets him going red

And this body even does the "cry when frustrated" thing

And Robby is so over it yes he is

"I am 54 years old!! Stop treating me like a med student!"

...

"You are 4 seconds old and missed your nap."

"Fuck you, Dana!"

"Oh no, he's cwanky!"

It's going to HURT so much. I just know it. Jack cares about Robby deeply, but he's a stubborn fool as well, and he's going to do whatever it takes to keep Robby from hurting himself. Even if that means setting their entire friendship on fire.

I've had a rough week. The deepest I can get right now is that I honestly think it boils down to Goldfish Brain and the inability to correctly Criticize media. (Big C not little c. We are analyzing, not critiquing -- two different things). Season One is finished and apparently gone from their memory, or at least the core lessons we were supposed to take from it.

They remember that Robby was ✨Good✨ and ✨Sweet✨, if a little sassy. They know he cried. Other than that, it's been three seconds and they've swam around the bowl. New season, new analysis.

I've explained before that the basement level understanding of Critical Theory (or at least New Criticism) is that whatever you think is correct is actually correct -- as long as the media supports it. The second something within that media contradicts it, your theory becomes nothing more than a subjective opinion based only on what you feel, and not the media itself. Essentially, the theory is now wrong.

By forgetting everything we learned about Robby, they are creating their theories only on what they can ascertain from this current season. The media has already proven every single one of them is wrong, but Goldfish Brain will not let them see that. Instead we have this obnoxious faction of the fandom spouting hateful rhetoric with absolutely zero merit that is substantiated by the actual media.

E.g., Robby does not respect nurses.

We have seen Robby fight for the nurses , demand respect for them, praise their ability and intelligence, fight for their safety, continuously request more nurses, and even argue that they are not paid enough.

The claim is proven false because it is contradicted by the media.

According to Reader Response Theory, when actively engaging in literature, the reader coexists with the author. Their own personal experiences shape the way they interpret the narrative. If you look at Plato's Cave, which is about people who only experience the world through its shadows, things can and will be distorted through this lens of personal experience -- a tree will not look like a tree , it will look like the shadow of a tree. Given our current political climate, it's understandable that many can and will find it easy to vilify the passing white man. (I say passing because he is Jewish, and while he holds a lot of privilege, he has also seen his share of discrimination. To me a white man is defined as a Christian White Cis Male -- someone with every drop of privilege you can scour from this green earth. That being said, Jewish, queer, light skinned men, etc... They all have privilege. I only add the passing to acknowledge his faith and the struggles that come with it.)

HOWEVER, in order to fully interpret and take in a text, or (as we are doing here) expanding this to media, the consumer of the media cannot only count on their own personal experiences or their Interpretative Communities. You must use this in tandem with what the media says. The example I've given has been that you can say the hospital walls are green, and you can fully believe it, but once the show starts and we see they are white, your theory is now incorrect. It doesn't matter what you say; you are wrong.

On top of this, we should be using our previous knowledge, i.e., the things we've learned already that can help to clarify. And as we learn new things, our interpretations can adjust. Background knowledge like this plays just as an important part of all of this. This includes but is not limited to the knowledge of mental illness, the way administration works within a setting like this, what we know about things such as psych holds and the regulations around CPI, and how a hospital is run in general.

Everything I've listed (and more I'm forgetting, I'm sure) is what helps to correctly interpret media in a meaningful and engaging way.

These people have Goldfish Brain and cannot connect last season to this one, are letting personal views color their entire experience with this show, and they refuse to look into and learn new things that could better help them understand the delicate intricacies of this show.

There's literally nothing to add. You fucking SAID 👏 IT.