lmao OT but flashbacks to Vee's "Harvard student reacts to Jesy leaving little mix" video. In no way is you going to Harvard relevant to this video love, stop it. Ruby would be the exact same if she got onto an Oxbridge course.
Ruby Granger #12 The Continuing Adventures of Pie-rott and Muriel
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I have a feeling Ruby isn't going to like the fact that Jack Edwards has just launched a stationary line.
It'd be a bit hypocritical if she were upset, given Jack Edwards created an academic planner way before Ruby did! Although he didn't have all the extra planners and stuff before.
Best of luck for your results, fam! You've got this.here to give in my 2 cents abt her delusional perspective on her dissertation (even tho I have not yet written one myself lol). I recently graduated from a secondary school program called the ib in which we were basically expected to write a mini dissertation. A research essay with a word count of 4k, in one of our 6 subjects. I can with 100% confidence say that I and all of my 16/17-year-old classmates had a better approach to our research essays than Roobs is approaching her dissertation. First off, none of us chose our topics on the potentialaesthetic
I was an unironic fan of Ruby, Jade, all those folk, when I was writing my Extended Essay. In my defense, I don't think they were quite as unbearable back then as they are now, but can definitely attest to the fact that the toxic productivity mindset has one hell of an impact. Particularly Ruby's constant busywork and 15-hour study days - my undiagnosed-at-the-time-ADHD-ass had no hopeOh hey I did the IB back in the day! Nearly killed myself in the process, too. (Got a 43 though.) Glad in retrospect that all this productivity bs wasn’t a thing back then, I would have dug myself in way too deep. At least I was eventually able to climb out of the hole.
Your profile pic is SO assthetic
I think the IB (and other programs where you have to write these kinds of projects on a chosen topic) prepares you for the idea of having to write about something that will enable you to get a good mark, rather than something that you're necessarily passionate about. I came in with what I thought was a fantastic and interesting idea, and after one chat with my supervisor, realised that it was a whole bunch of crap and came out with something completely different that I was actually able to research and write about. Think that's a relatively common experience with dissertations/theses/essays of this kind - wouldn't be surprised if Ruby does take a U-turn on her topic after chatting with her supervisor, although she's just as likely to stick to it like glue.
Incidentally, I may be marking myself out as Too Old For This Bullshit, but how does a dark academia aesthetic even fit into a dissertation?? I understand that it's things like candles and handwriting and dressing a certain way (correct me if I'm wrong!!) and I would love to be enlightened as to what a 'dark academia feel' means in the context of... actual academic writing.
Looks even more generic, cheap, poorly-designed and half-assed than Ruby's, which I didn't think were possible.
"Ink Outside the Box is a brand for productivity, creativity, and ambition. It’s for those who draw outside the lines."
Cool, can I buy a pen or a pencil from the stationary company you named Ink Outside the Box that's for drawing outside the lines?
"No."
The only reason I can think of is that she feels the cold more now than she's lost so much weight?
winter clothing in warm weather is unfortunately a tell tale sign of an ED. We all know she feels the cold anyway.
I didn't have an ED but in my 2nd year of Uni I dropped about 2 stone from other issues and no appetite. I was frozen all the time.
I studied media design for 3 years and Jacks or Rubys Planner-Paper-Stuffy-Thingy is "designed" in less than 20 minutes and every professor would wonder if you are serious if you would hand something like that in.
Would be a 100% fail.
I've just seen Jack's things. While not identical, they do have Alice Thorpe/Soul&Fire vibes...
a bit ot but… paper goods are stationery, not stationary 
Thought I’d point that out since we like our words spelled correctly in this thread!
Thought I’d point that out since we like our words spelled correctly in this thread!
I'm sorry, it's even worse than I thought....
BUT WHOOAA LIMITED EDITION! This made with extra effort!
Too much time around Ruby's mangling of the English language has rubbed off. I have brought shame upon my family.a bit ot but… paper goods are stationery, not stationary
Limited edition of a digital product. Because there's only a finite amount of pixels and PDF supplies to go around in the Pumpkin Productivity factory!
I'm guessing their PR/marketing company Sixteenth probaby spearheaded these "companies" and sourced a shared supplier for them, which offers a sparse variety of cheap and crappy paper products that they could personalise slightly with a crappy design of their choosing. I'm shocked they didn't cobble one together for Jade and Eve at some point.
It goes without saying that nobody should buy this crap, and both Ruby and Jack should be ashamed of the whole endeavour.
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Gertrude Robinson- add a few explosive devices, take away the smile and it’s the outfit I always imagine her wearing
Gahhh I could do this in 10 mins on my free knock-off photoshop app... the boxes aren't even straight!
I'm new here but I wanted to just throw in my two cents. I went to a non-russell group uni for undergrad (in archaeology, the course was far more practical and that's what I wanted), fell in love with it and then ended up (somehow) at Oxford for my Master's (the old MSt Archaeology that's now been discontinued); I am now doing my PhD in Iron Age Archaeology at the Uni of York.
