Egon

AI would never

Everything will be well and this too shall pass like a wave breaking on a pier. You will still stand tall after, stronger than before, but with a much funnier story
Also your professors are all nerds so they will appreciate the reference

I watched The Bear and used Escoffier's Brigade system as an example of alternative methods of organising labour in one exam and an alternative to organisational structure in another class. I had not prepared for these exams. I pulled it out of my ass. My profs loved it.
Profs love weird shit from left field. It makes it seem like you're so into the material you don't even feel the need to bother with it, so you're comfortable getting weird with it

Editing is just fancy second-guessing

Hey I once procrastinated an application for a nation-wide state sponsored contest for new writers. You had to provide 40 pages of material + an additional piece of art of any type that you'd made in response to a series of prompts of theirs. I had a year. I did it in a day... They told me it was some of the best stuff they'd read in years. I once wrote 70 pages of an urban planning project in a single night and got an A.

This isn't to humblebrag, this is to calm you down: Don't discount your stream of consciousness.

You've been thinking about the project for a lot longer than 15 minutes, you've been moving the pieces around in your head. Writing it all with no time for corrections isn't necessarily as bad as you fear: it means you also had no blocks, no time to stop, no time to diminish raw unfiltered power pouring from your brain onto the paper.

You wrung your mind and heart out in the time you had, because you couldn't do anything else. You didn't have time to hold back. That might not be a bad thing.

You're going to be all right. Whatever you gave them is far from the worst they've received and it is at least interesting. It will be fine.

I ran into him years later while he was working a dead-end job that he hated, which made me feel vindicated. I've never had a better cup of coffee than the one he had to give me after having to tell me he fucked up preparing a pre-baked muffin lmao

It sounds like your issue is abbreviations and not tags

So Hezbollah needs about 2700 trained soldiers

I guess it might be different on email/textmessage on phone and on webforums

Half-joking. It's a bad tag because it defeats the purpose if tone tags, which is to provide clarity. Saying you're half-joking does nothing. What are you joking about? What are you serious about? Am I meant to take this seriously? Am I meant to act on it? Are you saying something rude or something that you know is offensive and you feel the need to shield yourself? It's a terrible tag made by people who don't get it and they should all go to the gulag /hj

Bug thread? Where's the bug thread? I love bugs

I used to do that until I got told I was passive-aggressive. I started doing it because I was told my text communication was curt and could feel harsh.

Followup: I hate how anger is treated socially. If you get mad, you're the bad guy. You can be in a discussion with someone who does and says some truly awful things, but because they cry and you raise your voice, you're the problem.
Doesn't matter that they interrupt you. Doesn't matter that they don't listen. Doesn't matter that they diminish everything you say. Doesn't matter that they say terrible things you yelled. I got so mad that I yelled "fuck you" at a colleague once, and forever onwards when we discussed that situation that was all it was about.
Never mind that he showed up an hour late to a shift. Never mind he hadn't closed or cleaned last night. Never the fact that I stayed an additional hour to help with the mountain of dishes we had because HE HADNT SHOWN UP ON TIME OR PREPPED ANYTHING, never mind the fact that the first thing he does when things cool down isn't to greet me or to thank me, no it's to make himself a plate of scrambled eggs - and how could I get mad at him for that? Did I see the rush there was in the cafe when he arrived? He didn't even have time to drink his coffee! Never mind that I choose to just leave. Never mind that he has the fucking audacity to stop me on my way out from what has now turned into an 12-hour shift so he can complain that I've left them with "a mountain of dishes" (about two cycles in the dishwasher) and "barely anything prepped" (this genius ate the last of the scrambled eggs). Never mind that I started calmly telling him how I felt he was being very rude. Never mind the fact that he interrupts me to call me lazy and unrealistic. What matters is that I yelled "fuck you" in response.