I think she would have really struggled there because it is a highly academic school and she would have been decidedly average whereas with he school they chose, it is so small and cosseted that she would get to be a big fish in a (very) small pond. That and I assume her parents were aware that she would feel very lonely at boarding school without any friends.
Exactly, Youtubers like Ruby are always temporary. 50+ videos on the same topic have nothing to do with creativity or even effort when she only uses material from her old videos and even copies her own content over and over again. I wonder why she never actually makes videos on how to learn effectively. How to get very good grades, which learning methods are really very good, how to remember the material very well, how to formulate very well, how to answer beyond the question and find a deeper meaning. Because she can't. Ruby is a student who can achieve good to very good grades with very very much effort, but without really thinking about it herself. You can of course read and copy internet articles from any question and you will get good marks for it if you do it well. But university means finally learning how to make things up for yourself, or learning how to draw your own conclusions. But we will have to wait forever for such videos.
I know right? Has she heard of desk lamps? You know, that thing her sister gave her for Christmas because she wanted Ruby to stop studying at candlelight like a weirdo and ruining her eyesight?How the hell are candles 'back to school essentials'??
I'd say the poetry's approaching Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings levels:
Yes but you will have all your reading notes
This is a tangent but veganism is a whole lifestyle and you can’t really be “90% vegan”. You CAN be 90% plant based and eat honey etc. But that’s not what veganism is about. Like you can’t be 90% Christian or 90% pregnant. But more to the point, I feel for Ruby being “vegan” was another bandwagon to jump on, to make others see her in a “wholesome” way and just another thing she has deemed will facilitate her superiority and “aesthetics”. I have no doubt that if dark academia was also associated with a paleo diet, she would do that!
I haven’t been here for ages and I literally came to post that
she was clearly thinking chronicle, as in to chronicle one’s life and came to chronically which means something totally different…I mean, I teach 10 and 11 year old kids that could tell you she means chronologically. How does she get firsts in an English Literature degree when she gets those things wrong?!
I guess it's like saying "the very best" or something. "Very" is pretty unnecessary and pointless in this case, but people still sometimes use it to emphasize the adjective. I always think it sounds a bit old fashioned/pretentious to use the word "very" in front of these superlatives, maybe that's why Ruby does it so much
Thank you all so much! It does sound childish, we have similar expressions in Spanish which I guess are common for children to say. Thank you again
and sorry for the off topic
Indulge me please, for I cannot face watching 40 mins of a book shelf tour. How did she pronounce both Evelyn Waugh and Truman Capote?Sweet Christ deliver us, it’s 40 minutes long.
edit: less than five minutes in and she’s already mispronounced Evelyn Waugh (both first AND last name!) and Truman Capote
There are these transparent sticky notes that are getting really popular among the stationary people right now, too! She could have just done her little titles on that and it would've lookedthe exact same without ruining the paperView attachment 729970
For some reason Ruby using her issue of the New Yorker as scrap paper to introduce new ideas in the video really annoys me. Why not use a blank piece of paper and save the New Yorker issue for rereading? What a waste
I guess an updo would look too grown up, since children wore their hair loose more often but adults usually didn't?
She took her own advice and just kept on reading it till she liked it