My undergrad diss was a mess (still ended up with a first but ehh). We were given freedom over what we did, and we had a few lecturers in the dept that were leading academics in their fields so, I am sure Exeter has some of those. Though none of us were given access to primary sources and archives, and this was pre-covid!
I chose something theoretically linked to my Bachelor's for my Master's thesis as Ox but not in terms of era (this is fairly specific to historical studies tho). In terms of getting into Oxbridge, it is easier at Post-grad. I achieved a First overall but my offer was just for a 2:1 (60%). I went in with no idea that I was particularly gifted, moreso that Oxford was the best uni for me. That is, I think, where Ruby is going wrong. She's applying to Oxford cause it's Oxford, not cause it's the best university for what she wishes to study. At post-grad you gotta go where your specialism will be best known and understood. I found Oxford so hard. The expectations were immense, and the feedback I received was brutal. My marks and feedback only improved when I changed and developed my writing and my approach to academia. They don't suffer fools there, and they will tell you to your face if you aren't meeting their grade requirements. I was 2% off a merit, I got 63% overall, from when I was used to mid-to high 70s, much like Ruby. It was. A. Slap. In. The. Face. And it hurt. But it was what I needed. My research skills, writing, and editing have gone from what I realise was not sufficient to something much more suited to an academic career. I wonder how Ruby will deal with the harsh reality of Oxford, after being coddled by Exeter?
The subjects she's looking at are so, so broad. She's really going to struggle to fit is all into a word limit. I definitely did, and ended up writing 21k for my undergrad (I was able to shove loads into appendices).
My undergrad diss was a mess (still ended up with a first but ehh). We were given freedom over what we did, and we had a few lecturers in the dept that were leading academics in their fields so, I am sure Exeter has some of those. Though none of us were given access to primary sources and archives, and this was pre-covid!
I chose something theoretically linked to my Bachelor's for my Master's thesis as Ox but not in terms of era (this is fairly specific to historical studies tho). In terms of getting into Oxbridge, it is easier at Post-grad. I achieved a First overall but my offer was just for a 2:1 (60%). I went in with no idea that I was particularly gifted, moreso that Oxford was the best uni for me. That is, I think, where Ruby is going wrong. She's applying to Oxford cause it's Oxford, not cause it's the best university for what she wishes to study. At post-grad you gotta go where your specialism will be best known and understood. I found Oxford so hard. The expectations were immense, and the feedback I received was brutal. My marks and feedback only improved when I changed and developed my writing and my approach to academia. They don't suffer fools there, and they will tell you to your face if you aren't meeting their grade requirements. I was 2% off a merit, I got 63% overall, from when I was used to mid-to high 70s, much like Ruby. It was. A. Slap. In. The. Face. And it hurt. But it was what I needed. My research skills, writing, and editing have gone from what I realise was not sufficient to something much more suited to an academic career. I wonder how Ruby will deal with the harsh reality of Oxford, after being coddled by Exeter?
The subjects she's looking at are so, so broad. She's really going to struggle to fit is all into a word limit. I definitely did, and ended up writing 21k for my undergrad (I was able to shove loads into appendices).
It's an utter mess. I think they were going for a "quirky, carefree" style, but it looks like tit, and there's a huge clash between most of it being hand-designed and having a traditional font header.
Also, her "limited edition" planner sheets are freely available (as they should be - no digital product should ever be "sold out") while the main product on her site (her academic planner) is not limited edition, but is sold out and I don't think it's been restocked in a year.
As in all things, Ruby is a lazy, disorganised mess posing as a proactive productivity queen.
Those boxes and mismatched fonts and weirdly cropped dimensions trigger my OCD.
Also, can she do ANYTHING right? She's a self-proclaimed intelligent bookworm, which this thread already proved wrong. Good at cooking vegan meals? No, my dog wouldn't even touch her slimy goop. Good at editing/ shooting videos? No. Basic cleaning, maybe? No. Handwriting/ calligraphy? No, just look at her endcard of her jwriting her name. At this point in life, with her resources and time, shouldn't she be at least decent in something? I've never seen someone simultaneously try so hard yet fail so hard at everything they do.
"This weekly stress tracker, printed in a calming green..."
"Calming green"? Jesus, just looking at that triggers my anxiety. It's like being beaten in the face with a big sockful of Altoid tins. It's a minty assault on the senses.
Key cause of stress this week: The sight of this damn thing.
Gonna need an extra stress tracker just to deal with the stress of looking at this stress tracker.
That's some 'Michael Gambon as Dumbledore'-ass definition of the word "calm" right there.
(Also there is no Saturday or Sunday on this weekly stress planner. Apparently human beings are incapable of stress on the weekend?)
Honey, she shouldn't be charging a single penny for that. What the duck am I looking at? It's greige, it's wonky, it's weird, it's confusing, it's a graphic designer's worst nightmare.
I used to follow a tumblr called Emma Studies which has an online Etsy for student printables. Feast your eyes -- this is the sort of thing that Ruby's aiming at, and it's not much more than having a basic grasp on line, proportion, and colour.
I cannot. Even.
Reading this post was more of an emotional rollercoaster than the entirety of Erimentha Parker.
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