Point well made, I agree.

I think sometimes there’s a sort of dark humor for some in exaggerating to the worst scenario in memes, knowing that it’s exaggerated, but then other people find it tiresome or too much. I don’t know, I don’t make memes, I just steal them.

I laugh at these memes because dark humor is my only way of coping.

It seems like there’s nothing else I can do. I don’t just care because it might negatively impact my life. Every time I look at the news (and for sure this is not just under Trump’s America, it’s been going on forever) more people are dying across the world in stupid wars because of stupid childish adults in power. And now our Antichrist President is stoking things up even more and even more people will die and it’s only to fuel his ego and his rich friends’ interests.

I vote, I speak up, I try to do my part and be the change and all, but what more am I going to do? I could stand in the middle of the street in front of the capital and scream how wrong this is but I’ll just get written up as another ignorant millennial lunatic and in the meantime I’ve been working sustained 50-80 hour weeks with no improvement in sight and can still barely afford to eat. Can’t change the government alone, especially not when there’s rent to pay and I’m bloody exhausted.

Emo kids unite

Cal2 is hard! Especially if you have a learning disability. I have ADHD and I strongly suspect dyscalculia, and am just really really bad at math and I went into Cal2 straight from Cal1 (while attending college in my 30s) and I still thought I was going to lose my mind. There were many tears shed in the first few weeks but I kept plugging away at it, used all the resources I had available, the Internet, school tutors, stayed after class to talk to my instructor and went to his office during office hours. Eventually about halfway through the semester the switch clicked in my brain. I got my first ever 100% on a math test in my life, and I got an A overall in the entire class. My instructor told me at the end that he was proud of me and I walked out of class and cried happy tears instead of the furious frustrated tears I had cried at the beginning.

Good luck, remember to be patient with yourself and show yourself the same love and grace you would show another person who is struggling with a learning disability and the adjustment of returning into an academic setting. Don’t be afraid to look stupid, don’t be afraid to ask for help, and use any resource you can. When I started my Cal2 class I sat down with a tutor who happened to be one of the college math instructors and I said “I think I’ve forgotten everything I know about math, can you help me refresh on what I need to know for Cal2 because I’m panicking.” She actually had a cheatsheet saved with all the concepts that students needed to know to start into Cal2 and I used it not only to study but to refer back to and still have it and occasionally refer to it.

You can do this!